Karthik Murugesan

• Act as a client representative and manage the project progress, timely completion and within the allowable budget - successfully completed two fast tract school projects on time for timely school opening.
• Prioritize and follow up with the approvals for projects fast progress and timely completion - forecast many problems and resolved before it occurs.
• Manage changes to control the cost and time - successfully achieved three projects within the allocated budget.
• Administer the claims including variation/EOT as per the contract document - successfully negotiated and negated the claim submitted by the main contractors.
• Management update on the projects along with the risk analysis, probability of timely completion and cash flow/budget status.
• Review the contract baseline program from the contractors and make the contractors to prepare a proper and meaningful program for smooth progress.
• Project team management and conflict management.
• Pre contract design management including review of drawings, budget, specification, contract conditions, value engineering - implemented many contract clauses and changes in drawing / specification to avoid future claims.
• Negotiated with main contractors under pre contract phase, with sub contractors for PS / PC items under post contract phase.

• Analyze the approved projects and identify the required time line for various stages.
• Identify the requirements and other details for the projects based on the priority
• Preparing cash flow for all projects to do financial analysis and highlighting the critical issues to the management
• Evaluating and reviewing the contractor/consultant programs and giving recommendations and suggestions for approval - successfully implemented changes in the program to avoid any unrealistic claims in future and thereby saving claims cost.
• Update top management about project status, possible delays, subsequent consequences and other hitches in the project due to client/consultant.
• Involved in Pre tendering process such as formulating the contract conditions, reviewing the tender, negotiations and selection process.
• Forecast the requirements in relation to the program and meet the same to facilitate the contractor to achieve targets.
• Documenting the delays whenever it occurs and keep the contractor under pressure to achieve the targets.
• Coordinating with various departments within client office and consultant office.
• Monitoring and review the projects progress.
• Review the project quality, safety standards adopted by the contractor
• Analyzing the projects progress and identifying and documenting possible delays from the contractor.
• Establish liquidated damages in comparison with baseline program whenever noted.
• Analyzing EOT claims without prejudice from contractors and approving in co-ordination with FIDIC recommendations. Successfully negated 2 claims.
• Acting as a client representative in the projects lead the project meetings.
• Coordinating with the contractor and consultant to sort out the requirements and necessities to achieve the targets.
• Worked with the project program and interfacing with consultants and other contractors providing planning expertise within a client environment.
• Maintained risk analysis log and giving the solutions to the management to mitigate the risks.

Prepared clause 14-construction program using primavera with detailed activities and
resource loading.
* Generated reports such as resource productivity, cash flow / S-curve, monthly / weekly
job status mentioning delays if any and solution to overcome the delay and report to the
top management.
* Monitored the progress on daily/weekly/monthly basis and flagging up the critical issues
and delays to the top management.
* Made analysis on EOT and prepared a statement of claim and successfully got 2 months
as EOT.
* Prepared materials flow chart, resource program and resource allocation with respect to
Clause-14 program.
* Attended progress meeting with client and presenting the site progress to the delegates.
* Monitored the optimum utilization of materials, resources, plant and reporting to the top
management regarding the job status periodically.
* Organized weekly / monthly meeting with Project Manager and Project In charges to
discuss the progress.
* Introduced systems and formats for monitoring the progress on daily/weekly/monthly
basis.
* Controlling the flow of capital materials, resources etc as per the program.
* Coordinated with sub contractors and site Engineers for smooth flow of linked activities

Prepared clause-14.1 master construction program using MS Project with resource
loading.
* Prepared monthly invoice and getting it certified with the client.
* Prepared control estimate with detailed project analysis.
* Co-coordinated with clients upon the progress and other contractual issues.
* Selecting, negotiating and finalizing the sub contractors and rates for various activities.
* Monitoring the resource flow and productivity and tracking the control estimate and
reporting to top management regarding the status of job.
* Worked in ERP system for job management and extracted reports with respect to the job
status, material reconciliation etc.,
* Preparing weekly / monthly program for monitoring periodically.

Managed the allocated resources and utilizing it at the maximum.
* Direct in surveying to lay out installations and establish reference points, grades, and
elevations to guide construction.
* Dealt with clients and getting checked for the shuttering and reinforcement and getting
concrete poured.
* Analyzed the workable rates and sub letting the work to the sub contractors so as to get
the maximum productivity of the labours.
* Planned for material and man power required for the given target.
* Prepared bar bending schedule and tying it in the site.
* Prepared sub-contractor bills for their work done.