Elizabeth Carter
Houston,TX
Summary
A Dedicated and results-driven Project Scheduler and a Planner, with a strong track record of successfully developing, controlling, and maintaining project plans, schedules and resources from project initiation to finish with the application of project planning, cost controlling and management professional knowledge, skills and techniques to attain project objectives and management plan to develop, control and manage project plans and resources from project initiation to finish.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Scheduler
Georgia Power Company
Atlanta, GA
07.2023 - 01.2025
- Develop Critical Path Method Project schedules from scratch for all phases of construction projects.
- Monitor relationships, constraints, and milestones.
- Develop work break down project schedules and create tasks under the work break-down elements.
- Ensure that all activities in the project schedule are linked for efficient project execution and delivery.
- Develop baseline, update, track, and monitor critical path project schedules using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Interact with the internal and external vendors, contractors, and developers to ensure project plans and schedules are maintained to ensure efficient project execution and completion.
- Work with vendors and contractors to develop a master schedule for the projects.
- Develop project schedules for estimating, prior to the proposal date, which sufficiently illustrate the sequence of work activities and contract time.
- Send weekly project status reports (critical activities reports, 2-week or 4-week forecast look-ahead reports, milestone activities report, man-hour resource reports, completed activities reports, activities in progress reports, etc.).
- Ensure project deliverables are completed according to the project plan.
- Identify the project deliverables, scope of work, and develop detailed work breakdown structure, project schedules, to ensure value is provided to the customer/requestor, and business objectives and goals are met.
- Update weekly, monthly, and yearly cost forecasts, actual and variance reports. Track and update project progress, and send weekly project status reports to the project team and stakeholders.
- Develop master project schedules.
- Attend project change management meetings, and incorporate project change into the schedule.
- Help the project team to mitigate project delays by using schedule compression techniques.
- Develop a delayed project schedule to mitigate further project delays.
Project Scheduler
Marathon Oil Corporation
Lima, OH
02.2020 - 06.2023
- Developed and maintained detailed planning schedules for the manufacturing of subsea drilling equipment, including manifolds, trees, well connectors, flow lines, and risers, as well as the shipment and delivery of the same; These schedules incorporate numerous scenarios, and meetings with different departments and organizations.
- Checked progress and assessed risks of various projects, including setting forth contingency plans.
- Provided ongoing cost and estimates analysis, and managed cost allocation.
- Closely collaborated with the project team to identify and quickly address problems.
- Met with managers weekly to provide detailed project reports and milestone updates.
- Developed and followed a baseline project plan and milestones for task completion.
- Set up and managed team meetings.
- Worked directly with the Project Managers and project team members to identify and resolve problems in the area of project planning, scheduling, and development of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
- Assisted the project management team in the preparation of all Project Controls reports.
- Reviewed and ensured communication of project-related information to ensure project objectives will be executed in a timely manner.
- Created and maintained detailed engineering schedules with Primavera P6 based on WBS, activity definitions, durations, dependencies, and relationships.
Construction Scheduler
Megen Construction Company
Belton, TX
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Build schedules with input from project managers, including converting MS Project schedules to Primavera.
- Schedule work activities using the Critical Path Maintenance Management System.
- Monitor the progress and performance of the foremen and crew on projects as related to project tasks, and notify the team of any actual or potential issues.
- Identified optimal crew mixes and assignments depending on the SOW and logistics of the project.
- Specify the tooling and equipment necessary to perform the work safely and efficiently, including job-specific standards.
- Specify the tooling and equipment necessary to perform the work safely and efficiently, including job-specific standards.
- Determined and helped execute the pre-construction plan for upcoming jobs, considering the scope of work (e.g., Job Board, consumables list, Planner Schedule, Inventory Lists).
Education
BBA - Business Administration
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile Ife, Osun State Nigeria 08.2013 - 08.2017
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
The Federal Polytechnic, Ede
Osun State, Nigeria 11.2011 - 11.2013
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Project engineering
- Construction project management
- Schedule development
- Project scheduling and controls
- Utility Construction Planning and Scheduling
- Skilled in Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Windows, SAP, Visio, and Adobe
- Primavera P6
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Professional Scrum Master
Timeline
Project Scheduler
Georgia Power Company
07.2023 - 01.2025
Project Scheduler
Marathon Oil Corporation
02.2020 - 06.2023
Construction Scheduler
Megen Construction Company
01.2018 - 01.2020
BBA - Business Administration
Obafemi Awolowo University
08.2013 - 08.2017
Some College (No Degree) - Computer Science
The Federal Polytechnic, Ede
11.2011 - 11.2013
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