Portfolio

Our team at Project Management in Action  encloses the best talent in the industry, outstanding individuals with more than 20 years of individual experience impacting the performance of diverse multi-million dollar organizations through expert alignment of technical resources with enterprise objectives. Impacting corporate bottom line, stimulating cost avoidance and savings, vitalizing the performance of operational units through strategic development, implementation, and management of technical IT infrastructures, always ensuring best practices in enterprise wide systems, units, and teams. Our team is characterized by its performance in cross-functional settings, achieving reputation for embracing challenges, serving an instrumental role in optimizing assigned business areas.

Most Notable Projects
Project Management for a leading global group of energy and petrochemical companies with operations in over 90 countries
Location: Calgary AB, – Fort McMurray, AB Canada
Date:  Jun 2012 – Aug 2015
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Manage Network Service Cost Performance Improvement

PMIA Lead 10+ projects for Cost Performance Improvement in Upstream America and captured more than $1.1 M in savings in record time. Achieved cost reductions by rightsizing IT network (WAN and LAN) such as bandwidth optimization, new technologies and divestments in 50 sites within 4 countries.

  • Generated cost reduction from nearly zero to 1.1 Million dollars’ yearly savings in 6 months.Gearing up a team of 10 people from employees, and third party vendors.
  • Project cost of $325K.
  • Technologies: MNS, AT&T, MPLS, Metro Ethernet, Fiber Optic, Siteconnect,
Ensure Safe Production (ESP) Improvement 
  • Implemented Best Practices for Plant Alarm Management System, and tracking Operators Responses by using the company’s Operational Excellence and Ensure Safe Production Framework and COTS application.
  • Put in place 3 Application Servers, 7 OPC servers, 3 Oracle Database servers and 3 Web servers.
  • Trained 350+ control and field operators
  • Led a project team of 24 members among employees, vendors, operators, business analysts, application support, infrastructure analysts, and Quality Management in India
  • Project cost 1.2 Million dollars.
Shovel and Support Equipment Condition Based Monitoring
  • Expert orchestration of business and IT teams to put in place Asset Performance, Reliability Centered Maintenance and Condition Based Monitoring systems and processes to monitor health’s and reduced operational and safety risks.
  • Positive reduced catastrophic failures and increased availability by 5% within 21 shovels, 140 Support equipment’s (dozers, graders, pipefitters)
  • Implemented reliable SAP interface to automatically load target measurements.
  • Team of 9 people
  • Project budget $1.4 Million.
Instrument Calibration System Procalv5 Implementation
  • Rescued Instrument Calibration Management project by managing tight scope and schedule
  • Achieved bottom line savings by controlling over 20k+ instruments and at the same time increased productivity of 15 instrument technicians
  • Deployed IT infrastructure for database, application and web server.
  • Project cost $330k
  • Project team 9+ employees and 3rd party vendors, onshore and offshore
Joint Database Management System (JDMS)
  • Led victorious the implementation of cloud based Software as a Service Hydratight JDMS (20k+ joints) at Scotford Upgrader
  • Captured cost avoidance greater than 1.7 M per year by reducing overall operational risks (leaks) during turnovers and steady state operations.

Major Technologies and Methodologies: Cisco Routers and Switches, Cisco LAN Switches, SharePoint, PI Historian, Honeywell Dynamo, Honeywell and Foxboro Scada, SAP, Biztalk, Application Program Interface, HP Quality Center, Citrix, Cloud and SaaS, Livelink, Web, Application and Oracle Servers, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, Kotter’s Change Management and Organizational Readiness and Business process review. ITIL Service Management and Cobit Risk Management Framework.

Project Management for a leading global provider of engineering software for the design, construction, and operation of plants, ships, and offshore facilities.
Location: Calgary, AB Canada
Project date: Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 
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Engineering Data Warehouse
  • Lead and managed the company’s major project for the software customization and deployment of the Engineering Data Warehouse (EDW) at a major oil producer in Canada.
  • Project Team of 9 people using Agile – Scrum approach located in Calgary, USA and India.
  • Project Budget 1.1 Million dollars.
Design Tools Implementation
  • Encompassed the Implementation of the integrated Engineering Environment using Intergraph’s leading technology in design tools for the Synthetic Oil project SAGD Kinosis Project.
  • More than 8 specialists located in Canada, USA and India.
  • Project cost: $320K
Smartplant Construction deployment
  • Successful implemented state of the art technology Smartplant Construction of a well known company in Canada for the Surmont 2 by publishing 3D models and retrieve in SmartPlant Foundation and integrating with Primavera Scheduler using cloud computing in 3rd party Data Center facility in Calgary.
  • Project Team of 5 people. Engineers, Construction lead, Intergraph specialists.

Technologies and Methodologies: Smartplant 3D, Construction, Foundation, Primavera Scheduler, SPPID, SPI, SPEL, SP3D and Engineering Data Warehouse Smartplant Foundation (SPF), Agile Methodology, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Project Server. Kotter’s Change Management and Organizational Readiness and Business process review. ITIL Service Management and Cobit Risk Management Framework.

 Project Management for one of Canada’s largest unconventional gas producer with operations in Canada and USA with a net divestiture of $1-$2 Billion
Project location: Calgary, AB Canada
Project date: Feb – Jun 2011
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Program Quality

Chosen to create and deploy a Quality Management strategy (QMS), framework and plan for the Corporate Windows 7 implementation, establishing Test Scripts, Proof of Concepts (POC), QA/QC activities for testing more than 250 applications, 3,500+ computers and packaging processes.

  • Designed and implemented the Program Risk Log, Issues, Changes and Decision (RICD) tracking system.
  • Enabled program/projects compliance framework using PMI and COBIT Standards.
  • Directed cultural changes and enhancements in the project team performance by implementing a quality awareness program.
  • Project team of 3-5 people.

Technologies and Methodologies: Jira, Windows 7, Windows Remedy, Waterfall Methodology, HP Quality Center

Project Management for one of Canada’s largest Energy related companies with operations in Canada, USA, and Asia 
Location: Calgary, AB Canada
Date:  Dec 2009 – Feb 2011 
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Project Management Office Development and Launch
  • Developed, organized and launched the company’s IT Project Management Office (PMO), establishing portfolio, program and project compliance framework using PMI and COBIT Standards. Directed organizational changes and enhancements in project management team, boost an Applications program, value management reporting, 154 projects, $50+ Million dollar investments; capturing 30% efficiency in CAPEX and OPEX.
  • Implemented first database repository for project documentation, business process/technical control development.
  • Project Team: 20+.
  • Budget: 1.5 Million.

 

Technologies: Livelink, Jira, Microsoft Excel Advanced, Sharepoint Workflows, PMO, Portfolio, Program and Project Approach.