Altrine Aju Melton Edwin Thyagaraj

ALTRINE AJU MELTON EDWIN THYAGARAJ

Senior Planning Engineer

( 30799183; * [email protected]

DATE OF BIRTH

§  6-October-1985

EDUCATION

§  Post-Graduation

Masters in Construction Enterprise Management (Fulltime)

2010-2011

University of Dundee, United Kingdom.

§  MBA in Finance & Operation (Online)

2007-2009

National Institute of Business Management, India

§  Under-Graduation

Bachelors in Civil Engineering (Fulltime)

2003-2007

Anna University, India

TOTAL EXPERIENCE

§  14 years

SKILLS

§  Primavera P6 (Certified by Qatar Chamber)

§  Primavera Risk Manager

§  MS Project

§  MS Office

EXPERIENCE

§  Thorough understanding and experience in Project Control Management from Initiation, Mobilization, Execution, Testing & Commissioning, Demobilization.

§  Prepared as well as reviewed various Primary Baselines, Revised baselines, Macro and Micro plans,

§  Monitored and scrutinized variations (delays, disruptions and variations) in terms of contractual programme, working/target programme and milestones.

§  Good experience in Delay Analysis, Extension of Time claims preparation and approval to client and conducting detailed forensic analysis on subcontractors cost and time claims for approval.

§  Hands-on experience in Management Information Systems reporting pertinent to EVA, Integrated S Curves, Reconciliation reports, Productivity reports, Cash Flow, Liquidity and Working Capital.

§  Cost Monitoring and Management by Unit Rate Analysis, Activity Based Costing along with project based Zero Based Budget and Inventory Management System.

§  Blended experience as Planning engineer and Team leader from Main Contractors and Consultants.

PROJECTS

§  Airports and Aviation

§  High-rise buildings

§  Infrastructures and Utilities

§  Hospitality & Mixed-Use developments

CERTIFCATION

§  Qatar UPDA/MMUP Certified (#29080)

PROFESSIONAL BODY

§  Member of PMI

ACHIEVEMENTS

§  Best Project Award-University

§  Scholarship for studying Masters (PG) in the United Kingdom

NATIONALITY

§  Indian

LANGUAGES

§  Tamil (Native), English, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DETAILS

August 2020 till date

Company: Dar Al Handasah, Doha, Qatar

Position: Senior Planning Engineer

PROJECTS:

1.    Construction of 2 Towers (69 floors -Plot C&D) in Plaza area, Lusail Central.

2.    Qatar Airway Lounges (Rehabilitation and Refurbishment work of the existing three lounges with special fine finishes) in Hamad International Airport (HIA).

3.    Renovation and upgradation of Doha International Airport (DIA)

4.    Hangar-D (facility for maintenance, repair and overhauling of airplanes) in HIA.

5.    Marsa Arabia (Hotels and branded residences) in Pearl Qatar.

6.    Enabling works and construction & multistorey tower (G+23) for CBQ in Lusial Qatar.

Clients: MATAR, UDC, CBQ

TOTAL PROJECT VALUE: QAR 8 Billion

–       Currently responsible for Planning and Reporting progress as a Construction Supervising Consultant the Plot C & D – 2 iconic towers in the Lusail central plaza.

–       Previously involved in Airport development works, mixed use developments, hospitality and multi-story buildings with scope of work including upgradation, refurbishment, rehabilitation, enabling, civil and structural works, MEP, finishing and landscape. Experience in each project were at different stages from commencement, construction, testing, commissioning and handover / issuance of completion certificate.

Duties & Responsibilities:

i.        Reviewing and approving main contractor’s contractual baseline programme.

ii.        Monitoring progress variances with respect to baseline programmes and target programmes.

iii.        Monitoring the project in terms of contractual compliance including milestones and completion dates.

iv.        Analyzing target completion programmes including recovery, mitigation and catchup programmes.

v.        Analyzing and providing Engineer’s determination for extension of time claims with respect to contract.

vi.        Determining impacts due to employer and contractor delay events retrospectively and prospectively.

vii.        Analyzing extension of time for concurrency to avoid prolongation cost.

viii.        Analyzing and approving updates as per the revised baseline programme of works based on approved extension of time provided by Client.

ix.        Client coordination to support necessary decision-making process in fruitful and economic manner.

January 2017 to July 2020

Company: QD-SBG, Qatar

Position: Senior Planning Engineer

PROJECT: CP7B –Plaza Development in Lusail Central & BP12 – Early Works for four iconic towers in Lusail.

Client: Lusail Real Estate Development – Qatari Diar

Project Value: QAR 5 Billion

Lead a team of 5 members involved in the development of new infrastructures to meet requirements of modern Lusail City, with scope including Tunnel roads (2 levels), carparks (east and west), utilities and roads.

Duties & Responsibilities:

i.        Based on approved extension of time claims and variations, prepared revised baseline from original contractual period demonstrating balance scope of work with revised contractual milestones, including all supporting and substantiating evidences/reports and modified and revised sequence of works etc.

ii.        Complied consultant’s comments on extension of time and revised baseline programme and submitted for consultant and client clarification, review, iterations and approval.

iii.        Identified of various employer delay events with chronological list of events facilitating to perform forensic delay analysis including time-impact-analysis, as-planned-as-built analysis) for an extension of time claim and associated prolongation cost for 2 years.

iv.        Conducted various extension of time claim workshops and presentations with client and consultant to demonstrate causes and effects of identified delays for attaining approval.

v.        Coordinated with Asghal in order to demonstrate and validate claims for time and cost (as one of claims for time and cost was under mediation between main contractor and consultant).

vi.        Evaluated different sub-contractor’s time and cost claim requests in line with main contract and provided contractual determinations and recommendations.

vii.        Regular coordination and interfacing with adjacent contract packages for tie-ins in order to ascertain all the schedule impacts including different neighboring packages as well as tram project.

viii.        Performed schedule risk analysis to ascertain effects in engineering, procurement, construction and interfacing department, and highlighted the key risk to the management for action.

ix.        Recovery plans, alternative scheduling and mitigating issues raised due illegal embargo in June 2017.

x.        Reviewed subcontractor’s daily, weekly and monthly reports and provided comments for compliance.

xi.        Analyzed subcontractor’s catchup plans, revised schedules and mitigation measures with aspect of realistic and complying contractual requirements.

October 2015 to October 2016

Company: AFGCO Group, UAE

Position: Senior Planning Engineer

PROJECTS: Construction of Al-Ain Defense Airport, Hotel and High-rise buildings.

Client: AMMROC, Government of Al Ain, AWQAF

Project Value: US$ 5 Billion

Project handled,

·         Renovation airport for maintenance, repairing and overhauling operations for military aircrafts.

·         Hospitality project including construction of a hotel with VIP based special finishes.

·         Construction of 4 high-rise buildings for residential apartments with levels ranging up to G+24 levels.

Duties & Responsibilities:

i.        Coordinated with seven site planners and conducted regular meetings regarding site planning and extension of time claims for the submissions to client

ii.        Reviewed and approved extension of time claims from subcontractors in defense airport, high-rise buildings and hospitality project.

iii.        Reviewed and provided comments to my subordinate site planners in order to improvise baselines, revised baselines and target programmes submitted by subcontractors loaded with resources and cost.

iv.        Reviewed and provided comments to improvise the rolling in weekly and monthly schedules extracted from master contractual and working programme from site planners.

v.        Closely monitored contractual milestones comparing the contractual client baseline and internal target completion programme in order to take immediate actions to recover the delay.

vi.        Reviewed forensic delay analysis like time impact analysis for extension of time and provided demonstrations to top management, consultants and clients.

vii.        Performed detailed schedule risk analysis in a regular manner in order to identify the potential risks which can affect the project and proposed actions to mitigate, recover and catch-up slippages.

viii.        Analyzed subcontractors progress regularly as well us updated the project progress versus baseline program – identified potential risks and anticipated delays due to effect of risks.

ix.        Reviewed recovery programmes, mitigation programmes and catch-up programmes.

x.        Reviewed all reports via. earned value management technique, inventory management system, cost accounting reconciliation reporting in projects.

May 2014 to September 2015

Company: Hill International /ADPI, Oman

Position: Site Planner

PROJECT: Development of Muscat & Salalah International Airports

Client: Ministry of Transportation & Communication & OAMC

Project Value: US$ 5 billion

Project includes Design & Build of the following,

·         Passenger Terminal Buildings (G+4 levels)

·         New Aprons & Taxiways & Runway and associated Airside works

·         Airfield Ground Lightings & Airfield Markings

·         Air Traffic Control Tower, Air Traffic Management Buildings, Data Centers

·         Approach Roads and pertinent utilities including AWAN IT networks

·         Fuel farm, Crash Fire Rescue Station

·         Landscape and Hardscape.

Duties & Responsibilities:

i.        Evaluated main contractor’s revised baseline schedule for client’s approval.

ii.        Evaluated all involved parties target completion programme for working programme and scheduling.

iii.        Monitored revised baseline programme as well as target completion programmes for its compliance with master programme and contract.

iv.        Identified project schedule risks related to engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, handover and operational-readiness-and-transfer and highlighted them to management for immediate action.

v.        Determined all types of delays, their fundamental causes and impacts in the project both retrospectively and prospectively via. various delay analysis pertinent to critical path method.

vi.        Reviewed extension of time with time impact analysis programmes by contractors as per contractual conditions, analyzed for determining impact due to delay events by critical path method schedules.

vii.        Determined mitigation, recovery and catchup measures with more advanced construction methodologies and accordingly sequenced of activities without affecting completion dates.

viii.        Interfacing and coordination between existing and new airport for operational readiness and transfer.

February 2012 to April 2014

Company: Faithful + Gould (Atkins), Jeddah, KSA

Position: Site Engineer (Planning)

PROJECT: New King Abdul Aziz International Airport

Client: General Authority of Civil Aviation GACA

Project Value: US $7 billion

Project includes Design and Build of the following

·         Passenger Terminal Building with Concourse.

·         Transportation center and High-Speed Railway Station.

·         Aprons and Taxiway.

·         External Approach Roads.

·         Internal Surface and Elevated Roads.

·         ATC Tower (136 meters).

·         2 MSCP (east and west with G+4 levels).

Duties & Responsibilities:

i.        Prepared master contractual baseline programme in coordination with all the contractual requirements

ii.        Prepared master working programme which is assigned with activity-based costing and resources.

iii.        Monitored 2 years’ contractual master baseline programme and master working programme.

iv.        Prepared and monitored activities in a daily manner as well as in weekly manner which complying master external and internal programmes.

v.        Prepared snapshots based on key-performance-indicators for management to show week over week status and logic revision reports with reasons and effects on internal and external milestones.

vi.        Maintained a detailed procurement log with data and information from suppliers and manufactures of long lead items and analyzed regularly by monitoring the effects and impacts on master schedule.

vii.        Reviewed and verified subcontractors’ baseline and updated programme of works and further report submissions based on updated actual situation at site.

viii.        Analyzed delays and disruptions by employer as well as contractor risk events by critical path method.

ix.        Supported in reviewing extension of time claims by delay analysis and provided observations.

x.        Coordinating with risk management team to avert possible risks and mitigation.

July 2007 to September 2010

Company: Consolidated Construction Consortium), India

Position: GET (1st 3months) & Planning Engineer (3 years).

JV Partner: Herve-Pomerleau International, Canada

PROJECT: Extension of Chennai Airport

Client: Airports Authority of India (AAI)

Project Value: US$300 Million

Project includes the following,

·         New Passenger Terminal Building (G+3 levels) for domestic terminal.

·         New passenger terminal building (G+4 levels) for international terminal.

·         Airside Infrastructure works like airport wide area networks.

·         Apron and taxiway work.

·         2nd Runway in a bridge above an active river.

·         Approach road and Elevated Corridor (with provision of travellator).

Duties & Responsibilities:

i.        Prepared contractual baseline as per strict special conditions of contract by AAI and attained Directorate General of Civil Aviation, relevant government body’s approval.

ii.        Prepared revised baseline due to modifications, additions and deletions in contractual scope of work.

iii.        Prepared regular macro and micro plans based on the approved contractual baseline programme

iv.        Scrutinized variations between planned versus actual in a timely manner.

v.        Monitored labor productivity, cost expended using unit rate analysis as well as activity-based costing and zero-based budget.

vi.        Implemented site-based inventory management system in order to monitor and reconcile the consumption of steel, concrete ingredients including cement, gravel and sand aggregates.

vii.        Prepared and maintained contemporary records and management information system reports via earned value method, integrated S curve, site productivity, cash flow, liquidity and working capital.

viii.        Forensic analysis on subcontractors having no approved baseline schedule.

ix.        Determined reduction time from contractual duration after descoping US$150.

x.        Coordination at a beginning level between existing and new runway operations for handing over.

References

§  Mr. Gautam Mantagani (Sr Planning Manager, DAR Lusail iconic Tower)

§  Mr. Reymondos Konstantinidis (Project Manager – Dar Al Handasah)

§  Mr. Ahmed Refaay (Projects Control Manager – QDSBG)

LinkedIn testimonials

Words from my wonderful colleagues,

§  Leonard Peter Barone – Executive Project Manager

“Aju was a very dependable site planner on a large-scale airport project. He was very perceptive, willing to put in the extra efforts to meet deadlines, if opportunity ever came across, I would hire Aju again.

§  Oscar Aragon – Resident Engineer

“Aju is a dedicated planner who worked with me in the Airside Infrastructure and AGL works for Salalah Airport Expansion Project. Along with me, he helped Site Management team in speeding up execution at site”

§  Christian Merrett – Senior Forensic Consultant

“Within a large team of professional planners, Aju clearly stood out as one of the more talented and skilled individuals and his judgment was consistently relied upon by me and my senior colleagues”

§  Bob Albright, Project Director-Chief Planning Engineer

Aju had a great deal of responsibility on this project and successfully meant the challenges. He exhibited a maturity not often associated with a young person in his duties as a Senior Planning Engineer as well as his integration into the Quantity Surveying/Commercial areas of responsibilities of the team.