Reinaldo Zerpa

Senior Project Control and Reporting Engineer with 10+ years in Oil & Gas EPC, LNG, and major capital projects across the Middle East, Asia, and South America Specialized in Primavera P6, SAP FI/CO, Pertmaster, and risk management tools. Skilled in building logic-driven schedules, enterprise goals and risk frameworks, mitigation strategies to improve project certainty, ensure compliance with Standards, and deliver projects within cost and time targets. Multilingual: English, Spanish, Chinese,

Italian, Portuguese

Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy

Senior Scheduling Specialist 08/2022 – 03/2023

Location: Doha, Qatar

Functions:

• Assisting the Venue Scheduling Team in creating and managing a Portfolio of FIFA World Cup Official Sites (Stadiums, Training Sites, etc.) and Non-Official Sites (Fan Festivals, Broadcast Centre, etc.) Programmes
• Creating the Master Venue Programmes, ensuring all logic and requirements between projects are accurately reflected and health status information across all Venues
• Undertaking creation and update of the Venue Schedules, monitoring daily / weekly variances, verifying their accuracy to inform decision making into Smartsheet
• Structured set of site delivery programs that incorporate the integration of all relevant stakeholders, alignment of activities with the critical path (s) and time constraints of each site, to ensure the timely delivery of site works and operations
• Assessment of progress against plan over time and generation of status reports (“Dashboards”) accurate and trend analysis reports for Senior Management across all Official and Non-Official Sites into Power BI
• Assists with ensuring relevant updates are provided by all parties (e.g.: Sub-contractors, Project Managers, etc.) within agreed timescales, and verify accuracy of updates with the Venue Scheduling Teams Senior Managers
• Development and updating of the Primavera / Microsoft Project / Smartsheet Schedules and ensure the accuracy of the Project updates and logic to meet Senior Management requirements as and when required
• Ensuring updates are of the highest standard and all requirements, issues & risk for projects are accurately reflected and make observations and recommendations
• Chairs ad-hoc meetings with Senior Managers where required to resolve complex scheduling problems
• Identifying and raising any early warnings in relation to Programme slippage, for team to review prior to implementing recovery plans

Petroleos de Venezuela PDVSA S.A  

Planning & Cost Engineer 07/2011 – 08/2021

Location: Carabobo, Venezuela

Functions:

• Developing projects from concept to commissioning stage understanding the work sequences in EPC multidiscipline projects environment, through set-up dashboards and schedules measurement systems 
• Leading complex projects using widely-adopted project management tools, methodologies as scope control, change management, lean six sigma, and earned value under industry best practice
• Planning, monitoring and controlling Execution and Close Out and handover to the client, providing leadership to project teams during different phases of the projects and maintain project completion schedule 
• Executing the Project Cost Control Procedure through Cost Breakdown Structure IBIS (by entity - Job number) as well as CBS codes to be used by each Operating Company participating in the projects
• Liaising with other Project Controls disciplines and functions, assist and support in the development of project budgets in accordance with the Basis of Estimate including statements of work scope, assumptions, man-hour estimates, narratives and review & comment of client documents
• Defining contractual baseline (Level – 1 to Level – 4) schedule and progress measurement report to client for review and approval executing project control and progress measurement procedures
• Developing and maintain project completion schedule (L3 and L4) as per the Drawing, Material, front availability (Considering contract Duration and Milestones), assigning resources and managing constraints
• Updating the progress in Primavera P6, in the interval of Bi-Weekly and Monthly with complying of PDVSA S.A schedule standards and forecast the schedule to client and head management
• Identifying the critical path of project and coordinate with all disciplines to ensure/mitigate those activities are following the plan on time with milestone parameter below of risk range and make potential corrective action to the project
• Managing the assigned budget including contractual risk and generate margin expectation to meet operational target
• Guiding in setting up of the Technical Document Register (TDR) and Project Procurement Tracking Register (PTR) and pursue population of the requisite data into these registers with Engineering and Procurement disciplines respectively
• Working with subcontractor or partner construction planners to develop optimum sequencing of activities in construction such that realistic date is set for engineering and procurement activities to facilitate the necessary durations for efficient installation, pre-commissioning and commissioning
• Ensuring the TDR and PR is updated in line with Project reporting requirements, and report any serious deviations
• Preparing project S curves for all individual engineering disciplines, procurement and construction
• Managing Project Cost Control and Schedule by earned value methodology EVM
• Providing all cost engineering expertise and coordinates activities as group/unit leader as required in preparation of cost portion of the engineering, procurement and construction contracts
• Coordinating development of Concept, Basis and Detailed Design and Construction phases, including the overall planning and schedule, coordination for the inter-discipline team’s activities, interface with the clients and end users
• Maintaining the overall EPC Projects Breakdown Structure and relevant Coding SAP FI & CO System to meet all control requirements in phases of implementation, execution, and control
• Building management reports of productivity, KPI, and MIS for PDVSA S.A and stakeholders, conducting meetings with Sub contractors and operative department

Dealing with due diligence duties, liaising and negotiating with local and national authorities

Beijing University of Science and Technology, China 2020

Master in Management Science and Engineering

University of Carabobo, Venezuela 2023

Specialist in Quality and Productivity Management

University of Carabobo, Venezuela 2013

Bachelor in Industrial Engineering