Ayi Umbu

Highly skilled and results-driven Construction Project Scheduler/Planner with over 7 years of extensive experience in delivering and managing complex projects over $1Billion within the EPC sector. Renowned for exceptional skills in scheduling and planning, risk management, resource allocation and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and high-quality standards. Demonstrate proficiency in analyzing and interpreting Architectural, Structural, Civil and Engineering drawing.

Excels in analytical thinking and strategic planning, increased productivity; adept at identifying critical paths, near critical paths, and optimizing project deliverables. An adept communicator and collaborator, skilled at liaising with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors to achieve project objectives and deadlines. Pioneered lessons-learned process, significantly boosting efficiency and success rates in future projects.

Expert knowledge of Primavera P6 and MS Project functions to manage project timelines efficiently from Pre-construction phase to project closeout.

Senior Project Planner at Weston Solutions Inc (2023-08 – Present)

• Manage schedules and budget for programs that include more than 4 projects valued at over $900 Million.
• Ensured full contractual compliance for all schedule deliverables and maintained consistent, audit ready updates.
• Managed more than 4,000 activities across parallel workstreams and kept relationships, constraints, and calendars aligned with field conditions.
• Create initial construction tender schedule for bid preparation and proposal submission.
• Expert knowledge of Primavera and MS Project functions including WBS, activities, project and activity codes, layouts, tables, macros, summarization, report creation and formatting, filters, user-defined fields, resource/cost loading and other project functions.
• Determine lead times in conjunction with sales, engineering, manufacturing and subcontractors and ensure raw materials are available when needed to run according to schedule.
• Analyzed drawings, specifications, statements of work and created activity networks for project resource planning and scheduling.
• Maintained project progress against approved baseline for accurate tracking, conducted regular progress assessments and provided timely updates to project stakeholders.
• Performed Time Impact Analysis and what if simulations in P6 to quantify delays and support change orders, claims, and mitigation plans.
• Collaborate with Project Team and Engineers to identify adverse turned or schedule slippage and recommend corrective action.
• Frequent onsite visits to review construction progress.
• Provide training and support for junior planners within organization (Schedule Optimization), help to optimize and review baseline schedule and Evaluate areas of schedule improvement for DCMA Quality Check.

Senior Project Scheduler at Messer Construction (2021-03 – 2023-07)

• Built and maintained Primavera P6 program schedules for a portfolio above $1.2 Billion with calendars, activity IDs, coding structures, baselines, and regular progress cycles.
• Implement Knowledge of scheduling concepts, principles, practices and Company software.
• Developed "Project Master Schedule" for awarded projects, coordinate with trade partners to integrate their schedule and ensure the schedule is prepared and maintained in compliance with contract requirement (Milestones and Deliverables).
• Determine the critical paths required to meet the overall project completion date, modify critical paths based on prevailing conditions, and consult with project leadership teams to create plans to overcome challenges.
• Participates in Sub- Contractor's schedules kick-off meeting to establish all deliverables, including WBS, basis of schedule deliverable, reports, detail of schedule alignment, and schedule review meline.
• Provided 6 weeks look ahead to the team, gave weekly update to the team and conducted progress evaluation with stakeholders monthly.
• Support Lean and Pull planning sessions by ensuring CPM schedule is aligned with pull plan results.
• Facilitates Interactive Project Planning Meeting (IPPM)
• Identify potential Scheduling conflicts and propose solution to mitigate delays.
• Use Time -management and multitasking skills to handle a variety of requests and functions demanded by the job.
• Successfully developed and managed comprehensive schedule for 2 major Data Center and Aviation projects, creating detailed WBS and all activities.
• Travel to job sites for meetings with customers and site management. Perform field inspections to gather data relevant to the development review process and/or to verify the development projects comply with approved plans.

Project Control Specialist at Duke Energy (2018-02 – 2021-02)

• Led project controls processes and consults with project management team to execute project deliverables within budget & schedule to ensure client satisfaction.
• Prepared statements of work for project engagements and monitored performance to ensure that project commitments meet contractual specification.
• Presents schedule and budget reports to project management team and client.
• Prepare and reports critical path as well as cost analysis trends: CPI's, SPI's, risk, earned value, labor/material/expense forecasts, vendor reporting and visual charts for monthly reporting.
• Prepare month-end reports, ETC/EAC forecasts, variance reports, spend projections and cost reconciliation.
• Analyzed data on Manpower, labor and labor cost requirements to budget limitations.
• Assists with cost performance indicators such as CPI and CV to access the projects financial health and identify potential cost overruns.
• Demonstrated continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes and work jointly with all department to provide quality services.
• Worked closely with project team to forecast resource requirements and optimize resource allocation.
• Interfaced with team members and stakeholders to anticipate and manage changes to projects such as but not limited to, technical requirements, business requirements and schedule.
• Supported team forecast using visuals such as S-Curves, Gannt Chart and Histograms.
• Supported the Cost Account manager (CAM) to determine the AC, EV, PV, SV, CPI, SPI utilizing earned value management.

Master of Science in International Business/Finance – Hult International Business School (2021)

Bachelor of Science in Accounting/Financial Management – Northeastern University (2017)