Cressida Arowolo

Senior Project Scheduler with more than eight years of experience developing, maintaining, and optimizing integrated project schedules supporting commercial nuclear, utility, engineering, infrastructure, and capital projects. Experienced building and maintaining Primavera P6 schedules supporting engineering, outage, maintenance, and project execution activities in highly regulated environments. Experienced building Integrated Master Schedules from project initiation through execution using Primavera P6 while supporting project managers, engineering, maintenance, operations, procurement, contractors, and executive leadership.

Proven ability to manage critical path schedules, perform float analysis, develop recovery strategies, support resource loading, earned value reporting, and schedule risk analysis to ensure projects remain on schedule and within budget. Experienced supporting commercial nuclear generation scheduling activities, outage-related work, engineering coordination, maintenance planning, procurement milestones, long-lead material tracking, and capital project execution within highly regulated utility environments. Known for building schedules from scratch, improving inherited schedules, identifying schedule risks before they impact project execution, and translating complex schedule information into actionable recommendations for project teams and senior leadership.

Project Scheduler at PSEG (2025-01 – Present)

• Support project scheduling and project controls for PSEG's enterprise SAP Modernization Program while collaborating with PMO leadership, project managers, engineering teams, EY, PwC, procurement, contractors, and executive stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules supporting utility and commercial nuclear generation activities within a highly regulated environment.
• Built the Integrated Master Schedule from project initiation by establishing work breakdown structures, project logic, sequencing, dependencies, milestones, and workstream alignment.
• Supported commercial nuclear generation scheduling activities while coordinating schedules across engineering, operations, maintenance, project management, procurement, and vendor organizations.
• Supported outage-related scheduling and coordinated work performed during tightly controlled maintenance windows.
• Developed and maintained Primavera P6 schedules supporting project execution from planning through design and implementation.
• Coordinated daily with EY, PwC, PMO leadership, project managers, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to maintain schedule accuracy across multiple workstreams.
• Entered and maintained Business Process Documents (BPDs), Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), Change Request Documents (CRDs), milestones, deliverables, and dependencies within the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Performed critical path analysis, float management, schedule health reviews, and recovery planning to identify and mitigate schedule risks before impacting project milestones.
• Supported resource loading, schedule forecasting, milestone tracking, and executive reporting for senior leadership.
• Integrated procurement milestones and long-lead material delivery dates into project schedules to protect project execution timelines.
• Coordinated engineering work packages, project deliverables, and cross-functional dependencies supporting project execution.
• Used SAP and Jira to validate project progress, monitor schedule performance, track risks, and maintain schedule integrity.
• Supported earned value management, schedule performance analysis, cost integration, and executive dashboards.
• Conducted weekly schedule review meetings with PMO leadership, engineering, procurement, contractors, and executive stakeholders to validate progress, discuss schedule risks, identify critical path impacts, and develop recovery strategies.
• Created what-if schedule scenarios to evaluate project impacts and support executive decision-making.
• Maintained schedule quality through logic validation, baseline management, coding structures, and continuous schedule updates.

Project Scheduler at Gainwell Technologies (2023-01 – 2025-01)

• Managed project scheduling and project controls for a large Medicaid Management Information System modernization program while partnering with project managers, PMO leadership, technical teams, QA, business analysts, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Assumed ownership of an inherited Primavera P6 schedule and quickly established schedule integrity through logic validation, dependency corrections, and milestone alignment.
• Managed integrated project schedules throughout Design, Build, Testing, Go-Live, Hypercare, and Post-Deployment phases.
• Developed and maintained schedules supporting multiple cross-functional technical workstreams.
• Performed critical path analysis, float management, schedule forecasting, and recovery planning.
• Coordinated project schedules with technical leads, business analysts, QA teams, project managers, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
• Maintained visibility into project risks, schedule constraints, dependencies, and milestone performance.
• Supported executive reporting through schedule updates, milestone tracking, critical path reporting, and schedule performance analysis.
• Developed recovery schedules and alternative execution strategies when schedule risks were identified.
• Supported project controls activities including schedule baselines, earned value reporting, variance analysis, and schedule health monitoring.
• Assisted project leadership in making informed project decisions through accurate schedule reporting, forecasting, and proactive schedule management.

Senior Project Scheduler at Goliath Construction Group (2019-07 – 2023-07)

• Led Primavera P6 scheduling and project controls for multi-disciplinary utility, transmission and distribution, substation, gas, metering, grid modernization, infrastructure, and commercial construction projects.
• Partnered with project managers, engineers, contractors, field leadership, and executive management to develop integrated schedules, coordinate outage windows, monitor project performance, and ensure successful project execution.
• Developed and maintained Primavera P6 schedules supporting utility infrastructure, transmission and distribution, substation, gas, metering, and grid modernization projects.
• Built integrated master schedules, baseline schedules, and recovery schedules for multiple concurrent capital projects.
• Coordinated outage windows, engineering activities, procurement milestones, material deliveries, contractor schedules, and field execution requirements.
• Performed critical path analysis, float management, resource loading, resource leveling, and schedule optimization to improve project execution.
• Tracked procurement activities, long-lead materials, equipment deliveries, RFIs, submittals, permits, and construction milestones.
• Produced executive dashboards, milestone reports, S-curves, schedule forecasts, and risk-adjusted reporting used during monthly project governance meetings.
• Developed recovery schedules and mitigation strategies to minimize schedule delays and protect project milestones.
• Identified schedule constraints, logic breaks, sequencing conflicts, and resource issues before impacting project execution.
• Coordinated closely with project managers, field engineers, superintendents, contractors, vendors, and executive leadership to maintain schedule accuracy.
• Improved contractor schedule quality by standardizing coding structures, schedule templates, schedule review processes, and schedule integrity.
• Supported project controls, baseline management, change management, schedule performance reporting, and project forecasting throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintained complete project documentation including basis-of-schedule assumptions, as-built schedules, schedule revisions, and project history supporting successful project delivery.

Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication – Olabisi Onabanjo University