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Linwood, Pennsylvania, US

College Station, TX, US

Working in the development of an assessment tool that will help measure and improve the blended project management and safety culture in the operations of offshore oil and gas facilities.

Bucaramanga, Santander, CO

• Responsible for the master project schedule and project coordination. Prepared weekly and monthly reports in which project progress, project performance, and corrective actions were reported.
• Led weekly job-site meetings with all engineers and contractors, focused on evaluating project progress, discussing critical operations, and coordinating weekly activities.
• Reviewed project plans and specifications to provide constructability evaluation.
• Generated quarterly reports analyzing project costs and forecasting future project needs.
• Provided quantity take-offs and activity specifications required for RFP’s and contract preparation.
• Led the standardization of plumbing and masonry activities, reducing the time and cost required to execute them.

Bucaramanga, Santander, CO

• Managed 30+ construction site workers in charge of executing earthworks, plumbing, and structural activities.
• Monitored the execution of concrete structure and plumbing systems for a 20-story residential building, ensuring their compliance with project standards and specifications.
• Developed look-ahead schedules for adequate liaising with concrete plants and reinforcing steel suppliers, ensuring the project runs as per schedule.
• Generated executed work reports for quantity verification, quality controls, and billing purposes.
• Maintained project logs with daily installed quantities, as well as generated and organized As-Builts drawings.

Bucaramanga, Santander, CO

• Collaborated with the implementation of BIM methodology in the planning and construction stages of the projects, improving clashing resolutions and quantity estimations.
• Generated project layouts for structural activity sequencing, reducing concrete columns and slab cycle time by around 25%.
• Developed and monitored detailed three-month look-ahead schedules for critical path activities. Constraints on which fulfillment of these schedules depended were identified and monitored.
• Evaluated new construction processes and materials, leading to implementing a new type of mortar, decreasing costs and waste in the masonry and cement rendering activities.
• Developed and monitored the weekly scheduling of activities assigned to each contractor, based on the last planner system.

Bucaramanga, Santander, CO

• Executed performance and productivity measurements for the structural, MEP, and interior activities of the project.
• Monitored construction processes and internal supply chain of materials, identifying failures and proposing solutions that improved project performance.
• Developed project layouts for earthworks sequencing and material storage and distribution, reducing execution times and associated material waste.

Bogotá, Cundinamarca, CO

Performed structural surveys and modeled different types of structures in order to analyze behavior, capacity, and vulnerability of these with respect to the NSR-10 standard (Colombian Structural Standard).

Bogotá, Cundinamarca, CO

Provided support to the professor of the course in grading assignments, projects, and exams. Aided students on topics where they had questions.

Master Of Science - Ms, Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Civil Engineering

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