Ufuk Caliskan Email & Phone Number

United States

• Oversees ongoing residential projects (8 projects in construction phase and 8 projects in pre-construction phase on average per year) and makes sure timely completion of projects with pro-active measures and actions necessary by establishing risk management, critical analysis, and red flag systems. • Responsible for all day-to-day operations, leading and directing team members, ensuring accountability and performance of team members, and addressing all client and team requests and concerns.• Responsible for administering policies and procedures to teams and ensuring all staff are trained and meet performance standards.• Provides collaboration of teams and stakeholders in every stage of projects to make sure all project goals are brought to attention of parties and actions are taken on timely basis with result-oriented approach from preconstruction phase to temporary certificate of occupancy of the project.

• Manages project schedules, identify, and report activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule, and monitor contractor performances.• Develops resource and cost loaded project scheduling with Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Microsoft Project.• Applies Earned Value Management, critical path method analysis, project planning, and risk analysis.• Develops and maintains project controls deliverables including but not limited to weekly/monthly reports in line with the project and company reporting calendar, providing details on progress, actuals, forecast and explanation of variances.• Prepares draw schedules and monthly cash flow reports from costs loaded schedules.

Greater New York City Area

• Performed financial, economic, and qualitative data collection and analyses of a variety of projects and programs across multiple business lines. • Assisted project manager by providing progress reports, schedule updates, project summary reports, forecasted cost to complete, identification of cost and schedule variances, and opportunities for improvement. • Performed financial and quantitative data collections for ongoing projects and prepare performance analyses for project leadership by using key performance indicators in terms of budget and schedule. Perform financial and budget management and presentations with tools such as Microsoft Power Bi. • Monitored construction progress and ensure conformance to construction drawings, design specifications and safety standards. • Attended to scope and design meetings, review drawings and specifications, and provide feedbacks to architectural and engineering designers regarding constructability, coordination of trades, construction modifications and possible discrepancies in drawings. • Followed-up project schedule, identify, and report activities that have a critical or potential impact on the schedule, and monitor contractor performances. • Performed resource and cost loaded project scheduling with Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Microsoft Project. • Used Earned Value Management, critical path method analysis, project planning, and risk analysis. Developed and maintained project controls deliverables including but not limited to weekly/monthly reports in line with the project and company reporting calendar, providing details on progress, actuals, forecast and explanation of variances. • Used data entry software such as Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft SQL Database. • Worked on Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access to create custom data entry forms and reports with Visual Basic and Macro, and visualization of data with Microsoft Power BI.

United States

• Assisted Project Manager in buyouts and management of projects including preparation of request for proposals, bid leveling, value engineering, estimating, budgeting, and creating schedule of values.

Boufarik 704,129 Mw Gt Power Plant Project, Algeria

• Managed technical office as well as planning, purchasing and document control departments (15 people). • Established field office documenting system for correspondence, logs, meeting minutes, payments, submittals.• Developed cost control system at field office.• Developed front-loaded schedule of values in order to compensate for 3-months late payment cycle of client and established effective cash flow management. • Developed and tracked project budget. Prepared and managed monthly cash flows of the project and kept track of payments to be made to subcontractors and suppliers.• Managed 35 subcontractors (approximate contract value of $81million) including civil, architectural, electrical and mechanical main subcontractors and service providers comprised of approximately 800 people. • Drafted 25 subcontract agreements (approximate contract value of $60 million) including bidding, levelling, negotiating and awarding. With separating scope of works as onshore and offshore contracts, over $3 million has been saved from VAT and additional tax payments in the country.• Negotiated change orders from subcontractors.• Evaluated claims for additional cost and time from subcontractors (e.g. delay, disruption, prolongation, acceleration, change order claims) and calculated actual cost and time extension to be granted to subcontractors. • Followed up progress rates and responsibilities for subcontractors by visiting worksite on daily basis min. 1 hour to monitor actual performances and works in place.• Reviewed all subcontractor’s payment requisition forms and invoices.• Controlled guarantee letters and insurance certificates of all subcontractors as per conditions of contracts.

Disi- Mudawarra To Amman Water Conveyance System Project, Amman, Jordan

• Worked with Hill International in preparation of additional cost and time extension claims to the client (e.g. delay, disruption, prolongation, acceleration, change/variations in scope or site conditions claims),• Managed 17 subcontractors (approximate contract value of $153 million) with approx. 700 people and accomplished to complete works on budget and on time.• Drafted and negotiated more than 75 change orders (approx. $39 million) proposed by subcontractors which resulted in savings of approx. $16 million.• Followed, quantified and priced claims against insurance companies for 10 cases (approx. $3 million) and ensured necessary coordination with insurance companies.• Reviewed time extension and delay claims of subcontractors and implemented critical path method (CPM) analysis via Primavera P6 to determine incurred delay and calculate the cost resulting from loss of productivity.• Prepared a resource-loaded construction schedule based on physical progress and available resources for earthworks, civil, architectural and site development works.

Ankara/Turkey

• Responsible for design of regulator, water intake, fore-bay pool, pipeline system of hydroelectric power plants.

Executive Mba Candidate

Master’S Degree, M.S. In Construction Management

Bs Of Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering

Emba, Business Administration And Management, General