Carlene Whiteman-Frederick

Prepared and updated MTAC status reports and updated tracking reports and files to maintain diligence and financial controls for 50 CAPEX projects and OPEX activities

• Monitored MTAC project progress to identify and address changes in project scope or budget.
• Attended MTAC meetings to provide updates and insights on costs.
• Reviewed and approved invoices and payments, verifying accuracy of expenses.
• Oversee and ensured payment on time reports are updated to reduce delay in payments to contractors.
• Prepared budgets for prospective MTAC outer years to plan for future expenditures and utilize resources wisely.
• Interface with finance and procurement departments to ensure accurate cost data was entered into financial system for reporting.
• Collaborated with event managers and contractors to obtain necessary information for preparing cost estimates and reports

• Oversee and managed project controls for engineering and construction annual portfolio of 25 projects.
• Managed cost engineering activities including implementation of cost control systems, monthly cost reporting, earned value progress, changes management, trending, forecast and cost variance analysis.
• Maintained consistent electronic files and documentation for corporate actions, supporting finance tracking and long-term budget management.
• Prepared and presented various project controls reports, financial summaries, and related activities for project engineers on assigned projects, upper management and shareholders.
• Prepared and updated project status reports, processed purchase orders and invoices and updated tracking reports and files to maintain diligence and financial controls.
• Identified problems and coordinate with the project engineers to correct and ensure cost remained within approved budget where feasible.
• Participated in the preparation of portfolio annual budget for approval by shareholders.
• Evaluated projects at each stage of development to ensure the cost and financial activities are in alignment with annual and total installed cost of the projects.
• Readied and presented cost reports to keep stakeholders informed of job progress.
• Collaborated with project managers and contractors to obtain necessary information for preparing cost estimates.

Supervised, organized and control the activities of the Project Controls department 12 member staff (Projects & Modification), including Cost Control and Planner/Scheduler direct reports.

• Championed safety, creating a safe work environment and a cultural commitment which extends beyond the work-place.
• Ensured work processes for Project Controls/Services are consistently applied and executed to a high degree of quality across all Projects. This will include a high level of interaction and integration with engineering and operations organizations.
• Contributed to the development of critical Project documents outside the immediate Project Services area such as the Project Execution Plan
• Responsible for developing project Cost Estimates ranging in value from USD 500K to USD1M, collaborating directly with the Project engineering team.
• Managed planning & scheduling activities including development of summary and detailed project schedules, progress and performance monitoring, schedule deviations and workaround solutions.
• Produced progress reports and budget updates.
• Scheduled workforce needs with superintendents and allocated company resources to meet project requirements.