Umer Illias
PROJECT CONTROL MANAGEMENT
umer.illias@gmail.com / umer_illias@yahoo.com
+91 470–260 4005, 70 2522 5023 (India), +971-50 570 3175 (UAE)
Skype ID: umerillias
LinkedIn: https://ae.linkedin.com/in/umer-illias-81594715
Key Skills
Project Planning & Scheduling
Costing & Budgeting
Resource Management
Quality Assurance & Control
Risk Management
Site & Construction Management
Contract Management
Team Management
Result-oriented professional targeting senior-level assignments in Project Planning & Cost Control in Oil & Gas preferably in Gulf Region/ Overseas
Profile Summary
Project Control-Professional with 12 years’ experience in management of large EPIC & Maintenance Projects
Cost Savings Specialist: formulated innovative strategies & displayed effective negotiation proficiency for attaining cost savings for the company
Key Resource Planner with hands-on experience in planning for manpower, material & money for successful completion of projects within time & budget constraint; created project artefacts & provided subject matter expertise on systems development life cycles and project management processes and tools
Proven leadership in steering projects stakeholder engagement, contracts management, financial management, procurement management, risk management & so on to maximize benefits
Experienced in executing projects ranging from 50 Million USD to 550 Million USD in various capacities as Project Controls Manager for leading EPC Contractor, Lead Planner for client PMT & Planner for PMC
Excellent relationship management, analytical and negotiation skills with capabilities in swiftly ramping up projects in co-ordination with Clients, Consultants, Contractors and Technology Partners
Career Timeline (Recent Experience)
Education
M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering (Production) from Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Calicut University in 2008
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from School of Engineering (CUSAT), Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2005
Work Experience
Since Jul’17 with Control & Application Emirates, Abu Dhabi as Project Control Manager
Client: ADNOC Gas Processing Unit-GASCO
Aug’16-Jul’17 with Al Bilal Group General Contracts Co. Ltd., Dubai as Lead Planning & Project Control Engineer (for Airswift Consultancy-1 year Contract)
Clients: Gazprom NEFT-Badra, Lukoil, GE-Power, Samsung Engineering
Jan’15-Jul’16 with Petrofac International Limited, Basra, Iraq as Sr. Planning & Cost Control Engineer
Clients: British Petroleum-CNPC-SOC at Rumeila Operations Organisation (ROO) Office
Aug’13 - Nov’14 with ALSA Engineering & Construction FZC LLC, Ras Al Khaimah as Senior Planning & Project Control Engineer
Clients: Rotary Engineering Limited-Fujairah Oil Terminal (Sinopec/Concord), RAK GAS, ADCO
Sep’12 - Aug'13 with Punj Lloyd Ltd., Abu Dhabi as Project Planning & Cost Control Engineer
Clients: Hyundai-GASCO, ADCO
Oct’09 - Jul’12 with Al Fara’a General Contracting Co., Abu Dhabi as Planning & Estimation Engineer (Mechanical)
Clients: GASCO, ADNOC, EIIC, SIEMENS
Mar’09 - Sep’09 with Ministry of Interior, Ministry Diwan (State Security Department), Abu Dhabi as Mechanical Engineer-Planning
Jul’05 - Nov’06/Jan’09 - Mar’09 with Chrome Kraft, Rabale Industrial Estate, Mumbai as Mechanical Engineer-Planning
Clients: L&T-NPCIL, ITC
Key Result Areas:
Developing & maintaining detailed product schedules and schedule variance analysis report from the baseline
Preparation, Monitoring, tracking & analysing the schedule, Corporate Management Dash Board Reports,cost and commitment through requisition
Formulating planning package including work breakdown structure, baseline schedule, resource loading diagrams/ charts/histograms, progress measurement system, S-Curves & project control procedures
Performing Earned Value Management for measuring the KPI (CPI & SPI) & estimated cost to complete project
Ensuring active engagement of team members by delegation of tasks; ensuring adherence to recommended best practices such as the critical path method; preparing & reviewing project invoices
Executing Schedule Risk Analysis using Critical Path Method from Primavera, Monte-Carlo Analysis in P6 Risk Analysis/PERT Master
Regulating various meetings such as project progress review, quality circles, and applying various project progress methods to ensure the project schedule is on track to meet deadlines or deliverables
Devising strategies to overcome roadblocks or delays through various methods such as using industry related technical knowledge, innovating short cuts or alternative ways
Complying with safety standards; forecasting project cost; providing inputs to daily and periodic project progress and status reports to top management and other stakeholders
Tracking & reporting project cash flow; planning & preparing budgets, and resource hours based on standard industrial norms (historical data of company labor productivity); analysing the same with actual time sheets
Analysing Forensic Schedule Delay - static/dynamic for Extension of Time (EOT) for change orders/variation orders using Primavera P6; applying the best industrial practices on the basis of type of project delay
Utilising advanced techniques like Excel VBA to update the primavera schedules
Creating weekly & monthly
o Cost tracking reports for the project that included Campaign Maintenance, Turnaround (TAR), Pitstops & Shutdown, Electrical & Instrumentation, Dehydrator & Desalter, Rotating Equipment (Gas Turbines & Cluster Pump Stations) & Source Water (Water Injection & Produced Water)
o Progress reports & cost reports of the project for analysing & discussing the value issues against the authorized commitments & burn rates
Monitoring man hours through timesheets, cost sheet of equipment & manpower utilized as per plan
Highlights:
Ensured successful completion of the WSS project for Gazprom NEFT Badra within approved budget by continuous monitoring of budget movement and optimized utilization, as Project Lead
Major contracts managed included Valve Repair Maintenance, Rotating Equipment Erection (Pump, Gas Turbine retrofit, refurbishment, overhaul, maintenance and new installation, Static Equipment retrofit, refurbishment and new installation, wrapping services, hydrotesting/flow line testing services for the flow lines with companies like Severn, Technical Field Services, Sulzer, Unaoil, Weir, SGS, Flowserve, China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau, so on
Managed cost control for the (IRM) Inspection, Repair & Maintenance Works (Maintenance Management Services-Oil & Gas) at North & South Rumaila Degassing Stations (Campaign Maintenance, Tactical Turnaround, Dehydrator & Desalter, Electrical & Instrumentation, Rotating Equipment, Source Water (PWD, Water Injection & Produced Water), Metering Skid activities for the client - British Petroleum-China National Petroleum Company-South Oil Company(National Oil Company of Iraq) & Main Contractor: Petrofac International Limited
Received appreciation from clients like BP Managers of TAR, Contracts/Campaign Maintenance & Electrical & Instrumentation discipline for supporting & bringing right steps for controlling the budget of project (i.e. by generating accurate cost trackers & burn rates summary for the jobs and by tracking the cost, time & resources)
Introduced systems which streamlined process/procedures that ensured right track of progress of Contractors by plotting “S” curves
Extracted variance analysis between plan & actual progress weightages, activities based with resources man hours, real time cost tracker & generating resource allocated Primavera / MS Project Schedules
Certifications
Project Management from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (Talent Edge), India in 2015
Primavera P6 & Staad.Pro from CADD Centre, Trivandrum in 2009
Piping Engineering Course from College of Engineering, Trivandrum in 2008
Mechanical CADD from CADD Centre, Kochi in 2005
IT Skills
Primavera, MS Project, Maximo & Oracle-DB for Service , Equipment & Materials Request (Cost Transactions Record)
MS Office (Word, Excel, Excel VBA & PowerPoint) & Internet Applications
AutoCAD, PDMS, Staad.Pro
Virtual Casting & Flow 3D
Ansys, MSC Nastran & Pro-Engineer
C, Microprocessor- 8085
Trainings Attended
PMP Training-Project Management from Chicago Management Training Institute, Dubai in 2013
PDMS Training from Zabeel International Institute for Management & Technology, Dubai in 2014
Training in CAEPIPE–Stress Analysis Software from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala University in 2008
Research
Research works for Inexo, Chennai & Foseco India Ltd., Pune
NIIST (National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology), C.S.I.R Lab (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research), Industrial Estate, Thiruvanathapuram from Jan’08 - Jan’09 as Project Assistant-Field Research
Conference Attended
International Conference on Materials for Future in 2008 at Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala
Thesis
Design of Exothermic Sleeves using Virtual Casting (In-house Analysis Software) & Flow 3D including latent heat of solidification for testing Casting Process Design
Conducted DTA (Differential Thermal Analysis) or DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) to find the heat & rate of reaction & the temperature corresponding to the reaction of the exothermic sample sleeve material
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 12th November 1983
Permanent Address: UH Villa, Regunathapuram, Palachira PO, Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram - 695143, Kerala, India
Present Address: Villa no. 25 (54), 7th Street, Baniyas East, Al Mafraq Hospital Road, Abu Dhabi
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Arabic and Malayalam
No. of Dependents: 3
Visa Status: Employment Visa
Passport Details: Z3643108 (Issued at Trivandrum. Valid up to 20th March 2026)
Driving License Details: 1029653 (U.A.E.) & 16/1120/2008 (India)
Refer Annexure for Other Details
Annexure
Projects Undertaken
At Control & Applications Emirates,
Title: Electro-Mechanical Works Of IGD-E (Phase-1) Package-3 Onshore Pipeline And Habshan Modification Project, Habshan, U.A.E
Client: ADNOC Gas Processing Unit-GASCO, EPC Contractor-Technicas Reunidas
At Al Bilal Group General Contracts Co. Ltd.
Title: EPC Contractor Water Supply System from Fresh Water Wells to CPF Badra, Iraq
Client: Gazprom NEFT Badra, Consultant/PMC- Mott MacDonald
Title: Provision of Civil / Structural & Piping Construction Works For Dammam Water Injection System & Oil Wells Hookups Work
Client: Lukoil Mid-East Ltd.
Title: Review, Monitor & Guide the Planners for 16 other EPC, Construction & Commissioning Projects in Iraq (in Power, Refinery, Oil & Gas sector)
Clients: Basra Gas Company, GE Power, Samsung Engineering Co.
At Petrofac International Ltd.
Title: (IRM) Inspection, Repair & Maintenance Works (Maintenance Management Services-Oil & Gas) at North & South Rumaila Degassing Stations (Campaign Maintenance, Tactical Turnaround, Dehydrator & Desalter, Electrical & Instrumentation, Rotating Equipment, Source Water (PWD, Water Injection & Produced Water), Metering Skid Activities
Client: British Petroleum-China National Petroleum Company-South Oil Company
At ALSA Engineering & Construction FZC LLC
Title: Sub-Contractor for Fabrication & Installation of Piping Spools & Structural Works for FOT in TF-1 & TF-2
Client: Fujairah Oil Terminal, Consultant MUC Oil & Gas, EPC Contractor-Rotary Engineering Ltd.
Title: Subcontractor for Fabrication of S.S Piping Spools, Tube Bundles & Heat Exchangers
Client: Qatar Petroleum Development Co. Ltd., Japan, EPC Contractor-Cosmo Engineering Co.
Title: Subcontractor for Supply of Valves & Fabrication of Piping Spools
Client: ADCO, EPC Contractor-Fortune Energy & Engineering Services, Consultant-Litwin-PEL
Title: Sub-Contractor for Waste Water Treatment Plant Modification Project
Client: RAKGAS, Main Contractor-Hesco Engineering & Construction Co. LLC and Consultant-Kavin Engineering & Services Ltd.
Title: Sub-Contractor for the Supply of Steel Structure for ASAB Unit-6 & 7
Client: ADCO, Main Contractor-China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation and Engineering Contractor-CH2MHILL
At Punj Lloyd Ltd.
Sep’12 to Feb’13 for Utilities & Offsite Project Habshan-5, Package-3; Client: Gasco, Contractor: Hyundai Engineering & Construction-HDEC
Feb’13 to Jul’13 for Spiking Gas Compressor Project (EPC Project, Shah Site, and Liwa); Client: ADCO, EPC Contractor: Punj Lloyd Ltd.
At Al Fara'a Steel Structures, (Division of Al Fara'a Group)
Habshan 5 Industrial Facilities (GASCO), Abu Dhabi
New Management & New Auditorium Building, Buhasa (GASCO)
Inter Refinery Pipeline Project, Ruwais, Abu Dhabi
ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) Filling Stations
ADNOC-Construction of Additional Facilities to existing Ruwais Recreation Centre, Abu Dhabi
Glass Wool Factory, Abu Dhabi
Siemens Head Quarters, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
National Reference Laboratory, Abu Dhabi
Created major quotations for tendering such as:
o Haramain High Speed Rail, Jeddah (KSA) - 80,000 MT
o King Abdullah Aziz International Airport, Jeddah (KSA) - 36,000 MT
o Al Ain International Airport MRO Facility, Abu Dhabi-14,000 MT
At Chrome Kraft
Shop & Site Planning for Fabrication & Site installation of Water tube Boilers, Heat exchangers for National Thermal Power Plant, Simhadri, Vishakapatnam
Project Planning for Installation of Pressure Vessels for ITC (Indian Tobacco Company), Ltd., Kolkata
Project Planning for Site Installation of Nuclear Reactor in Kudamkulam, Kanyakumari District