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Episioco, Homer B.
Email add: Episioco_homer@yahoo.com
Summary of qualifications
More than 10 years of extensive experience in construction industry and various projects substantiated by results and
achievements. Specialising in Contract/commercial support and management including data and invoicing management and
previously holds the position of senior contract administrator/engineer in one of the biggest oil and gas company in North Africa.
Having an ultimate strength of versatility and ability to appreciate and understand the needs of the stakeholders. Career highlights
includes:
- Contract Administration, Management and Coordination of multi-discipline teams on various onshore/offshore projects
including civil/ mechanical construction in different part of Middle East and North Africa.
- Lead Data Management in one of the mega projects (QSGTL) in Ras Laffan, State of Qatar.
- Serves as Legal and administrative officer in the Office of the city mayor (local Government), Philippines.
- Facilitation of Contract Management Process involving the following:
Contract Kick-off Meeting - To effectively start the contract execution and align the project and contract
management objectives and requirements.
Performance and Relationship management during contract execution on the following contractual aspects:
 Contract Management System input, maintenance and reporting (database);
 Record keeping and filing;
 Correspondence control (preparation, issuing, receiving, logging, distribution, filing, etc.)
 Minutes of meeting (preparation, acceptance, distribution, filing and follow-up);
 Monthly, weekly and daily reporting (progress, man-hours, man-power, site report, etc.);
 Contract changes/variations (processing, verification, administration, resolution, approvals, etc.);
 Invoice verification and payment (project accounting);
 Contract cost control ( budgets, ACVs, award values, change values, forecast values, invoice status);
 Insurance claims ( physical loss & damage – Construction All Risk (CAR) insurance);
 Technical queries / deviations (logging, filing, change/variation matching );
 Certificate control (bank guarantees, parent company guarantees, quality, insurance, etc.);
 Completion & testing certificate control and administration;
 Claim awareness and avoidance measures and activities;
 Disputed Change/Variation analysis, negotiation and resolution (if applicable).
Execution of Close-out and Feedback - After contract completion the contract has to be closed out technically,
commercially/financially and contractually, and numbers of checks and balances have to be performed and a
close-out check-list needs to be signed off.
Work History
Sr. Contracts Engineer/ Administrator and Coordinator (01/2014 to 11/2015)
Taknia Libya Engineering Company, Tripoli Libya (Formerly Tecnica UK)
Mellitah Oil and Gas BV (MOG)
 Leads on the successful project and contract completion of Company’s various projects, ie., “Under Water Inspection at
Offshore Bouri Field”, “FSO SLOUG Ballast Tank Refurbishment”, Onshore Field Remote Station Facilities
Maintenance Services”, “Labour Manpower Contracts”, Abu Attifel Accommodation Refurbishment, and etc.
 Negotiating contracts and partnerships with contractors/subcontractors to ensure that costs are within and kept to an
absolute minimum without compromising the quality of the services provided.
 Introduced unique selection process (pre-qualification) in order to deliver the best quantified value for the Company.
 Implemented an effective tool adopted by Company in providing costs information to all purchase orders, management
invoicing issues, cost trending as per schedule, and ability to spot potential problem (eg. schedule slippage).
 Validated and verified significant contractor/vendor’s claim, which prevented from incurring undesirable
additional/extra works from the original scope of work and can leads to EOT claim thus, saving the Company from a
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Routine tasks:
- Seconded to MOG, formerly known as Eni Oil Company, Libyan Branch.
- Contract support and document tender activities for consulting and construction tenders in all phases of the tender, and
taking the lead in pre-qualification, preparation and issuance of Request for Proposal, and relative question & answers.
- Assisting the Company and facilitating in the preparation of Tender/Contract Management Plan (TCMP). This TCMP is
also a document drawn up for a specific contract containing, a detailed scope of work, a risk analysis, the tendering
method, the contractor selection process, the long list of bidders, contract duration, pricing structure and the evaluation
strategy for the tender and any other relevant information.
- Safeguarding that all variation requests are dealt with in timely manner and all Contractual matters i.e. amendments/
revisions, renewals and extensions are accordingly addressed so as to avoid undue escalation and claims.
- Assisting the Company on bidder’s pre-qualifications by facilitating the Pre-qualification Questionnaire since, Potential
bidders for the selected work needs to assess their financial and technical capability, availability and their willingness to
submit a tender for the indicated scope of work, including their acceptable safety record; interest in tendering; previous
relevant experience in the area of work including references; proven financial stability; available resources (manpower,
systems, equipment etc.); size; current workload; and quality management system.
- Assisting the Company in facilitating the finalization and execution of the Contract, including the terms and conditions
in observance to all approvals, ITB/ITT, Clarifications during bidding stage, Tenders, Draft Contract, Letters of Intent
(LOI), in coordination with Company/Client representative who has the authority in accordance with the
Company/Client’s Manual of Authorities (MOA).
- Facilitates client’s contracts administration, claim’s preparation relative to monthly and progress
payment, subcontractor/ vendor’s monthly payment evaluation as well as vendor’s claims.
- Monitor project progress and verify (partial and complete) consulting and construction contract fulfilment in terms of
scope, completeness, quality and timely delivery.
- Establish and manage contractor and supplier warranty contracts and verifies relative code compliance of all consulting,
construction and supplier contracts.
- Responsible for the preliminary introduction & implementation on the commercial aspect of contract terms & conditions
i.e. financial statement, taxes, percentage retentions, charging bonds & liens, contractor’s rate and modes of payment as
well as the contractor’s achievable milestones.
- Working towards weekly/monthly KPIs including revenue targets, assisting in the planning, coordinating and
controlling all operational activities in accordance with pre-arranged programs.
- Prepare a Monthly Status Report for the client detailing construction and administration activities for the month.
- Initiate Change Orders, negotiate price agreements and maintain the MTO’s Change Order Summary (CAS).
- Communicate and influence contractor, suppliers and internal stakeholders and promote a professional approach to
related supply chain activities, with the aim of protecting the company from commercial and contractual risk.
Sub-Contract Administrator, (1/2013 to 12/2013)
KBR – AMCDE PMC Joint Venture, Jubail KSA.
 Focal point with regard to all issues concerning commercial aspect of contract terms & conditions, (eg. financial
statement, taxes, percentage retentions, charging bonds & liens, contractor’s rate and modes of payment as well as the
contractor’s achievable milestones).
Routine tasks:
- Seconded to KBR- AMCDE and in charge in reviewing and facilitating request for contract action (RCA) in
determining whether an inquiry has been issued during the proposal stage or whether such RCA is to be pushed.
- Facilitating any Direct Contract Agreements, Change Orders and Amendments prior to management signature to ensure
that all relevant terms agreed by all parties during the pre-award stage are incorporated.
- Managing kick off meeting between the management and contractor to open all contract clarifications prior to
implementation.
- Date stamping of relative incoming technical documents, correspondence letters, faxes and others and reflecting proper
job reference number prior to distribution to the team. Also allocating unique reference and file number to all outgoing
correspondence and technical document prior to dispatch with proper transmittals.
- In Charge in maintaining monitoring and implementation of different Labor Broker Contracts, (Brunel, Sepam, Saudi
Kentz, Air Energy and Aecom).
- Preparation, deliberation, negotiation and administration of Change/Variation Work Orders CWO’s including
management of disputes.
- Maintains an efficient and updated filling system of all Contract documents for quick and easy access so that users may
have an access to all requisite documentations (hard/soft and electronic copies).
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Contract Administrator, (12/2007 to 10/2012) (includes previous role as listed below)
Industrial Maintenance Intl. Manpower Inc., State of Qatar
Qatar SHELL GTL Project (QSGTL)
 Seconded to Qatar Shell ltd., and in charge as point of contact relative to smoothly contract closing out activities of
manpower/labor brokers and their specific job codes and returned of their respective bonds/security.
 Provided an assessment on the work output to almost 15 vendor’s performances to be made as part of Company’s
reference and to be used by Company/clients to their future projects.
 Handover of QSGTL Project (considered as mega project in Qatar) upon completion to Client and remarkably resolved
all commercial issues relating to commissioning and start-up including close-out activity and warranty stage and in
coordination with different teams (Engineering, Construction and Commissioning).
 Developed contract risk assessment matrices and highlighting its impact to Company’s costs that can be avoided.
 Facilitated in assessing insignificant Contractor’s claim, which prevented from incurring undesirable additional/extra
works that varies with the original scope of work and leads to extension of time.
Routine tasks:
- In charge in preparing routine collated technical comments from client to contractor, vice-versa, issuing report/s,
Correspondence communications (outgoing/ incoming).
- Acting as a subject matter expert in the provision of the Cost estimating, Bid / Tender response (commercial), Terms
and Conditions review, liaison with the company's 3rd
party legal partners, and provide post contract award
administration which could involve recruitment of further commercial functions to achieve its growth targets
- In charge in execution of the terms and condition of the contract between the Client and Contractor including
preparation, deliberation of VOWD calculations, negotiation and finalises Change/Variation Work Orders including
management of disputes.
- Assisting the Company or Client in managing various security certificates as required depending on the type of
Contract, ie. Insurance Certificates; Bank Guarantees; Parent Company Guarantees; Tax Bonds; Tax Clearance;
Guarantee Certificates; Final acceptance and Release Certificates.
- Providing appropriate weekly and progress reports to Budget Holders / Senior Management to monitor expenditure
against budget.
- Provides cost information to all relative purchase orders, applications for payment for invoices, and in charge in
Contract Management invoicing issues as well as invoice processing and cost trending as per schedule.
- Working towards weekly/monthly KPIs including revenue targets, assisting in the planning, coordinating and
controlling all operational activities in accordance with pre-arranged programs.
- Assisting the team in preparation of Commercial and Project Controls Dashboards specific to project and client
requirements and in charge in providing the actual and forecast information to be available in a timely manner to
produce applications, invoices and reports - in line with the reporting timetable.
As Document Control and Administrative Specialist
Qatar SHELL GTL Project (QSGTL)
 As seconded to KBR-JGC JV, contributed in the development of document and data control activities including
archiving and in a single and consolidated electronic filing system, web cabinet and hard copy to be used as Company’s
basis and reference and will be preserved for 3-4 years after project completion.
 Implemented a systematic management and meta data base control of all punch lists items including TAA’s (Technical
assurance alert), NCRs (Non-conformity report) and RFI’s during Construction phase up to warranty stage (start-up/
acceptance and defect notifications as well as applicable back charged to Contractor) during project completion.
 Ensuring that all project documents sent or produced on site are correctly registered, copied distributed, easily retrieved
and filed in compliance with ISO standards and Company/client’s satisfaction.
General routine tasks:
- Responsible for the receipt, issue/distribute, copying, storage and archiving of project documentation received or issued
on site including vendor’s/contractors documentation.
- In charge in date stamping of incoming technical documents and drawings, correspondence letters, faxes and others and
reflecting proper job reference number prior to distribution to the team. Allocating unique reference and file number to
all outgoing correspondence and technical document prior to dispatch with proper transmittals.
- Maintaining electronic registers for correspondence, transmittal notes and other technical document for monitoring
purposes.
- Checking and ensuring all the package completeness during design review to ensure packages submitted by other
project stakeholders contain the correct documentation.
- Maintains the compliance monitoring for the publication of all documents into the EDMS, ensuring that all documents
are in the correct format and with correct format, status and metadata.

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- In charge in Updating and reissue drawings and maintain accurate technical specifications including “as built” drawings.
Legal and Administrative officer/ and Part Time College Instructor 12/2005 to 11/2007
Olongapo City Legal Department, Philippines, (Office of the City Mayor)
 Implementation of systematic and maintained various legal/commercial evaluations, legal notices, affidavits, pleadings,
memos, reports and commercial/legal correspondence using latest Microsoft office tools and other software under
various types of operating system and become part of department’s daily activities.
 Facilitator in a regular Government department head meetings including deliberations and evaluations pertaining to
commercial and administrative aspects of the agenda.
Routine tasks:
- Researching and proofreading of documents, reports, letters and recent /current jurisprudence and giving assistance for
the department in the execution of the tasks involving legal, commercial and administrative matters.
As Part Time College Instructor
 Educating College students in the Philippines corresponding to business law & accounting subjects including other
special Contracts i.e. Law on Partnership and Corporation Law on Economics, Taxation and Agrarian Reform Law,
Negotiable Instrument Law & Philippine Constitution.
Administrative Officer/ Legal Assistant, (12/1999 to 06/2004)
Client: Tumangan Payumo & Atencia Law Firm, Manila Philippines.
Routine tasks:
 Managing and maintaining database for over 100 legal cases and coordinating meetings between solicitors, clients and other
representatives. First point of contact for clients. Drawing up legal documents for clients.
 Dealing with legal aid documentation and delivering general paralegal support. Liaising with clients and communicating on
the progress of cases to clients and legal representatives.
Certifications and trainings
Safety, health and Security Training Sponsored by QSGTL (Qatar Shell Gas to Liquid), Ras Laffan, Qatar.
TSTI – Total Safety Task Instrument for Petro Chemical Gas; Safety Fundamentals Course; PTW – Permit to work; Pearl
GTL Project Incident and Injury Free, Safety Observation Card; IIF- Incident Injury Free Training; Defensive Driving
Course (2 yrs. validity); Emergency Response course; Hazard Identification Course; Working at heights; Hand Safety and
Manual Handling; Confined Space Entry.
Educational background
(1997 – 2002) Manila Law College, Sta. Cruz Manila, Philippines
(Hons) Bachelor of Laws
(1993 – 1997) University of the East, Manila. Philippines.
BA (Hons) in Political Science
(1989 – 1993) Columban College, Olongapo City, Philippines
Level A Equivalent Secondary School