Rinal Patel has over 10 years of experience in project controls for major capital projects in the oil and gas industry. He has worked for ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical, and Fluor Corporation managing project budgets, schedules, forecasts, and cost reporting. His strengths include communication, collaboration, and technical skills in project controls practices such as scheduling, cost management, and change control. Currently he leads the project controls function for projects at ExxonMobil, interfacing with project teams, contractors, and clients.

1. Rinal Patel (281) 788-1842 Cell
1218 Indian Autumn Trace (281) 488-8657 Home
Houston Texas, 77062 rinal24@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Houston, TX (2006)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering Technology
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
As a Key member of the Project Controls Team I am responsible for development, implementation, and
execution of Project Controls practices on major capital project for both internal and external reporting. I
have been trained and had the opportunity to work in all major aspects of Project Controls such as Cost,
Change Management, Progress, Scheduling, and Forecasting. My strengths include communications and
collaboration with entire task force including Managers, Directors and Clients as well excellent technical
skills with attention to details.
SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE
Consultant to ExxonMobil Production Company (Project Controls Engineer)
November 2013 – Current
 Lead/Coordinate the Project controls and business services functions for projects. Interface and
report to functional organizations (PM, PE, Leads, etc.)
 Develop and report project metrics such as key performance metrics on project performance.
Responsible for budget and spend management, planning and scheduling.
 Review third party contractors planning and scheduling systems and procedures to verify their
adequacy including but not limited to personnel, tools utilized for project controls.
 Interface with third party contractors project controls team (i.e. estimating, cost and scheduling
personnel) to ensure cost and schedule information including analysis of deviations from budget
is communicated to the project team accurately and in a timely manner.
The Dow Chemical Company (Project Cost Management Specialist)
November 2010 – November 2013
 Integrates the project cost estimate, work hour estimate, and project schedule into the Cost
Management baseline. Analyze and forecast time/cost impact based on schedule trend
variations.
 Develop and maintain cost reports, cash flow/cancellation curves, and contingency analyses.
 Provides estimate of cancellation costs, estimates costs of deviations and assesses impact on
total project cost.
 Ensure accurate reflection of committed/spent funds, project deviation notices, field change
orders, and project execution changes in all cost documents.
 Leads the project team in deriving an accurate and realistic forecast of all funds required to
complete the project within the defined budget and schedule while incorporating own trending
and analyses.
 Work closely with the contractors project controls group to monitor progress, review and audit
reports.
PROJECTS
 Gulfstream – PDH-1 (Propane De-Hydrogenation) $1.2B (Freeport, Texas)
 SADARA- Train 3 HPLDPE (High Pressure Low Density Polyethylene Train) $112.6MM (Al
Jubail, Saudi Arabia)
Fluor Corporation (Project Controls Specialist)

2. October 2006 – November 2010
 Implement Company/Industry standards along with Project Controls Principles to ensure
operational consistency and compatibility of departmental, functional and project goals.
 Analyze and forecast time/cost impact based on schedule trend variations.
 Inform Project Management of potential problem areas. Assist management with solutions and
recovery plans to schedule delays.
 Interface and coordinate with internal and external clients to ensure successful project execution.
 Change Management Coordinator: Evaluate, estimate, analyze, and report impact of changes to
scope, trends and client request to project baseline estimate and forecast.
 Analyze, evaluate and forecast project cost and variance. Investigate and prepare Change
Request as necessary.
 Coordinate, develop and maintain with disciplines Project forecast (cash flow, subcontract
schedules and project level schedules) reports to analyze cause of change and its impact to the
cost, schedule and other variables of the project.
 Direct meetings with client, vendors and subcontractors to plan and implement a path forward for
project execution and completion.
 Track Home Office and Field progress and performance charts.
 Proficient with all major computer systems and necessary applications (SAP, Primavera 3,
Primavera 6, Etc.).
PROJECTS
 WRB-WRR Core Project (Wood River Refinery Upgrade) $1.4B (Roxana, Illinois) –
Construction site
 Valero St. Charles HCU & LEU Project $700M (St. Charles, Louisiana) – Construction Site
 RasGas Common Offplot Projects $1.5B (Ras Laffan city, Qatar) – Home Office (Houston,
TX)