1. Saheed Taiwo
Tel: 07506999760, Email: to_saheed@yahoo.com
Professional Summary
Primary focus on scheduling, project controls, implementation and control document systems.
Confident and versatile Project Planner/coordinator /Analyst with experience in Project
control and coordination, web content management techniques, Business Processes, Risk
Management, Configuration Management and Quality Assurance. Understand project co-
ordination disciplines, relevant documentation, reporting standards, and PRINCE2 Certified
with proven negotiation skills. An excellent team player, self-discipline with determination to
work autonomously when the situation dictates. Accustomed to work in high pressure
environments and achieving exceptional levels of client satisfaction. Continues to augment
skills and experience with qualifications and trainings.
Expertise:
• In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies and its application in different
business sectors. Proven track record of successful, delivery of projects.
• Thorough understanding of project risk and issue management and well versed in tracking
and monitoring of project budgets.
• Third party relationship management skills: Strong supervisory skills and ability to manage
multiple suppliers concurrently.
• Excellent communication skills: Ability to communicate at all levels within an organisation,
third party vendors and suppliers alike. Strong project documentation skills with experience
knowledge of Microsoft Project Agile, Proficient in Earned Value Management (EVM)
techniques, Primavera P6, good organisation and Time Management Skills.
. CAREER HISTORY:
Company: Network Rail (Swindon)
Position: Project Planner
Date: April 2015 –Till Date
Project: Great Western Route Modernisation Programme-Intercity Express
Programme.
Planning and Scheduling for Signalling-Electrification of the Great Western Route to create
faster, more reliable services better stations and increased freight with involvement of
Multiple contractors like Amey, GB Freight, Crossrail, Inter-urban Rail for Design and Built.
• Provided Strategic Planning and Project Management support to Hitachi testing team
and Great Western Railway to develop a comprehensive Testing Plan for GWRM;
while the IEP is currently undergoing tests on the Line of Route.
• Managed, Updated and Maintained IEPs Schedules and Interface Schedule for the
GWRM Project.

2. • Prepare Progress reports on Stations and Gauge Capability works for all GWRM
routes.
• Provided direction and support to the central/IEP teams on all aspects of Planning
together with building programmes plans for the GWRM Project.
• Prepare progress reports on IEP, DMU and EMU Stations Platform Extensions.
• Monitored Gauging Capability Activities on a daily basis and updating the progress
through liaison with the contractors and Project Managers.
• Monitored Gauging Capability for the Issuance of Gauging Certificates
• Monitored IEP Trains Infrastructure Interface works stream GRIP 2-5
• Liaised with the commercial team to get information to prepare cost plans and raw
cost data.
• Interacted with commercial team to collate and prepare Project financial reports for all
central projects on the GWRM programme.
• Prepare Oracle Projects Interface in collaboration with the Commercial team.
• Developed a Robust Programme Plan that enable Hitachi testing team to carry out the
testing of the Class 800 & 801 trains (IEP) on the GWRM route
• Completed the GRIP 3 AIP elements and cost estimates for stations on the Line of
Route
• Periodical Interfaces of updated plan with the Oracle database
• Reporting actual performance and variance on all IEP, DMU and EMU Capability
works against plan and forecast outcomes
• Assist in the long term planning of possessions and resources to support the workload
and develop new strategies to improve possession and resource utilization
• Prepare Progress reports on Network Rail Mandatory Milestones on Core work-
streams, Gauging and Station Development to ensure the delivery dates are met
• Participating in Project review meetings and assisting with assessing project risk and
developing mitigation plans where required.
Delta Smart Contracted to Balfour Beatty (March 2014- April 2015)
Position: Planning Engineer
Projects: Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link. Point & Crossing/Renewal of Scott
Line Extension, West of Scotland Line Extension

3. • Created programme/project plan that is a representation of activities required to
complete the delivery of quality projects within a portfolio of work from initial
conception through to project delivery and closure or handover.
• Prepared an in dept Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to enhance planning following
the requirements of the Guide to Railway Investment Project – G.R.I.P.
• Established required baseline plans for projects against which progress is measured
following, monitoring, update and changes to the project plans throughout the project
lifecycle.
• Provided technical advice and support to project teams, work in collaboration with
other disciplines/interface with the client and other stake holders on regular basis.
• Provided OLE layout plans adopting appropriate standards in producing layouts and
overlays/supporting calculations.
• Assisted with the collection of clear, consistent and standard data when meeting with
the entire project team and contractors.
• Organised and attend planning meetings with the project team to diffuse planning
issues or conflict among contractors.
• Managed and discussed any deviation from the plan with the entire project team
which might compromise the delivery of critical core deliverables and key milestones
of the project throughout the project life cycle.
• Identified changes in scope of work and ensure that appropriate planning & measures
are taken with both internal and external clients to reassess, renegotiate and amend
scope of work, responsibilities, proposals, contracts, and budgets.
• Arranged and maintained relevant outsourcing relationships, maintaining records of
expenses and track milestones and/or percent complete for contracted work, and
inform accounting as these levels are attained so invoices can be sent to sponsors and
payments to contractors can be approved in a timely manner.
• Reported and compared actual progress against planned work, revising the plan and
schedule as in when required.
Delta Smart Contracted to American International Group (AIG) Project
Planner
(July 2013- Feb. 2014)
Project: Outage Electrification Project (Reading to Cardiff)
Key Responsibilities:
• Project tracking, reporting and analysis within given project and feeding back to the programme
manager and clients using Microsoft Project software in-line with client’s project methodology
to achieve process improvement and business benefit realization.

4. • Lead Planning Workshops with project teams to produce good quality content for Project level
Schedules within Business Unit
• Work directly with transmission operation personnel to develop facility outage energy.
• Implemented the outage Management Process Model and MITS (Main Interconnected
Transmission System) components, to net a solid and quantifiable return on investment.
• Used project tools (Microsoft Project 2010 & Primavera P6), to create baselines in updating
schedules and take snap shot of projects at a specific time.
• Provided technical support to OLE engineers on cross sections, data sheets, switching cross
sections and adopting appropriate methods of calculation for the allocation of suitable
components within the range of OLE being applied.
• Maintained detailed project schedules based on the WBS, with task definitions, dependencies
between activities, deliverables and milestone dates explicitly identified.
• Responsible for creating and developing infrastructure relations in connection with short and
medium term Electrification planning, specification and procurement
• Used Primavera tool for site monitoring of actual progress/costs/hours against project plan,
produces Earned Value Reports and explain variances.
• Investigated project delay and tracking subcontractor delivery unit.
• Analyzed subcontractors and project team schedules producing project progress reports.
Consolidating detailed subcontractors schedules into the project master schedule.
• Compared between the baseline and the update; and maintain project master schedule
• Prepared reports of work front, planned & actual monthly productivity, material tracking report.
Interaction with stakeholders and facilities subcontractors, to collect and collate progress
information from package planners in order to update the project schedule and status, reporting
to the project team and customer.
• Prepared and present clients with written proposals addressing business requirements, software
application integration, and use of multi-media and interactive system solutions.
• Coordinated new Tactical Project Programme, supporting the assigned Project Manager, providing WBS
codes, Internal Order Numbers and CAT Codes, BPMMIS project setup and closure using Microsoft
Project.
• Provided functional and management support of related project controls activities including project
baseline schedules, man-hour budgets, project code of accounts, critical path analysis, manpower
planning and forecasting, progress validation, earned value assessment, performance measurement.

5. • Produced and update financial project reports, tracking and creating project plans using Excel and
Microsoft Project.
Delta Smart Contracted to Hewlett Packard (HPCDS) Bracknell
Project Planner (April 2013 – June 2013)
Responsibilities:
• Planned installation work to meet project requirements and provide advice, guidance,
coaching and direction to project teams on business analysis issues to maximise effectiveness
and efficiency.
• Worked closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility
and user satisfaction.
• Incorporated time, cost and resource schedules to optimize plan and manage changes, used
appropriate planning software to meet project requirements.
• Scheduled and track project development, design considerations, impact and risk analysis and
quality control acceptance processes. While creating and tracking plans using Microsoft
Projects.
• Ensured the day-to-day reliability of the company's IT infrastructure, a mixture of Windows
and Macintosh clients with Windows and Linux servers (Physical and Virtual machines).
• Maintained, improve and document existing IT systems, propose, design and implement new
IT systems to support the company’s growth & future.
• Excellent experience of Windows OS, Active Directory, Exchange, aim to reduce incidents
and the amount of time taken to resolve them.
• Excellent Microsoft SCCM packaging, reporting, deployment and operating skills, to support,
work on packaging and deploying applications and built relationships with all MS Office
users across the organisation.
• Liaised with all stakeholders to ascertain the exact requirements of the project, decided which
methods, resources and systems to be used to meet the requirements, cost, forecast and
budget.
• Ensured that the key milestones of the project are met and stakeholder’s interest is effectively
managed and protected.
• Managed network infrastructure including VPN access for remote and roaming users.
• Ensured that backups are being regularly & accurately executed for all servers and client
systems.
• Reported on all system, hardware & service exceptions, failures and concerns with
recommendations on necessary actions.
• Managed the company’s VMware and SAN systems.

6. • Reviewed business and systems trends internally and externally; tracking risk, issues and
progress against work packages to ensure that best practice is applied to all project
development.
Loyalty Plant
Project Planner (February 2013 – April 2013)
• Eliminated duplication, discontinuity and redundancy in data
• Provided information across departments in real time
• Established control over various business processes
• Used SAP Project software as an Enterprise Resource Planning management tool for
product planning, marketing, inventory, cost and development.
• Increased productivity, better inventory management, promoted quality; reduce
material cost, effective human resources management and reduced overheads to
boosts profits.
• Implemented Project Methodology to integrate business processes in one central
database using SAP Project.
• Ensured the flow of information between the organisation and stakeholders through
updates and reports.
• Better customer interaction, increased throughput, improves customer service.
GlaxoSmithKline Ayrshire (GSK)
Scheduler/Project Coordinator (September 2012 – November 2012)
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for project coordination, staffing, organizing and decision making to attain
desirable profit making results.
• Assisted with planning the business case by generating and maintaining multi-level
programme plans and schedules, using both Primavera and Microsoft Project toolsets.
• Planned/coordinated recruitment of staff and prepared Business benefit workshops with key
Vendors and Stakeholders to ensure project benefits are identified, prioritized and
communicated.
• Designed a work breakdown structure with assigned roles and resources to meet project
deadlines.
• Collected data on progress, review progress against planning, identify planning bottlenecks
and (potential) delays as well as potential time-saving measures
• Used Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 to Schedule work packages to track risk and
advantages of projects while ensuring quality and maintaining client specification.

7. • Secured efficient planning and facilitation of efficient execution of activities on projects in
relation to man hours and material control
• Made suggestions, give input to improve existing methods, systems and procedures
DHL/Sainsbury’s UK Logistics and distribution centre. Business
Support Officer July 2010 – August 2012
Responsibility:
• Ensured compliance with health & safety legislation
• Team member in the implementation of the red prairies unit in the depot
• Planned and coordinated with daily operational issues
• Assessed performance of business against KPIs
• Monitored carrier performance and ensuring deliveries are on time and safe
• Worked closely with data team, Managers and Planners on daily operational issues
• Ensured depot schedule lists of deliveries and monitoring Sainsbury’s store requests.
Bedfordshire African Community Centre (BACC)
IT Support Engineer (voluntary 2nd
line Support Engineer)
March 2008– June 2010
Used Active Directory to create, manage and delete user accounts, and support Group Policy,
1st
/2nd
line Support of networking issues, LAN, WAN, WLAN, MAN, Configuration of
different protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, NAT, and other IP settings according to business needs,
Support of HP printers and Epson printers on the helpdesk and desk side, Worked on
Windows XP, Microsoft Word, Excel, and other relevant Microsoft Applications, Installation
of Antivirus on systems, Installation of Windows server 2003
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
PRINCE2 Practitioner, Association of Project Managers (APM),
Human Resource Management Professional, CIPD (Associate),
National Statistic Association,
Conflict Management,
Risk Management,
Business Analysis
Modelling Business Processes
Systems Modelling Techniques

8. MCTS- Managing Project with MS Project 2010,
Managing Projects with Primavera P6,
Advance Budgeting and Planning,
Microsoft Excel
Performance Improvement in Statistics,
Transactional Analysis
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Masters Degree in Human Resource Management University of Bedfordshire
Advance project Management
BCS Business Analysis Chartered Institute for IT London
Have full UK driving license with own car and ready to relocate if job
demand