Mr. Darrell Ketchum has over 20 years of experience in project controls management and scheduling. He has expertise in areas such as planning, scheduling, cost estimating, risk management, and project proposals. Mr. Ketchum is proficient in project management tools like Primavera and seeks a new position that utilizes his skills.

1. MR. DARRELL KETCHUM
KLEIN, TX 77379 || 281-974-9536 || DFKETCHUM@YAHOO.COM
SUMMARY:
Executive Level Project Controls Manager & Senior Project Scheduling Professional with a significant amount of
expertise spanning over 20 years which includes, but is not limited to being recognized for the successful
management of various demanding project completions with strict deadlines, identifying when early intervention
is needed prior to a project going into crisis management, providing support to engineering, procurement along
with construction projects to ensure the best use of construction driven schedules is being utilized as well as
meeting required commissioning and that the startup date is obtainable for a prompt completion that is executed
within the allotted budget. I’m currently seeking a position within a company that will view my in-depth skill set
as benefit as well as a valuable team addition to their company.
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PROJECT CONTROLS QUALIFICATIONS:
o Planning/Scheduling and Cost
o Estimating and Risk Management
o Project Proposals Coordinator & Lead
o Turnarounds - Brownfield worked for Upstream, Midstream and Downstream Projects.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
o Contract & Vendor Management
o Earned Value Analysis & Schedule Forensics Specialist
o Progress Reporting, Presentations, Planning & Scheduling
o Project Bonding and Insurance
o Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis
o Estimating & Budgeting, Cost Controls, Cost Analysis.
o Proposal Development
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE:
o Coker Units & Water Treatment Plants
o Acetic Anhydride Units & Hydrogen Treater
o Propylene Units, Acetic Acid Units, FCU Units, Alkylbenzene Unit, Ethylene Units, Ethanol Units, Ethyl
Acetate Units and Glycol Units.
o Pipelines, Gathering Systems, Boilers & Furnaces
o LNG/ Lite New & Brownfield, Light Rail & APM, Hi Tech Security and Controls Systems.
o TLP, FPSO, Subsea Systems, SPAR, Fixed Leg Platforms and MODU.
TECHNICALEXPERIENCE & PMT TOOLS:
o Deltek Acumen 6.0, EcoSys, XER Schedule Toolkit Pro, Kildrummy, JobProms, Cost Manager, JD Edwards,
One World, Microsoft Great Plains and SAP.
o Extremely proficient utilizing Primavera User Versions: Finest Hour, P3, P6, P6 Version 7, P6 Version 8.1, P6
Version 8.2, P6 Version R15.1, R15.2 , P6 Version, Primavera Risk (Pertmaster). Primavera Database
Administrator (Oracle & Microsoft).
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:
o In charge of the preparation of fabrication shop, resourcing loaded schedules for manpower distribution &
cost reporting. (Primavera P6), generated an issued management weekly shop resource distribution along with
progress reports such as burdened or no burdened cost reports, cash flow and utilized Primavera P6 R15.2. to
determine earned value.

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o Angola Deepwater Project TLWP, FPSO and Surf: Advisory role to support the project budget and scheduling
alignment for select phase too execute phase as well as integrating best practice strategies, procedure(s), best
practices in the management of LSTK contractor’s project schedule reporting while scheduling risk
assessments, technical and commercial analysis.
o Capacity to capture cost trends, forecasting ETC (Estimate to Complete), validated forecasts prepared by others,
defined WBS (Work Breakdown Structures) along with CPM schedules utilizing P6 (6.7 to 8.3, resource loading
and cost loading.)
o Ability to track, analyze as well as report project costs by utilizing my extensive knowledge of Excel and SAP.
o Compared the planned versus actual costs, detected reasons for variations as well as making
recommendations of corrective solutions while producing repaired/formalized workflows for internal
processes and procedures.
o Total awareness of how to generate internal and external status reports, presentations and other ad-hoc
reporting deliverables.
o Working knowledge of progress reporting, risk mitigation strategies, constructed models for progress
measurement, productivity factors and earned value calculations.
o Established the CGHT/CPU work scope hand over package in order to complete the KBR schedule for their
engineering closeout, procurement, and construction (EPCM) schedule which was construction driven while
delivering the required commissioning / turnover date ahead of deadline.
o Oversaw the project control leads preparation in developing proposals, detailed plans for engineering,
procurement that was construction driven, Championed the Management of Change and Project Risk
Assessments while identifying opportunities and business risk on various Brownfield and Greenfield projects.
o Provided input and support to Chevron reviews for Angola, Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG engineering,
procurement demonstrate a strong emphasis they are realistic, and are clearly construction driven.
Provided Stapleton’s clients with planning, scheduling, cost, estimating as well as risk management services,
directed the development of Transocean/Global Santa Fe’s rolling 5 year rig fleet upgrade plan with the
strategic management tool(s) which included links to Microsoft Access database used to generate estimates
and to set up budgets that linked back to Primavera 5.0 planning tool.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY - INCLUDING CONTRACT & CONSULTANTING WORK:
 03/2015-12/2015: Project Controls Advisor, The Rowland Group, Project Controls Advisor, Houston, TX
 11/2014-03/2015: Project Controls Advisor, Maersk Oil, Houston, TX
 12/2013-10/2014: Project Controls Manager, Foster Wheeler, Houston, TX & Trinidad, Tobago
 02/2013-11/2013: Sr. Project Controls Manager, CB&I, Houston, TX - (Contract)
 01/2010-03/2013: Principal Project Controls Manager, Worley Parsons, Houston, TX
 12/2008-12/2009: Project Controls Advisor, Hess Corporation, Houston, TX - (Direct Contract)
 05/2008-11/2008: Interim Project Controls Manager, TRS, Houston, TX - (Contract)
 01/2008-04/2008: CVX Estimating Consultant, Danos & Curole Nigeria Ltd, Lagos, Nigeria - (Contract)
 03/2007-02/2008: Project Controls Specialist, Stapleton International, Houston, TX
 01/2006-03/2007: Project Controls Coordinator, Petrobras America, Inc., Houston, TX - (Contract)
 02/2004-12/2006: Project Controls Consultant, Aker Solutions, Houston, TX - (Consultant Role)
 08/2001-02/2004: Project Controls Consultant, NES, Houston, TX - (Consultant Role)
 11/2000-08/2001: Capital Project Controls Manager, Shell Motiva Ent, Deer Park, TX
EDUCATION/COURSES:
 Bachelor’s Degree: Business Administration, Alameda University 2001 to 2003
 The University of Texas-Pan America 1983 to 1987
 Business Administration, Contract Law