Areas Of Expertise:

• Project Planning
• Monitoring and Control
• Developing and managing project/program schedules

Education:

• Master of Science (Project Management), University of Tehran
• Bachelor of Science (Industrial Engineering), Amirkabir University of Technology
• Diploma of Leadership & Management, Bankstown Community College
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®) Certified
• Prince 2 Foundation Certified

About Alan Alehashemi

Alan is an experienced Scheduler/Planner with extensive knowledge in project planning, scheduling, monitoring and control. He is a high performing team player who delivers quality outcomes and has constructive and creative problem-solving skills.

What Alan brings

• Strong communication, project reporting and documentation skills.
• Highly experienced in project governance, frameworks, principals, tools and end to end financial reporting & analysis, risk and issue management.
• Sound knowledge of risk and issues management.
• Ability to engage and build effective stakeholder relationships.

Key Clients:

• BAI Communications
• Aryasasol Polymer Company
• Avec Project Management
• Pars Avec Kish

Key Achievements:

As Master Scheduler at BAI Communications, Alan was responsible for developing and maintaining achievable for programs and projects running through the PMO and ensure deliverables will meet the predefined deadlines. He ensured consistency across interdependent project schedules within programs; resource loading, levelling and liaising availabilities with constraints and advising program/ project managers on how to resolve resource availability issues. Alan also developed and updated trackers for key program milestones with multiple deliverables to bring clarity to the complex program environment. Assisting project managers with their tasks including holding daily stand-up meetings with project team members, updating schedule progresses and chasing progress where follow-ups required and developed report templates to correctly reflect weekly, bi-weekly progress reports, status reports and other ad-hoc presentations including Steering Committee reports and maintaining schedule hygiene to meet our clients’ standard (Using DCMA framework). Public Safety Network transition program is the highlight of his achievements at BAI, ensuring soft landing of a $15 mm AUD program with an internal team size of 30+ people and multiple contractors involved.

As Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Consultant at Aryasasol, Alan was responsible for planning, master scheduling, monitoring and control of IT projects (ERP and BPM Automation projects) for the company as well as consulting engineering projects PMO office on proper utilization of the EPM platform for large construction projects. This includes breaking down project scopes using agile/ waterfall, leveling resource requirements, preparing project budgets, trading-off overall project completion schedules with project budget curves, holding and conducting daily/ weekly meetings with project team members to review assignments and achieved progresses, preparing cyclical reports including weekly, bi-weekly and monthly as well as other ad-hoc reports for project managers and other stakeholders as advised by the PMO manager. Average projects involved teams of 10 people with multiple external contractors involved with budgets varying from $10k to $100k USD.

As Project Planner/Scheduler at Avec Project Management, Alan was responsible for preparing the baseline plan for the ALSTOM wagon manufacturing plant refurbishment project. He also integrated multi-contractor schedules, reviewed engineering and construction contractors’ weekly progress reports vs. the baseline (Cost and Schedule performance), highlighted important issues to their onsite expeditor, prepared weekly overall EPC progress reports for the principal (ALSTOM) and biweekly reports for ALSTOM with regards to the pending procurement items affecting one-month ahead construction schedule. Alignment of internal procurement with construction phase and advising procurement team on maximum available window for long-lead procurement items. With multiple engineering and construction contractors involved, this project had budget of $65 million USD.

As Enterprise Project Management Consultant at Pars Avec Kish, Alan worked on the implementation of an Enterprise Project Management (EPM), his responsibilities include assuring seamless integration of functional departments (Accounting, Procurement, Warehouse management and Technical Maintenance teams) with the enterprise project management platform, automating procurement progress reporting on certain project activities according to real-time procurement progress data on the ERP platform, design and implementation of scheduled project logging (weekly basis) and superimposition of Earned value/ Actual Value/ Planned values on a single S-CURVE in Crystal Reports + Many other progress reports directly out of the Oracle DB, and coaching PMO analysts and project engineers on how to extract relevant reports and also report their achieved progresses into the system.