I offer experience in Project Scheduling / Controls for up to 80 concurrent oilfield construction projects worth a combined total in excess of 50 million dollars, Land Development Management on multiple subdivision infrastructure projects concurrently, totaling 20+ million dollars and Construction Management/Heavy Construction Inspection on multi-million dollar water and wastewater treatment plant and pipeline projects. I also am an experienced CAD Civil Designer with water/wastewater, subdivision, and windpark experience. I hold a California LSIT (Land Surveyor in Training) certificate.
Douglas L. McKirdy
Project Controls/Scheduler / Infrastructure Construction Manager / Heavy Construction Manager
OBJECTIVE I offer experience in Project Scheduling / Controls for up to 80 concurrent oilfield construction projects worth a combined total in excess of 50 million dollars, Land Development Management on multiple subdivision infrastructure projects concurrently, totaling 20+ million dollars and Construction Management/Heavy Construction Inspection on multi-million dollar water and wastewater treatment plant and pipeline projects. I also am an experienced CAD Civil Designer with water/wastewater, subdivision, and windpark experience. I hold a California LSIT (Land Surveyor in Training) certificate.
EXPERIENCE 10/2007 – 3/2009 TJ Cross Engineers Bakersfield, California
Senior Project (Controls) Analyst
Senior Project Controls Analyst, Seconded to Chevron North America Exploration and Production, SJVBU, TTA, Cymric Technical Team, Project Scheduling and MS Project Server support for Chevron Facilities Engineering team.
Duties include preparing, maintaining, and supporting project schedules using MS Project 2007 and MS Project Server 2007 for 13 facility engineers (~80 projects). I created the template schedules and master schedule; worked with the engineers to tailor them to specific projects; reviewed vendors estimates; administered my portion of Project Server 2007; and coordinated with other project controls leads to standardize our efforts and the use of Project Server 2007 area-wide.
02/2005 – 03/2007 Lennar Corporation Bakersfield, California
Project Manager / Contracts Administrator
Project Manager, Contracts Administration, and Pre-Construction Planning for many residential subdivisions within the City of Bakersfield.
Duties include estimating, preparing, bidding, and awarding contracts; troubleshooting setbacks in construction; reviewing and preparing pay applications; and pre-construction planning for homes in large subdivisions. I have coordinated a number of joint utility projects with local utility companies where I have had an excellent working relationship with utility personnel.
10/2002 - 12/2004 DeWalt Corporation (Civil Engr.) Bakersfield, California
Construction Manager / Contracts Administrator
Project Manager, Land Development Manager, Contracts Administration, and Construction Inspector for many residential subdivisions, neighborhood commercial, and public works improvement projects.
Duties included estimating, preparing, bidding, and awarding contracts; overseeing construction; troubleshooting setbacks in construction; reviewing and preparing pay applications; scheduling; and preparing daily/weekly reports. I have coordinated a number of joint utility projects with local utility companies where I have an excellent working relationship with utility personnel.
5/1994 - 9/2002 Carollo Engineers, P.C. Bakersfield, California
Heavy Construction Inspector / Construction Manager
Five years as a Resident Inspector on heavy construction projects, such as wastewater treatment plants and large pipeline projects. I was assigned to one or more projects at a time and worked full-time on the construction site. Most projects were multi-million dollar projects.
Duties included - Observation of work in progress confirming that the work was done according to the plans and specifications; reviewing vendors estimates; preparing daily, weekly, and monthly reports; conducting weekly progress meetings; liaison with the contractor/s and the owner and funding agency; review and coordination of all submittals and certified payroll reports.
Four + years as a Civil Designer on the same types of projects. Since the company has many offices in several states, I frequently traveled to work on projects in various offices and I also worked extensively across a wide area computer network (WAN) with and for other offices.
Duties included - Working in a close relationship with the project/design engineer in designing all or various portions of wastewater treatment plants including civil/site, structural, and mechanical disciplines; designed water and wastewater distribution and collection pipelines; assisted in preparation of the plans, engineers estimates, and specifications for the above projects.
7/1991 - 5/1994 DL McKirdy Services for Engineers and Surveyors Bakersfield, California
Civil Designer, Owner
Job Shop for Civil Engineering design/Surveying performed under the responsible charge of either a Registered Civil Engineer or a Licensed Land Surveyor.
Duties included - Design of windparks, subdivisions, and streets; mapping and surveying including reducing survey notes and CAD mapping; and project estimating and bidding.
The last six months were on a long term contract with Carollo Engineers, which resulted in my being hired by them.
3/1989 - 7/1991 Patrick & Henderson, Inc. Bakersfield, California
Project Engineer/Senior Civil Designer/Surveyor
CAD Operator, Civil Designer, Project Coordinator, Surveyor.
Duties included - Civil Engineering Design, primarily subdivision maps and wind energy parks (subdivision design, street design, grading plans, tract maps, parcel maps, records of surveys, ALTA surveys, site plans, etcetera), limited Field Surveying, extensive Office Surveying, Project Estimating and Bidding and Coordination, Supervision of two field survey crews and an office design staff, CAD operator, PC Computer Systems Manager, Corporate Safety Officer.
6/1984 - 3/1989 Shell Western Exploration and Production Inc. Bakersfield, California
Senior Engineering/Map Drafter
Senior Engineering/Mapping Drafter - CAD Operator.
Duties included - Preparing new base maps of California oil and gas producing areas as accurately as possible on a CAD system; preparing geological "overlays" for above maps; mapping facility location/pipelines on the same maps; manual drafting process piping installations, including piping, equipment layout, grading plans, flow diagrams; writing/modifying software to expedite the above duties; training new CAD operators; office surveying, coordinating a base mapping staff.
6/1983 - 6/1984 Richard E. Coonley, P.E., Civil Engineering Bakersfield, California
Civil Draftsman
Duties included - Civil engineering drafting, predominately water systems, including; conceptual layouts, systems mapping, wells, pumping and storage systems, distribution systems, plot plans, grading plans, contour maps, records of surveys, tract maps, parcel maps, etcetera; survey party member.
3/1983 - 6/1983 L. Bruce Nybo Engineering and Land Surveying Bakersfield, California
Civil Draftsman
Duties included - Civil engineering drafting; including street, utility, and grading plans with contours; final maps, survey party member.
3/1981 - 10/1982 Automated Hay Custom Roadsiding Bakersfield, California
Operator/Partner
3/1972 - 3/1981 City of San Diego, California San Diego, California
Senior Engineering Aide/Senior Drafting Aide
Transportation Department, Traffic Engineering Division - Senior Engineering Aide.
Duties included - Traffic Investigator (Field); Investigate/study traffic flow problems, report on and order correctional work to alleviate the situation.
Water Utilities Department, Utilities Services Division - Senior Drafting Aide.
Duties included - Utility design drafting; research, liaison with other utilities; updating maps and records; check scribe overlays; coordinate map update; special drafting including presentation graphics, legal drawings, special plats; field checking; assisting citizens and engineers in the office and in the field; occasional survey party member; preparing reports.
12/1969 - 2/1972 U.S. Army U.S.A. & Vietnam
Sp-5 - Airframe Repairman/Welder
7/1969 - 1/1970 City of San Diego, California San Diego, California
Engineering Trainee
Water Utilities Department, Utilities Engineering Division, Systems Engineering - Engineering Trainee.
Duties included - Updating maps; miscellaneous special drafting; field checking; assisting in locating underground utilities; occasional survey party member; assisting Corrosion Control Engineer; preparing reports.
EDUCATION 1991 Bakersfield College Bakersfield, California
Some College Coursework Completed
Continuing Education for career enhancement.
Plant Process Piping Drafting
Basic Instrumentation
CAD Drafting
Plane Surveying
Control Survey (2 courses)
6/1981 San Diego (Mesa) Evening College Bakersfield, California
Associate Degree
AA Degree - Mid-Management
Dean's List - 3.1 GPA
SKILLS Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience
“Microsoft Project 2007" Project Management Software Expert Currently used 2 years
“MS Project Server 2007†Enterprise Project
Management Software Administrator Intermediate Currently used 1 year
"Word" Microsoft Word Processing Software Intermediate Currently used 6 years
"Excel" Microsoft Spreadsheet software Intermediate Currently used 6 years
“Microsoft Project 2002†Project Management Software Intermediate 2+ years ago 2 years
"AutoCAD 2005" CAD Software Expert 2 years ago 15 years
"Corel Draw" Graphics Software Intermediate 3+ years ago 8 years
"PhotoPaint" Corel Graphics Software Intermediate 3 Years ago 8 years
"Prolog" Project Management Software Intermediate 5+ years ago 1 year
"Expedition" Project Management Software Intermediate 5+ years ago 4 years
"Surveying" Instruments Intermediate 5+ years ago 5 years
"WordPerfect" Corel Word Processing Software Intermediate 5+ years ago 6 years
"QuatroPro" Corel Spreadsheet Software Intermediate 7+ years ago 6 years
"Eagle Point" Civil Design Software Intermediate 7+ years ago 5 years
"DCA" Civil Design Software Intermediate 8+ years ago 3 years
"Bentley Microstation" CAD Software Intermediate 8+ years ago 2 years
"Intergraph IGDS" CAD Software Expert 11+ years ago 4 years
"Intergraph ICS" COGO Software Expert 11+ years ago 4 years
"Intergraph DTM" Digital Terrain Modeling Software Expert 11+ years ago 4 years
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION Microsoft Project Server 2007 Administration – MSPE - 2008
Chevron Behavioral Based Safety ‘Super Observer†2008
Chevron Operational Excellence Certificate 2008
California Oilfield “Passport†Equivalent Certificate – BHS Safety – 2008, 2009
H2S Awareness Certificate – Guardian Safety Services – 2008, 2009
Smith Driving System Certificate 2008
California LSIT (Land Surveyor in Training) Certificate 1990 - Indefinite
OSHA Confined Space Entrant and Attendant Certificate - WESTEC - 2001
OSHA Competent Person Excavation Certificate - WESTEC - 2001
California Driver's License - Class C - Expires 11/2010
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