QUALIFICATIONS
Milan Dragas is an accomplished Project Controller with significant international experience in the industrial construction and civil engineering. His experience includes construction progress monitoring and budget/cost control for multimillions construction projects at the U.S. Steel plants in the United States and Europe. He has solid management skills with consistent track record of anticipating consequences on numerous designs of highways, bridges and site development projects. His strengths include cost benefits analysis, reporting, organizing and multi-tasking, and he has extended experience in numerous engineering as well as management software. He is detail oriented with outstanding communicational skills enabling him to coordinate multiple international contractors. Motivation is his strong suit, backed by excellent organization skills that have proven successful in controlling multiple construction projects. In addition you will find him very adaptable to new environment, concept and people.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE, Republic of Serbia
Master of Science in Civil Engineering, 1999
• Concentrations in Hydraulics and Hydrology
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Integrated Project Resources LLC, Chicago, IL 2007-2009
Project Controller, Projects for United States Steel, Republic of Serbia (2008-2009)
• Developed full cost/resource integrated master schedules and tracked down progress of construction of $20 millions Pickle Line Reconstruction using PRIMAVERA 6.0 program, as well as writing risk analysis reports.
• Managed cost segregation, controlled costs and maintained budget for $30 million Steel Shop Secondary Emissions Construction and $27.5 million Rehabilitation of Sinter Plant using Oracle Purchasing / Procurement Modules.
• Active anticipator of the management team for coordination of construction activities of contractors with different backgrounds and nationalities from all over the world.
• Recognized potential delays in construction schedule caused by employment of inadequate resources or their insufficient utilities and together with the management team leaded project to its on-time completion.
• Assisted partner with negotiating for shortening the construction duration of Generating Transformation System by 30 days accepted by general contractor.
• Implemented and trained partner’s personal the cost tracking method in the period of the volatile currency exchange rates and controlled the cost of project contracted in various currencies USD, EUR & RS Dinars.
Project Control Specialist, Projects for United States Steel, Gary Works, IN (2007)
• Set pre-contract cost plan and monitored long lead procurements expenses for $18 million Stove Repair.
• Controlled costs for $6.5 million Blast Furnace Repair project by reviewing the purchasing / procurement reports and maintaining the forecast expenses under the budget.
• Developed master schedule and monitored progress of $8 million expedited reconstruction of collapsed Battery-Buehler Conveyor Bridge project.
Project Control Specialist, Outage of Unit 8 NIPSCO Bailey Generating Station, Chesterton, IN (2007)
• Controlled cost and monitored progress of $3 million outage of 340 MW power unit.
• Ensured that project was completed in 12 weeks.
Harry O. Hefter Associates Inc., Chicago, IL 2005-2007
Project Civil Engineer, Lake County Bridge, Town of St. John, IN (2006-2007)
• Obtained construction permit from State of Indiana Authorities for the bridge replacement.
• Created hydraulic model, drew roadway and bridge plans and prepared calculations.
Civil Engineer, United States Gypsum Site Development and Improvement Projects (2005-2006)
• Prepared feasibility studies, site development and design for construction for the numerous USG sites, developed and reconstructed all over the United States. Site development and design included collection of the site data, survey, grading, parking lots, utilities, erosion control and storm/sanitary water management. Projects include sites in Gypsum, OH; Baltimore, MD; Bridgeport, AL; Stockton, CA; Tuscaloosa, AL; and New Orleans, LA.
TENG & Associates Inc., Chicago, IL 2001-2005
Civil Engineer, Yorkville Dam, City of Yorkville, IL (2004–2005)
• Remodeled damaged 15 ft high concrete dam into the safety object. Altogether with new-constructed bypass channel adapted to pass canoes and kayaks made the dam an attractive place for visitors.
Water Resources Engineer, Interstate I-80/94 Phase II Services, Chicago, IL (2002–2004)
• Managed multiple contracts and redesigned 7 miles long drainage system, prepared hydraulic calculations, hydrology models, and designed erosion and sediment control.
Water Resources Engineer, Interstate I-88 Phase I Services, Chicago, IL (2001-2002)
• Developed drainage reports including design of 5 miles long new drainage system, watershed planning, hydraulic calculation, hydrology modeling and erosion and sediment control design.
Directorate for Inland Waterways, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia 1996-2001
Water Resources Engineer, River’s Bed Scouring Project, Novi Sad (1999–2001)
• Located unexploded bombs surveying Danube River’s bed nearby the destroyed bridges at city of Novi Sad.
Surveyor, River Survey Project, Danube and Tisa Rivers (1996-1999)
• Surveyed Danube and Tisa River’s beds with MASTERCHART software based on GPS and performed further data processing (3D models).
Center for Project Management, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia Part time
Primavera Specialist, Primavera program courses, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
• Assisted students at PRIMAVERA program courses.
EXPERTISE
Managed studies and set-up computer models to devise computer-modeling solutions in the areas of:
• Project and cost control, cost segregation (Primavera 6.0, MS Project, Oracle Purch./Proc. Module)
• Various calculations, presentations and processing data (MS Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• CAD drawing, processing survey data (AutoCAD, AutoCAD LD)
• CAD drawing, drainage design (Microstation, GEOPAK)
• Floodplain evaluations and flood hazard analysis (HEC-2, HEC-RAS, HEC-18)
• Watershed hydrologic management (HEC-1, HEC-HMS, TR 20)
• Municipal storm water management (HydraFlow, HY-8)
• 3D Data management (Global Mapper)
• Surveying Rivers bed (Masterchart-Hydrographic survey software package)
SKILLS
• Project control, forecast spending, cost control, cost segregation and project scheduling
• Planning projects with PERT method, issuing reports and cost-benefit analysis, building WBS, RBS, CBS and OBS of projects (Primavera 6.0 and MS Project)
• Writing effective project reports
• Synthesizing data sophistically and accurately (MS Excel, MS Access, various analyses)
• Developing and holding training presentation (PowerPoint)
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