Services / Project planning and controls
I build practical tools, dashboards, and reporting systems for project planning and controls teams. Each engagement starts with an operational need — schedule integrity, executive visibility, or stakeholder reporting — and delivers a working solution grounded in P6 and MSP experience.
Every engagement starts with a clear operational outcome. Scope, acceptance criteria, and deliverables are agreed before work begins.
Schedule quality
A thorough assessment of your Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project schedule against DCMA 14-point criteria, identifying broken logic, open ends, excessive constraints, and float anomalies with an actionable fix list.
Executive visibility
Turn raw schedule and progress exports from P6 or MSP into interactive Power BI or automated Excel executive dashboards. Real-time Earned Value metrics (SPI, CPI, EAC), S-curves, and variance analysis without clunky add-ins.
Progress reporting
Eliminate tedious manual report assembly. Formula-driven, standardized weekly and monthly progress report templates connecting schedule updates to management-ready slide decks and summary documents.
Schedule structure
Structured WBS development, activity sequencing, and Progress Measurement System (PMS) weighting for new projects or re-baselines. Fully aligned with contractual specs and physical deliverables.
Claim support
Forensic schedule delay analysis using Time Impact Analysis (TIA), As-Planned vs. As-Built comparisons, and contemporaneous project logs to substantiate or defend extension-of-time (EOT) claims.
Pricing is tailored to the agreed scope and primary platform. Complex backends, paid services, store fees, paid hosting plans, and third-party integrations are estimated separately.
Clarify the schedule environment, reporting needs, data sources, and what decisions the output must support.
Agree deliverables, acceptance criteria, data format, and timeline.
Develop the tool or report in short, reviewable steps with your real data structure.
Hand over working outputs, documentation, and provide support for the agreed period.
Project estimate
A short description of your scheduling environment and reporting challenge is enough. I will reply with the key questions and a practical next step.
Taking one or two focused projects at a time, alongside a full-time project controls role.
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