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Gopala Krishnan S

Bangalore

Summary

An IPMA-certified project management practitioner with over 10 years of experience and proven strengths in different facets of the project lifecycle, from bidding, estimation, engineering, project management, construction, commissioning, and handing over of various geographically challenged complex renewable projects.

I offer expertise in overseeing all aspects of project planning and governance, from project monitoring, budgeting, and resource allocation to ensuring quality deliverables with complete compliance to contract terms and conditions, addressing other aspects of cost control, change control, vendor management, and risk assessment.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager - PMO

AMPIN Energy Transition Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
07.2024 - Current
  • Lead project deliverables across the portfolio, collaborating with stakeholders, engineering, and construction teams for seamless execution from initiation to closure, as per the project execution plan.
  • Oversee multiple projects at various stages, ensuring they meet time and cost objectives.
  • Apply advanced risk management strategies to identify and mitigate risks throughout the project lifecycle, including overruns, delays, and other concerns.
  • Ensure compliance with project assurance measures through audits and stage-gate reviews, with thorough follow-up on corrective actions.
  • Monitor project performance via KPIs, ensuring precise reporting and evaluation of project outcomes, incorporating lessons learned into future projects.
  • Seek opportunities to enhance project delivery efficiency through agile working practices and adopting new technologies, such as digital dashboards (Power BI), to enable data-driven decision-making.
  • Foster continuous improvement by promoting knowledge sharing and implementing standardized, automated processes.
  • Project Optimization: Assisting stakeholders facing challenges in their projects due to disruptions or significant changes by revamping their projects regarding processes, personnel, and systems, by creating efficient operational and delivery strategies that guarantee the timely and budgeted achievement of business objectives.
  • Change Management, Claims, and Variations: Establish a robust change management process, including tracking, reporting, and impact analysis for associated cost, and schedule activities. Identification and impact analysis of potential project changes, and facilitation of the change control board to approve or disapprove said changes.

Assistant Manager - PMO

Serentica Renewables Pvt Ltd
Koppal
06.2023 - 07.2024
  • Facilitate the development of risk registers, qualitative analysis of risks, and monitoring the risk impacts on the schedule and cost at various stages of the project.
  • Generating and publishing project MIS reports to various stakeholders, supporting the analysis of the EVM data and metrics for data-driven decision-making.
  • Developing and maintaining less complex critical path logic networks, utilizing the information provided by discipline leads.
  • Assessing the impacts of design changes and schedule slippages.
  • Executing change management tracking and reporting.
  • Facilitate project progress reviews, and develop key milestone reporting, risk reports, early warning notice log reports, and change log and control reports.

Senior Engineer - Planning & Operations

ReNew Power Pvt Ltd.
Jaisalmer
03.2020 - 05.2023
  • Monitoring projects with respect to cost, resource deployment, time overruns, quality compliance, and manpower planning to ensure timely execution.
  • Developing project schedules (using MS Project), including risk analysis, master schedules, resource schedules, execution methodologies, milestones, budgets, and cash flow projections.
  • Administering the project start-up contracts and agreements, formulating and negotiating contracts in coordination with internal and external legal and commercial teams.
  • Liaison with internal teams of Design, Supply Chain, Project Site Team, customer, subcontractor, and supplier.
  • Facilitating the installation and commissioning of equipment, conducting tests and inspections to ensure the operational effectiveness of the plant and utilities.
  • Maximizing operational efficiency by implementing contracts and controlling costs by evaluating project constraints.
  • Ensuring the timely submission of running bills and collection of funds from clients to maintain a healthy cash inflow to the project.
  • Reviewing the Job Cost Report of the project to monitor the profitability of the project and reporting the same to top management. Administering the project start-up contracts/agreements, formulation, and negotiations of contracts in coordination with internal stakeholders and the client.
  • Developing project schedules, including risk matrix analysis, master schedules, resource schedules, execution methodologies, milestones, budgets, and cash flow projections.
  • Monitoring projects with respect to cost, time overruns, quality, EHS compliance, and resource planning and deployment to ensure timely.

Engineer - Project Planning

Team lease Pvt Ltd.
Hubli
02.2017 - 02.2020
  • Understanding and applying engineering, procurement, and construction terminology, concepts, and relationships.
  • Assessing the impact of design and construction changes, schedule slippages, and analyzing the project status against the established baseline.
  • Analyzing, evaluating, and forecasting the current status against an established baseline schedule.
  • Facilitating the development of the work breakdown structure (WBS), interfacing with Procurement, Engineering, and Finance Departments as needed.
  • Implementing and maintaining an Earned Value Management System on the project.
  • Analyzing cost and schedule performance indicators (CPI and SPI).
  • Preparing and maintaining project forecasts and status updates.
  • Providing project progress, assessment, and corrective action and catch-up plan recommendations to management.

Engineer - Site Execution

AGS Management Services Pvt Ltd
Trichy
06.2015 - 02.2017
  • Executed the erection activities of the Single Axis Horizontal Solar Tracker for the 12.6MWp Sun Edison Project and the 60MWp Sun Edison Project.
  • Tendering and cost estimation for mechanical packages such as piling, tracker erection, module mounting, and tracker commissioning.
  • Prepare and float RFQs to prospective suppliers, collecting quotes and techno-commercial comparisons for major mechanical equipment.
  • Preparation of the BOM for mechanical tender submission with respect to the approved drawing and layout.

Education

B. E - Mechanical Engineering

Kongunadu College of Engineering & Technology
Trichy
04-2015

Skills

  • Team Building and Leadership
  • Strategic planning
  • Project management
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Resource Management
  • Cost Estimation and Control
  • Budgeting and Forecasting
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Digital Reporting Tools and Decision Making
  • MIS Reporting and Project Expedition
  • Documentation and reporting

Certification

  • IPMA Level C
  • Certification in MS Project

Timeline

Manager - PMO

AMPIN Energy Transition Pvt Ltd
07.2024 - Current

Assistant Manager - PMO

Serentica Renewables Pvt Ltd
06.2023 - 07.2024

Senior Engineer - Planning & Operations

ReNew Power Pvt Ltd.
03.2020 - 05.2023

Engineer - Project Planning

Team lease Pvt Ltd.
02.2017 - 02.2020

Engineer - Site Execution

AGS Management Services Pvt Ltd
06.2015 - 02.2017

B. E - Mechanical Engineering

Kongunadu College of Engineering & Technology

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