Reywen Bigirimana

Summary of Skills and Experience

Regional Manager of Estimating and Project Services

• Develop procedures and work instructions as appropriate.
• Develop standards for Project Services Department: Estimating/planning/ scheduling/ procurement.
• Maintain project work and staffing levels to ensure effectiveness and efficiency of project deliverables.
• Direct, manage and supervise preparation of Capital Costs Estimates for Projects.
• Direct, manage and supervise all planning and scheduling activities to support project management and necessary Project Execution requirements.
• Develop & Maintain Estimating practices for tendering process, cost monitoring, and reporting systems and procedures
• Prepare and maintain a directory of suppliers, contractors and subcontractors
• Manage the tender process from start to finish, by coordinating and participating in the preparation of tender documents. Track all incoming tenders and analyze its relationship to company goals. Track all outgoing bids and ensure that it is consistent with the company’s bids.
• Review and understand project/proposal specifications contract clauses and drawings to determine the scope of the work and required contents of the estimate.
• Work with Project Manager and management to estimate labour, and material costs. Consider material, labour, equipment, subcontractors, overhead, indirect costs, etc.
• Perform risk assessment through review of contract language and commercial terms
• Negotiation with subcontracts and suppliers for tender pricing and awards
• Once contract is awarded, review and ensure that the agreed upon prices, revisions, and terms and conditions are correct.
• Participation in pre and post bid meetings; presenting; responding to questioning from Clients and Senior Managers
• Develop & maintain post tender communications with sales
• Provide assistance to the Business Development department in the preparation and presentation of proposals including supporting execution strategies and preparation of estimates and schedules.
• Direct and participate in the development and implementation of project plans in support of the business units.
• Participate in the development of proposals, presentations, and meetings with Clients.
• Provide staff with coaching, mentoring and development opportunities.
• Participate in human resources activities such as interviewing, hiring, performance management, training, salary reviews and employee program initiatives.
• Review of and development of discipline and multidiscipline material takeoffs (MTO)
• Evaluation and/or development of construction labor rates and evaluation of subcontract cost estimates and proposals
• Manage individuals within the estimating group
• Coordinate team activities, conduct project cost estimate review meetings, and interface with executive management
• Read, interpret and comprehend engineering specifications, process design drawings (PFD’s, P&ID’s, Equipment Data Sheets, etc.) and contracts
• Reviewing and analyzing complex bills of materials, assessing labor productivity and labor costs, researching vendor, manufacturing and construction costs
• Participates in site review, tender review, tender hand-off, project closing and operational meetings with internal and external stakeholders

Supervising Project Estimator

• Over 28years’ experience preparing Detailed Estimates for Capital Projects involving all engineering disciplines including process design, civil, structural, mechanical, piping, electrical, instrumentation, and process control for Mining and Heavy industrial Projects
• Prepare estimates in various stages with varying degrees of accuracy for conceptual, order of magnitude, Pre-feasibility, Feasibility and detailed cost estimates for mining projects.

Lead Project Planner/Scheduler

• Over 10years’ experience planning, preparing Schedules, involving all engineering disciplines Projects;
• Develop a realistic plan and schedule to meet project objectives and integrate all schedules into one EPCM;
• Proficiency in Primavera (P3), Primavera Enterprise (P6), and MS Project.
• Over 10years’ experience in Construction industry with proven ability to carry out a wide range of construction assignments, fieldwork and construction reviews.
• Prepare and maintain a complex Construction schedule for the project.
• Provide weekly lookahead reports including resource planning and progress measurement.
• Prepare and maintain reports for project planning and scheduling activities
• Lead the planning/scheduling function of all EPC Contractor and Owner while resolving highly sensitive and complex issues
• Prepare the resource loaded owners schedule including the commissioning and start up schedules
• Check and analyze critical path schedule - 30 days, 60 days, 90 days look ahead schedule and recommends appropriate action
• Develop and track measures on planning & scheduling to determine efficiency
• Participate in company planning initiatives and goals.

DRA AMERICAS

Regional Manager of Estimating and Project Services

• Responsible for developing and managing the project services and estimating departments
• Developing projects cost estimates covering all phases of project execution
• Managing schedules development processes based on scope of work, Client requirements and execution strategies
• Developing procedures, systems and work instructions for Project Services department
• Reviewing the contract conditions of all invitations to bid and participating in proposals preparations
• Overview Document Control and Procurement activities as required, including participating in the development of Terms & Conditions for procurement contracts.
• Manage the tender process from start to finish, by coordinating and participating in the preparation of tender documents.
• Manage the tender process from start to finish, by coordinating and participating in the preparation of tender documents. Track all incoming tenders and analyze it’s relationship to company goals. Track all outgoing bids and ensure that it is consistent with the company’s bids.
• Review and understand project/proposal specifications contract clauses and drawings to determine the scope of the work and required contents of the estimate.
• Work with Project Manager and management to estimate labour, and material costs. Consider material, labour, equipment, subcontractors, overhead, indirect costs, etc.

Current projects:

• Strange Lake / Torngat metals, Rare Earths, Quebec, Canada
• Copper World, Hudbay Minerals , Copper, USA
• Mineral Park, Copper Project, Nevada, USA
• Tizert Copper /Gold Project, Morocco
• Aya Gold /Silver Project, Morocco
• Curipamba Silver/Gold/Copper/Zinc Project, Ecuador
• Island Gold project, Alamos Gold, Ontario, Canada.
• Las Trucas Iron project, Mexico
• Quellaveco copper project, Peru.
• Tin One Tin/Tantalum Syrymbet,
• Steppe Gold Project, Mongolia
• Maritime Iron Project/Maritime Iron /Bankable Feasibility study, New Brunswick, Canada
• Loma Larga/ INV Metals/Feasibility Study, Ecuador
• Bjorkdal Gold Project/Mandalay Resources Corp./ Bankable Feasibility Study, Sweden
• Upper Beaver Project /Mine Canadian Malartic, ON, Canada
• Kearney Mine Project /Ontario Graphite Ltd./ Bankable Feasibility Study, ON, Canada
• Kitsault Molybdenum Project/ AlloyCorp Bankable Feasibility Study, BC, Canada
• Renard Diamond Recovery Plant/Stornoway Diamond Corporation-Trade-off /Scoping studies/Feasibility/Detail Engineering
• Aurizona Gold/Luna Gold Corp-Process Plant Feasibility Study, Brazil
• LIM Labrador/ Labrador Iron Mines – EPCM, Canada
• LIM Houston/ Labrador Iron Mines – Basic Engineering, USA
• Serra Pelada Project / Colossus Minerals – EPCM, Brazil
• Bilboa Project / Xtierra Inc. – DFS, Mexico
• Rovina Valley / Carpathian Gold Inc. – PFS, Romania

Hatch Engineering Ltd.

Lead Project Planner/Scheduler

April 2010 – Dec 2011 Pueblo Viejo, Barrick Gold Project, Dominican Republic.

• Develop a realistic plan and schedule to meet project objectives and integrate all schedules into one EPCM Schedule.
• Monitored and updated the Schedule with actual hours expended and estimates to complete (ETC) in conjunction with the Cost Controllers.
• Planning daily construction activities and their sequences to achieve the weekly, monthly planned goal.
• Coordinated Scheduling logic across all the Engineering Disciplines and updated progress.
• Prepared reports, planning layouts to communicate project results using Primavera Project Planner.
• Hands-on Experience in updating, analyzing, evaluating and forecasting the current status against an established Construction baseline schedule.
• Assessed the impacts of design or construction changes and schedule slippages.
• Prepared 3 weeks Look ahead Schedules, Graphs and Progress Curves for weekly and monthly reports.
• Prepared Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports for use by Project Managers, Superintendents and Clients to communicate Project results using Primavera Project Planner.
• Prepare schedule trends and formulate workaround and corrective action plans where required
• Work with Construction manager to direct Site Office planning including construction progress measurement and to review subcontractors schedule and interface planning.

Aker Solutions, Toronto, Canada

Supervisor Project Cost Estimator/Planner/Scheduler

2004 – Apr 2010

• Detail Capital Costs Estimates for Fedorovo Palladium Project, in Murmansk, Russia, owned by Barrick Gold: 1.3 Billion CAPEX
• Responsible for developing capital/operating costs and schedules for Fedorovo Palladium Project. Deliverables based on the latest available code costing methodology and data, and the results presented in a Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) such us Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), Package Breakdown Structures (PBS), organizational Breakdown Structures (OBS), Functional/ Facility Breakdown Structures (FBS) formats suitable for use by the Client, Project Manager and the project team.
• Establish unit costs, labour rates, productivity factors and location impacts.
• Set-up the Process Mechanical Equipment installation manhours.
• Participate in bid analysis Process and evaluate the quotes received from Suppliers and Subcontractors to support Capital Cost Estimates.
• Compile quantities from various disciplines and pricing the commodities such as Earthwork, Concrete, Structural Steel, Architectural, Civil, Electrical, Instrumentation, Piping and Insulation using unit rates and Labour Unit cost to get the Total Installed Costs (TIC).
• Use the Material Take-offs (MTO) to accurately price the on-Site Infrastructures such as Site Development, Main Access Roads, Service Roads, In Plant Roads, Haul Roads, Potable Water Treatment Plant, Sewage Water Treatment Plant, Waste Water treatment Plant, Tailings Storage Facility& Water Reclaim and other various Infrastructure buildings.
• Evaluate and recommend allowances for indirects such us Temporary Buildings and Facilities, Temporary Construction Utility Services, Construction Site Support and Operations, Spare Parts, First Fill, Freight, Taxes, Duties, VAT, Start-up and Commissioning.
• Evaluate and recommend allowance for owner’s costs.
• Calculate contingency using @ risk to cover unknowns.
• Prepare Estimate Plan and Basis of Estimate as a part of the Report.
• Present estimates and conduct review meetings with the client.
• Participate and coordinate company risk and opportunity evaluation with client.
• Maintain appropriate documentation to ensure estimating documentation is prepared, reviewed, approved, stored and audit ready in accordance with standards and guidelines.

Other Projects worked on:

• Frontier Lithium, Ontario, Canada
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for Pre-feasibility and Bankable Feasibility Studies for Mayskoe Gold Project in Chekotka, Russia, owned by Barrick Gold and LLC Zolotorudnoe Company.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for Pre-Feasibility, Definitive Feasibility and Basic Engineering for Toromocho Silver/Copper Project, owned by Minera Peru Copper S.A., in Peru.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for Basic Engineering for NICO a Cobalt-Gold-Bismuth in North West Territory, Canada, owned by Fortune Minerals.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Scoping, Pre-Feasibility and Definitive Feasibility Studies for Baffinland Iron Ore Project in North of Canada.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Pre-Feasibility Study for Nezhdaninskoe Gold Project,owned byPolyus Gold, in Sakha, Yakutia, Russia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Studies for Taseevskoe Gold Project, owned by Barrick Gold Corporation, in Russia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Study for Amikan Veduga Gold Project, owned by Barrick Gold Corporation, in Russia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Study for Bakyrchik Gold Project in Kazakhstan.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Study for Ararat Gold Recovery Circuit Project,owned by Minera San Cristobal in Armenia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Pre-Feasibility Study for Dumont Nickel Project, owned by Royal Nickel Corporation, Quebec, Canada.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Pre-Feasibility and Bankable Feasibility Studies for Dornod Uranium Project, owned by Khan Resources, in Mongolia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Definitive Feasibility Study for Direct Nickel Project, owned by Direct Nickel, in Australia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Scoping, Pre-Feasibility and Definitive Feasibility Studies for MAK Tsagaan Survarga Copper Oxide Project owned by Mongolyn Alt Corporation, in Mongolia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Scoping, Pre-Feasibility and Definitive Feasibility Studies for Ambatovy Nickel, Zinc/Cobalt Plant Extraction owned by Dynatec Corporation, in Madagascar.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Study for Nui Phao Tungsten Project owned by Tiberon Minerals Ltd., in Vietnam.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Study for Mehdiabad Zinc Project, owned by Mehdiabad Zinc Inc, in Iran.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Study for Falconbridge Koniambo HPAL Nickel Hydrometallurgical Plant Phase I and Phase II in New Caledonia.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Bankable Feasibility Study for Peters Mine Gold Project in Guyana.
• Detail Capital Cost Estimates for a Definitive Feasibility Study for APEX Silver Project, owned by Minera San Cristobal, in Bolivia.

Senior Project Planner/Scheduler

• Clear understanding of project life cycles from Engineering to Commissioning ·
• Developed Primavera Project Schedule for full project life cycle ·
• Co-ordinated scheduling logic across all Engineering Disciplines and ·Updated progress.
• Ambatovy Nickel Project in Madagascar- Planned, Scheduled activities using Primavera Project Planner.
• Toromocho Silver/Copper Project- Planned, Scheduled activities using Primavera Project Planner.
• Bakyrchik Gold Mining, Kazakhstan-Planned, Scheduled activities for Basic Engineering phase involving a two-stage whole ore roaster followed by dry grinding, cyanidation and CIP using Primavera Planner.
• Mehdiabad Zinc, Koniambo HPAL Projects-Planned, Scheduled Activities and monitored the progress against established schedules using the Primavera Project Planner and MS Project.
• Prepared reports, planning layouts to communicate project results using Primavera Project Planner.
• Assessed the impacts of design or construction changes and schedule slippages.
• Hands-on Experience in building, updating, analyzing, evaluating and forecasting the current status against an established Construction baseline schedules.

Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), Toronto, Canada

Project Cost Estimator

2002-2004

• Responsible for developing capital costs for Municipal Infrastructure Projects based on the costing code presented in a Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
• Compile quantities from various disciplines and pricing the commodities such as Earthwork, Concrete, Structural Steel, Architectural, Civil, Electrical, Instrumentation, Piping and Insulation using unit rates and Labour Unit cost to get the Total Installed Costs (TIC).
• Use the Material Take-offs (MTO) to accurately price the on-Site Infrastructures such as Site Development, Access Roads, Service Roads, Sewage Water Treatment Plant and other various Infrastructure buildings.

Strabag, Austrian Construction Company, Moscow, Russia

Construction Engineer

1994-1998

• Supervised, monitored simultaneously the activity of over 10 sub-trades through 3 general foremen to ensure the job was done according to the contracted drawings and specifications.
• Monitored progress, quantities and quality of construction work to ensure compliance to Schedule, design specification and identify necessary corrective actions early.
• Reported to the Construction Manager on daily basis regarding contract and site issues as they related to construction projects including change orders, payments and contract documentation
• Organized workers in teams and followed up the fieldwork activities on reinforcement of concrete structures on daily basis.
• Introduced the incentive-based salary structures that increased efficiency of staff and saved $600,000 Canadian dollars, which is 10% of the estimated budget.
• Verified Contractors compliance of as-built drawing requirements.
• Directed the purchase of required construction materials and equipment for the site.
• Analyzed the received quotations from suppliers, perform a comparison among received quotations trying to reach the most competitive one and satisfy the client's requirements at the same time by keeping always pushing for lower direct cost, especially during negotiation with supplier and/or sub-contractor.

Education and Affiliation

• Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Moscow State University in 1994, Russia.
• Bachelor ‘s Degree in Civil Engineering, Moscow State University in 1992, Russia.
• PMP Certified, Member of PMI, Project Management Institute, USA
• President of AACEI Toronto Chapter
• Member of OSPE (Ontario Society for Professional Engineers)

Computer and Language skills:

• Primavera P3 and P6, MS Project, Microsoft Office Applications (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint), EST-6 in-house Estimating Data base, @Risk, K-Base Icarus.
• English, fluent French, fluent Russian, Swahili, Kirundi, Spanish (very basic).