About us
ProjectControlsOnline.com (PCO) has been formed (Jan 2010) and managed by a global network of Senior Project Controls professionals who come from a variety of different industries. PCO Leadership consists of "Core Team" together with a "Board of Advisors" from around the world. Under this leadership team, PCO boasts an impressive band of subject experts whose expertise spans the full spectrum of Project Controls. We are independent and not biased towards any technology, process, software or company.

Please note PCO is a non-profit organisation and the revenue generated from some its features is invested into its maintenance and further enhancement. All the team members listed below are volunteers and do NOT have any financial interest in PCO.


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Our Vision  |  Core Team  |  Board of Advisors  |  Our Volunteers  |  Charities supported | Strategic Partners


Our Vision 

* To be the first choice of all Project Controls stakeholders -- providers and consumers
* To promote a universal understanding of Project Controls value and processes
* To develop a central repository of data on Project Controls
* To generate awareness and offer expert guidance on Project Controls tools & practices.
* To build the first exclusive network of genuine Project Controls practitioners and their customers.


Core Team

Anil Godhawale, Director - ProjCon Consultants, UK

Anil Godhawale is Director of ProjCon Consultants and Founder of ProjectControlsOnline.com. Anil has over 14 years of international field and home office experience in Project Planning & Scheduling, Cost Engineering, EVA, Risk and Delay Claims Analysis with project values ranging from $10M to $1.5B. Anil has a strong Project Controls background &  has worked in all phases of projects  in various sectors that includes Petroleum & Chemicals, LNG regasification & liquefaction facilities, CCU’s (Carbon Capture Units), Power Projects and Pipelines. 

Anil is also very active with industry professional associations as fellow at ACostE, UK and member of AACEi, USA since last decade. He also contributed to CIOB, UK as member of TDWG to develop guidelines for accreditation in Time Management. Anil also holds distinguished Project Controls Certifications CCE & PSP from AACEI, USA and is also registered member (IEng) of Engineering Council UK.  He has various publications under his name and the most widely acknowledged was "Technical paper on Capital Cost Optimization of Power Project through standardization of engineering design" submitted to AACEI in Y2003.

Bruce Bradley, Director of Estimating - Shaw Group, USA

Bruce's professional career has entirely served the Engineering / Procurement / Construction / Maintenance industry, specifically in the Petroleum, Petrochemical and Chemical markets. Have accumulated over thirty years experience in Estimating for both domestic and international projects. Began career with Jacobs Engineering in 1980, started at Litwin Engineers & Constructors in 1987, moved to Fluor in 1996 and started at The Shaw Group in April 2010. Personal growth has been augmented through increasing responsibilities of specific assignments and department management. Estimating capabilities have ranged from conceptual/rough order of magnitude to detailed/lump sum turn key.

John Lancaster, Director - Turner & Townsend, Singapore

John has over 20 years of experience in various Project Controls functions with specialisation in Delay Analysis, Project Controls Management, Project Planning & Genetic Algorithms applied to Project Schedule Optimisation. Before joining Hill, John was associated with Worley Parsons (Manager of Project Services, Western Australia), CB&I (Director of Project Controls, EAME region), SNC Lavalin (Engineering Manager and Project Manager, Johannesburg) to name a few.

John has done his MSc and Phd and currently pursuing his LLM in Construction Law and Arbitration at RGU. He is also a CEng (Chartered Engineer) with Engineering Council (EC) UK and holds a FACostE with ACostE (Association of Cost Engineering), UK .

Johannan Jhirad, Asst. Vice President, Engineering Division - Reliance P&TL, India

Johannan is in the Project Management / Project Controls Management profession since early 1980s.   He has shouldered these responsibilities based from West Asia, Western Europe and Mumbai in India.  He has so far completed over 50 projects in various roles with outlays of USD 10 Million to USD 10 Billion for EPC projects for Refineries, Petrochemicals, Chemical Plants, Infrastructure and Software and has a record number of on or ahead of schedule completions to his credit. He  has been previously associated with well-known companies like BecRel (MOU JV of Bechtel and Reliance Industries Limited), Aker, Tecnimont, UHDE, Chemtex, Bateman and Dorr-Oliver.  Specializations include Timely Project Completions, Development of Cutting-edge software for better Project Management / Controls, Change Management, Human Factors in Projects and effective Project Reporting to trigger actions.

Johannan has done his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and has Post-graduate education in Advanced Computer Software, Finance and Management. He is also a member of LinkedIN, AACEi and PMI

Pedram Daneshmand, Associate Director - BlueVisions Management Pty, Australia

As a civil engineer with over 15 years experience in the construction industry, Pedram is a certified Master Project Director (MPD) and a professional member of Engineers Australia. He is also is an industry innovation award winner for his programme statistical analysis skills and the Primavera system applications in analysing programmes. He is an executive member of professional groups including the International Program Committee of AMSRA (Advances in Management Science and Risk Assessment, IASTED (International Association of Science and Technology for Development, RES (Risk Engineering Society) and CELM Sydney (Centre of Engineering Leadership and Management). With more than ten technical papers in the professional conferences/journals and so many national and international presentations, Pedram is always looking for more contribution to the planning and controls profession. Pedram is currently an Associate Director with Blue Visions Management (blueVisions) and leading a team of Planning & Controls specialists within the infrastructure and construction sectors.


Board of Advisors

Murray Woolf, President - ICS Global, USA

Murray with over 25 years of experience under his belt is globally respected Project Controls professional for his authority on Construction scheduling practices. He currently heads ICS-Global, International Center for Scheduling, Inc, providing a wide variety of products and services of importance to construction Scheduling Practitioners, and their customers. He is also a author of : "Faster Construction Projects with CPM Scheduling (McGraw-Hill, 2007), the #2 construction scheduling book according to Amazon.com. In past he was associated with PMI - College of scheduling as Director of Scheduling Excellence Initiative. Murray is also a frequent lecturer and author on various scheduling topics along with creator of Momentum Management & Dilemma Forecasting.

Mark Cundiff, President - Gray Construction Consulting & Associates, USA

Mark has over 30 years of office & field experience in estimating, bidding and managing large commercial, heavy civil, industrial, power, marine government construction projects along with construction dispute resolution. He has reviewed, analyzed & reported on a broad range of construction projects located in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. His assignments include being chosen to lead a team of engineers and schedulers from the Storebaelt West Bridge JV partners located in Amsterdam & Nyborg Denmark performing a schedule impact analysis on a 13,000+ activity CPM network w/ narration that served as the foundation of the Joint Venture's successful claim. Mark has also participated in settlement negotiations, mediation and testified as an expert witness in AAA arbitration, ICC arbitration on separate cases in London and Paris, U.S. State and Federal Court and the Pennsylvania State Court of Claims.

Mark is considered as expert in Forensic Services covering review and analysis of the contract, estimate & budget; earned value; resourcing; CPM baseline schedule, updates and as-built; scope modification(s); productivity & inefficiency, CPM schedule analysis and case mgmt incldg discovery, document control, data bases and demonstrative exhibits

Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo, Senior Technical Advisor - PTMC, Jakarta Indonasia

Paul has over 35 years of experience and along with working with PTMC, is also an adjunct professor, Project and Program Management, at the SKEMA School of Business, Paris, France. www.skema.edu/en  and develops and teaches graduate level curricula in Asset and Project Management for Western Australia University, Perth. www.blendedlearning.ecm.uwa.edu.au  For 17+ years, he has been providing Project Management training and consulting throughout South and Eastern Asia, the Middle East and Europe.  He is also active in the Global Project Management Community, serving as an Advocate for and on behalf of the global practitioner. He does so by playing an active professional role in the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE); Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and the Construction Management Association of America, (CMAA). He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS), www.globalpmstandards.org, Sydney, Australia.

Dr. Benjamin Adesola, Director at Christ Royal Centre for Applied Cost Engineering, Nigeria

Benjamin has over 15 years of experience with MSc in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Phd in Knowledge Engineering & Management from Cranfield University, UK. During his academic career, benjamin has worked on various theories such as Research Knowledge Elicitation Tools and Techniques, eXpert Process knowledge Analysis Technique (XPAT), Knowledge Model for Managing Schedule Disturbance in Steelmaking, Knowledge Model with a Decision Support Tool using Gensym G2 Expert System software and a paper based Tool to capture and reuse expert knowledge. He has also successfully validated XPAT techniques and tool with case studies. He has worked with Shell on various cost and schedule assignments and current heads a research center dedicated to Applied Cost Engineering and its training.

Paul E Harris, Director at Eastwood Harris Pty. Ltd, Australia.

Paul E Harris a director of Eastwood Harris since 1993 providing Programme and Project management consulting to companies in the areas of establishing and running programme and project controls systems. This has included assisting in the evaluation, selection and implementation of programme and project controls software, training and the running of programme and project controls systems with a strong emphasis on the integration of Oracle Primavera Inc and Microsoft Project software into corporate programme and project management systems.

Nader Samir, Contracts and Controls Manager at ASA, Egypt

Nader is an Egyptian Civil engineer with extensive experience in the field of Project Management including Claims Management, Construction Planning, Estimating and Value Engineering Studies. He is also registered as an expert in the Cairo Regional Center for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA).

Dhruva Sen, Sr. Program Expert & Consultant, India

Dhruva has over 23 years of experience covering railway projects (13 years) including 9 years in Metro rail projects, other infrastructure projects (4 years) and building projects (6 years) in India, across planning, design and construction functions. Key skills are planning, scheduling and monitoring; quantity and cost estimation, tendering and contract management. Can perform Project Controls for all system works, integrating civil, mechanical and electrical engineering activities. Also experienced in route alignment design; preparation of technical specifications and detailed Project reports. He has worked at feasibility, tendering, pre and detailed engineering and construction stages of projects. Since past 21 years he is associated with with a leading engineering consultancy firms of India.

Steve Wake, Director - Steve Wake Projects Limited, UK
Steve Wake is a management consultant, specialized in earned value project management. He provides advice, guidance, and training. He is the Chairman of the APM Earned Value Management Specific Interest Group and director of Steve Wake Projects, Ltd. He chairs, speaks, writes, and is an accomplished event organizer. He is seen as a UK expert and champion of the subject of earned value. He established reciprocity between the US ANSI EV Guideline and the UK APM Guideline. 
Steve also chairs the APM SIG-Steering Group with oversight of all APM's SIG activity and strategy. He is a member of the APM Knowledge Directorate and participates on the APM Nominations committee. In 2009, he helped found the EVA-Europe initiative and chaired the first conference at CERN Geneva and he is a member of the core author group for the revision of the PMI Second Edition of the Practice Standard for Earned Value Management.


Our Volunteers :

Full list is under preparation and will be published soon. 

Strategic Partners : 
To be updated soon....


Charities supported

ProjectControlsOnline.com contributes a percentage of revenue each year to charity. This year the principal recipients of our donations are:

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (
www.gosh.org)

Great Ormond Street Hospital treats more than 90,000 patients each year - children suffering from the rarest, most complex and often life-threatening conditions. They receive the best medical care that money can buy, but the NHS funding cannot meet these ever-rising costs, and that's where the hospital's charity, GOSHCC, steps in. [Registered Charity no: 235825]

The National Autistic Society (
www.autism.org.uk)

NAS is leading UK charity for people with autism  (including Asperger syndrome) and their families. NAS provide information, support and pioneering services, and campaign for a better world for people with autism.

Nanhi Kali (
www.nanhikali.org)

Project Nanhi Kali was initiated with an objective of providing primary education to the underprivileged girl child in India . They are working at the grass root level to ensure that the girls receive academic and material support. The project currently supports the education of over 50,800 underprivileged girl children.

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