SYNOPSIS

Schedules or Gantt charts are an essential tool in managing projects especially when the numbers of activities that need to be monitored are significantly high. This coupled with a complex network of relationships between the activities necessitates the use of proper digital applications. One such is the Microsoft Project software which is well equipped to perform industry level scheduling.

This one day training course is a hands-on physical session where participants will be tutored in the practical fundamentals of scheduling methods and the use of this software so as to produce and analyse engineering projects effectively. It is the objective of this course to have the participants who have minimal understanding of scheduling concepts and the software use to be able to produce a workable schedule at the end of the course.

This one day course includes the “walk thru case” where participants who have brought their own laptops loaded with their own copies of MS Project will have the opportunity to have a hands-on experience in tandem with the course. Hence, participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own laptops with installed MS Project software.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Faizal A. Sanusi has served the Project Management Technical Division in IEM since 2005, including as its Chairman in 2012. He has a BSc in Civil Engineering from the George Washington University, USA in 1988 and an MBA from Open University, Malaysia in 2005.

His engineering and project management experience spans across the oil & gas and building industry since he began his career 30 years ago. In his career, he has performed various roles ranging from design engineer, resident engineer, project engineer and project manager for a myriad of engineering projects – civil Infrastructure works, commercial buildings including an intelligent office institutional building, gas processing plants, offshore gas pipeline installations and offshore gas producing platforms. He also challenged himself as an entrepreneur in the business of facilities management for oil and gas on-shore installations and has provided training in various project management topics to the Royal Malaysian Navy and private commercial property developers.

He recently came out of retirement to work in Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Bhd. to head a department responsible for evaluating technical and project execution viability of projects.

Some of his notable career highlights as follows:
    Project Advisor and Project Services Manager for  Oil & Gas Exploration & Production MNCs
    Project Services Division Head for a local Offshore Oil & Gas Service Provider
    Project Manager for the Malaysian Securities Commission 4 star intelligent building project
    Director of a local Facilities Management company overseeing Oil & Gas O&M projects

In his spare time he writes computer micro-applications to facilitate his work in project management using Python and VBA.