GENEVIEVE PIENAAR BSc (hons.); ICIOB

Motorcity, Dubailand, Dubai, UAE

(m): 00 971 562690998; (e)

Nationality: British DOB: 27 March 1974Marital status: Single

10years’ experience of Project Management and Cost Management, managing projects from inception to completion. Well developed technical competence, qualified member of Chartered Institute of Building and has a track record of success, meeting all Key Performance Targets and winning awards for ‘quality’ and ‘support to internal departments’. Able to build effective working relationships with clients and stakeholders, with a strong customer focus

Professional Qualifications

Project Management Professional Preparation Course (2016)

Incorporate member of CIOB (2011)

BSc (hons) Construction Management – Sheffield Hallam University (2006-2009)

HNCBuilding Studies- SheffieldHallamUniversity (2004-2006)

Skills Profile

  • Excellent cost management skills with keen attention to detail
  • Project Management, including good planning & performance monitoring skills
  • Effective interpersonal skills, strong communicator and able to develop relationships at all levels
  • Well developed problem solving skills, analytical and able to develop appropriate solutions
  • IT skills – Microsoft Office XP and Vista, CATO and COINS (Cost Management Programmes), Excel including pivot tables

Career History

Currie & Brown LtdAugust ’12 – Current

Project Manager

Overseeing planning, implementation and tracking short term refurbishment of lounges and restaurants

across Jumeirah Group hotels.

Responsibilities include:

  • Define the scope of the project with senior management
  • Liaise with Contractors and Hotel personnel on site and weekly progress meetings
  • Raise potential risks to the project and raise cost variations, programme change or team acknowledgement
  • Raising LPO directly with the hotel senior management for internal scope of works
  • Determine the resources required to complete the project
  • Review the quality of work completed with the project team on a regular basis to ensure that it meets the project requirements
  • Ongoing meetings with subcontractors for designs and delivery scope of works.
  • Ongoing monitoring of all budgeted expenditures of the project
  • Ensuring all financial reports for the project is up to date
  • Ensuring the project deliverables are on time, all site passes are issued and valid for delivery and all security measures are in place for delivery
  • Monitoring Contractors’ procurement logs are current with the target delivery date within the agreed programme
  • Ensure project comes within time, cost and quality of the original scope of works

I was also instrumental in the implementation of the company’s new ISO management system through the Middle East offices.

Cost Manager

Contractual, commercial and re-measurement review of all outstanding subcontractors’ contracts for the development of the new Meydan Racecourse, 76,000,000ft2, 1km length over 10 storeys in height. Featuring a hotel, multiple restaurants, cinema, 60,000 capacity grandstand and a state of the art race track complex. Responsibilities were to provide services to finalise 900+ contracts including re-measurement, contract analysis and final account recommendation to the board.

Pre-contract services for projects which consists of shell and core areas for retail, cinema, restaurant, food and beverage and basement parking

Danzer LimitedSeptember ’10 – August ‘12

Quantity/Estimating Surveyor

Working for a modular Design and Build prefabrication company working for the Sales and Support Department.

Commercial and surveying responsibilities include:

  • Identification of commercial risks and opportunities
  • Assessing projects and organizing sub-contract enquiries
  • Collation and analysis of sub-contract quotations
  • Overseeing pricing for all infrastructure/enabling works, groundworks and foundations
  • Interpreting and understanding tender information
  • Assembly and preparation of tender costs
  • Finalising tender submissions to Client
  • Post-tender and post-contract analysis and reviews
  • Attending pre-award meetings and assist in negotiations with Client
  • Provide procurement and logistics duties for all materials required for the construction/delivery of a modular structure
  • Agreed final accounts

Faithful+GouldMarch ’06 – October ‘09

Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Quantity surveying services on a £15m development programme for 13 new build and refurbishment Children’s Centres for Nottinghamshire County Council. Projects were all procured on the NEC 3 Option C form of contract:

  • Preparing tender and contract documents from Architects drawings and specifications
  • Preparing and analysing costings from tenders to ensure it will return profit for the clients
  • Led Value Engineering meetings to negotiate costs for the client with contractors and architects
  • Monthly valuations, reviewing costs to date and monitoring against agreed schedule of works
  • Agreed Compensations Events during construction, gaining quotes for additional works and maintained record of costs
  • Agreed final accounts including adjusted target cost and Pain/Gain assessments
  • Prepared Performance Management reports, highlighting progress against KPIs
  • Authorised final payments, subject to satisfactory KPI reports.
  • Provide building estimation costs to the Building Surveyors for new potential projects when required.

Quantity surveying services on a £45m development programme for Greater Nottingham LIFT, providing assistance in the construction and commissioning of five primary health centres incorporating local authority accommodation, GP surgeries & dental practices:

  • Prepared budget forecasts for the coming year
  • Undertook costings, using excel and pivot tables, to prepare furniture and equipment schedules and room data sheets
  • Preparing Schedule 21 reports

Grant Rail LimitedFebruary’04 – March’06

Assistant Quantity Surveyor

Assistant surveying services on the West Coast Main Line track renewal project:

  • Assisting the commercial manager with External Monthly valuations for submission to the client.
  • Assisting the commercial manager in monthly Cost Value Reconciliations
  • Procurement and management of Subcontractors
  • Calculation of Cost to Completes on projects.
  • Estimating costs of plant, materials and equipment for the project
  • Loss / Gain analysis of materials / plant and labour used in any project.
  • Undertook project cost reporting to measure and monitor labour rates

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories (Europe) LimitedOctober’00 – October’03

Product Logistics Controller

The purpose of the role was to supply in timely manner information and requirements to satisfy customer orders in Southern Europe, DACH, Middle East and Africa Regions:

  • Licenses and software procurement and distribution for Genesys EMEA
  • Track and supply information regarding all previous and current requests
  • Managing customer issues
  • Work with Finance to insure that all orders are distributed for all revenue orders
  • Work with the sales people to insure that orders and requests are completed fully for the customer’s requirements
  • Weekly statistics on all software shipments that have been ordered and distributed
  • End of quarter targets

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories (Europe) LimitedSeptember ’96 – October ‘00

Technical Support Analyst

Provided client helpdesk 1st line support service:

  • Problem solving and troubleshoorting support service for Genesys software
  • Managing customer issues by effective call logging and follow through until resolution
  • Liaising with other departments and technical support in Head Office
  • Keeping abreast of product development
  • Dealing with all levels of customers from executive to end-user agents, on customer site when necessary
  • Managed support team’s resource planning, arranging shifts, holidays, courses and pager cover
  • Received a Quality Assurance Award for achieving quality targets

Sun Microsystems Ltd, Camberley, Surrey.January ‘93 – September ‘96

Call Receipt Co-ordinator/ Manager for Software Engineering Team

Other Achievements

  • Achieved a Global Award ‘Corporate Contributor of the Year Award’ 2002 for effective support to the Sales Teams.
  • Appointed Chairperson of the company social committee, arranging meetings with the team and organising social events to suit all Genesys staff.
  • Member of the Quality Assurance team to re-build Product Ordering’s working structure and quality system also ensuring that the new procedures work well for the other departments in the company.

General Education

11 GCSE’s - English, English Literature; Office Technology;Mathematics; Science; French; Geography;

Health, Hygiene & Safety and Life Skills;Child Psychology and Sociology

Professional Training & Certification

Construction Skills – Operatives – Health & Safety Test, (CSCS) 2009

Pitman Level 1 Book-Keeping course, 2004

S.A.P. Administration – In House Genesys Training, 2002

Health & Safety Awareness Training - The Industrial Society(BS EN ISO 9001 Certified), 1999

First Aid at Work - The British Red Cross, Ascot, Berkshire, 1999

Certified Genesys Engineer V5.1 - Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories (Europe) Limited,1999

Customer Satisfaction Measurement - JPD Training Limited, 1997

Customer service training

Other information

Full UK and UAE driving licences