Mihai Beciu

Senior Consultant

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Romania

Experience

Mar 2022 - Dec 2025
3 years 10 months
Kuwait

Senior Consultant

Quorum Software

  • PlanningSpace 20x series client implementation from Discovery to Hypercare (Dataflow, Economics, Quorum Portfolio, Power BI reports) for Sasol UK
  • PlanningSpace client implementation in different phases for Chevron US and Angola, DNO Norway
  • Successfully migrated PlanningSpace client system from 16x to 20x series, identified bugs in new version and implemented solutions
  • Since January 2025, working onsite in KOC Kuwait office: PlanningSpace maintenance, improvements and optimizations, Power BI dashboards, daily user support and training
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
8 months
Brăila, Romania

Senior Planning Engineer

SC Setcar SA

  • Coordinated and performed planning tasks for waste decontamination projects of industrial plants and sites
  • Prepared the company budget, forecast and economics
  • Generated internal and external weekly and monthly reports
  • Created project management and reporting procedure
  • Participated in bidding procedure by preparing documentation and making economic and technical proposals
Jun 2018 - May 2020
2 years
Basrah, Iraq

Senior Planning Engineer

Kuwait Energy Company

May 2014 - May 2018
4 years 1 month
Kuwait

Operations Planning Engineer

Kuwait Energy Company

  • Configured, optimized and ran economic scenarios for two long-term projects using Palantir and Primavera P6 and created specific management reports
  • Coordinated planning tasks for field development plan and oil pipeline construction projects, including creating master schedule, work breakdown structure, baselines, critical path analysis, trend analysis and forecasting
  • Integrated schedule inputs from contractors into the project master schedule
  • Owned project control procedure and ensured its implementation
  • Supported change management by assessing schedule impact of proposed changes
  • Assisted project manager with schedule scenario evaluations, economic analysis and load data
  • Managed schedule status reporting and created required reporting systems
  • Participated in cost and schedule risk analysis
  • Prepared weekly and monthly reports for internal stakeholders and government
  • Prepared asset budget and forecast
  • Conducted monthly performance reviews, produced KPI dashboards and tracked improvement measures
  • Contributed to mid- and long-term planning including software implementation, configuration and junior training
  • Supported budgeting and forecasting by collecting, analyzing and rectifying CAPEX, OPEX, production figures and providing management decision versions
  • Created midstream monitoring database, updated monthly oil movement for all fields and provided MIS report inputs
  • Contributed to business plan creation according to company performance management process
Oct 2011 - Apr 2014
2 years 7 months
Buzău, Romania

Senior Business Planning & Performance Engineer

OMV-Petrom SA

Aug 2010 - Sep 2011
1 year 2 months
Buzău, Romania

Business Planning & Performance Engineer

OMV-Petrom SA

  • Organized and supervised the planning section activities across all departments ensuring efficiency and compliance with procedures and policy
  • Monitored the implementation of audit findings within the asset
  • Developed alternative ideas to improve projects, coordination procedures and services according to best practices and international standards
  • Defined KPI deviation limits and updated dashboards monthly, covering around 100 KPIs split by department
  • Assisted in development of Asset Reference Plan (ARP) according to company performance management process
  • Prepared database for selection of asset development options
  • Prepared quarterly Business Review Meeting presentations covering HSEE, production, costs, growth and HR in collaboration with departments
  • Prepared monthly Improvement Measures Level 3 presentations with updated measures
  • Prepared monthly performance meeting presentations covering KPIs, improvement measures status, CAPEX categories, deviation explanations, forecasts, risk mitigation and asset competition points
  • Prepared weekly and monthly production reports
  • Contributed to mid-term planning process
  • Aligned ARP, IML and BRM with Integrated Activity Plan from Primavera P6 regarding well activities status
  • Conducted controlling process within the asset by monitoring KPIs, identifying gaps and determining improvement levels
  • Provided performance reporting using planned vs actual bar charts, histograms and S curves including Primavera implementation
  • Identified activity improvement opportunities by evaluating alternatives and preparing economic selection
Jan 2005 - Jul 2010
5 years 7 months
Ploiești, Romania

Planning Engineer

OMV-Petrom SA

  • Scheduled, maintained and managed critical path, weekly and monthly reports and presentations in Primavera P6 for projects with budgets of €2–5 million, managing earned value and resources
  • Oversaw planning, scheduling and change management
  • Prepared and maintained project schedule in P6 and subcontractor schedules
  • Led monitoring, review and analysis of contractor schedules and status throughout project phases, analyzing deviations and corrective actions
  • Analyzed manpower and material progress to support project management
  • Assisted in scope identification for schedule activities
  • Reported schedule deviations proactively on assigned discipline tasks
  • Maintained the master work breakdown structure for the project
Sep 1999 - Jun 2001
1 year 10 months
Romania

Teacher of Mathematics and IT

Panait Istrati Highschool

  • Developed students' logical thinking in mathematics, including private tutoring
  • Taught effective use of internet browsers, programming and PC skills
Nov 1997 - Dec 2004
7 years 2 months
Brăila, Romania

Analyst Programmer

OMV-Petrom SA

  • Participated in development of accounting and financial internal control and internal audit using Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visual FoxPro
  • Collaborated in network administration and IT support for all departments

Summary

  • Strategy of medium/long term planning for the assets and company, including the business plan with the economics, establishing the performance targets and what-if scenarios considering the management objectives and the risks; 20 years experience in planning for well-developed multinational companies (25+ years professional career), including project management expertise, software’s implementation and configuration, adapt financial models to meet business needs
  • Budgeting and optimization (Planning Space / Excel), project planning (Primavera P6 and MS Projects), dashboard-scorecard (Power BI, MS Office)
  • PlanningSpace and Primavera software’s implementation, oil pipeline, camp construction, skids automatization, waste decontamination
  • Budget optimizations, identified levers/measures to improve performance, software’s successful implementation including training others

Skills

  • Planningspace
  • Primavera
  • Power Bi
  • Office

Languages

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 1992 - Jul 1997

University "Al. I. Cuza" Iasi

B.Sc. in Mathematics, licensed, 5 years course · Mathematics · Iași, Romania

Certifications & licenses

Certification In PlanningSpace Training Course In Dataflow, Economics, Portfolio

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