Mihai Beciu
Senior Consultant
Experience
Mar 2022 - Dec 2025
3 years 10 monthsKuwait
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 monthsBrăila, 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 yearsBasrah, Iraq
Senior Planning Engineer
Kuwait Energy Company
May 2014 - May 2018
4 years 1 monthKuwait
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 monthsBuzău, Romania
Senior Business Planning & Performance Engineer
OMV-Petrom SA
Aug 2010 - Sep 2011
1 year 2 monthsBuzău, 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 monthsPloiești, 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 monthsRomania
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 monthsBrăila, 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
NativeEnglish
AdvancedEducation
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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