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firatsonmez

Civil Engineer with MSc in Finance education. Accredited Project Management Professional by PMI. Worked for Tier-1 main contractors on various design and build construction projects such as data centres, public critical facilities, industrial facilities, and hotels. Expertised extensively in data centers by completing three hyperscale and a mid-sized data center projects. Passionate about bringing innovations to construction project environments.

Able to;
- develop overall project controls plan, workflows, and procedures in line with governance needs,
- implement project scheduling software, cost/budgeting systems, and data integrations,
- manage teams handling planning, earned value tracking, forecasting, and change orders,
- analyze progress, performance trends, and risks with data-driven insights and visualizations,
- prepare and critique schedule/cost reports, KPIs, dashboards for stakeholders,
- develop advanced cost, schedule, and risk models to support what-if analyses,
- identify opportunities to improve productivity, methods, and team collaboration
- develop feasibility studies, tender preparation, cost estimating, and controlling.
- manage contracts, value engineering procedures, dispute negotiation, avoidance and resolution.
- implement BI solutions to project / program management and project control activities.

EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
12.2023 - PRESENT

WILLS BROS GROUP

TENDER PLANNER

12.2021 - 10.2023

SERBAN CONSTRUCTION INC.

PROJECT CONTROLS LEAD

Projects:
- Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant
- Boreas Technology Base
- CES HAB Factory and Administrative Building
- Roketsan Lalahan B2B10 Facility

- Sultanahmet Komana Hotel
- Turkcell Ankara Data Center

- Turkish Armed Forces Education Foundation Student Dormitory

01.2019 - 12.2021

SERBAN CONSTRUCTION INC.

DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER (Programme and Cost Management)

Projects:
- Turkcell Europe Data Center
- Çanakkale Hilton Double Tree Hotel
- STM Star Data Center

04.2017 - 01.2019

SERBAN CONSTRUCTION INC.

COST MANAGER

Projects:
- Turkcell Gebze Data Center
- CES Ballistic Test Lab. and Production Building

02.2016 - 04.2017

PARTNER TEKNIK INC.

PLANNING ENGINEER

Project: Erdemir 2nd Continuous Galvanizing Line

10.2007 - 11.2016

SONMEZ CONSTRUCTION

PART TIME PERSONNEL

EDUCATION
EDUCATION
2025

PGCert

ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY

DATA ANALYTICS AND BUSINESS DECISION MAKING

2018

MASTER OF SCIENCE

MARMARA UNIVERSITY

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING

2016

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (ABET - Accredited by EAC)

CIVIL ENGINEERING

SKILLS
SKILLS
  • AutoCAD

  • MICROSOFT OFFICE

  • PRIMAVERA P6

  • MICROSOFT PROJECT

  • POWER BI

  • TABLEAU

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