Chigozirim, Roseline Akuma

Renovation of the French Embassy residential apartment at Ilado, Ikoyi, Lagos. Project phased into 3 parts. (Internal works, external works, and building perimeter upgraded.)

• Developed and executed pre-construction milestones on project schedule.
• Mentored junior staff members in best practices for construction management techniques, fostering professional growth within the team.
• Developed comprehensive project schedules, resulting in timely completions and minimal delays.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors and subcontractors for optimal cost savings on materials and services.
• Managed construction projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and budget adherence.
• Supervised day-to-day activities of workers and team of contractors to promote productivity and efficient use of resources, maintaining on-time and under-budget project delivery.
• Verified completed projects met approved time, quality, and cost estimates.

• Defining and owning project management strategies, leading the design and implementation of common project management methodologies, standards, and tools to facilitate the successful delivery of five assigned projects.
• Preparing tender documents for contracts and overseeing the vendor engagement process for about eight ongoing projects in the firm.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with third parties, vendors, clients, and all stakeholders for flawless execution of projects.
• Daily monitoring of team performance, tracking costs, and identifying potential areas of improvement lead to a 25% increase in team efficiency.
• Streamlined project control by creating, updating, and managing project artifacts and project plans; utilized project management tools (MS Project, Excel, Slack, Asana) to track action items and ensure team accountability to project deliverables.

• Worked with a cross-functional team of Architects, Civil engineers M&E consultants, Interior designers, Quantity surveyors and other experts to obtain, review and analyze deliverables, timelines and attained project delivery on Eco bank Pan African Centre (EPAC), Ozumba Mbaiwe, Lagos Nigeria.
• Responding to wide variety of general and substantive enquiries on project as required by clients, partners, stakeholders, project consultants, community leaders and public
• Organized scope, schedule and monitoring assessment for a 12-man project team on the shoreline Ikoyi project.
• Provided oversight and guidance to all contractors/vendors on project planning/implementation, site visits for reviews.

• Construction of the 757 modern homes Kano State Supervising Architect for construction of 757 homes for Countrywide (Housing Project) Company Kano.
• Coordination and management of day-to-day site activities.
• Monitoring site labour force and work of any subcontractors.
• Performed architectural works including architectural design, site visits/inspections and preparation of progress reports.

• Provided architectural design and review of space requirements to accommodate efficiency needs and functionality requirements.
• Applied knowledge of building codes, standards and regulations to finalize designs
• Coordination and management of day-to-day site activities.