Dear Sir/Madam,

This letter expresses my interest in your advertised position. I am a vision-driven, goal-focused, highly motivated and progress-focused senior Project Controls professional with an extensive history of delivering significant achievements and devising reliable innovations, mainly within the engineering, construction, oil & gas, chemical, energy, and manufacturing industries, controlling key national and international projects for large corporations. I am looking for a new challenge with a company which can benefit from my extensive hands-on experience, and qualifications in the Strategic Planning, Project Controls Management, Scheduling, Cost Mgt. and Risk Mgt. fields.

Throughout my career, I have established a reputation as a motivating team leader and collaborative colleague who is energized by challenges, enjoys applying the latest developments in my fields of expertise to improve standards of excellence, and drives team efforts to surpass obstacles by brainstorming strategic feasible solutions and effectively coordinating key activities. Exposure to diverse national and international corporate cultures and trilingual language skills, helps me to understand diverse points of view and concerns to gain credibility and build consensus with senior clients, expand my business vision, foresee risks and opportunities, and achieve goals through guidance and empowerment of highly qualified team members in order to surpass client’s expectations.

My solid academic qualifications (MBA, EMBA, MSCS, BSCE) and hands-on expertise in many areas allowed me to refine and expand my professional skills to encompass all key aspects of corporate strategic planning, project management, project controls, risk management, cost management, and change management leaderships. Thus I can control and optimize project scheduled activities, costs and risks, in order to analyze performances and harness team strengths to maximize revenues and allow expert management.  Please consider these highlights:
 • Provided expertise to projects, supported top management in building very large (over $1 Bi+) long-term (20-10 yr.) program plans, overall analyses and forecasts for cost and schedule. Directed, trained and mentored less experienced group members.
 • Built complex fully loaded Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) for large capital projects ($360+MM), analyzed and optimized for resource utilization, cost minimization, and risk mitigation.
 • Led Project Controls Management for large national and international programs and projects.
 • Oversaw Estimating and Cost Management activities for a $100MM TAR project with multiple projects, and led program and project controls management for national and international programs.
 • Evaluated progress (EVM / EWM) and forecasted large project performance, allowing the detection and resolution of problems, and project completion at a lower cost and ahead of time.
 • Analyzed and managed Project Risks, led team risk assessment and mitigation sessions, in order to build Risk Optimization Strategies that lowered overall Risk Exposure of large projects ($385+ MM).
 • Created a strong track record of designing, developing, and applying new efficient and reliable methods of Project Controls that fostered automated solutions.

I live near Houston, and am looking forward meeting you and learning more about your goals for this position. Until then, thank you for your kind consideration.

Sincerely yours,

Luiz Claudio V. Cruz