Mehmet Gokhan Celik

Project Controls Leader — Cost Management · Planning · Delivery Systems

📞 +90 530 660 3885 ✉️ mgcelik@gmail.com 🌐 buldun.app/dev — software & AI portfolio LinkedIn Profile 📍 Romania · open to international relocation

Professional Summary

Civil engineer and project controls leader with 18+ years of international experience on major motorway, tunnel, railway, hydropower, and irrigation projects across Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and South Asia. Takes end-to-end ownership of difficult assignments: establishes a realistic plan, exposes risks early, reports performance without distortion, and follows issues through to verified closure. Combines rigorous cost, schedule, contract, and delay-analysis expertise with hands-on software development to create controls that remain useful beyond a single reporting cycle. This approach has cut reporting time by 80%, strengthened early risk visibility, and delivered measurable cost savings. Currently heads cost control on the €1.2bn Meseș Tunnel & Highway project in Romania and is the creator of SiteCortex, the project’s live integrated cost and schedule management platform.

Leadership & Working Principles

Ownership to Completion

Takes responsibility from first warning to final resolution; does not pass unresolved risk downstream or accept incomplete handovers.

Discipline & Integrity

Works to a plan, protects productive time, and gives management a clear, fact-based view of cost, schedule, and risk.

Systems That Last

Turns one-off solutions into repeatable workflows, controls, and tools with defined ownership and continuity.

Core Competencies

Cost Control & Budgeting

Budget Management · Cost Forecasting · Cash Flow · Earned Value Management (EVM) · Variance Analysis

Planning & Scheduling

Primavera P6 · Tilos (Time–Distance) · Asta Powerproject · MS Project · CPM · WBS / CBS

Delay Analysis & Contracts

EOT Claims · Time Impact Analysis · Window Analysis · FIDIC Contracts · Contract Management

Leadership & Delivery Governance

Risk Ownership · Cross-Functional Coordination · Decision Support · Management Reporting · Continuous Improvement

Digital Delivery Systems

C# / .NET · T-SQL / SQL Server · Power BI & DAX · ERP Development · Workflow Automation · Data Governance

Professional Experience

Cost Control System Head Jan 2026 – Present

Makyol – Özaltın Joint Venture · Romania

Transylvania Motorway (A3), Meseș Tunnel & Highway Section — 41 km motorway incl. 2.89 km twin-tube tunnel (Romania’s longest highway tunnel) · contract value ≈ €1.2 billion

  • Head the cost control function on a €1.2bn EU-region motorway megaproject, giving JV management a transparent view of cost exposure, forecast, and corrective actions.
  • Designed and deployed SiteCortex — a self-developed integrated cost control platform — linking site quantity tracking, procurement, warehouse, and subcontractor data with budget baselines in a single real-time reporting system.
  • Established repeatable CBS/WBS, monthly forecasting, cash-flow, and action-tracking routines across JV departments, with clear ownership from risk identification to closure.
  • Built automated cost performance dashboards (SQL + Power BI) giving management live budget-vs-actual visibility.
Head of Project Controls Oct 2021 – Oct 2025

Sine Midas Stroy LLP (Head Office) · Astana, Kazakhstan

Company-wide portfolio of multi-phase infrastructure projects

  • Owned planning, scheduling, budgeting, and management reporting for the company’s entire project portfolio from head office.
  • Developed a custom ERP system with automated Power BI reporting, adopted company-wide.
  • Built a C# integration layer between Primavera P6, SQL Server, and Power BI, enabling real-time project analytics.
  • Designed SQL data pipelines synchronizing field-collected data with head office in real time.
  • Cut budget reporting time by 80% by replacing one-off manual reporting with a sustainable, end-to-end process for data collection, costing, validation, and reporting.
  • Performed delay analysis and time impact analysis in Primavera P6, supporting EOT claims and risk mitigation strategies.
Chief Consultant — The Engineer Jul 2020 – Sep 2021

Su-Yapı Engineering & Consulting Inc. · Uzbekistan

Khazarbag–Akkapchigay Canal System — 300 km · Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) funded · US$89.55 million

  • Represented The Engineer’s team in protecting time, cost, and contract requirements on an IsDB-funded irrigation scheme serving 103,000+ hectares.
  • Reported delay and cost exposure objectively, then followed corrective measures through implementation rather than stopping at analysis.
Planning & Reporting Department Chief Aug 2015 – Jul 2020

Yapı Merkezi Construction & Industry Inc. · Kombolcha, Ethiopia

Awash – Kombolcha – Hara Gebeya Railway — 392 km electrified railway · US$1.7 billion turnkey contract

  • Led planning and reporting on a US$1.7bn, 392 km railway megaproject: Primavera P6 schedules, resource plans, and Tilos time–distance programmes.
  • Ran disciplined daily earned value analysis across all fronts, exposing productivity losses early and enabling timely corrective action.
  • Developed in-house .NET reporting software, cutting reporting time by 80%.
  • Integrated advanced scheduling tools into planning processes, raising schedule reliability and forecast accuracy.
Planning Department Chief Dec 2014 – Aug 2015

Salini Impregilo S.p.A. (now Webuild) · Siirt, Türkiye

Çetin Hydroelectric Power Plant — 145 m rock-fill dam, 517 MW scheme · €260 million civil works contract

  • Prepared project schedules and resource plans in Primavera P6, including hydro-mechanical works packages.
  • Managed resource planning to keep critical works on programme; produced daily, weekly, and monthly progress reports.
Highway Engineering Consultant Sep 2012 – Oct 2014

Temelsu International Engineering Services Inc. · Termez, Uzbekistan

Tashkent – Termez M39 Road — World Bank funded

  • Advised the client on time and budget performance of a World Bank-funded road reconstruction project.
  • Performed delay analysis to protect the completion date; implemented cost-saving measures reducing project expenses.
Project Controls Consultant Sep 2011 – Sep 2012

IPMS — International Project Management Services · Uttar Pradesh, India

Varanasi – Aurangabad Six-Lane Highway (NH-2) — 192 km six-laning, DBFOT · ≈ US$0.7 billion

  • Delivered project controls consultancy — planning, progress measurement, and reporting — on a six-lane national highway project.
PMO Manager May 2009 – Aug 2011

Özdemir Construction Inc. · Sakarya, Türkiye

Adapazarı – Mekece Dual Carriageway Road

  • Managed the project management office: planning, progress control, and management reporting.
Site Engineer Sep 2007 – Nov 2008

Enez Construction Trade Co. Inc. · Atyrau, Kazakhstan

Road construction project

Selected Systems & Innovation

SiteCortex — Construction Cost & Schedule Management Platform Creator & Developer

buldun.app/dev/sitecortex/sitecortex.html

  • End-to-end platform that turns daily site data into live cost and schedule decisions: quantity tracking, procurement, warehouse, subcontractor management, planning with live Gantt, and AI-assisted reporting.
  • Deployed in production on the €1.2bn Meseș Tunnel & Highway project (Makyol–Özaltın JV, Romania).
SiteCortex AI — Construction Planning & Risk Models Creator · Ongoing

Sinan 35B · Mizan 34B · buldun.app/dev

  • Developing domain-specific models that turn specifications and quantities into WBS, activity logic, resource plans, and probabilistic duration estimates for better planning decisions.
  • Built a traceable local data pipeline from 40,000+ multilingual sources, with source, hash, and confidence controls designed for repeatable use and data sovereignty.

Education

B.Sc. Civil Engineering

Eskişehir Osmangazi University · Türkiye

2001 – 2006

Certifications & Training

Primavera P6 — Akım Mühendislik, Türkiye

Tilos Time–Distance Planning — FND, Poland

Asta Powerproject — FND, Poland

Contract Management — ICM Mühendislik

C# Programming — BTK Akademi, Türkiye

Languages

Turkish — Native

English — Proficient

Russian — Intermediate

Uzbek — Proficient

Kazakh — Proficient

Selected Professional References

Hakan Acunsal

Deputy General Manager · Özaltın Construction

+90 533 956 8677

Prof. Dr. Eşref Ünlüoğlu

Former Head of Civil Engineering Department · Eskişehir Osmangazi University

+90 530 328 8800