Shubham Chowkse
Oslo Available
§ 02 Experience 2012 — Present
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A decade
of delivery.

From tendering desks in India to project controls in Oslo — building, running, and handing off operational systems for the people who actually need to use them.

2026 → Present · 1yr contract

Project Controls Specialist & Digital Systems Coordinator

Antec Biogas AS · Oslo
Biogas · Build, Operate & Maintain · Brownfield & Greenfield
  • Managing full project lifecycle across 2 flagship biogas assets — engineering, construction, production ramp-up, across Brownfield and Greenfield
  • Introducing Critical Path Analysis and scenario modelling to keep multidisciplinary teams and international suppliers aligned under tight procurement conditions
  • Coordinating systems integration across OT⁄IT — connecting ERP, EAM and CRM with real-time plant data for plant & executive decisions
  • Auditing and consolidating enterprise tooling across Finance, Logistics and Maintenance — eliminating redundancy, building single source of truth
MS ProjectAsanaMiroERP⁄EAM⁄CRMOT⁄IT integrationEnterprise audit
2024 — 26 1 yr 9 mo · Permanent

Project Planner · Interim Project Controls Manager

Quantafuel AS · Oslo
Circular economy · Chemical recycling · Brownfield & Greenfield
  • Designed lifecycle-wide Project Execution Models (Idea → Commissioning) across 12+ concurrent engineering and R&D projects with 30+ active schedules — +50% resource utilisation
  • Owned strategic adoption of Meisterplan, Float, Anaplan — delivering scenario modelling and portfolio investment analysis for leadership decisions · +30% forecasting accuracy
  • Streamlined reporting cycles by 20% via monitoring automation; delivered weekly/bi-weekly/monthly progress reports to PMO, Exec Management, Dept Leads
  • System owner for Omega365, MS Project/Planner, ClickUp, Meisterplan, Primavera, Power Apps, Power BI, Float — standardising controls processes
  • Championed AI-enhanced project management — Power BI Copilot, AI-augmented workflows for predictive analytics and real-time decision-making
  • Scrum Master for internal improvement; implemented CPM⁄Agile⁄Scrum⁄Kanban tailored to project profiles; primary bridge between teams, management, external stakeholders
Omega365PrimaveraMeisterplanAnaplanFloatPower BIClickUpPower Apps
2016 — 22 6 years · Founder

Founder · PMO & Business Operations Lead

Rationale Energy · India
Thermal · Hydro · Solar · Wind · Infrastructure EPC
  • Founded the company; delivered 20+ EPC projects across thermal, solar, wind & infrastructure — up to 40% faster delivery on small-to-medium projects, up to 20% cost reduction on large-scale ones
  • Grew annual revenue 128% YoY average for three years running, managing 50+ concurrent projects on government contracts
  • Directed end-to-end planning, scheduling, resource management, document control, cost control — significant cost reductions and zero major timeline failures
  • Risk assessments and mitigation strategies — 30% reduction in project-related risk exposure, improved client confidence and renewal rates
  • Streamlined procurement & logistics — 25% lower lead times, 20% higher efficiency, consistent on-time delivery across multi-vendor supply chains
  • Owned full P&L, HR, regulatory compliance, stakeholder management at government & enterprise level · operations handed to family on relocation to Norway
ERP⁄CRMMS ProjectCPM⁄AgileP&L OwnershipProcurementCompliance
2012 — 16 4 years · Permanent

Tendering Specialist & Technical Project Coordinator

Power Electronics Corporation · India
Bid management · Project delivery · Concurrent with studies
  • Bid-to-delivery ownership — technical and commercial tenders for power infrastructure and industrial projects, then execution post-award
  • Produced compliant, competitive proposals within tight deadlines — BoQ breakdowns, pricing, risk allowances, aligned engineering, procurement, legal, finance into single coherent submissions
  • Evaluated tender risks and commercial terms, flagging exposure and recommending mitigation language to senior management
  • Post-award: managed scope, scheduling, material tracking, vendor relationships, cross-team comms between design, procurement and site execution
  • Produced full technical documentation packages — method statements, ITPs, QA records, handover docs · supervised site installation & commissioning
Tender managementCost estimationQA frameworksDocument controlCommissioning

Concurrent roles.

Part-time engagements while completing the BI Digital Business degree — keeping the practical work going alongside full-time study.

2023 — 24 Part-time

Research Assistant · Digital Business Lab

Handelshøyskolen BI · Oslo
Academic research & digital innovation
  • Collaborated directly with the Associate Dean to establish Norway's first Digital Business Lab — defining scope, infrastructure, scope of services
  • Developed training materials integrating Microsoft Power Platform into academic courses
  • Organisational interviews & research informed Lab design · +30% student satisfaction
2023 Part-time

Assistant to COO

Evyon · Oslo
EV battery lifecycle · Clean technology
  • Operational management support during critical early-growth phase
  • Structured workflows and internal reporting mechanisms
  • Exposure to clean-tech operations in a scaling Norwegian startup
2023 Part-time

Digital Business Analyst

Vulkaza · Oslo
Digital business operations
  • Digital business analysis for process improvement and tool evaluation
  • Applied BI Digital Business coursework in live commercial context
  • Translated business requirements into digital solutions
2022 — 23 Part-time

Student Employee · BI Startup Hub

Handelshøyskolen BI · Oslo
Student entrepreneurship · Digital tooling
  • Built & managed enterprise resource bank — Amazon AWS, Notion, HubSpot, Microsoft, JetBrains — negotiated for student startups
  • Implemented Notion-based collaborative PM system for Hub operations
  • Advised early-stage startups on digital tool selection & workflow design

Education & certifications.

Two engineering lineages — mechanical systems and digital business — meeting in the middle where most of the interesting work lives.

Education

Bachelor’s in Digital Business

Handelshøyskolen BI · Oslo
Aug 2022 — Apr 2025 · Full-time

The intersection of business and technology — how digitalisation and AI reshape organisations, and how to turn that into practical solutions and strategic decisions. Digital innovation (AI, automation, cloud platforms, enterprise systems, low-code), digital transformation leadership, cross-functional collaboration, economics, accounting, marketing, organisational behaviour, strategic & sustainable business strategy.

Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering

U.P. Technical University · Lucknow
Jul 2012 — Jun 2016 · Full-time

Core curriculum across thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, mechanics, applied mathematics. Manufacturing depth across conventional (casting, machining, welding) and unconventional (EDM, ECM, laser). Power plant engineering covering Rankine, Brayton, hydro and nuclear. Renewables: solar PV, wind, biomass, grid integration. Machine design, industrial automation, CAD⁄CAM.

Certifications

  • MS Power BI Data AnalystActive
  • Google Project Management CertificateActive
  • Asana Ambassador & AdminActive
  • Notion Ambassador & AdminActive
  • ClickUp Expert & AdminActive
  • Jira Fundamentals BadgeActive
  • Excel EssentialsActive