Project Controls & Business Intelligence Professional · Auckland, New Zealand
Dr. Hassan Eliwa is a project controls and business intelligence professional with more than two decades of experience across heavy civil construction, commercial buildings, infrastructure, energy and government capital programmes. He is the founder of PMMilestone.org, the editor of PMMilestone3.com, and the architect of the Elite Project Controls System.
His professional practice sits at the intersection of three disciplines that rarely meet in the same résumé: classical project controls (planning, scheduling, earned value, cost engineering and forensic delay analysis), modern business intelligence (data modelling, KPI design, executive dashboards and forecasting analytics), and emerging artificial intelligence applied to project management. The combination is what makes the PMMilestone ecosystem distinctive — every calculator, article and framework on the Platform comes from real practitioner experience, not generic AI summarisation.
Academic background
PhD researcher in project intelligence
Hassan holds a doctoral degree (PhD) with a research focus on project intelligence, earned value forecasting and the practical integration of business intelligence systems into capital-project delivery. His earlier qualifications cover civil engineering and project management, and he maintains active engagement with academic literature on EVM, schedule risk analysis and AI in construction.
Academic rigour is reflected throughout PMMilestone.org: every calculator is documented with its formula, every metric is paired with interpretation guidance, and every educational article is structured for clarity rather than search-engine optimisation alone.
Professional expertise
From the site to the boardroom
Hassan's professional expertise spans the full project controls value chain — baseline planning and Primavera P6 scheduling, earned value management implementation, cost engineering and contingency modelling, forensic delay analysis and claims support, PMO design, executive reporting, portfolio-level KPI frameworks, risk and opportunity management, and the build-out of integrated cost-and-schedule reporting environments.
He has worked directly with owners, EPC contractors, sub-contractors, programme management consultancies and government clients, which gives the PMMilestone Academy an unusually balanced perspective: the Platform speaks the language of the planner, the cost controller, the PMO manager and the executive sponsor.
Career timeline
Two decades of project controls practice
2003 – 2008
Civil & Construction Engineering Foundations
Early career on heavy civil and building projects, working across planning, cost control, contracts administration and on-site coordination across the Middle East and North Africa.
2008 – 2014
Senior Planner & Project Controls Lead
Led planning, scheduling and earned value management on multi-disciplinary infrastructure, energy and commercial construction programmes — including Primavera P6 baselines, recovery schedules, claims and forensic delay analysis.
2014 – 2019
PMO & Performance Management
Built PMO reporting systems, executive dashboards and portfolio-level KPI frameworks for enterprise clients. Standardised cost and schedule integration across capital programmes.
2019 – 2022
PhD Research in Project Intelligence
Completed doctoral research focused on integrating advanced analytics and business intelligence into project controls workflows, with emphasis on early-warning indicators and forecasting accuracy.
2022 – 2024
Founder, PMMilestone Ecosystem
Launched PMMilestone3.com (insights), PMMilestone.org (free tools and academy) and the Elite Project Controls System (premium framework) to democratise serious project controls knowledge.
2024 – Present
AI-Driven Project Controls
Focused on practical applications of artificial intelligence in project management — automated reporting, predictive EAC models and decision-support tooling for PMOs, EPC contractors and government programmes.
Selected achievements
What two decades of project controls looks like in practice
Delivered project controls leadership on programmes with combined capex exceeding USD 5 billion across infrastructure, buildings, energy and industrial sectors.
Designed PMO reporting frameworks adopted as enterprise standards by multiple government and private-sector clients.
Founded the PMMilestone ecosystem (.org, 3.com and the Elite Project Controls System) used by thousands of project professionals worldwide.
Doctoral research contributions on project intelligence, EVM forecasting and decision-support analytics.
Active mentor for early-career planners, schedulers and project controls engineers across Auckland, the Middle East and online communities.
Publications & platforms
Writing, research and frameworks
Author & framework architect
The Elite Project Controls System
A premium playbook covering forecasting, executive reporting, risk intelligence and AI workflows for serious project teams.
Editor-in-chief
PMMilestone3.com — Project Intelligence Insights
Weekly articles on EVM, planning, PMO, AI in project management and construction controls.
Founder & lead author
PMMilestone.org — Free Project Controls Academy
Free calculators, guides and reference material covering the full spectrum of project controls disciplines.
Doctoral researcher
PhD research — Project Intelligence & Forecasting
Applied research on integrating BI, statistical forecasting and early-warning analytics into project controls.
Vision: serious project controls for everyone
The reason PMMilestone.org exists is simple. Project controls knowledge — proper earned value, defensible forecasting, disciplined risk management, integrated cost and schedule — has historically been locked inside expensive consulting practices, certification bodies and proprietary software. Most project professionals do not have access to it, and the consequences show up every day in budget overruns, claims, programme failures and burned-out teams.
The Platform is the answer: a free, ad-supported, professionally written body of work that teaches the core of project controls and gives away the tools required to practise it. The premium Elite Project Controls System sits alongside for teams that want a turnkey enterprise framework. The goal is not traffic — it is a measurable lift in the standard of project delivery, one PMO at a time.
Discover the Elite Project Controls System — a professional intelligence framework for modern project controls, forecasting, executive reporting, AI PM workflows and risk management.
