Lyazzat Zholimova
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Lyazzat Zholimova, EVP, is a Project Controls Manager with 18 years of experience delivering international infrastructure, energy, and public safety projects. Her experience includes leading cost and schedule management for Rosatom’s international EPC contracts and currently overseeing project controls for the $1.9B Airfield & Terminal Modernization Program (ATMP) at Los Angeles World Airports. Her experience spans all project phases - from estimating and planning to execution and cost control - on projects utilizing Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build and CMAR delivery methods. Highly skilled in developing and overseeing detailed cost reports, conducting cost-to-complete analyses, and ensuring rigorous budget allocation across large-scale, complex WBS structures.
Proficient in reading design prints and building schedules from scratch to optimize project timelines and resource allocation for ensuring alignment with project objectives and client requirements. Lyazzat has supported price negotiations and bidding, developing estimates for 30/60/90% project reviews, cost reconciliation through value engineering and constructability review, estimating and developing scope of work for change orders, and Independent Cost Estimates (ICE) to contractor bids. She holds the Earned Value Professional (EVP) credential and serves on the AACE International Education Board.
Lyazzat can be contacted at l.zholimova@hotmail.com
Profile created 7 August 2025