SUMMARY:

• Seeking position with a world class company to provide 31 years of Project Controls and/IT successful experience managing projects, providing corporate project support for Engineering and Construction, and developing software to fit the needs for my current employer to become a company with integrated software.
• My experience begins as a Project Controls Cost Specialist working Construction assignments.
• After working numerous projects, Corporate Management recognized my strengths as someone that has a strong passion for this discipline.
• From that time, I was involved as a member of the Construction Start - up Team and providing OJT to new Project Controls Managers.
• The project controls tools we developed provided metrics aiding project personnel to perform project cost analysis, progress measurement, and cost planning.
• Forecasting Project Cost and providing Client excellence in our field has been my focus for most of my career.
• However, within the last 20 years I have gained experience with the design, development and implementation of SAP and Oracle software projects for the future of Confidential .
• With that in mind, I am proficient in both SAP, Oracle, and providing support to Project Controls legacy systems to make the transition work for future project integration.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Cost Specialist, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in project close out. Client request all purchase orders closed and ensure billing status, which required all Agreements and PO’ Confidential to be researched and verified.

Confidential

Lead Cost Specialist, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Conversion of Confidential projects within SAP and Oracle (EBS) to a joint venture company.

Confidential

Lead Cost Specialist, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in project set up and balancing project controls systems based on the estimate.

Confidential

Technical: Sr. IT Manager, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Design and developed an understanding of Oracle EBS in order to convert Confidential business units from SAP all to EBS for US and international projects.
• Coordinate with functional teams and business owners on business requirements and functional specifications in order to build and design new project task structures.
• Coordinate with business process owners and other impacted stakeholders on new or revised functionality requests to understand the business purpose of such requests and proposes solutions within the application area with a focus on minimizing system customizations.
• Monitor the development, testing, and production environments. Informs management if action is necessary to ensure maximum availability.

Confidential

Lead Cost Specialist, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Provide weekly and monthly labor performance reports, weekly cost, and labor project by task, project status by discipline, project revenue and expenses, project cost summaries by discipline, equipment and materials expenditure summary by task.
• Assists Engineers in forecasting for the project expected costs for monthly accrual purposes.
• Input project budgets and cost estimates for forecasting purposes.
• Proactively communicate project change management.
• Coordinated and worked closely with functional teams and business owners on business requirements and functional specifications.

Confidential

Lead Cost Specialist, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for accuracy & timely delivery of all project & management estimates, reports & forecasts for costs & schedules on allocated projects including quarterly exception report.
• Ensures the accuracy of earned value data on projects
• Prepares project cost/schedule reports.
• Performs project cost risk analysis for developing project contingency budgets and maintains run down curves for continued project cost risk assessment.

Confidential

Lead Cost Specialist, Baton Rouge, LA

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership in the monitoring and reviewing of project cost reports to ensure overall conformance to Project Control procedures for Natural Gas pipeline projects.
• Coordinates activities with other related organizations (e.g. accounting, purchasing, operations, etc).
• Input project budgets and cost estimates for forecasting purposes.

Confidential

Lead Cost Specialist, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Engineering contract for Confidential Project.
• Assists Engineers in forecasting for the project expected costs for monthly accrual purposes.
• Input project budgets and cost estimates for forecasting purposes
• Planning and scheduling, cost control, estimating, and management of change.
• Prepares project cost/schedule reports.

Confidential

Applications Analyst, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Deliver specific implementation/support expertise requirements for task structures
• Responsible for process, data analysis, data clean-up, conversion and validation
• Develop and perform detailed unit and integration testing, cut-over planning, and execution
• Ensure alignment with the PMO to follow common processes, methodology and framework for implementation.
• Worked closely with programmers to design interfaces to legacy systems from bids and proposals, time and labor, procurement, project controls and billing.
• Developed and facilitated training for Project System and was the primary supporter for end users.

Confidential

Applications Analyst, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Joined the with Confidential team to design and configure SAP for the process team ensuring that SAP would successfully fit the processes of Confidential and Confidential .
• Worked closely with a PS Platinum consultant in learning and implementing PS configuration for approximately 2 years.
• Worked with programmers to design programs where functionality was not designed in SAP, such as Change Control and labor reallocations.
• Transferred to the configuration team for Project System and Asset Accounting.
• Performed training for Project System and was the primary supporter for end users for both PS and Asset Accounting.
• Support Capital Investment projects with Investment Management and Availability control.
• Performed a mini benefits delivery for the Baytown Exxon project, supporting end users in Material Management, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Project Systems and Billing.

Confidential

Services Project Support, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Project support for bids and set up of new project set up.
• Supported p roject controls personnel with set up and forecasting of project cost and revenue, processes and systems, such as Confidential and PC BRICS.
• Assisted with placement of controls personnel and reviews.