SUMMARY:

Highly self - motivated and passionate value-driven business professional with mixture of extensive business, project management, engineering, and product development knowledge. Requires little oversight to accomplish customers’ deliverables and objectives. Broad-spectrum of experience in project / portfolio management, quality system development / implementation, scheduling, contract administration, budget / forecasting, and project planning.

CORE COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

• Project Management
• Process Improvement
• Budget Planning
• Forecasting & Cost Control
• Proposal Development
• Quality Assurance
• Resource Management
• Change Management
• Customer Collaboration
• Team Training & Leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Etna, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects from initiation, planning, quality management, scope validation, execution and closing.
• Coordinated sample requests, drawing reviews, performance specifications, costing, sales orders and deposit invoicing.
• Communicated performance reporting utilizing project Gantt charts, excel, word, email, skype and go-to-meeting.
• Chaired project kick-off meeting between Vice-President of Sales, Regional Sales Managers, Territorial Sales Managers, Customers and General Contractor.
• Clarified Confidential design expectation between engineering, manufacturing and the sales organization.
• Reviewed and approved manufacturing flow path for production release.
• Executed change management processes capturing revision-control documentation.
• Utilized the MRP system for monitoring manufacturing update, production tracking and shipping dates.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with technical and business development specialist, individually and in teams, facilitating collaboration between Confidential technology and its markets, products, and production processes.
• Defined project deliverable baseline work breakdown structure (WBS) templates, improving deliverable performance from 72% to 96% one-time and on-target to the customers on average of 220 yearly projects.
• Implemented tracking and reporting improvements to project life-cycle methodologies, delivering increase of on-budget performance from 69% to 85%.
• Captured, tracked, and reported metrics and perform analysis, increasing project deliverables development from 195 to 460.
• Drove optimal resource and tool use in support of organizational data-driven decision making as key point of contact for project managers.
• Developed procedures and flow diagrams (Visio), standardizing business case development, project and program proposals, change management, Confidential diagram, scope document, kick-off meeting, planning, executing, controlling, and monitoring.
• Managed, utilizing SharePoint, operational readiness commercialization framework procedural documentations and Confidential for projects, from proposal through closure; framework used by 100+ project manager and 330+ team members.
• Instructed diverse group of 400+ project managers and team members in Confidential ’s PMO mandated procedures.
• Documented and archived projects findings for future projects, controlling archived project process to drive project closure and eliminate from being included in automated reports as active project.
• Served as safety lead team member, team member on deployment of Confidential ’s corporate inclusion initiative, founding member of Confidential ’s Confidential Hispanic Network employee resource group that supported Confidential ’s diversity initiative, and certified Human Performance Instructor/Trainer.

Project Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leveraged extensive project management background to develop Confidential commercialization framework’s project management processes across Confidential .
• Mentored and coached R&D project teams to integrate project management methods and tools into project planning and execution processes to accelerate value delivery throughout markets.
• Led development team for Voice of the Customer ( Confidential ) methodology and in-depth process, providing customers with best-in-class service/product quality by capturing customer's expectations, preferences, and aversions (internal or external).
• Administered, configured and formulized user accounts/access privileges for global project management tool, cloud-based Daptiv PPM by Changepoint.
• Standardized enterprise architecture project and portfolio management with automation linking strategy and execution, driving transformation by developing and deploying global anytime, anywhere, from any device project management software package.
• Formulated streamlined portfolio reporting and monitoring from top-down perspective, ensuring investment in right project with real-time view to respond to changes and confirm project objectives and trajectories aligned with overarching business goals.
• Transformed resource planning with integrated top-down, bottom-up resource planning, delivering full visibility into all resource types for quick discrepancy reconciliation between scheduled work hours and allocation needs.
• Expedited portfolio decision making and increased delivery time from 63% to 72% within first year of implementation by influencing organizational leaders to integrate standard project management system.
• Transitioned 200+ independent projects into new PPM system 30 days ahead of 6-month deadline by utilizing developed standardized work breakdown structure (WBS) templates.
• Increased user acceptance of Project Management Office (PMO) changes through defined and controlled lunch and learns, training modules, manuals, Confidential, and procedural flow diagrams within a streamlined Microsoft SharePoint interface.
• Coached project management staff and department leaders within processes/procedures defined by PMO, improving knowledge of modern centralized project management execution and reporting abilities.
• Partnered with corporate Information Technology (IT) department on implementation/advancement of project data mapping from multiple sources with Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) and desktop Power BI tools, increasing project performance reporting from days and weeks to data retrieval within minutes.

New Product / R&D Mechanical Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed within product development program’s growth projects in defense, automotive, oil and gas, and renewable energy markets.
• Lead designer on Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) assembly development that delivered full-scale prototype for customer testing.
• Secured internal / external supplier shop and purchase orders.
• Guided project design review meetings on part designs, assembly layouts, detail drawings, and customer presentation.
• Engineered and designed military air/ground vehicles, renewable energy, oil/gas components, and consumer electronics.
• Consolidated Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance (GD&T) within production drawings, eliminating separate controlled document and reducing missed documentation while decreasing design package size.
• Eliminated part number redundancy errors by replacing manual part number system with automated system.
• Engineered patented 45mm compression friction stir weld tooling and family of friction stir welding components.
• Specialized in lightweight structures and components, applying extrusion, castings, plate, sheet, and forging design methods.
• Served as Division Safety Coordinator and supported onboarding of entry-level engineers in Alcoa’s design practices and standards.

Confidential, Export, PA

Manufacturing and Product Mechanical Designer

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced with equipment design houses, optimizing incoming equipment for manufacturing cost savings.
• Executed internal designs of automated product and assembly quality testing equipment, advancing execution of incoming product testing 50% more than manual process.
• Introduced advanced 3D CAD design system, Solidworks, accelerating part, assembly, and equipment model generation 35% with product design and engineering departments.
• Spearheaded industrial design of lean manufacturing system using work flow within current plant envelope, reducing product line changeover downtime 25%.
• Established competencies in visions systems, bar-coding, servo motors, and data acquisition for deducing manufacturing equipment development and design time.