SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by Confidential, Computer Science combined with over 25 years diversified experience managing projects in high technology intensive industries.
• Demonstrated abilities to improve bottom line profits by focusing others' energies toward positive solutions to complex problems utilizing Industry Best Practices consistent with Confidential development contracts and with the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
• An intuitive decision - maker capable of cutting through bureaucratic non-essentials to the heart of a problem.
• Experience with Integrated Program Management Report

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

• Customer Interface /Satisfaction
• Negotiations
• Supervision (Staff of 28)
• Subcontractor Performance Management
• Integration
• Requirements Definition
• Status Reporting
• Office Development (Software)
• Program Team Leadership
• Presentation Skills
• Planning & Scheduling
• Planning (Waterfall, Agile)
• Program Process DefinitionBudget, Cost/Schedule Control

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Computer literacy: Microsoft Office Professional (spreadsheets, word processing, database, presentation graphics), Microsoft Project 206, 2013, 2010, 2007 2003, Project Server 2010, 2013 2016, O365, Visual Studio.NET, Expressions, SAP, Open Plan Professional, Adobe Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Barbecana Full Monty, Steel Ray Schedule Analysis, @Risk, Risk+, Camtasia Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall project plan, schedules and forecast, while assisting in resolving and managing key risks, actions, issues and decisions
• Establish, approve, manage execution, measure, evaluate, and report progress against the Project Plan.
• Create processes for Risk Management, Change Control, Issue Management
• Establish project management documentation and procedural standards Work to address and resolve deviations from the Project Plan. Review project tasks, schedules, and resources and make or recommend changes and/or additions, as appropriate. Evaluate progress against the Project Plan. Conduct and manage the regularly scheduled project status meetings, on site when necessary.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide reports based on iRIS® Systems Engineering and Integrated Test database platform using Microsoft PowerBI, PowerApps and my knowledge of database reporting (SQL Server)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing consulting services related to cost/schedule reporting, variance root cause analysis and business reporting.
• This is a Project Server 2016 environment.
• Although a commercial program, they generally follow Confidential -81861 and Confidential Earned Value.

Confidential

Program Management consultant

Responsibilities:

• Integration of cost/schedule and performance data to various Management Information Systems.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Establish Project Baseline on International Business Satellite programs in support of Initial Baseline Review, Earned Value Cost/Schedule Integration with MS Project & MPM and cost accounting systems.
• Author and implement EVMS System Description Document, policies and desktop instructions for schedulers and cost control personnel.
• Provide services in support of IBR (Initial Baseline Review)
• Create, author, train other senior schedulers on weekly cadence routines using MS Project and Excel emphasizing Integrated Master Plan (IMP) related project flow over the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) method.
• Create reports rolling up to both methods.

Confidential, Boston

Responsibilities:

• Project Server for Office 365 implementation for a regional bank involving user management, security permissions, enterprise custom field management, creating views, reports, SharePoint dashboards, Business Intelligence Dashboards integrating with various corporate systems.
• Challenge and implement basic tenants of Project Scheduling and Portfolio Management

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Combination of Operational and Financial Confidential Expenditures projects with annual Confidential portfolio approximately $100MM.
• Project Charter Creation, Program Execution Plan creation, establishing baselines
• Prepare reports for Cost/Schedule/Scope performance. Coordinate Variance Analysis Reporting to management.
• Monitor Risk Register and coordinate mitigation plans and steps with Project Managers
• Using Variances (Cost/Schedule) as a basis, determine and coordinate corrective actions necessary to bring projects back toward baseline parameters given actual performance and realized risks.
• Forecasting and analysis of actuals vs plan vs baseline.
• Modify and implement Gate Review Process for Confidential projects.
• Develop and implement Schedule Template for use on Confidential Projects.
• Process development for departmental procedures.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consulting services in Project Management, Integrated Baseline Review (IBR), Integrated Master Plan/Schedule (IMP/IMS) preparation and execution, Over Target Baseline and Over Target Schedule in support of Missile Confidential .
• Assist client in coordination with Program Management, Scheduler, and Finance. Perform Schedule Risk Assessments.
• Resource loaded IMS/IMP preparation and submittal in accordance with Confidential -81861, Format 6. Create electronic Control Account Manager Notebooks in support of IBR.
• Author policies, procedures and process improvements for cost avoidance while reducing workload in Finance and Planning.
• Write software macros for use in Microsoft Project and Excel to assure data consistency and accuracy.
• Prepare IMS for integration with financial tools (Deltek MPM and COBRA) through use of export mapping, and macros to assure proper Resource custom field export.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consulting services in Program Management/Planning (IMP/IMS) for Over Target Baseline and Over Target Schedule.
• Perform Schedule Risk Assessments on Confidential missile program.
• Create resource loaded Master/Subproject Schedule, IMP, and prepare formal documentation per Confidential -81861, Format 6.
• Prepare IMS for proper integration with financial reporting tools (
• Implementation of Microsoft Project Server 2013 as part of Office 365 for a large Land Development Company.
• Create Master/Subproject accessed online complete with deliverables and dependencies across multiple files.
• Educate the client on scheduling best practices per Project Confidential Practice Standard for Scheduling.
• Acted as team leader with my own employees and one development subcontractor.
• Implementation of Project Server 2010 using external service provider to a national telephone company in the West Indies (International Client).
• Serve as Project Scheduler and System Administrator for over 200 users.
• Configure and manage Project Server 2010 for internal Information Technology Projects
• Internal Project Server 2010 implementation for a Fortune 500 Confidential Prime Contractor with contract value exceeding $125 Million.
• On preemies application with ability for subcontractors to submit schedule data for approval by in-house project managers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create client/server based solutions using Microsoft SharePoint, Project Server, Office to collect, review, approve, report, and control complex Integrated Master/subproject Schedules and Cost Data (Earned Value Management) for a large Confidential program to include multiple subcontractors
• Integrated Baseline Reviews
• EVM Compliance/Certification and Joint Surveillance Reviews
• GASP Generally Accepted Scheduling Principles
• IMS/IMP Assessment, Schedule Risk Assessments
• Develop tools (VBA and .NET) in support of consulting assignments to include add-ins for Excel, Project, Project Server-SharePoint to assist in Cost/Schedule integration and analysis.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assist in closing over 60 actions items related to Earned Value Management System certification in accordance with Confidential guidelines.
• Recommendations for changes to EVMS System Description Document
• Resolve process issues for Cost/Schedule integration
• Integrated Master Plan (IMP) Development
• Integrated Master Schedule oversight

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Master Plan (IMP) Development
• Integrated Master Schedule Development (Client/Server based) with 8 subprojects
• Cost/Schedule Integration with Master Resource Pool
• Peer/Gate reviews for proposal development costs