SUMMARY

A versatile professional wif cross - industry experience delivering project management, Agile software development, management consulting, analysis and solutions for critical issues. Experience in working wif large scale, complex projects, and developing communications for C-suite executives. Accounting, statistical, and technical analyses for a range of disciplines, methods and applications driving cost savings and business improvement.Specialties: Project Management, Business Communication and proposal development, Analytics, Software process management, Management control accounting, Cyber security, PMO Administration, Contract Negotiation, Business Process Design.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• PMO Administration
• Business Process Design
• Management control accounting
• Software process management
• Business Analytics
• Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large complex cross-functional projects.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate tradeoffs, and balance business needs against technical constraints to meet committed timelines.
• Maintained sprint schedules and product releases.

Confidential

Sr Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engagement manager for several successful projects and development proposals for clients.
• Cyber security modifications to meet regulations for protection of switchyard and critical equipment,
• Diesel generator controls to meet safety criteria and replace unavailable & failing equipment,
• Replacement of unavailable equipment like large pumps and motors, transformers.
• Lead engineering teams, secured capital funding approval, provided client interface, monitored costs and contract changes.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed several projects to resolve operational and regulatory problems.
• Projects included successful turnaround of a stalled project to restore Emergency Plan compliance for Emergency Action Levels, including radiation monitors, installing digital relays and flow meters at Kewanee Confidential .
• dis project provided justification for NRC to allow continued Confidential operation.
• At Confidential, replaced radiation monitors, cyber security, and a z inc chemical addition system.
• Lead implementation teams, managed engineering vendor, secured capital funding approval, provided client interface, monitored costs and contract changes.

Confidential

Manager, Process Change and Analysis

Responsibilities:

• Analytics, data science, data clean up, and statistical analysis used for performance monitoring, business process modeling, analysis of equipment failures, and for management presentations.
• Used SAS and Excel to analyze legacy databases to identify adverse trends, report issues to management, and drive organizational changes to improve performance.
• Supported probabilistic risk assessment efforts wif Bayesian probability analyses, modeling of equipment reliability and failure events, and Monte Carlo analysis.
• Led the TVA Confidential fleet corrective action program.
• Mentor for the Root Cause Analysis program, audits, and self-assessment program. Managed peer teams for oversight of Engineering,
• Radiation Protection, and other regulated activities.
• Visited other Confidential companies as a loaned expert on root cause analysis.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consulted wif a range of businesses, halping them develop process improvements to improve profits, managerial controls, marketing plans and succession plans.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reduced the implementation schedule by five months on a security project to meet milestones established by the US Confidential Regulatory Commission.
• Responsible for funding, budget, schedule, quality, negotiations, procurement and implementation.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed several successful projects to address operational problems, including large valve replacements, control system upgrades, and upgrades to spent fuel handling equipment.
• Projects met goals for safety, quality and schedule and were under budget.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led a Year 2000 (Y2K) project for 35 power plants located on five continents.
• Rapidly restored dis problem project to schedule, completed a systematic review of enterprise-wide computing systems and processes, and implemented creative solutions for risk reduction.
• Developed and led the project management office PMO.
• Gave presentations on Y2K issues to industry forums and client executives.
• Performed due diligence investigations for mergers and acquisitions in the electric power industry, including financial modeling, process improvement, and issue mitigation.
• Authored several confidential white papers on critical issues for mergers and acquisitions.

• Data science, statistical measurement, simulation and quantitative methods for analysis of international network communication traffic to improve performance.
• Sole author of a probabilistic risk assessment and failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) of digital radio communications for air traffic control (VDL Mode 2), which was submitted to and accepted by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). VDL Mode 2 is now in use internationally for safety critical air traffic control communication and airline operational control in over 2,200 aircraft worldwide.
• Improved project management procedures for reliable quantitative estimates of software project effort, schedule, error rates, and metrics for management of software projects to implement higher levels of the SEI Software Capability Maturity Model.

Confidential

Senior Engineer

• Lead for major contract negotiations for Confidential fuel commodities, refueling, storage options and technical Confidential . An annual budget of $100 million was reduced to $85 million through strategic contract negotiations and capturing benefits from market trends and competition.
• Project Manager for reviews of cost, regulatory, and operational issues to reduce costs. These efforts developed $24 million in documented cost savings through process and design improvements.
• Improved safety as the on-site Probabilistic Risk Assessment expert at a Confidential by implementing an automatic transfer of schedule information to programs to analyze planned equipment outages at the Confidential .
• Project Manager and developer for several computer program development projects and procurement initiatives. Examples include a program dat scheduled over 1 million surveillance tests per year, a data warehouse of licensing correspondence, license basis and commitments. Technical lead for software development.
• Wrote several speeches dat the CEO of American Electric Power delivered to leading industry organizations and annual meetings. Wrote speeches dat other senior executives delivered at industry forums and as testimony for hearings.
• Member of committee to direct the corporate QA program. ANSI N 45.2.23 certified lead auditor for management and technical audits. Audit of Confidential fuel manufacture, and technical reviews of manufacturing process.
• Managed departmental finances and interfaced wif Finance, Controller, external and internal auditors, and the Rate department. Tested and recommended improvements to internal controls.
• Reduced fuel costs through modeling of Confidential reactor physics and reactor design. Modified several physics programs to improve efficiency and provide better operational support.