SUMMARY

• Innovative, results driven professional with over 8 years of experience in Project & Portfolio Management, Master Scheduling and Organizational Development.
• Focused on leadership and strategic planning, quickly defining priorities and addressing deficiencies while exceeding corporate objectives.
• Exceptional communication skills, ability to work independently and manage personnel and processes.
• Actively seeking a position with a forward moving company where growth and advancement are readily available.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Microsoft Project
• Project Web App (PWA)
• Primavera P6
• Microsoft Office Suite
• SDLC
• Agile
• PMI Methodologies
• Time Management
• Team Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Project Delivery
• Critical Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Develop an Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) within the first month of the MASS program to include project phasing, project milestones, and represented critical relationships between program tasks as required to the Implementation plan.
• Prepare and provide timely project status, analysis and reporting to the program team and management on a weekly basis to include late tasks report, critical tasks report, look ahead report throughout the program lifecycle.
• Conduct regularly scheduled meetings with various workstream leads in order to track and progress the schedule including actual start dates of activities that have begun, percent completion and expected finish dates of started, but incomplete activities, actual finish dates for completed activities, revisions to activities that have not started.
• Develop and maintain the program Risk Register/Issue Log to ensure that risks are effectively managed to minimize their impact on schedule, scope, with a focus to provide resolution within 1 week of identification.
• Track baselines and ensure accuracy of project schedules.

Confidential

Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting the project team by utilizing project planning documents and output from the interactive planning process as a basis for developing project schedules from proposal phase to project closing keeping company standards and client requirements into consideration.
• Progress schedules, including actual start dates of activities that have begun, percent completion and expected finish date of started, but incomplete activities, actual finish dates for completed activities, revisions to activities that have not started, additions and deletions of activities that correspond to scope changes using Microsoft Project.
• Obtain Input from project team members, subcontractors, vendors and clients to support the development of the project schedule and subsequently update the schedule progress and forecasting.
• Kept management personnel informed of critical path/near critical path schedule status and issues; provided recommendations for schedule improvement and recovery plans.
• Performed as Subject Matter Expert for use of MS Project, integration of Program plan, Project Management Methodology

Confidential

Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Tracked schedules, identified and resolved critical path and network logic conflicts. Provided schedule visibility, reporting, and schedule analysis.
• Analyzed schedule variances, and worked closely with Program and Functional Managers to develop recovery plan and ensured communication of the project plan to the client via weekly Status Report.
• Supported Program Managers in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and lead in the development of schedules (including resource loading) for identified WBS elements
• Ensured that contractual terms and conditions in the project schedule baseline are monitored and met during project execution
• Developed schedules that included project phasing, project milestones, and represent critical relationships between program tasks as required to plan, coordinate, and visualize all significant program activities

Confidential, Houston TX

Consultant/Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Supported the PMO and worked collaboratively with Program and Business Intelligence Managers in an effort to monitor project scope, track project timeline, utilizing Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server (PWA).
• Developed schedules that included project phasing, project milestones, and represented critical relationships between program tasks as required to the plan.
• Performed Critical Path Analysis and communicated results to project team and program managers.
• Updated PPM tools like adding personnel and equipment resources to the Resource Pool and assigning these resources to the appropriate projects/programs.
• Provided general PPM support to internal project staff and trained Project/Task Managers on how to update tasks in the PWA.

Confidential, Florida

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and prioritized project tasks, managed timelines, maintained project plan and communicated status to client as needed. Ensured that the implementation project was delivered on - time, within scope and budget.
• Configured the application based on the implementation plan. Worked closely with Solution Architects to ensure appropriate follow-up of identifying client needs and follow-up activities.
• Prepared and provided project analysis, status and reporting such as variance reports, forecast, Earned Value Analysis, Schedule Performance Index and Cost Performance Index (CPI) and communicated to the project team and the client.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Planner/Master Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Build work packages / systems schedule including logic, critical path, float, resource loading, etc. and report deviation to appropriate cost control group and project management.
• Develop and update resource critical path method (CPM) project schedules as required on a timely basis.
• In conjunction with the Risk Manager, Perform Risk schedule Analysis as required by project management.
• Evaluate schedule alternatives to support project changes making sure that internal and external changes are recognized, captured, analyzed and reported to the project team expeditiously.
• Prepare and provide timely project status, analysis and reporting to the project team such as, variance reports, forecast, Earned Value (EV), Estimate at Complete (EAC), mitigation plans and customized reports as required by project management.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and managed Migrations/Cutover for Customers in all environments including Production and communicated to upper management.
• Managed, performed regression testing and validated environments including Dev, QA and Prod for over 60% of clients.
• Coordinated with resources especially Engagement Managers worldwide on a daily basis.
• Coordinated and responded to request from resources on changes from the original specifications.
• Uploaded and managed documents and migration dashboards on SharePoint.
• Excelled in guiding the work of the technical teams. Worked with Data Base and Remedy teams to ensure that the migrations/cutovers were carried out successfully and achieve project milestones.
• Trained resources in Pune (India) to make sure that testing was done appropriately.
• Worked closely with customers and project teams to implement solutions.
• Managed the entire project life cycle from engagement phase through go-live and project close-out.
• Tracked and reported project progress, issues and improvement strategies to the program managers.
• Created Request for Change (RFC) for all Customers in US and EMEA.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Updated and maintained schedules as the project progressed through their development and execution stages.
• Ensured project planning and scheduling deliverables were accurate and delivered to the project Controls Manager in a timely fashion.
• Identified and scheduled project deliverables, milestones and required tasks.
• Hands-on contribution to the development and maintenance of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Budgets that lead to the establishment of a cost/schedule baseline.
• Analyzed Earned Value monthly data Schedule Variance (SV,SPI)
• Aggregated plans for all projects across the work streams and highlighted dependencies, conflicts and opportunities.