SUMMARY

• Motivated, personable professional with over 7 years of Project Management experience and an education background in Engineering & Information Systems.
• Currently working as an IT Project Analyst/Scheduler utilizing Primavera P6 to plan, develop, execute and monitor project scope of multiple software development projects concurrently.
• Well - versed in project management methodologies, project planning, resource & cost management, stakeholder management, organizational change management, risk management, team building & communications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Management Tools: Primavera (P6) Ver-6.1 Ver-8.3, MS project 2013, VersionOne

Applications: MS Office MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, HP Service Desk, Sharepoint, Lotus Notes

Design Tools: Staad Pro, SAP, AutoCAD, MathCAD.

Languages: C, C++

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

IT Project Analyst/Scheduler

Responsibilities:

• Plan and Manage an average of 8 projects concurrently with a combined budget of $12M, using both Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Mastered the use of Oracle Primavera Project Management software (P6 thick and thin clients) for developing and maintaining detailed project schedules for various project types (billing/payments, financial services, Agencies, Marketing, Systems, IT security) spanning multiple years.
• Assist Project Manager in performing relevant project management processes during Project Initiation, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing.
• Participate with PM and team in documenting Project Charter, and maintaining standard core project documents which included scope, functional, and technical requirements.
• Organize and facilitate planning/re-planning sessions onsite, as well as remotely for geographically dispersed teams
• Collaborate with project teams to create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), input project activities, determined activity durations, logic relationships, and ensure that all the changes and their impacts are accurately reflected in schedules.
• Load resources into the Project Resource wizard in Primavera P6, Budget analysis
• Monitor resource allocations (workload) during the lifecycle of the project in order to ensure accurate enterprise data and forecasting needs.
• Update Project Dashboard with various reports (Earned Value, Burn rate, Resource allocations, Key Milestones, performance reports on EV, SPI, CPI and EAC etc.) on a weekly basis as part of the Project Management Office (PMO) requirement.
• Create Change Requests for the Change Management process
• Maintain the project Issue Log and Risk Register to ensure that risks are effectively managed to minimize their impact on the schedule, scope and budget of our projects.
• Act as an ‘agent of communication’ to identify communication gaps between Stakeholders and ensure project team is unified in their efforts.
• Maintain the status of contracts for Management during the procurement process
• Communicate with external vendors to create schedule & timeline for their deliverables
• Review and validate time sheets weekly for accuracy.
• Produce reports to keep management apprised of project status, major issues, scope changes, resource changes, milestone achievements or misses, and budget constraint.
• Close projects by generating a final report, participate in lessons learned sessions, and archive the relevant documents to be used as historical data

Confidential, O’Fallon, MO

Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Managed project planning & coordination of multiple software development projects simultaneously.
• Followed established project management guidelines to develop, maintain, and track project plans.
• Created Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), developed and maintained project schedules with Primavera Ver-6.1 utilizing the CPM (Critical Path Method) and PERT (Project Evaluation Review Technique) techniques, baseline analysis, schedule impact analysis, and resource analysis.
• Assisted Project Manager in forecasting project timelines, Budget analysis, activity dependencies and estimating the hours & durations for structuring the schedule.
• Created project artifacts and extensive project documentation, as well as provided subject matter expertise on project management processes and tools.
• Clearly communicated roles, expectations, and accountabilities to all team members.
• Produced Cost Reports, Gantt Charts, Progress S-Curve, Manpower Histogram.
• Facilitated weekly status meetings with a focus on identifying risks & issues.
• Generated progress reports based on Earned Value Analysis
• Presented preventive and corrective action plans & mitigation strategies based on schedule risk assessment.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Project Planning Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted the Engineering department and Project Manager(s) in the coordination of the Project works, controlling, resource planning and scheduling.
• Effectively managed and interacted with team to develop schedule in Microsoft Project, generate weekly progress reports and present it on a regular basis.
• Studied scopes of work for energy saving measures & strategies, and Contractual documents to effectively plan and manage the schedule.
• Worked with engineers to evaluate customer facilities and controls network for integration and remote monitoring.
• Managed communications within the team and client during the project
• Co-ordinated with the Procurement, Engineering Department and Project Manager to set milestones to complete the Project on time by assigning appropriate duration and work force requirement for all the activities.
• Prepared KPI’s for the Project and to use the standard formats as per the Company’s Integrated Management System Policy.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

IT Lab Controller

Responsibilities:

• Providing computing and technology assistance services to approximately 6000 students in the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) computer labs.
• Designing and improving the technological needs of various departments which allows them to facilitate their services to the students, staff and faculty.
• Provide user support for students to troubleshoot hardware and software issues.
• Assisting in interviewing, orientation and technical training of student employees.
• Keeping consistent records of lab usage statistics and scheduling work hours.
• Provided the on-call technical support to client for Information system hardware and software.

Confidential

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility included site supervision, estimation of man-hour budget, coordination with engineers and design staff.
• Study Project scope of work, project plans and Contractual documents.
• Projects Planning, Monitoring, Progress Updating and Reporting.
• Coordinated with clients vendor, contractors and inspection Engineers for quality assurance.
• Checked and reviewed shop drawings and structural calculations.
• Estimated quantity and did cost analysis for construction materials.
• Performed site visits as necessary to observe component and system installation.