SUMMARY:

Highly knowledgeable Project Control Specialist and Project Accountant professional with over 15 years experience managing large multi - million dollar and high-risk projects, seeking a career opportunity with a strong company in a challenging environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE"

Confidential

Project Control Specialist and Cost Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Establish baseline budget and ensure the accuracy and integrity of the project controls system is maintained in controlling, monitoring, and forecasting cost, quantity, hours, schedule, progress, cost/revenue changes, and performance.
• Evaluate processes and procedures, and assist in project review meetings.
• Provide advice, recommendation, and document support to multiple offices in all areas of the project’s phases including approaches, options, strategies, risks, contracting methods, cost, acquisition and contracts, milestone payments and schedules, and EVM.
• Sr. Project Control and Project Accountant of (3) Wyo. Wind Energy Farms, in excess of $200 million.
• Sr. Project Control on Confidential in Oklahoma, $40 million.
• Sr. Project Control on Confidential in Wisconsin, project in excess of $600 million.

Establish baseline budget

Responsibilities:

• Cost codes, WBS dictionary, Schedule of Values (SOV) descriptions, and input and maintain in accounting system for multiple projects.
• Provide forecast of resources including home office, engineering, and site personnel updating (from actuals) labor hours, unit rates, OH&GA, travel, computer, and other direct costs (ODC).
• Analyze Schedule of Work (SOW), work in place (WIP), scope of work invoiced, and pending changes against baseline schedule.

Develop reports

Responsibilities:

• Showing variance between baseline budget and actuals, per WBS code, and advise management of risks that may affect the projects schedule or budget, for immediate action.
• Prepare Project Cost Summary Report (PCSR) for monthly Project Review meetings.
• Identify and prepare clear, concise margin and cost analysis as well as cost trend reports.
• Analyze and maintain revenue at completion based on prime contract terms, approved and pending C.O. and other contractual elements that could impact revenue.
• Manage reserves and project contingency. Assist with critical path analysis and reporting.

Provide advice

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Acquisition strategy, proposals, pre-award subcontracts, and contract changes.
• Analyze and aid in the interpretation of contract language, Schedule of Work (SOW), legal issues, alternative contract language, assign WBS codes, and provide/confirm unit pricing.
• Understand contractual compliance, estimating procedures, and unit pricing.

Project Cost Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Process, cost code, and approve subcontractor and vendor invoices, cross-referencing to assure contract compliance.
• Maintain personnel staffing and release schedules tracking resource hours-to-complete. Introduce cost procedures and cost saving measures, as well as lien waivers and tracking methods for retention and retention release requirements.
• Maintain Project Accounting (PA), Project Management (PM) budgets, and costs in Oracle based system.
• Process and approve all cost changes. Create Client milestone payment schedule and approve Client invoices.
• Provide monthly accrual reports and Project Status Reports (PSR).
• Resolve Inter-company Sales Agreement (ISA) issues with sister companies.
• Track/approve retention release.
• Train and mentor Cost Administrator.

Confidential

Contract Specialist/Project Cost Control/Project Controls

Responsibilities:

• Develop new Contract Administrator position; Establish policies and procedures. Set-up document control system;
• Provide Post-award support; Prepare Request for Quotes (RFQs); Prepare Request for Proposals (RFPs); Establish lien waiver and retention procedure; Train on-site personnel.
• Government-wide Agency Contracts & other agency contracts in multiple states for fiber optic lines.
• Confidential and Confidential Contracts in multiple states for fiber optic lines.

Acquisition Strategy Support

Responsibilities:

• Provide advice, recommendations, document support, and training to multiple site offices.
• Collaborate with legal in researching and drafting a uniform subcontractor contract.
• Provide training and new approaches in developing new program for subcontractors to follow.
• Review/approve all Client and subcontractor contracts.
• Monitor contract compliance in accordance to the terms and conditions of the general order, task order specific requirements, special conditions, DFARs and FARs.
• Draft contract attachments for invoices and lien waivers. Introduce and put in place a lien waiver P&P and retention P&P.
• Independent government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), assiting the program offices in preparing IGCEs.
• Research analysis of past purchases of products or services, current market value, or other agency purchases of similar products and services.

Provide advice, direction, and training

Responsibilities:

• subcontractors to establish consistent and more accurate invoicing, WIP tracking, contract compliance, lien waivers, retention release, and state compliance.
• Review/approve and cost code subcontractor and vendor invoices.
• Streamline and track damage and warranty claims; track from cradle-to-grave.
• Establish P&P and draft invoice template for contract, unit pricing, WBS code, and WIP billing compliance, saving TTCSI hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Confidential

Provide cost analysis

Responsibilities:

• Review of accounting, documenting, and reporting results of trend analysis.
• Forecast and report projection of resources-to-complete and costs.
• Understand and identify scope and cost growth potentials and track contractual impacts.

Confidential

Design-build Shopping Center and Strip Mall Developer

Responsibilities:

• Southland Shopping Center and Infrastructure, 4-projects of $250 million