OBJECTIVE: To implement best practices in project management at a stable company.
EXPERIENCE:
5/11 – Present Project Portfolio Manager
Shire
• Manage four portfolios for this pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. Each portfolio contains approximately 4 – 5 million dollars of projects annually. Total projects per year average around 75 per portfolio. Provide support for senior leadership by facilitating steering committee
• Ensure timely communication to project team leader of potential or current schedule and/or cost impacts with mitigation scenarios for effective decision-making.
• Support project managers and other users of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management system (EPM) that provides all project schedules and cost data through a web based interface. Detailed report generation and customization. Communication of technical issues within EPM.
• Administer SharePoint site for Project Management where each project site is linked and utilizes a standard folder structure for project documentation.
2/08 – 5/11 Sr. Project Controls Engineer
Pfizer
• Led the implementation and training of Primavera P6 v7 Web Access. Technical communication of IT requirements for Primavera software.
• Create, update and maintain project schedules. Development of project and activity coding.
• Analyze “what-if” scenarios and proposals for impact to project plans. Perform critical path and earned value analysis. Lead interactive planning sessions at project inception with key project personnel.
• Present project plans, alternatives and performance metrics to senior leadership for improved managerial decisions.
• Produce monthly reports for management and end user groups that accurately reflect status against funding authorizations and target schedules, and identify key accomplishments, critical issues and potential areas of concern.
6/08 – 12/08 (Part-Time) Project Controls Consultant
Vanderweil Engineers
• Built project schedules for electricity transmission infrastructure upgrade projects in Microsoft Project. Gathered bi-weekly status and communicated updated schedules to clients.
• Assisted with conceptual changes to the earned value management system in a proprietary project controls database built with Microsoft Access.
• Provided suggestions for integrating the financial accounting systems with the project controls database for improved data accuracy. Close coordination with the cost controllers resulted in improved internal processes.
1/07 – 12/07 Project Management Consultant
DKC, Inc. - Dr. Kiesewetter Consulting
• Engaged as full-time consultant at an engineering company where I acted as an interim project coordinator and trained the resident project managers on ways to track and improve the profitability of their projects. Tools used for project financial tracking were Microsoft Excel, Primavera, and an ERP system called AS400.
• Created a budget revision and tracking system for the client in the business of heavy capital equipment for the plastics industry. Each order is considered a project, and has a budget between $300,000 and $3,500,000. The projects take an average of 6 months to move through the phases of design, procurement, assembly, and installation. Budget revisions took place in the client’s AS400 ERP system, and on a weekly basis I compiled them into an Excel spreadsheet for overall management reporting. This Excel “dashboard” now drives management review of profit margins for work-in-process.
• Built schedules for selected projects to cover the entire phase of design through installation. Many projects faced penalty charges for late delivery, and the schedules I developed helped to minimize these penalties. The work continues at this client to standardize the scheduling of individual projects into a centralized and consistent system using templates. This scheduling work was done in Primavera 5.0.
• A separate but concurrent project was managing a “Lean Operations” consulting engagement with a piston manufacturing company in India. I was involved on this project for 5 months. The project scope was to organize the entire logistics chain for the client on a “pull” system based on customer demand rather than a “push” system based on plant production capabilities. The client was utilizing SAP as the backend management software. I was onsite in India approximately 10 days per month. I managed the project schedule with MS Project, created and checked the documentation, and maintained issues lists to keep the project team organized.
2/06 – 12/06 Account Executive for Scheduling Software
pl logic LLC
• Demonstrated Primavera scheduling and project management software products for prospective clients such as Construction companies, Power Utilities, and Engineering companies.
• Received Certified Primavera Training Courses P102 and P106 (Basic and Advanced Scheduling)
• Pre-sales consulting including cold and warm calls to clients to discuss Primavera project management software and pl logic services. Follow up work included preparation of estimates and proposals for sales and services to clients. Technical writing including inside sales procedure manuals and documentation.
• Organized a Conference for Utility companies to discuss scheduling standardization. This entailed repeated contacts with project managers at Nstar, National Grid, and the United Illuminating Company to discuss their scheduling procedures.
2/04 – 2/06 Project Controls Engineer & Marketing Director
Project Technologies Group, Inc.
• Assisted Senior Project Managers with project controls processes, budget updating and construction sche...
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