Project Management

Ruth B. Ford

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Summary: A record with proven success as a workforce development professional. A Project

Management Professional with background in Project Management and Project Scheduling.

Also, experienced in project planning, managing project from conception to completion.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LFM, LLC 05/2010 - Present

Sr. Scheduler

• Coordinated stakeholder participation, reporting accomplishment and progress to

Representative of Congress against plan, financial management/quality assurance, transition

planning and evaluating lessons learned.

• Communicate difficult/sensitive information to the customer.

• Deliver engaging, informative and professional presentations to customers.

• Develop program performance reports and resource utilization reports as scheduled

work closely within the project management team to develop and maintain program schedule

• Support the Program Management Office (PMO) to develop and maintain program reporting

standards.

• Prepare and maintain work breakdown structures

• Identify and communicate schedule risks

• Prepare forecast and other schedule reports

• Support general program management tasks in support of initiatives, e.g. milestone document

preparation, risk management and project evaluation

• Attend and contribute to program and technical reviews

• Provide inputs for program monthly status reports and quarterly program reviews

SAIC 4/2008 - 05/2010

Sr. Scheduler

• Assist the Government Representative with planning and leading the Secure Communities

(totaling more 6 million dollars) project thru initiation, scheduling, risk management/mitigation

and technical execution

• Created templates for the Jr. Scheduler Engineering integrated master schedule

• Facilitate meetings with the Representative of Congress, OCIO customers and

• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple

levels, including those external to the organization.

• Duties continue to include analytical project management support, earned value management

(EVM) and analysis, project scheduling and cost analysis support.

• Routinely sets and prioritizes goals and strategies to achieve on-time delivery of critical tasks,

applies written and verbal skills to communicate project timelines and critical path analysis to

team members, prepares reports and makes recommendations to government representative

concerning scheduling of key project deliverables.

• Received Customer Award 2009

Raytheon (Asha IT Solution, Inc.) 2/2007 - 06/2007

Sr. Scheduler/Planner

• Developed project schedules for the project teams.

• Developed and maintained the N-Dex Master Schedule.

• Made updates to all the project schedules and resources.

• Monitored project risks and escalating issues to the Program Manager.

• Developed and maintained a Master Project status report & summary.

• Communicate with customers regarding project status and deliverables.

• Communicate with team regarding project status and deliverables.

• Create paperwork for Baseline Change Request (BCR) and maintained the BCR Log

• Adhering to company policies and corporate privacy policy.

DC Strategic and Learning Service 12/2003 - 11/2006

Project Specialist

• Assisted with delivery of custom application development projects from conception through

development planning, budgeting and scheduling.

• Created the database that is currently being used by National Nuclear Security Administration

Small Business program.

• Responsible for researching sources, recruiting, screening, and interviewing over 300 small

businesses for the Opportunity Session for Sourcing System. Results include 78% of small

business receiving government contacts.

• Identified the opportunity; initiated the project; and secured executive support and resources for

the project. Results include closing a half million dollar contract with the SBA.

• Development work breakdown structure and sizing estimates; identification of resources

required for project tasks.

• Using MS Project created report which contained Earned Value Schedule Indicator and Earned

Value Cost Indicator.

• Monitored the critical path, and generated reports that contained the critical path.

• Assisted in MS Project monitoring and control; project status reporting; project performance

measures analysis.

ACS Government Solution & Birch Davis Associates 11/1997 - 11/2003

Consultant (ACS ACQUIRED BIRCH DAVIS ASSOCIATES)

• Created the daily schedule and work plan for four Administrative Assistants which included a

list of daily, weekly, monthly duties. Updates and modifies these schedules regularly.

• Coordinates staff and resources to meet deliverable due dates.

• Re-engineer processes to support the administrative responsibilities of the office including

planning, developing and implementing policies, practices and procedures and ensuring office

personnel are in compliance with all established policies, and procedures.

• Supervised the office relocation and overall maintenance of the office space to ensure high

standards at all times. Results include receiving several recognition awards for outstanding

performance and exceeding client’s expectations

• Outstanding Microsoft Office XP skills and the ability to multi-task.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

University of Maryland University College:

BS Information Management System 2007

Northern Virginia Community College:

AA Information Systems Technology, 2001

Expert MS Office Suite including MS Project, Visio and Access

CERTIFICATIONS

University of Maryland University College:

Program Management for IT Professionals 2005

CLEARANCE

Secret

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