Management Project

Over ** YEARS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Production Planning & Scheduling (MRP)

Forecasting and Capacity Planning

Sales and Operations Planning

Supply Chain Management

Material Resource Planning

Construction Project Planning & Scheduling (CPM)

Integrated Master Scheduling

Construction Project Management Processes

Financial Reporting & Analysis

Cost/Resource-Loaded CPM Schedules

QUALITY METALCRAFT (Livonia, Michigan) Oct 2011 - Present

Master Scheduler; Jan 2016 - Present

Promoted to this position due to performance as Production Planner/Scheduler, and innovations brought there.

Manage production part setup in material resource planner to minimize cost and inventory.

Create and oversee bill of material structures.

Respond to customer inquiries on production capabilities.

Build and maintain Capacity Analysis Database for forecasting sales and operations planning.

Analyze/report to upper management as to on-time delivery of work orders; identify actionable improvement items.

Mentor production schedulers to ensure their successful professional growth and to facilitate operational efficiency.

Production Planner/Scheduler; Jun 2013 - Dec 2015

Promoted to this position due to expert knowledge of CPM scheduling and performance as Production/Program Controls Technician.

Designed and developed distinct production schedules, considering material, personnel, and equipment availability.

Maintained daily production schedule, reflective of real-time demand forecasts and incoming orders.

Communicated/coordinated with other departments to assure material availability for unimpeded production.

Monitored material inventories, tracked progress of production; and, reviewed factors that could affect schedules.

Maintained a workflow that provided the highest practical productivity levels. Kept schedule changes to a minimum.

Evaluated parts inventories to ensure availability for scheduled production runs.

Coordinated with key departments (Operations, Sales, Procurement) to ensure that production schedules meet all performance expectations and support all pertinent plant metrics.

Assistant Program Manager; Oct 2011 - Jun 2013

Prepared/maintained/delivered dashboard reporting to executive review team.

Assisted program managers in creation of Program Control documents (e.g., kickoff, timeline, and budget).

Developed/maintained Exception Reports for program manager’s analysis and review.

Prepared/provided any outside Program Control documents that might help in program monitoring/management.

ICS-GLOBAL (Rochester Hills, Michigan) Feb 2010 - Oct 2011

Business Operations Manager; May 2011 – Oct 2011

Promoted to this position due to demonstrated ability to assume heavier managerial workload.

Accounts Payable, invoice processing, and budgeting.

Used Microsoft Excel to track multiple aspects of funding sources.

Allocated various Grant funding following strict guidelines.

Maintained multiple relational databases, including confidential client information.

Prepared/issued/tracked billing invoices for all company consultants and clients.

Created mass-marketing email campaigns, contacting potential clients and government contract officers.

Led effort to develop intuitive short-clip training videos on Construction Project Time Management topics.

Served as founding Director of ICS-Placement, recruitment services division of ICS-Global. Developed online skills testing exams, phone interview scripts, and complex MS Excel candidate evaluation process.

Project Scheduling Consultant; Feb 2010 - May 2011

Created Baseline Schedules with Contractor/Subcontractor/Supplier-Vendor input.

Developed and analyzed results of reports for Earned Value, Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI),

Calculated Estimate at Completion (EAC) and Estimate to Complete (ETC) values.

Responsible for schedule management, earned value management and cost management

Responsible for engineering, procurement, and construction planning, scheduling, logistics, and cost control

Analyzed project controls reports, present findings and provide recommendations to the project controls team

Set up Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) for tracking detailed breakdown of purchase orders or subcontracts

Ensured budget tracking against Purchase Orders or Subcontracts

Reported accurate updates to cost reports or forecasts

Developed and presented a cash flow report

Set up Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Prepared monthly updates for Contractor clients and presented (written and oral) to Project Owners.

Produced/presented Project Status Reports to Management.

Trained project managers and field management personnel on how to use Schedule Logic to depict, coordinate, and execute field activities more efficiently and collaboratively.

Used MS Visio to display schedule logic; depiction incorporated both As-Planned and currently Updated schedules.

Performed “What If” analyses to identify and recommend response plans to periodic “surprises” that infect every project. With Management input, crafted Work-Around schedules to mitigate schedule impacts and maintain critical temporal milestones.

Cost- and resource-loaded Critical Path schedules, thus ensuring that activity duration estimates were credible and attainable.

INPUT SOLUTIONS (Gaithersburg, Maryland) Feb 2002 – Jan 2010

Production Supervisor; Feb 2006 - Jan 2010

Promoted to this position due to excellent mastery of management responsibilities and strategies.

Supervised production staff; issued daily assignments, weekly shift rosters, workload distribution.

Trained and supervised production employees (five and up) on multiple projects.

Conceptualized and implemented production tracking database to increase revenue and minimize processing errors.

Trained/supervised new employees on the maintenance/usage of high-speed scanners and large format scanners.

Created/edited detailed project instructions. Inspected staff performance to ensure quality thresholds met.

Production Technician; Feb 2002 - Jan 2006

Calculated and presented daily productivity statistics to Management, using MS Excel.

Maintained key performance records using Kofax Ascent and proprietary SQL database programs.

Implemented necessary actions to provide quality control over production with accuracy rates of 98% or higher.

Created/edited detailed billing invoices for clients.

Operated/performed professional-level transferring of hardcopy documents into digital formats using assortment of appropriate software, including Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint) and Adobe (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator) products.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Certified Capacity Analyst: (separate certifications at Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors).

Consistent career advancement reflective of exemplary customer-focused and detail-oriented performance.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration w/concentration in Finance - 2009

Bowie State University, Bowie, MD

Received the Maryland Higher Education Commission Scholarship for acquisition of Bachelor’s Degree.

Earned status of the Dean’s List at Bowie State University from 2005 to 2009.

Technical Skills

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, SharePoint, MS Project)

Adobe Master Suite (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator)

Oracle/Primavera products: P3; P6, SureTrak

Miscellaneous: UPS and FedEx Software * Crystal Reports * QuickBooks * Visual MRP Database

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