Management Project
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Patti H. Rehage
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SUMMARY
Senior Financial Analyst experienced in supporting government contracts for
NASA, DOD, and NAVY; Corporate planning and forecasting for long range
budgets. Extensive knowledge and experience in developing financial
execution plans consistent with Program Management and Contract
requirements. Experience includes executing complex, multi-faceted
projects such as CPIF, CPAF, CP IDIQ, T&M, and FFP type contracts;
Corporate budgeting, forecasting, and analyzing to include providing
explanation for variance. High motivation and a strong ability to
multitask have lead to opportunities to expand my skill sets into managing
and training other financial analysts. Highly proficient in MS Excel,
experienced in MS project, MS power point, and MS word. Experience expands
over managing major programs such as MDA's Ground Missile Defense, a $500M
EVMS program; SPAWAR's LBS Glider Program, a $50M modified EVMS program;
NASA's Payload Operations Program; $70M EVMS program (current contract);
NASA's SDOS Program, a $500M Task Order (EVMS by TO) program; NASA's Cargo
Mission program, a $30M program; along with other smaller T&M/FFP
contracts.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teledyne Brown Engineering, Huntsville, AL 1984 -
Present
Business Management: Serves as the Senior program analyst responsible for
providing leadership and coordination of activities and efforts for a team
of program analysts in support of projects valued up to $500M total
contract; $25M annual. Responsibilities include setting plans, assigning
work, setting priorities, establishing work schedules, problem solving, and
ensuring resources are sufficient to carry out project obligations. I also
serve and the primary interface to internal and external customers to
include preparing and presenting financial data to Senior Staff. Reviews,
analyzes and evaluates reports, products and information provided by staff,
support personnel, and subcontractors to ensure accuracy of data. Highly
experienced in development of effective methods to task, motivate, and
provide unbiased evaluation of support staff. Excellent at problem
resolution and streamlining processes to assure objectives are met in a
timely and efficient manner. Responsible for correcting deficiencies and
ensuring project deliverables are met. Provides leadership and guidance to
team in the following areas:
Financial Planning and Analysis: Extensive knowledge of acquisition and
management processes to plan, evaluate, review and prioritize the financial
resources for assigned programs. Works directly with Program Management to
develop financial execution plans that ensure resources are properly
planned and available to carry out project requirements. Extensive
experience in planning, budgeting and developing processes to integrate,
balance, coordinate and monitor various type projects. Prepares broad
program objectives and develops specific objectives, integrating schedules
of individual projects. Reviews, analyzes, and interprets program
requirements to program personnel. Analyzes impacts to budget, presents
program impacts along with recommended solution to Program Management.
Diverse experience provides the ability to recognize budget problems,
analyze/research impact, prepare summary of results, and presents
recommendations to Program Management. Plans and monitors the
implementation budgets comparing expenditures against plan; integrates
expenditures with forecast; adjusts budgets as needed to ensure integrity
of planned budgets; tracks data for annual and long range budgets; monitors
the utilization of funds and forecasts funding requirements. Maintains
ongoing contact with internal and external customers involved in the
programs and chairs meetings to discuss areas of planning and program
issues. Prepares and presents financial reviews for major operating
projects/programs, for both internal and external customers on a monthly
basis; preparing quantified analysis of budget data. Performs rate analyses
that includes but is not limited to comparing actual rates paid to proposed
rates for a given labor category, set of hours, and time frame.
Responsible for coordinating responses to DCAA/DCMA audits of Earned Value
Management System. Novice in support to Program Management in developing
milestones that will validate program progress and status of program
deliverables versus program cost. Provide detailed analysis of Cost
Performance Report and explanations for variances at project required Work
Breakdown Structure (WBS) level.
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Scheduling and Performance Measurement: Provide timely, meaningful, and
accurate integrated schedules and schedule analysis to facilitate program
execution. Experience includes developing schedules
for programs that require EVMS; developing time phased budgets that will
meet Earned Value Management requirements. Responsible for establishing
the project baseline; managing requirements, cost, schedule, technical and
contractual baselines; identifying project risks and establishing an
effective
mitigation plan. Compile BCWP from Cost Account Managers (CAMS) for input
into financial system and schedule. Reviewed BCWP for accuracy and
reasonableness and prepared comprehensive variance analysis and corrective
actions reports. Support Cost Account Managers in the development of
milestones that validate program progress that adequately meet EVMS
contract discrete requirement. Experienced in
detailed analysis of the actual versus scheduled system acquisition
milestones and recommend updates to program schedules based on trade-off of
time, money, material, performance or service emphasis. Identifies trends
toward slippage in time overruns in schedule and suggests methods that will
permit regaining schedule or rescheduling program.
Project setup/management/guidance: Works closely with Program Management,
Contract Management, and Customer to interpret program requirements. A
strong background in knowledge of the substantive
nature of the operating programs and the interrelationships among the
programs, gives me the ability to provide guidance to program support
personnel in areas such as Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
requirements, contract deliverables (CDRL's), Statement of Work (SOW), and
fee structures to include explanation of Cost Plus Incentive and Cost Plus
Award Type fee pools. Coordinate initial contract set up to include
development of internal Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that accommodates
contract reporting requirements; enables management of costs by applicable
tasks; and tracks funding limits at CLIN/SLIN/ACRON levels when required.
Proposal Management: Cost Volume Management experience in preparing bid
and proposal packages for new work opportunities to include pricing,
coordinating overhead structures, WBS development, resource planning, price
analysis, developing should cost models, coordinating and validating
subcontractor bids, labor rate development for T&M and CP IDIQ contracts,
and cost volume write ups. Experience includes strategizing/developing fee
structures that result in a successful bid. Proposal Manager as well as
team player resulting in proposal wins ranging from $6M for a one year POP
up to $500M for a ten year POP. Extensive experience in proposal
dissection and understanding requirements of different proposal types
allows me to give guidance/training to support personnel.
Government Property Administrator: Experience includes providing guidance
to employees regarding Contractual obligations pertaining to Government
property as required by the FAR, NASA FAR Supplement and DFARS. Maintain
ongoing contact with all agencies (i.e. DCMC, Boeing, NASA) to ensure
compliance of policies and procedures. Conduct annual training sessions;
update company policies and procedures. Successfully maintained a
Government Property System for ~30M dollars of inventory; Maintained
excellent audit record. Possess substantial material/inventory tracking
experience.
Software Experience: MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, File
Maker Pro, Oracle Database, Deltek/Costpoint, and Applix TM1 .
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Bachelor of Business Administration, Graduation Date - May 2004 Faulkner
University, Montgomery, AL; GPA 3.97
Introduction to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - Carnegie
Mellon - February 2010
FAR Part 31 Cost Principles - Beason & Nalley, May 2006
Preparing Cost Proposals - Beason & Nalley, April 2006
Cost and Price Analysis in Government Contracting - Beason & Nalley - April
2006
Understanding Truth, In Negotiations Act & Defective Pricing (TINA) -
Beason & Nalley - April 2006
Proposal Estimating - Teledyne Brown - May 2002- Annual Training
Lean Office - Alabama A&M - November 2003
Leadership Training for Managers - Dale Carnegie - August 2000
ISO 9000 - July 2000
Cost Account Manager Training - Teledyne Brown - March 2000
Schedule and Cost Parameters - UAH - December 2000
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MS Project & MS Project II, Calhoun Community College - November/December
1999
NISPOM AIS Training - NCMS Huntsville - April 1999
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
TBE Presidents Coin Recipient, March 2011: For the dedication, knowledge
and attention to detail resulting to the successful execution of the DCMA
Surveillance Audit performed on the GMD program.
TBE Presidents Coin Recipient, October 2010: For outstanding performance
and effort associated with cost control/financial support for the LBS
Glider Program.
Silver Snoopy recipient: September 2007, for creating automated tools
that resulted in time/cost savings along with increasing accuracy and
timely status of financial status of programs.
ISS Payload Office Award: October 2007
TBE President's Coin Recipient: February 2005, for budgeting and
negotiating a $35M contract win.
SECURITY CLEARANCES
. Secret DISCO (Active) - 2010
Will gladly furnish personal and professional references on request
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