Project Management
Resume:
BIRGIT R. ROSS
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
480-***-**** (C)
e-mail: ******.****@***.***
CAREER SUMMARY
A seasoned professional responsible for project scheduling, project cost
control, finance, estimating and production inventory control positions
within the semiconductor, manufacturing and environmental industries. In-
depth knowledge of Primavera 6.0 Version 7.0 Project Management,
PrimeContract, Oracle, Access, Versapro, Microsoft XP ( Excel, Word,
PowerPoint). Highly dependable and well organized. Excellent communicator
with solid work ethic. Fluent in German (native) and French.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NAVFAC PACIFIC, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; May 2010 - Present
MOCA Systems, Contractor to the US Navy for Joint Guam Program Office
Senior Project Scheduler
. Lead the program efforts for the Military Relocation for US Marines
from Okinawa, Japan to the Island of Guam and assume responsibilities
for controlling and reporting schedule and budget performance.
. Develop and implement integrated planning, cost, and schedule tools
(using Primavera P6 version 7.0), techniques, and methods for
monitoring, measuring, controlling, and reporting planning
programming, design, and construction progress and performance.
. Ensure the proper definition and integration of scope, schedule cost,
risk, and resources to enable the measurement of scope, schedule, and
budget performance at various levels during project implementation
phases.
. Provide schedules, reports, and dashboards to leadership (Admirals
for the US Navy and Marines), US Congress, as well as Capital Hill for
funding requests.
. Develop and implement baseline schedules ensuring the full
integration of scope, schedule, costs, risk, and resources.
TDC, IDC, TriMega, Currie & Brown, SDB @ Intel Corporation; September, 1993
- April 2010
Construction Contractor for Semiconductor Facilities in New Mexico (USA),
$1 Billion Plant Expansion (Phase 1 and II); Oregon and Arizona (USA)
[Phase I, II, Expansion and Conversion - Tool Installation); Fab24, Fab24-2
Leixlip Ireland, and Fab32 Arizona (PSSS System Installation); iM Flash
Technologies Lehi, Utah (Basebuild).
Senior Project Scheduler
. Responsible for development and maintenance of project master
schedules (utilizing Primavera P3e, 4.1 & 5.0 Project Management),
including uploading and integration of schedules prepared by
contractors and others. Activities include creation of Work Breakdown
Structures (WBS), and development of schedule and budget data
(including resource loading) for those WBS elements. Collect,
interpret and input schedule data into the project control database
and provide output to the project team.
. Preparation of status reports and other related project planning and
control documentation. Interface with the project technical staff to
define need for change to schedules and identification of variances
from the original plan.
. Prepared time impact analyses to assist project team in analyzing
contractor's schedules, change requests and claims. Recommended
actions to avoid delay and other undesirable schedule and cost
impacts. Produced technical documentation to assist in claims
avoidance, mitigation and resolution.
. Maintenance and updates of multiple (2-6) project schedules, to
produce monthly project status reports including earned value
analysis, to provide sound planning recommendations and guidance from
project inception to final delivery. As well as weekly schedule
progress site walk-through with the Customer.
EBASCO ENVIRONMENTAL, Inc., Santa Fe, NM, April - September, 1993
Cost Schedule Engineer
Responsible for project controls support to Los Alamos National
Laboratory. Responsibilities included project scheduling, cost tracking,
and monthly reporting of all activities.
. Prepared Five-Year-Plan (FY94 - FY99) baseline for Los Alamos
National Laboratory's Waste Management
Group to request funding from the Department of Energy (DOE)
for the next five years. Baseline included
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), WBS Dictionary, Schedules and
Milestone Logs, Baseline Crosswalks,
and Estimates.
. Provided updated projections, monthly analyses and reports of
cost and schedule based upon project milestones,
Project completion dates and project budget accomplished
using the Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria
(C/SCSC) established by the Department of Energy (DOE).
CHEMICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC., Columbia, SC, 1991 - 1993
Nuclear Waste Division of Waste Management, Inc., largest
international waste disposal company.
Project Controls Specialist
Responsible for control of costs and schedules associated with
conduct of projects for government and commercial
Customers. Implemented and maintained the Project Management
System for assigned projects.
. Effectively forecasted and managed budget for $1 million
Department of Defense (DOD) project that was\ completed on
schedule and under budget.
. Created and utilized computer spreadsheets to enable 98%
accuracy in projecting daily costs and allocating\` resources.
. Reduced bid processing time for award of $3.2 million project
from normal three months to two weeks through application of strong
technical skills and high level persistence.
. Monitored costs during temporary period of project
demobilization, which contributed to minimizing
unnecessary client expenses.
All above projects included the following:
- Roadmap Methodology Documentation (ERWM).
- Development of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) & WBS
Dictionaries.
- Development and maintenance of baseline.
- Tracking budgets (costs) and schedules.
- Identifying problem areas (Variance Analyses).
- Perform change control to Performance Measurement Baseline
(PMB).
EDUCATIONAL/TECHNICAL TRAINING
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; Accounting, 1983 - 1987
FAS SAFEPASS (European Safety Standard Course - Construction Industry)
Materials Requirements Planning (MRPII), Just-In-Time (JIT) Management
Total Quality System (TQS) Seminar, DIALOG (on-lone Research) Seminars,
Expanded Management Systems (EMS), 40-Hour OSHA - Hazardous Waste Workers
Training
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association of Cost Engineers (AACE), 1991 - Present
American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), 1989 - Present
American Management Association (AMA), 1987 - Present
Project Management Institute (PMI), 1991 - Present
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