Deborah DeSanto
Perkasie, PA 18944
267-***-**** (Cell)
Email: ********@*****.***
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
Excellent organizational and computer skills. Function well in both large
and small operations and extremely effective in dynamic settings. Skilled
in the use of a wide range of office equipment.
Software
. Primavera P3 and P6
. MS Project
. Prolog Meridian Software
. Prism
. Oracle
. SAP
. Windows/Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Word, Power Point)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
09/10 to Present DCO Energy
Lawrenceville, NJ
Responsible for creating and maintaining schedules for Providence Landfill
Gas Power Project in Providence, RI and Olinda Landfill Gas Power Project
in Orange County, CA. Responsibilities also include creating and
maintaining the project schedule and costs associated with the resurrection
of the Revel Casino Project in Atlantic City, NJ.
03/10 - 09/10 Jacobs Engineering
Swiftwater, PA
Responsible for Cost, Forecasting, Earned Value, Change Management and
Scheduling for Pharmaceutical Plant, Sanofi Pasteur Building 37 Retrofit
Project. Duties also include coordinating weekly schedule review meetings,
tracking percent complete and providing schedule assistance to the
subcontractors.
06/09 - 03/10 Parsons Corporation
Houston, TX
Responsible for developing and maintaining project engineering and
construction schedule including resource loading for the Papua New Guinea
Liquefied Natural Gas Project for ExxonMobil. Duties also include cost,
forecasting and change management along with assisting Project Controls
Manager as the Business Manager for the Houston Office Energy division.
04/05 - 06/09 URS-Washington Division
Princeton, NJ
Responsible for entire Project Controls Systems, i.e., Cost, Forecasting,
Earned Value, Change Management and Scheduling FGD for Reliant Cheswick
Project. Previous position was responsible for entire Project Controls
Systems on the SCR and FGD for DTE Alliance Project.
07/03 - 04/05 Jacobs Engineering
Conshohocken, PA
Responsible for entire Project Controls Systems, i.e., Cost, Forecasting,
Earned Value, Change Management and Scheduling for Pharmaceutical and
Chemical Plants.
02/03 - 07/03 Princeton University
Physical Planning Department
Princeton NJ
As Project Controls Specialist, helped Primavera and ETrac Solutions debug
the P3ec primavera program along with compiling, maintaining and resource
and cost loading project schedules for Capital and Non-Capital Projects
worth approximately $2 billion dollars. Duties also included overseeing
General Contractor schedules and costs.
04/02 - 02/03 Stone & Webster (A Shaw Group Company)
As Project Controls Analyst, primarily responsibilities include providing
design project control data information tracking and reporting. Assisted
in the development of project plan and schedule. Collected performance
data, including installed quantities, expended labor hours, and other
progress measurements for subcontract work. Create baseline and control
budgets for the project. Identifies and tracks all changes or potential
changes to the project scope. Assisted with the appropriate performance
analysis to determine trends and to make predictions about the costs of the
project at completion and the completion date. Prepares project status
reports, look-ahead reports. Identifies and reports variances to the plan,
so that the team may take corrective action.
12/81 - 04/02 URS - Washington Division
06/00 - 04/02 Power Division
Red Oak Power Station
As Project Controls Specialist assigned to field site, primary
responsibilities include development and implementation of Project Control
procedures and methods for the Red Oak Project. Responsible for overall
project cost reporting as well as supporting scheduling activities as
required. Duties also include performance analysis and reporting, manpower
planning and analysis, cost analysis and control, preparation,
implementation and analysis of overall job status reporting.
10/96 - 06/00 Energy Division
Various Nuclear & Process Maintenance Projects
As Project Controls Specialist primary responsibilities include Primavera
scheduling for nuclear and process maintenance outages and proposals. ESR
monthly reporting and providing the Energy Department with the necessary
Project Controls skills to maintain an overall Project Controls system
appropriate for the department.
03/91 - 10/96 Power Division
AES IB Valley Project
Allegheny Power Corporation
As Project Controls Specialist, responsibilities include set-up and
maintenance of Integrated Project Controls System which includes
Engineering, Progress and Performance (Earned Value System), and Cost Basis
Module. Duties also include set-up and maintenance of Cost and Resource
Management System, Project Schedules, compiling update information with
supervising discipline engineers and design supervisors, preparing graphs
and spreadsheets for Monthly Progress Report, compiling information for
Executive Summary Review meeting, training new hires for Project Control
systems and basic computer programs and providing the project with the
necessary Project Controls skills to successfully develop, implement and
maintain an overall Project Control system.
10/88 - 03/91 Industrial Division
I/N Kote Project Shield
As Project Control Technician, responsibilities included updating and
analyzing schedule, providing support to members of Project Control
Engineering team who were responsible for cost and scheduling on the
electro galvanizing and continuous galvanizing lines at Inland Steel.
Duties also included maintenance of project control file index, work
package breakdown, Engineering Progress and Performance report, Engineering
Procurement Schedule and monthly detail of hour reports.
EDUCATION
Spring Garden College 1990 - 1992 Major: Industrial
Management Technology
Community College of Philadelphia 1980 Supervisory Skills
John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High 1976