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Project Manager Engineer

Location:
Huntsville, AL, 35801
Posted:
March 09, 2010

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Resume:

Melissa K. Parker

*** ****** *** ** ? Huntsville, Alabama ? 404-***-**** ?

abm529@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Attributes

o Secret Security Clearance - Department of Defense (DoD)

o Earned Value Management System (EVMS)

o Engineering/Procurement/Construction Cost and Schedule

o Working knowledge of FAR

o Historical Cost Report

o Bechtel Procurement System (Proprietary)

o Contracts and Subcontract Administration

o Process Improvement of Material Acquisition Services (MAS)

o Enhanced Cost and Commitment process

o Six Sigma

Professional Experience

Bechtel National, Inc., Ground-based Mid-course Defense (GMD) Project,

Huntsville, AL

Cost Engineer 2008 - Present

o Manage the largest subcontractor for GMD project with a total budget

of $145M

o Utilize P6 for schedule planning, development and weekly maintenance

for the subcontractor status, report weekly schedule status and

progress to the both internal, external customers and the government

o Status cost and schedule performance for Subcontractor and Procurement

accounts, report to management and customer on a monthly basis

o Monitor subcontractors burn rate to identify appropriate monthly

accruals

o Perform Cost Reporting and Variance Analysis for the monthly CPR using

EVMS techniques

o Cost code and approve of Procurement/Engineer Purchase Memorandums,

Commitment Authorizations, Purchase Order and Subcontractor invoices

o Coordinate trends (change control) with CAMs for scope changes with

preparations with the appropriate ECP information; forecast analysis

and assistance from the appropriate departments; Estimating,

Procurement, Engineering, etc

o Research and develop preparations for subcontractors negotiations

using ECPs, RFPs, & NTP

o Prepared complex analysis for the Project Manager, Deputy PM and other

management members to establish the suitable range of fee for

Subcontractor's negotiations and closeout

o Provide finance analysis, identify variances, recommend corrective

actions, and report progress on scope, status schedule activities

o Work with Cost Account Managers (CAMs) in the preparation of monthly

cost and schedule variance explanations for control accounts exceeding

the established thresholds

o Support Procurement/Construction/Engineering CAMs in managing Earned

Value

Wachovia N.A. Marietta, Georgia

financial specialist 2006 - 2008

o Utilized skills and superior product knowledge to perform benefit

analysis

o Efficient in cost business planning via operational and financial

metrics, reports and dashboards

o Responsible for $130 million in customer deposits/investments

o Product Costing and Customer profitability analysis using Marketing

Customer Information File (MCIF)

o Determined customer profitability and lifetime value each month, and

also computes potential lifetime value

o Used operational model (Pegasis & Mainframe) to provide accurate

representation of cost principles

o Analyzed the current market daily in correspondence to clients overall

goal

o Worked with 'Predictive Cost and Operations Modeling' platform that

integrates finance, operations and decision-support techniques, which

take input data from new and existing client profiles

o Adhered to banking compliance and regulations, protocols and

procedures

o Used Six Sigma methodologies to sustain quality improvement

commitments from the entire Financial Center team

o Proven methodologies - including activity based costing to help

analyze customer profitability and realize the market value

o Identified cost resulting from customers acquired activities of

indirect and direct to Wachovia's overhead cost

o Reviewed future and past performance analysis

Emory university, Atlanta, Georgia

RESEARCH/PROJECT ANAYLIST; Pulmonary Department for Pediatrics 2005

o Constructed plausible measures of the costs and benefits of specific

laboratory inventory

o Buyer of equipment, developing new capabilities, and enhancing

existing capabilities by increasing operational effectiveness,

improving safety, maximizing availability and reducing the cost

o Used EVMS to measure technical performance with planned work

o Performed schedule and cost performance analysis

o Analyzed future warning performance problems to keep the project team

focused on achieving progress

o Assisted in the research for the treatment of Cystic Fibrosis

o Supported animal research studies involving the inflammatory response

to endo-toxins using gene therapy to replace defective genes

o Managed the abstraction procedures for histology observation

o Prepared approximately 36 whole-cell extracts from acquired biopsies

o Conducted 90 protein assay from prepared samples

o Organized all samples for slide preparation and observation for

histology

Education

Master of Business Administration - Project Management; Ellis College of

NYIT

Bachelor of Science - Biology; University of Georgia

Associates of Science - Mathematics; Georgia Perimeter College

Computer Skills

Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Visio, Adobe Acrobat,

Primavera (P6), Prism



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