Project Manager Engineer
Resume:
Melissa K. Parker
*** ****** *** ** ? Huntsville, Alabama ? 404-***-**** ?
*******@*****.***
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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