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Project Manager

Location:
March Air Reserve Base, CA
Posted:
January 28, 2013

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Vernon has nearly ** years of experience in leading, training and

developing project team personnel in cost engineering, planning and

scheduling and reporting systems and project management. This experience

has been gained first as a US Army Ordnance Officer, various scheduler and

cost positions, project control manager, and project manager positions.

Vernon's project experience covers a wide variety of projects including

construction and decommissioning of government facilities, commercial

facilities, waste remediation, airport expansions, highways and roads,

power generation, school systems, a major league baseball stadium and IT.

He has helped companies and US government agencies transition their

projects to ANSI compliant Earned Value Management (EVM). Vernon has

successfully led major projects through preparation for and achievement of

US Government Earned Value Management system acceptance (DCMA and others).

Vernon has trained hundreds of planner/schedulers, cost analysts/engineers,

Control Account Managers and project managers in the fundamentals of

scheduling, risk analysis, cost engineering and EVM for project management.

The overall value of programs that Mr. Stultz has assisted in managing is

several billion dollars.

Proficient in all aspects of Project Management including but not limited

to: planning, estimating, scheduling, cost control, schedule control, and

project reports. Vernon is also very experienced with development and

implementation of earned value management systems to include: EVM system

description development, baseline estimating, cost control, planning,

performance measurement, risk identification and mitigation, and project

reporting.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

12/2010 Present Project Management Consultant

Vernon has worked with Lockheed Martin Aerospace as part of a team

assisting in their effort to re-obtain the DCMA acceptance of their EVMS.

I worked at the LM Aero facility in Northern Texas and in Atlanta, Ga. My

role was training CAMs, project managers and program managers in the medium

and advanced EVMS and project management processes. These included

scheduling (baseline development and maintenance), schedule risk

assessment, DCMA 14 point health checks for scheduling, and Integrated

Baseline Reviews (IBR).

Vernon also worked with Textron Defense Systems (Wilmington, Ma and

Baltimore, Md) Revising their EVMS to current standards (Wilmington). His

effort in Baltimore was to assist that subsidiary with their EVMS

implementation and preparation for the acceptance review process. Both of

these efforts involved considerable emphasis on schedule preparation and

control, schedule health assessments and schedule risk assessment.

05/2006 - 12/2010 Director, Earned Value Management - Integrated

Management Concepts

Director of Earned Value Management, Principal Consultant (2006 - Present).

Mr. Stultz a key member of the management team and is the company

representative for earned value management. Vernon is responsible for

establishment and maintenance for EVM for Integrated Management Concepts

and its clients. These responsibilities include EVM

training/mentoring/consulting, Primavera P5 and P6 setup and training, EVMS

documentation, EV assessments and gap analysis for our clients,

participation in EVM surveillance, and participation on US government

agency compliance review teams. Vernon and his team are maintaining

company policies and procedures for EVM in a current state. He has and

helped our NASA, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense (primer

contractors) clients improve their earned value management approach to

project management. As an example, he was the engagement manager for our

contract with NASA's Exploration Directorate (ESMD) to transition all ESMD

projects (specifically the replacement for the current Space Shuttle) to a

consistent and compliant Earned Value Management System. Accordingly he

worked with senior NASA program management, program managers and control

account managers to provide resolve issues and provide accurate status. He

is currently assisting a major defense contractor client effort to bring

their EVMS up to current standards and is aiding several medium sized

government contractor clients in their efforts to include EVM as a best

practice for their current and future programs.

05/2000- 05/2006 Parsons, Inc

Manager of Cost and Schedule / Earned Value Management Focal Point / Senior

Project Controls Manager. Mr. Stultz was the Functional Manager for

Parsons Infrastructure and Technology Group schedulers and cost engineers.

He was responsible for the allocating Schedulers and Cost Engineers to

Parsons Projects as well as for their professional development. He was

responsible for the development and implementation of cost and scheduling

tools and coordination with Parsons IT/IS group. This coordination was for

the development, installation and implementation of corporate management

systems. Mr. Stultz was also responsible for planning and leading the

implementation of earned value management for Parsons Projects in the

United States and abroad. As such he was the project manager that was

successful in obtaining EVM acceptance for two major Chemical Weapons

Demilitarization projects in the US, a major Chemical Weapons

Demilitarization Project and a missile demilitarization project in Russia.

One of the projects in the US (the Blue Grass Army Depot Chemical

Demilitarization project) was a joint venture between Parsons and Bechtel

Corporation. As such, he worked with Parsons' and Bechtel's project

management providing leadership and advice in project controls for nearly a

year. He determined the need for more than 80 cost and schedule personnel

for infrastructure renewal projects in Iraq and spent nearly 5 months there

to ensure that Parsons EVM system was properly implemented. Mr. Stultz

served as a division level project controls manager and transitioned nearly

65% of Parsons Infrastructure and Technology projects to a compliant

approach to EVM. Finally, he acted as Parsons' representative to the

Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) and the Defense Contract Auditing

Agency (DCAA).

04/1994- 05/2000 Fluor Daniel, inc

Project Control Manager (1996 - 2000). Mr. Stultz served as a Project

Controls Manager for the Waste Management program component of the Fluor

Daniel Fernald Department of Energy Decommissioning Program.

His responsibilities included the development and implementation of the EVM

oriented project control system to meet both the needs of the client and

program management. He lead a team of 25 schedulers, cost engineers,

estimators and reporting specialists that provided project controls support

to internal and external customers and stakeholders. He also responsible

for training project management personnel in cost and schedule analysis and

reporting. Responsible for the development and implementation of project

controls guidance and procedures. As the Waste Management Program project

controls manager Mr. Stultz: Developed and maintained the integrity of the

program's Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Maintain integrity of Performance

Measurement Baseline through revision of and adherence to change control

procedure, Maintained the baseline and forecast master schedules for the

program, Reviews and approval of construction contractor schedule of

values, approval of schedule, payment request, and change order, and risk

identification and mitigation.

1988 - 1994 Project Controls Consultant

Mr. Stultz was the co-founder and senior consultant of a small company

specializing in project scheduling, cost engineering, and project

control He was directly involved in developing scope, schedule and

budgets for government and commercial projects. Also assisted

companies in training project controls and project management

personnel in effective project control systems and techniques. The

most significant projects, many running simultaneously, Projects

includes: Westinghouse, inc. Hanford, Wa. (DOE), Indiana Department of

Public Works, Richmond Indiana Power and Light, Indianapolis Airport

Authority, Jacobs Field Baseball Stadium Construction project,

Aviation Constructors, Inc. Expansion of Greater Cincinnati / Northern

Kentucky International Airport, and the renovation of various

facilities for the Greater Cincinnati Public Schools System. The

majority of this time Mr. Stultz acted as a contracted project

controls manager directly supporting project and program managers and

training other project controls managers.

1987 - 1988 Planner / Scheduler Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.

Mr. Stultz created and maintained the baseline schedule and cost plan for

Cincinnati Milacron's Greenville, South Carolina plant expansion.

Created the baseline schedule and cost plan for establishing a global

communication network to support Milacron's worldwide operations.

1986 - 1987 Planning and Scheduling Consultant

Mr. Stultz was responsible for planning, scheduling, cost estimating,

reporting and implementation of a maintenance management/Quality

Control System for two Ford stamping plants (Chicago Heights, 111. and

Walton Hills, Ohio).

1985 - 1986 Maintenance Superintendent General Motors, Inc.

Mr. Stultz was responsible for substituting for all maintenance

superintendents during their vacations. Lead several teams of craft

supervisors and personnel in the maintenance of various manufacturing

processes such as foundry operations, heavy precise machining,

automobile assembly, inventory control and retrieval systems, and

packaging. Also evaluated contractor schedules and estimates for the

installation of new automated processes for the plants. Began using

P3 for schedules at this time.

1979 - 1985 Commissioned Officer, United States Army Ordnance Corp

During a six year active duty career in the US Army, Mr. Stultz attained

the rank of Captain. He was trained as a logistician through various

assignments and military and civilian schools. This training included

project planning, scheduling and cost analysis. Provided planning

support for major exercises and deployments to Egypt and Grenada,

assisting with the planning for fielding of the HUMV light utility

vehicle to the XVIII Airborne Corps and planning the automation of

maintenance and manufacturing operations for the XVIII Airborne Corps.

Honorable discharge.

EDUCATION FORMAL

Degree Type School Name Year

BA Political Science Xavier university 1979

EDUCATION TECHNICAL

Technical Training Course Name Date

Provider

US Army Quartermaster Officer advanced 1985

Course

US Army Ordnance Office Advanced Course 1983

Primavera, Inc. Primavera Scheduler 1996

certification Course

CERTIFICATIONS

Certification Name Date

Project Management Professional (PMP) - #536225 Current

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating Systems Databases Desktop Software

MS Windows XP MS SQL Server 4.21 to MS Office 97/2007/2010

Professional current

MS Windows Access 97/2007/2010 Visio

DecisionEdge Suite

Crystal Reports

Utilities Project Management Other

Programming Tools Primavera PM (thru ver 6) NASA Technology Readiness

- Trainer Level Process and reporting

MS Access (thru 2010) Decision Edge Suite of EVM Oracle, Terminal Server,

Tools Citrix

MS Project thru 2010

Microframe project Manager

(MPM)

Timberline Estimating

wInsight EVM Reporting

Tools

Deltek - Cobra and EVMS Reporting and analysis

wInsight



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