Project Manager Management

Tom Gray

Email: *********@********.***

Address: ***** **** ******

City: Westminster

State: CO

Zip: 80035

Country: USA

Phone: 303-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 110

Willing to Relocate

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Tom Allen Gray (PMP)

*********@********.*** 10582 Robb Circle, Westminster, CO 80021 303-***-****

linkedin.com/in/tomgraypmp

SUMMARY

Resourceful Program / Project Manager with Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma certifications. Proven track record of leading complex defense, aerospace, R&D, development, production, factory development, and infrastructure upgrade projects. Demonstrated effectiveness in meeting and exceeding project performance for both budget & schedule, developing innovative, custom software to manage project performance, risks and scope. Skilled at leading diverse teams, leveraging strengths in communication to meet stakeholder expectations. Proven ability to develop charter and project management plans, along with key organizational processes and procedures. Productive contributor, with a track record of integrating diversified engineering background and participative leadership style to drive results.

* Change management

* Emphasis in initiating and planning phases

* Earned value

* Process improvement expert

* Risk management

* Develop custom SW tools for managing projects

* Proposal development

* Stakeholder performance reporting

* Project team leader

* Problem solver using Six Sigma techniques

* New Product Integration (NPI)

* RF Engineering background

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) ENERGY, Arvada, CO 2008 - 2012

Program Manager (2011 to present)

Managed multiple projects as a program to develop the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the US.

* Streamlined organizational processes to better plan, execute, monitor and control related projects as a program.

* Maximized team productivity by building collaboration of virtual and co-located teams.

* Decreased response time of managing program performance from hours to minutes by designing and developing custom tools to control and status of schedule and budget of all related projects.

Operations Manager (2010 to 2011)

Led and supervised 15 direct hires over 3 shifts as a manufacturing operations manager for a 75 MW solar panel manufacturing plant.

* Utilized 5S, six-sigma, Kanban, and other operation management tools and methods in order to maximize operational performance of the production line, which yielded 80% reduction in scrap panels.

* Maximized worker performance across three shifts, leading by example. Fostered a sense of fairness and mutual respect by clearly defining roles and responsibilities of all individuals on the team.

* Increased efficiency by focusing on continuous and repeatable execution. Developed training plan for certifications and re-certifications for all process tools, EHS requirements, and Kanban methods and standards used on production floor.

Project Manager (2008 to 2010)

Developed organizational standards for quality and Project Management Office (PMO) while defining and procuring custom process tools for solar panel production.

* Enhanced marketability by setting the path for ISO, UL and other certifications of future product. Developed organizational processes, work instructions, procedures, QMS manual, and document control in order to establish an operational baseline.

* Developed PMO processes and tools for charter development, project management planning, kick-off, schedule, risk and change management, tracking, summarizing and communicating project status in order to effectively manage single and multiple projects simultaneously.

* Defined requirements, Statement-Of-Work (SOW), Terms & Conditions, and led procurement for various solar process tools that were used to manufacture CdTe photo voltaic solar panels.

BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES, Westminster, CO 2005 - 2008

Sr. Project Engineer

Managed and led project teams through full program life cycle (PLC) on multiple risk reduction, production, and infrastructure projects such as antenna range upgrades.

* Won 2 high visibility, high cost, and high risk projects that starting with the development and delivery of sound technical and budgetary proposals.

* Managed project execution to always be within plan cost and schedule by managing CPI and SPI to be greater than one and by enhancing initiating and planning phases.

* Reduced over 50% of time needed to measure project performance by developing and implementing custom software that combines actual and planned project data for analyzing and communicating project performance.

* Kept weekly visibility and control to projects by utilized EVMS to compute current and estimated future of project performance relative to budget.

* Communicated organizational process and standardizations by developing and implemented interactive Intranet workflow process flow charts.

* Managed key milestones and quality of work by leading various peer and customer reviews, including Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBR), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR), System Requirement Reviews (SRR), Critical Design Reviews (CDR), and Test Readiness Reviews (TRR).

* Maintained critical estimations to be within +/- 10% of actual cost by developing and implementing custom tools, combining parametric, analogous, and expert opinion into a mathematical model.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN / Electronic Systems Sector, Linthicum MD 1999 - 2005

Antenna IPT Lead (2002 - 2005)

Managed project team on high profile partnered project, virtually managed over multiple locations.

* Led project execution to always be within in plan by developing and implemented project management processes, including the charter and project management plan: scope management plan, schedule, risk plan, change control plan, communication plan and others as needed.

* Facilitated all stakeholder communications by leading customer reviews, analyzed and mitigated cost and schedule variances and reporting on current and estimated future performance.

* Managed risk through qualitative and quantitative methods, and scope creep through change control in order to maintain contracted scope and quality.

* Enhanced customer satisfaction by managing major external sub-contracts performance and budget as integrated and stand-alone projects, managing the overall project focusing on consistency and overall project control.

Lead Sr. RF Engineer (1999 - 2002)

Led multidiscipline engineering team through design, prototype, test, build, and procure of an L band switch phase shifter device used on an ESA system. Managed critical RF specs for power handling of over 2k Watts, and low loss.

* Designed L band coplanar 18 to 1 RF switch multiplexer to enhance performance of the outdoor antenna range.

* Leveraged RF engineering knowledge in using PIN diodes for switch and phase shifter circuits in order to produce ultra-fast switching speeds and high input power requirements.

* Authored a disclosure for patent relating to special tuning for loaded line phase shifters.

EDUCATION

BS, Business Management, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

AS, Electronics / Electrical Engineer & Software - PIERCE COLLEGE, Los Angeles CA

CERTIFICATIONS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PMP Certified, PMI member

GE Six Sigma Green Belt certified

Software tools: MS Office suite, MS Project, Visual Basic, AutoCAD

Subcontract Management, Leadership, Systems Engineering, Quality Management, Risk Management, Financial Management, and Crisis Management.

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