Program Cost and Scheduling Analyst

Cathy Bowman

903-***-**** ac1p3q@r.postjobfree.com

Financial Cost Analyst

Experienced Finance and Supply Chain Analyst in cost support for major contracts. Knowledge includes: bids and proposals, marketing, capital budgets, overhead budgets, annual operating plans, five year plans, estimate to complete, and execution of bidding process in preparing material pricing plans in response to customer request for pricing. Instrumental in initiating a program to upload a WBS structure into SAP via excel spread resulting in cost savings.

Six Sigma Specialist

SAP

Microframe Project Management System (MPM)

Project Work Authorization Tracking System (PWA Generator)

Earned Value Level III Certified

ROMs

Excellent Communicator

Finance Cost and Control Accounting System (FCCA)

Held a Government Secret Clearance at L-3 Communications

Work Breakdown Structure

Propricer

Advance use of Excel, PowerPoint

Customer Service Skills

PhaseLink

Fujitsu

Richardson, Texas

Project Analyst Oct 2014 - Current

Create, manage and disburse reports related to projects dealing with infrastructure services including network and communication services, technical and maintenance services and data services.

Maintain project assets, communications and related database

Evaluating and monitoring the overall project

Reviewing and reporting the project’s budget and finances and support program managers throughout the United States.

Routinely performing complete or component analysis

Notify project team about abnormalities or variances

Raytheon

Garland, Texas 2014 – Oct 2014

Material Estimating & Cost Analysis

Participate in proposal planning in pursuit of contract awards and develop pricing strategies.

Price the bill of materials and develop supporting rationale detailing Task Description (TD) and Basis of Estimate (BOE) for supply chain management in support of the proposal package.

Support the material estimate through customer fact-finding and prime contract negotiations in Customer and government audits.

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Raytheon, Cont’d

Support post negotiation activities by developing the material negotiation baseline for submittal to Finance.

Support Proposal updates, pre-negotiation and post-negotiation sweeps.

MCKINNEY, TEXAS

PROGRAM COST ANALYST 2007 – 2011

Finance and cost control support on programs resulting in profits from 15% to 30% on bookings totaling $4.1M with net sales of $4.8M.

Applied Six Sigma concepts at all levels of organization.

Earned Value Level III certification acquired in 2009 and applied to required programs and improving program performance through understanding and baselining of earned value management.

Forecast and analysis of cost data resulting in revenue recognition for Raytheon through estimating at complete at program level by reviewing with program management and finance management.

Coordinate cost reviews with cost account managers, and program and finance managers for cost savings, potential risk and manpower projections.

Develop annual operating plan and five- year plan.

GREENVILE, TEXAS

PROGRAM COST CONTROL AND SCHEDULER ANALYST 1995 – 2006

Analyze, forecast, plan and price programs with multi-million dollar sales covering defense programs, bids and proposals, marketing pursuits, overhead budgets and capital budgets.

Finance and cost control support for programs with multi-million dollar sales and pursuit activities including maintenance and reporting of the performance baseline data for the defense industry.

Initialed and developed the first upload program to set up new projects in SAP.

Analysis of cost data to determine trends, potential cost savings and risks areas, maintenance of manpower projection data, preparation of cost data and briefing material and coordination with the Division Accounting organization to ensure consistency of data and similar task related to program cost performance.

Executed earned value on various programs by tracking progress on baseline which provides insight into historical and trend metrics regarding the program's performance. Submitted CPR's and CSSR's to customer for reporting schedule performance index and cost performance index.

Capital Coordinator for Greenville L-3 which included gathering data and reviewing with the Vice President to meet the guidelines and budgets as set forth by the Chief Finance Officer.

Managed multi-million dollars effort for Bid & Proposals and Marketing Pursuits while providing financial status to finance director, CFO and business unit managers.

Established forward pricing rates utilized in proposals for potential business as well as forecasting overhead budgets as a means of managing day-to-day operations.

Submitted pricing bids requested by potential customers both internal and external.

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Bachelor of Science – Business

Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas

Associate of Science – General Business

Paris Junior College, Greenville, Texas

Graduated with Honors

Toastmasters International, McKinney, Texas – 2011/2012 Secretary

Business and Professional Women's Organization – Past VP and Membership Chairman

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