Paula Pinto

**** **** ***** ****** **** Raton FL 33434

Home Tel.: 514-***-****, Cell.: 514-***-****

Email: ac2dhq@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Highly reliable and experienced Project Control Officer with a superb record of Planisware schedule and financial management. Considerable experience in project assistance for a variety of Military aviation and training private and governmental organizations. Strongly adept at handling multiple projects simultaneously and bringing them to completion in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Education

Project Management Institute – Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM) (2015)

Montreal University, (HEC), Intl. Commerce Certificate

Vanier College – Business Administration Associate’s Degree

Core Qualifications Profile

Leadership Strengths:

Knowledge of cost control & estimating of multi-million dollar projects

Comprehensive knowledge of project management procedures & systems with more than 15 yrs. experience in Project Management Portfolios ranging up to 120 M.

Creative, problem solving and process initiatives

Possess great communication, managerial and interpersonal skills

Translation: Tri-Lingual English, Spanish, French

Computers & Administration: Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/Power Point/Microsoft Project, Outlook), HTML, Oracle, Planisware (financial and scheduling resource SW), SharePoint, Sim Issues (action items database) & Prizm (risk database)

Career achievement

Financial:

oImproved investment returns through budget reductions on operating incomes of 120M

oAchieved over 90% quality and schedule performance upon program deliverables

Processes Initiatives Improvements:

oAnalyzed & updated all PCO (project coordinator officer) processes in PMO SharePoint site

oWrote new processes & updated existing ones

Training:

oLearned and mastered “Planisware & Oracle” once implemented within the company

oVolunteered as a Business expert to train and coach employees within the organization with the new tool “Planisware”.

Experience Highlights

CAE, Inc.

Project Controller – Military Defense & Security (2013 - Current)

Execute programs from Initiation (contract award) to closure (product delivery)

Analyze, coordinate and validate financial breakdowns

Monitor cost control activities, profiles budgets and provides monthly variance analysis

Negotiates budget allocation reductions with work package managers

Generating, reviewing and analyzing progress reports with financial and schedule status

Issue commercial invoices for major sea and air shipments

Process corresponding insurance coverage and export permits to Canadian government

Preparing monthly expenditure forecast and estimating project profitability

Developing and executing plans for mitigating risks involved in projects

Government remittances and audit preparation

Complete hedging request to treasury for the list of contractual milestones schedule and values

Projects Coordinator –Military Defense & Security Division (1998 – 2013)

Monitor cost, profile budgets and process milestone payments

Process customer change orders and upload budgets in our financial systems

Monitor schedule and expedite deliverable shipments

Prepare monthly progress reports

Meeting Logistics: prepare agendas, attend meetings and take meeting minutes

Submit export permit request for government approval

Labrador Laurentian Spring Water

Quality Assurance Quality Control (1998)

Review all company standards for ISO approval/certification

Review and improve all company process initiatives

Review and assign new forms and documentation

Neugine of America

Bookkeeper / Accountant (1995 – 1998)

General accounting data entry, weekly checks reports & complete the financial statements

Maintain clients and suppliers accounts to date as well as inventory

Send correspondence to clients and suppliers and file all documentation.

Other Completed Courses

Online (Crossknowledge) Financials and Management courses

Online (Crossknowledge) export control regulations: control goods & ITAR

Online (Crossknowledge) Planisware courses

CAE Internal Training Introduction to Aviation course

CAE internal training Advanced Microsoft excel course

PMI institution CAPM certification course training and exam review preparation

Toastmaster group meetings for advanced communication skills presentations

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