Project Management

Niranjala Jiffrey, PMP

Phone #: 847-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Focused, dedicated and highly motivated professional offering 18 + years of experience in life cycle project management from conception to completion. Known for excelling at strategic planning, managing project expectations and priorities, analyzing project risks, facilitating risk mitigation and managing cross functional team dynamics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Human Solutions Inc. Des Plains, IL May/2014 – May /2017

(Federal Aviation Administration ETASS Support Contract)

5/2014- 5/2017 Chicago Airspace Project-Sr. System Engineer III

Developed an integrated project schedule to track new runway 9C/27C, Navigational Aids decommissioning activities, airspace changes, facility LOA’s (Letter of Agreement), SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) changes, air traffic controller training, Safety Risk Analysis and Charting/Publications.

Applied project management techniques and tools such as earned value management to determine project performance and variance. Used Gantt charts, PERT charts, milestone charts and earned value management to determine project progress and reported to senior leadership.

Brought two facilities with different engineering cultures and methods to a new common FAA-compliant quality system. Work included bridging difficult inter-department politics and resolving numerous process and workflow issues, all while motivating staff primarily by influence, due to the roles involved.

Designed project budget for $1M South Suburban Feasibility project budget consists of feasibility analysis plan, simulation and modeling cost, resource travel and overtime costs. Traveled to McLean Virginia, and Washington DC for this project for analysis, requirements, and simulation modeling work.

Led projects through entire project development life cycle to develop application-specific systems capable of meeting current and long-range corporate information management requirements. Produced and managed deliverable through formal project plans. Developed project charter, communication management plan, project management plan budget for Chicago Airspace Project Stage III Airspace Redesign and Modeling/Simulation activities.

Constructed an integrated project schedules for new runway 10R/28L and new Air Traffic Control Towers projects encompassing IT equipment requirements for the ATCT tower, airspace changes, new arrival procedure development, sector designing, publication, air traffic controller training, safety risk analysis and environmental review.

Developed a feasibility analysis report for South Suburban Airport (Peotone, IL) for feasibility assessment study. Collected data (existing + proposed new runway) for Chicago metropolitan area airspace/air traffic data, and developed schedule to track project progress and provided status update report project manager/IDOT/and FAA AGL Regional administrator.

Planned and coordinated project meetings with Illinois Department Of Transportation (IDOT), Federal Aviation Administration headquarters, Chicago air traffic control facilities. Captured and documented SSA airport background information, satellite airports, and ORD/MDW/adjacent airports information. Planned and coordinated meetings with stake holders (airlines, airports, towers, facilities and all the line of business).

Designed and developed SharePoint sites, linked lists, document libraries to track major projects, utilized InfoPath forms to collect information by designing Access/SQL databases, and developed workflows using SharePoint Designer to automate day to day tasks. Trained users in SharePoint to develop sites, create forms utilizing the InfoPath, and develop workflows using the SharePoint Designer. Designed Dashboards to display Excel reports, charts, and matrix for overtime usage for each district facilities.

Streamlined training, adapted and simplified SOPs, and enabled understanding, buy-in, and ownership of process by multiple teams. Designed and implemented user setup, end-user training materials, testing procedures and standard operating procedures(SOP)

CSSI Inc. Des Plains, IL Mar /2011 – May/2014

(Federal Aviation Administration eFAST Support Contract)

3/2011- 5/2014 Chicago Airspace Project- Sr. IT Technical Analyst

Developed/Managed an integrated project schedules for Chicago Airspace Project, a $10 + Billion, 10 year, multistage project encompassing Airspace changes, procedure development, sector designing, route designing, publication and training equipment installation for new Air Traffic Control Towers (ATCT), IT equipment requirements, navigational aids equipment required for new runways, budget submissions.

Managed $5M budget and coordinated project plan and implementation of Chicago Airspace Project Stage III design work and implementation. Constructed /maintained Chicago Airspace Project schedules for Stage III, and Stage II correction, to track airspace changes, procedures, and implementation activities (procedures development, publication, User briefings, Safety Risk Analysis, and training).

Evaluated and defined process, tools methods, and critical success factors impacting processes. Calculated ROIs, recommended and prepared justification for $1M budget for airspace redesign and Air Traffic equipment requirements.

Coordinated in conjunction with the FAA lines of business, headquarters, facilities and Service Areas to mitigate solutions for project issues. Created a project plan and hosted monthly project meetings; documented proceedings by reviewing schedules and commitments with the senior managers during the Stage 2 implementation.

LOCKHEED MARTIN, Des Plains, IL Nov/1998 – Feb/2011

(Federal Aviation Administration National Airspace Implementation Support Contract)

8/2007- 2/2011 O’Hare Modernization Program- Sr. Systems Engineering Planner

Provided project management support for the planning and implementation phases of various complex airport runway projects to ensure Sponsor designed and built according to FAA standards. Identified schedule constraints and issues.

Identified potential scheduling conflicts for equipment systems and alerted appropriate FAA personnel.

Maintained integrity of navigational aids/runway schedules; posted on-line for area teams to review and foster communication within various organizations.

Participated in field visits to FAA ATCT sites to track progress of construction and installation activities.

Constructed and maintained extensive project plans and task breakdowns by resource, using Microsoft Project. As well as developed summary reports and communicated project status to multiple levels of management.

Allocated resources, monitor project status, and baseline schedules reported any deviation or issues to the project manager.

Created critical path diagram and network diagram to identified root cause of project delays and discussed the issues in coherent manner with the management.

2/2005- 8/2007 Terminal Planning and Engineering- Sr. Computer System Analyst

Migrated all the engineering drawings to a new document management system (ProjectWise).

Provided user training for all engineering staff for ProjectWise. Designed and provided training plans and website for users to register for the ProjectWise training.

Designed and provided training plans and website for users to register for the ProjectWise training

Facilitated project status meetings, define the needs of the project and communicated project status to appropriate business units with ProjectWise implementation.

Administered and maintained PrjoectWise Oracle database server and ProjectWise application server

11/1998- 2/2005 Information Resource Management- Computer System Analyst

Analyzed the results of LAN software/hardware configuration and provided technical assistance to the IT manager.

Planned, analyzed and researched the requirements for “one click” install to deploy software (Those needed to be configured modified system files) and developed a tool to deploy software to remote offices.

Installed and maintained LAN hardware such as cabling, network interface cards, printers, hubs, routers, switches including client software and hardware to communicate the devises.

Planed for new software/hardware implementation. Analyzed configuration and compatibility issues, coordinate with SMOs, and assist on the implementations of new software/hardware such as LDR, McAfee, and NexGen SCSI and NIC cards.

Managed team of developers to build an application to develop inventory tracking system for leading clients.

Guided in Project Management planning for Lotus Notes upgrade coordinated the work in accordance to the project plan.

Designed websites for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), to update and track the Air Traffic re-organization and visitor information. Developed a database to track web site traffic using ColdFusion, SQL 2000 and JavaScript.

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems, September 2004

Phoenix, Arizona

DeVry UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information System, October 1998

Addison, IL

Graduated with Honors

CERTIFICATION

Project Management Institute

PMP (Project Management Professional) Certified May 2013

CompTia A+ Certified September, 2002

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Core Strengths

Project Management

Budgeting/Forecasting/Metrics

PMP Certified

Planview MS Project

Risk Management

Safety Risk Analysis with quantitative and qualitative analysis

Adapting and delivering defined schedule, scope, quality and budget goals

Project Management Life Cycle

IT Projects, construction, equipment, engineering, and air space redesign projects

Control forecasting of scope and labor spend

Collaborative approach to engage across all stakeholders and teams

ROM development, Cost/Benefit analysis, and Feasibility analysis

Quality Systems

Software Process

Document Review

Design / Implementation of Software Development Life Cycle

Compliant handling/Metrics

Process design- SOP Development

Management Review

Technical review of requirements, specifications hazard analysis and design validation

Platform: Windows 10, 7, XP, 2000, and NT

Software: Proficient in Microsoft SharePoint, Project, Visio, Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher and InfoPath

Database: Oracle, SQL and Microsoft Access

Additional Software: Primavera, TARGETS, PDARS, and Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop

ACCOMPLISHMENTS/HONORS/SPECIAL RECOGNITION

FAA/ATO Excellence Award & Letter of Appreciation (STARS Commission) 2016

FAA/ATO Excellence Award & Letter of Appreciation 2015

FAA Public Service Excellence Award, 2014

CSSI Special Recognition Award 2013

FAA Excellence Award 2008

Lockheed Martin Special Recognition Award 2005, 2007 and 2009

FAA AF National Honorary Award 2002

NISC Spot Award (Lockheed Martin) 1999, 2001, and 2003

Contact this candidate