Peter J. Costa

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Boeing South Carolina Sr Project Manager, Site Business Operations, N.

Charleston, SC

Sept 2013 - Oct 2014

. Project Lead for $150 mil. Final Assembly expansion project at BSC in

preparation for the 787-10. Providing future capability to reduce

factory cycle time with dual line capacity and reduce additional delta

flow required for 787-10 minor model introduction.

. Led a cross function team in strategically placing $30 mil. 787-10

build ahead inventory and safety stock inventory on the Boeing South

Carolina Site by optimizing current site factory footprint for space

utilization using 5S and kanban techniques leading to $13 mil of cost

avoidance.

. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for BSC directive management process and

procedures. Site Business Operations for viability on new statement of

work development.

. Project lead for the BSC Concept of Operations and Site Execution Plan

(SEP) and BSC support for 787 Program Execution Plan (PEP) which are

used as roadmap to define the sites and programs strategic goals and

operational strategies.

. Provides Business Operations support for overall site strategy,

including the Site Integrated Phasing Plan and activities necessary to

meet the future vision of the site.

Rate Readiness & Factory Field Skill Team Sr Project Manager, BSC 787

Project Management, N. Charleston, SC

Jan 2013 - Sept 2013

. Project Manages a cross functional team in various projects to reduce

the flow time of Pos 4 SOW to make 8 and 6 day rate.

. Leads a team to create a production test troubleshooting assessment

and training to reduce the duration of PT SOW by 3 flow days.

. Given emergent task to standardize the Factory Field Skill Team

metrics and improve accuracy in a short window of time. Provides Site

Director Level Leadership analysis on current operations long term

strategy of employment stability solutions. Improved ability to manage

site resources to the EAC and the metrics are now part best practices.

. Project manager of the Factory Field Skill Team; improved the meeting

architecture by creating a standardized weekly/monthly/quarterly

operating rhythm and continuously sets policies and procedures. SME

for numerous projects in work. Liaison between site operations and

multiple job functions.

. Guided site leadership to enhance the quality of monthly BG&O

conversations for site operations through various projects & tools

which led to conducting successful training for 236 Site P&M managers.

. Site SME for Operations staffing decision for long range business

goals.

Sr Final Assembly Operations Analyst, 787 Final Assembly Operations, N.

Charleston, SC 2012

. Enhanced FA daily factory metrics by tailoring the data to fit the

needs of first line managers to director level leadership. FA SME for

daily output reporting. Trained/led other Analysts on complex

reporting.

. Designed the content, layout and was the SME for the factory airline

customer meeting for FA and continually worked with Boeing customer

representatives to assess the customers' needs.

. Developed and was the SME for quality metrics used at the Quality CAB

meeting which reduced nonconformance's by 40% in 2012.

. Provided Sr Management with detailed information to effectively manage

overhead labor hour's budget for FA. Worked hand in hand with finance

to develop a budget for each task, based on resource assumptions which

resulted in providing visibility to inaccurate charging which we were

then able to improve in the future.

. Collaborated with Finance in developing a weekly OT report by manager,

mechanic and support OT on a standard operating rhythm. Prior to these

reports, this level and turnaround of OT reporting was not possible at

FA BSC.

. Designed and deployed FA Operations town hall that was used as a

template for all FA organizations. Trained other analysts on process

and procedure.

Boeing, Procurement Cost Analyst, Supplier Analysis, Procurement Financial

Analysis, Mesa, AZ 2011

. Works with engineering to create bottoms up labor estimates to

evaluate against the proposed hours from proposals provided by the

Supplier.

. Conducts million dollar cost/budgeting analyses using statistical

tools, market trend data and parametric models on Apache helicopter

suppliers which optimize the fee for the program.

. Works with suppliers to manage operating expenses by reducing the

amount of sole source procurement efforts on the Apache program by

incentivizing suppliers to go out for competitive quotes.

. Worked with Senior Leadership in Finance, Program Management and

Supplier Management on a project that developed a supplier proposal

tracking tool that drastically improved the cycle times of procuring

parts and is currently being adopted BDS wide.

Boeing, Contracts Administrator, Apache USG Contracts and Pricing, Mesa, AZ

2010 - 2011

. Worked with Boeing suppliers on a $50 million unsolicited proposal for

tooling to the Department of Defense (DoD) to ensure rate readiness of

a scheduled ramp up of production to 10 Apache helicopters per month

in 2012 and created program acquisition milestones.

. Worked with Boeing Executives in conducting strategic market reviews

to help determine where Boeing should deploy its assets to gain new

business, which led to Boeing signing two international customers each

with orders over $75 million.

Boeing, Procurement Cost Analyst, Material Estimating, Procurement

Financial Analysis, Mesa, AZ 2009 - 2010

. Created BESM (Boeing Estimating Systems Manual) compliant material

estimate for Mesa's $117 million antenna's and wires proposal in 20

days for the Navy's acquisition of 124 F/A-18 aircrafts, saving 40

days of proposal prep time compared to the average epic proposal.

. Worked on 70 material estimates in all stages of the proposal process

(initial estimates, pre-sweeps, post-sweeps, recorded cost estimates,

debit/credit estimates) ranging from different platforms such as

Apache, F/A-18, C-17, F-15 & others.

. Led a team that streamlined the material estimating process by

creating a sole source excel document that leaned out manual effort

with the use of macros and formula's saving proposal prep time for

proposals.

Boeing, Business and Planning Analyst, Business Operations, Corpus Christi

Army Depot (CCAD), Mesa, AZ 2008 - 2009

. Performed quarterly and miscellaneous EACs for the $500 million CCAD

Apache and Chinook programs.

. Led a cross functional team composed of Program Management, Contracts,

Engineering and Quality Assurance to reduce the amount of excess

inventory on the CCAD contract by selling it to other Apache programs

at a discount rate which decreased the liabilities on the CCAD

contract while reducing cost on other Apache contracts.

. Program Finance lead in establishing $5.2 million Joint Recovery and

Delivery Systems (JRaDS) contract where I baselined the contract in

half the allotted time, performed beyond the customers' expectations

receiving an additional $2.1 million follow-on contract with a long

range business plan to grow the program over $20 million. .

Boeing, Business Skills Rotation Program (BSRP), Mesa, AZ

. Graduated from the Business Skills Rotation Program (BSRP) that

contributes to the BDS Finance strategy to Develop the Finance Team by

exposing new employees to various finance disciplines early in their

careers. The program is designed to build a solid foundation of

business breadth while enabling employees to determine an area of

specialization upon program completion.

Walt Disney Studio's, VFX Production Finance Associate, Burbank, CA

. Created a VFX tax credit calculation tool allowing the opportunity to

input variables such as forecast cost and preferred state, to output

the most cost effective visual effects' vendors based on the state's

tax credits and discounts.

Target Corporation, Supply Chain Intern, Minneapolis, MN

. Developed a new release product placement program that integrated non-

hit new release titles into stores that did high volumes of that

genre, improving Target's DVD market share to 13%.

Embry Riddle Aviation University, Master of Science, Project Management,

Charleston, SC In Progress

Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business, Bachelors of

Science, Tempe, AZ 2008

Finance Major Cumulative GPA 3.8/4.0

SOFTWARE/TRAINING

Project Management Institute (PMI), EAS, FDR, FDAP, ICAA, CSPR, COGNOS,

APES, CBOM, ICHS, BEST, CCS, Vista, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Windows, MS

Office, Access, SAP, ERP, EPIC, Lean+, Dale Carnegie

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