Project Controls Specialist

Matthew Jon Jaquish, PMP

* ******* ******, *******, ** 03873

802-***-**** *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Combine my MBA in Innovation and New Venture Management with my Mechanical Engineering background to contribute to the processes, techniques, and opportunities in the product and technology development industries.

PROFILE

●Certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) in 2014

●7 years of experience in the Project Management field working on many different phases of the project life cycle

●Comfortable working with diverse teams and committing to multiple projects and deadlines

●Excels in problem solving situations through opportunity identification and use of creative solutions

●Experience working in Home Office Engineering, Procurement and Delivery Coordination, and On-Site Construction

●Has pursued coursework in financial risk analysis and management of technology

●Enjoys a hands-on work environment with opportunities for problem solving, learning, and personal development

EDUCATION

Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY

Masters of Business Administration May 2008

Track in Innovation and New Venture Management

Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering May 2007

Obtained Fundamentals of Engineering Certification

Concentration in automated manufacturing, innovation and new technology management

WORK EXPERIENCE

Project Controls Specialist

Burns & McDonnell Manchester, NH May 2014 – Present

Member of the program management team supporting a large regional public utility in the siting, permitting, engineering, procurement and construction of a $1.4B high voltage electricity distribution system

Working closely with the legal, environmental and permitting experts to plan and facilitate the application and approval of major siting, environmental and construction permits critical to the success of the grid upgrade

Generating project schedules, work list tracking documents and progress tracking metrics to track and direct the completion of all required permitting reports and engineering to support target application submittal dates

Burns & McDonnell Kansas City, MO December 2013 – May 2014

Provided home office Project Controls support on a variety of projects for clients in the Oil and Gas industry, supporting several project phases including Procurement planning and execution, FEL3 and FEL2 phase engineering

Created project schedules, budgetary breakdowns, and cash flow projections for the management of Engineering and Procurement efforts as well as forecasts throughout project execution to facilitate periodic project status reporting

Utilized weekly team meetings and look ahead schedules to manage and direct engineering efforts focused on the refinement of engineering deliverables as well as the creation of more accurate cost and schedule estimates

Technologies spanned from oil refinery upgrades and expansions, to greenfield natural gas refinement facilities and on site hydrogen plant deployment at oil and gas refineries for increased efficiencies in production

Burns & McDonnell Butler, OK June 2013 – November 2013

●Worked for the EPC contractor to maintain construction schedule and track field construction progress on a $100MM midstream Natural Gas refinery, coordinating civil, mechanical, electrical and piping subcontractors

●Completed project on an accelerated schedule and worked with client on system completion and turnover to provide a mechanically complete and ready for product plant 2 months ahead of the original completion date.

●Coordinated submittal and verification of subcontractor schedules, earned value, and remaining scope to measure progress against actual costs and forecast likelihood of project completion on schedule; helped to direct recovery in the cases of missed progress and changing or added scope.

●Chaired weekly schedule progress meetings with subcontractors and participated in daily punch list review.

Senior Scheduling Consultant

Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station Blair, NE January 2013 – May 2013

●Maintained the Recovery Engineering Schedule and managed alignment between the various engineering programs and the engineering schedulers to support outage work, NRC inspection, and station restart.

●Daily interaction with engineering leads to maintain an accurate schedule and provide weekly management reports on recovery status and remaining engineering work; including critical path analysis, weekly project slip, project burn down curves and baseline key performance indicators.

●Assisted the Outage Control Center in schedule analysis; including reporting schedule baseline accuracy, daily schedule effectiveness, emerging work and schedule variation reporting.

Project Planner

Babcock Power Inc. Worcester, MA September 2011 – December 2012

●Participated in the management of project schedule, engineering and project man-hour tracking, subcontract engineering and subcontract equipment vendor coordination; performing project planning for several concurrent projects to assist Project Managers with the management of the engineering disciplines and tracking contractual requirements and deadlines, as well as regular progress and performance reporting

●Developed and maintained a project schedule to support the Engineering and Procurement of a $41MM OEM project that included upgrade of a coal boiler to biomass, and supply of all environmental controls equipment

●Followed Earned Value Management practices to track project man-hours spent and value earned in detail to accurately forecast project performance and maintain records of project changes and impacts as they arose

●Performed monthly companywide analysis of forecast project labor requirements, as well as current and forecast project performance for all projects to assist Engineering Department Managers with manpower forecasting needs and provide departmental performance indicators with respect to project baseline schedules

Project Engineer

Powerspan Corp. Portsmouth, NH July 2008 – April 2011

●Acted as the sole Project Controls Engineer for over 2 years on upwards of 5 active projects at a time to provide budget, cost, and schedule tracking tools and information to Project Managers and Engineers

●Performed Project Controls functions for both internal R&D and commercial projects with responsibilities including budgeting, cost tracking, earned value management, and project schedule creation & tracking

●Developed a work breakdown structure that spanned and integrated all company product lines and helped to standardize the project execution process and controls procedures with the Program Management Office

●Worked as a Project Engineer with Project Managers on Proposal, Feasibility Study, and FEED phase projects

●Worked with Lead Engineers to develop Proposals for Feasibility Study and Cost Development phase projects for potential clients in both the US and India

●Assisted in the completion of construction, check out, and hydrostatic testing of a large scale pilot system installed at a coal fired generating facility, working closely with the Construction Manager and local trades

Prototype Fabrication

Zero Point Clean Tech. Potsdam, NY March 2007 – December 2007

●Participated in the fabrication, development, and testing of renewable energy prototypes based on Clarkson University developed technology.

●Worked with new Gasification, Fischer-Tropsch, and Desalination designs and innovations

●Developed greater strengths in problem solving and process improvement as well as design work on full scale prototypes, and obtained exposure into venture capital and new technology investment.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Have significant experience using Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project; Deltek Costpoint, Sage Timberline, and other accounting systems; comfortable with AutoCAD, CADKey, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, Inventor, Fluent, and FEM modeling; extremely proficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote; worked with MATLAB, Mathematica, CNC manufacturing code, Crystal Ball, PeopleSoft and SAP.

CLUBS/ORGANIZATIONS/INTERESTS

Clarkson Nordic Ski Team Potsdam, NY 2003 – 2007

●4 Seasons of Division III ECAC Nordic Skiing

Member Boy Scouts of America Williston, VT 1996 – 2003

●Achieved Rank of Eagle Scout in 2002

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