Project Engineer

Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst

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Great Falls, VA. 22066

Phone: 571-***-****

E-mail: *********@*****.***

Technical Highlights

o Having 14 years of solid project-base background in variety of industries including Oil and Gas, Construction, Transportation, and IT including software development projects.

o Ability to provide acceleration plans to bring in projects critical deliveries or remediation plan to cover substantial delays and maintain baseline/initial critical milestones.

o Ability to provide and present if-then scenarios as well as project analysis to help the management team on choose the most realistic and pragmatic initial or revised plan. o Ability to provide projects schedules based on SDLC, AGILE, or combined work flow based on projects contractual delivery constraints. o Ability to prepare Program on a Page (POAP) and dashboard status reports to present projects/programs status, as well as projects deviations. o Ability to provide Resource requirements, and budget management reports out of from projects Schedules.

o Good analytical and quantitative skills.

Employment Background

2014 – Present Kapsch TrafficCom, McLean-Virginia

Principal PMO Portfolio Master Scheduler and Control Analyst ITS Solutions

- Kapsch TrafficCom North America is a lead end2end solutions provider of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) (ETC) and solutions. The industry nature is a combination of IT, and Construction handling in mostly two separate wings of Back Office System (BOS), and Road Side System (RSS)- (http://www.kapschtraffic.com) The Assigned duties in summary are to define, develop, control, and report projects status across the portfolio thru the life cycle of Intelligent Transportation Systems including Electronic Tolling Collection (ETC), All electronic Tolling (AET), EZ Pass, Managed Lanes and Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) projects on both CSC/BOS and Roadside. The nature of the industry is a combination of Construction and IT/Software Development with below details:

o Develop project scenario from the inception point of WBS based on SOW reference for new efforts

o Develop draft and final versions of proposals schedules based on released RFPs o Develop and control portfolio master schedule to report active projects status o Status projects physical progress against budget and report deviations across the portfolio

o Status projects payment milestones against baseline and report deviations across the portfolio

o Prepare corporate active projects status reports on a monthly basis. The report include:

Active projects overall progress, work and cost % comp against baseline Kia Shakiba

Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst

Critical path analysis

Tasks behind the Schedule, and critical tasks behind the Schedule

One month look ahead program

Path to next major milestone /cutoff

Projects metrics report for work performance analysis

Portfolio Program On A Page - Dashboard

Status and Report projects payment milestones and impact analysis against baseline

o Develop if-then scenarios and/or acceleration plans for ongoing projects o Develop Work Load Plan (WLP) and resources status reports for both ongoing and future projects in a hierarchical structure (RBS) sorted/grouped by resources classes, skillsets, costs, and other filters such as on/off shore 2012 – 2014 Xerox, Germantown-Maryland

Senior Master Scheduler/Resource Planner ETC Solutions

- Xerox Corporation, the American multinational corporation is active also in Electronic Tolling Collection (ETC) within transportation industry with many currently working toll roads nationwide. The nature of the industry work is a combination of IT, and Construction work nature handling in mostly two separate technical teams called Back Office System

(BOS) and Road Side System (RSS) – (http://www.acs-inc.com/transportation/electronic- toll-collection.aspx)

The Assigned duties in summary were to define, develop, control, and report projects status across the portfolio thru the life cycle of Intelligent Transportation Systems including Electronic Tolling Collection (ETC), All electronic Tolling (AET), EZ Pass projects on both CSC/BOS and Roadside. The nature of the industry is a combination of IT/SW Development AND Construction with below details:

o Define and development projects scenario including WBS and projects Schedules for Tolling Projects based on scope of work.

o Develop proposals schedules based on client’s RFPs. o Design, develop, maintaining, and status projects Schedule o Maintain, status and report program master schedules on a weekly basis o Develop if-then scenarios for active projects

o Deployment of specific customized features of Web Project Access (WPA), and Enterprise Project Management (EPM) environment including but not limited to resource pool adjustment

2010 – 2012 Audio Video Systems Inc. (AVS) Chantilly-Virginia Principal Primavera (P6) Scheduler/Planner High-end AV Solutions

- AVS is a design, engineering and systems integration firm, which provides communications and information technology solutions. AVS has been recently ranked first in the top ten of 2010, by the Washington Business Journal for Small Technology Companies for the Washington, D.C. region - (http://www.avsinc.net)

The Assigned duties in summary were to define, develop, control, and report numerous small projects status across the program thru the life cycle of Audio Visual (AV) systems including classroom 21 standard program. The nature of the industry is a combination of IT/SW Development AND Electronics with below details: Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst

o Generating WBS, EPS, hierarchical resource/roles/working calendars, schedules, and master schedule from scratch

o Generating schedules for company’s tens of projects, as well as proposals from scratch

o Plan and allocate resources to activities based on project’s “Labor Estimate Sheet” o Update and monitor project’s schedules for actual progress Vs. plan on a weekly time sheet basis

o Providing Earned Value reports for projects/jobs based on either weight factor or cost o Leveling resources peaks on schedule by shuffling activities or durations o Monitor projects Earned Value and physical % complete against budget and report deviations to keep the eyes on potential projects running over budget o Providing feasibility reports for proposals by activities and resources to forecast the peak seasons of work

o Providing six-month look ahead program and resource status reports for active projects as well as proposals (potential projects in scope) 2005 - 2010 Eni (Agip), Darquain-IRI

Primavera (P3) Scheduler Oil Field Development EPC Project

- Eni S.p.A. is the largest Italian multinational industrial company, in oil, gas and energy field, present in 77 countries around the worldwide. Eni was the primary Engineering/Procurement/Construction (EPC) contractor for the $5.4B USD Darquain oil field development project and, the $6B USD phases 4 & 5 of the South Pars natural gas complex which is the largest natural gas complex in the world – (http://www.eni.com) The Assigned duties in summary were to closely control, and monitor contractor’s numerous status report and progress certificates on two concurrent multi-work package exceeding 6,000,000 USD projects on daily, bi-weekly and monthly basis. The nature of the contract was a Engineering Procurement, Construction project with major Civil, Piping, Mechanical and Instrumental disciplines with below details:

o Review, comment and report Master Plan based on contractual dates o Review, comment, and report contractor’s WBS for future parts of work o Review, comment, and report contractor’s Weight Factors o Review, comment, and check contractor’s progress certificates formats o Site quantity surveys for actuals

o Review, comment, and check contractor’s progress certificates Reports against actual quantity surveys

o Monitor and report project progress (EVMS & Cost) o Identify and report deviations (Tracing Plan)

o Updating the detailed progress reports and management dashboards o Prepare project monthly construction reports

2001 – 2005 Intelligent Data Miners (IDM Co.), IRI Program Manager Assistant Infrastructure Data Networks Solutions

- IDM Co. is the official distributor of Foundry Networks products in Iran which also present network security, network storage and industrial automation solutions to the clients -

(http://www.idm-co.com)

The Assigned duties in summary were to be closely involved in a project from inception of generating estimates and financial model spreadsheets of proposals thru bidding and presenting the technical solution to the clients, thru the implementation phase. The Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst

assignments were also including putting project Schedules together and status projects. The nature of the industry was infrastructure / backbone computer WAN/MAN/LAN solutions with below details:

o Provision of LAN, MAN and Campus LAN detail design solutions for enterprise networks on the basis of cable/optical fiber technologies with the speed of 1 to 10 gigabit/s by utilization of advance Gigabit-over-Copper and 10-Gigabit Ethernet technologies and L2/L3 Switching/Routing equipment in technical proposals formats including: LOM (List of Material), BOM (Bill of Material) and, technical documents to be submitted to the clients

o Provision of LAN, MAN and Campus LAN detail design resenting solutions to enhance the core of already existing networks on the basis of cable/optical fiber by using the above mentioned technologies and equipment

o Perform technical presentation of submitted proposals to the clients, to assist them make their decisions regarding their project’s finalization including; discussions over the proposed design, the active and inactive/passive components and brands o Participating in routine weekly/monthly coordination meetings, as well as non-routine urgent ones which runes in client’s office to supervise the progress of the ongoing network projects

o Planning and scheduling of network projects by activities, work packages and phases of execution an enterprise network projects including: design, material deliveries, execution and handover

o Prepare and submit bi-weekly Progress Certificate Formats of the ongoing projects to the clients for the approvals, essential for the claims Educations Background

1995 - 2001 IAU, Tehran Jonoob

B.S. Degree (Computer Engineering)

Software Tools Skills

o Primavera Project Management (P6)

o Primavera Project Planner (P3)

o MS Project 2013, 2012, 2007

o MS Project Server 2007

o MS. Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook, Visio and Word o Deltek Costpoint

o JAMA

o JIRA

Individual Highlights

o Experience on government interfacing clients

o Ability to resolve technical problems with structured and methodical approach o Team player character

o Ability to resolve unusual/force majeure problems when linear methods fails o Ability to work well under pressure to meet critical deliverables o Fast learning ability with trainings

o Dedicated and committed individual thru the completion of work o Ability to provide trainings for new team members - mentor individual o Having experience of working on oil field sites on continuous rotations basis (23/7) o Having experience of working in hot climate environment (temperature over 130 F) Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst

Trainings & Certificates

o PMP Prep Class Passed

o Primavera P6 Project Management training course certified o Primavera P3 Project Planner training course passed o PDU credentials certified (Required for PMP exam) o InfoComm Project Management course certified (Gen. 105) o Xerox Project Management course certified

o Release Management course certified

o System Development Process course certified

o Software Development Process course certified

o Project Review course certified

o Preventive Action Process course certified

o Innovation Process course certified

o Control of Records Process course certified

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