Project Management

SUMMARY

A business and finance professional with 19 years of experience in all aspects of project control and program performance assessment. Diverse background includes accounting, finance, cost and pricing analysis and reporting, schedule management, project control, Earned Value Management (EVM), and program performance management. Excellent verbal, listening and written skills. Comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization and public. Excellent in a team environment with ability to negotiate and problem solve quickly, accurately, and efficiently. Adept at multitasking to achieve individual and team goals.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Boeing Company, Houston, TX 06/2015 – Current

Business and Planning Analyst

Responsible for opening new charge lines and setting up financial reporting as new projects are put onto contract.

Develops, analyzes, reviews and maintains resource forecasts and Estimates at Complete for new ISS development projects.

Develops performance reports and performs variance analyses to provide understanding of operational and financial performance.

Builds and maintains integrated cost/schedule tools to assess progress across the projects lifetime. Including earned value analysis.

Vision Analytics, Inc, Houston, TX 01/2003 – 08/2013

Project Cost Analyst Lead

Provided analytical leadership to the NASA Headquarters Resource Management Office (RMO).

Lead activities to develop project control report summaries and program performance roll-up reports for NASA HQ.

Developed fiscal year plans that included schedule metrics/milestones/critical events associated with project work scope and maintained cost plans of high interest projects.

Track cost and schedule progress against plans to assess performance measurement.

Present to Headquarters personnel results of performance and impacts to fiscal year spending forecasts.

Provided training to analysts and NASA HQ personnel on methods, tools, and techniques for program performance analysis and reporting.

Multipurpose Crew Vehicle Project Cost Analyst -Team Lead

Served as team lead for NASA Multipurpose Crew Vehicle Program Planning and Control Division providing schedule analysis, cost analysis and technical analysis for project control. Operated as an integral program office team member to NASA. Routinely reported and presented results to NASA leadership.

oSchedule analysis: Performed project assessment of key areas of hardware and software production considering cost, schedule difficulty, new development, and complexity.

Designed, developed and maintained schedules of critical items and events from the program Integrated Master Schedule and Supplemental Schedules.

Executed drift analysis providing assessment of future schedule impacts.

Performed critical path assessment to determine project completion impacts.

Calculated schedule performance index EVM results.

oCost analysis: Evaluated cost and workforce plan against work breakdown structure.

Assessed cost and workforce plan actuals against plans.

Projected future spending based on schedule impacts, technical issues, and risk probabilities.

Calculated cost performance index EVM results.

oTechnical analysis: Interfaced with program engineers on emerging issues related to production and design changes to determine program impacts.

Identified potential opportunities to mitigate program cost or schedule impacts.

Developed, maintained, and presented performance measurement packages to integrate schedule analysis and cost analysis with ongoing technical analysis for senior management.

Supported annual Program Planning and Budget Execution (PPBE) exercises. Responsible for assessing cost and workforce plans against schedule plans to identify gaps and inconsistencies in contractor estimates and related risk to the program.

Shuttle Project Cost Analyst / Team Lead

Served as analyst and team lead for Propulsion projects supporting the Space Shuttle Program.

Provided independent assessment of program production plans and cost at the functional level (workforce, major subcontract cost, loaded cost per EP, materials, etc.) to perform performance measurement and "what if" scenarios.

Performed analyses of contractor rate development. Created cost element rate models to evaluate trends and to identify inconsistencies in contractor provided supporting financial data.

Regularly presented results to program management and assisted with future strategic planning.

Blackhawk Management Houston, TX 11/1997 – 01/2003

Analyst

Performed schedule assessment for hardware production associated with development and deployment of the International Space Station.

Determined spare quantities of hardware required to support operations. Performed assessments based on expected failure rates, time hardware expected to be operational, random failures, and ability to purchase additional hardware in the future.

AWARDS

2012 NASA Space Flight Awareness Award

2010 Recipient of NASA Shuttle Derived HLV Assessment Team Group Achievement Award

2010 NASA Space Shuttle Cost Assessment Team Group Achievement Award

SKILLS

Microsoft Office (Advanced EXCEL/Powerpoint)

Scheduling Tools (Microsoft Project, AMS Realtime, Schedule Publisher)

SAP, COBRA, CLAS

EDUCATION

Texas A&M University - Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance 1991 – 1995

REFERENCES

James Wilcox - Director, Vision Analytics, Inc. 281-***-****

Dorothy Rosco – CFO, NASA Johnson Space Center 281-***-****

Dennis Davidson – Prog Control/Integ Manager, Commercial Crew 281-***-****

John Shannon - Boeing Program Manager ****.*.*******@******.***.

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