Project Manager

RICHARD GIGANTE

***** ******* ***** ***** ****, Texas 77405

919-***-**** ********@*******.***

Project Controls Manager Cost Control Management Project Management EPC Petrochemicals Pharmaceutical

Summary:

Project Controls Manager

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Accomplished Project Controls professional with extensive experience in comprehensive project controls management for both large and small-scale projects for owner’s and consulting engineering organizations. Strong background in collaborative budget and schedule development and achievement.

Stringent project budget management optimizing customer satisfaction with minimal company spend. Especially skilled in internal cross-functional relations and management, budget controls, and problem resolution. Outstanding communication talents with proven ability to build and lead highly effective teams and convey complex concepts in understandable terms.

Core Strengths:

• Cost Control • Change Management • Project Support

• Earned Value • Work Instructions • Historical Metrics

• Team Leadership / Motivation • Process Improvement • Recruiting

• Training / Development • Performance Management • Scheduling

• Project Controls Management • Estimating • PMO

• Data Analysis • Compliance • Cost of Design

Accomplishments:

Turned around declining customer satisfaction scores and increased project workload by revising specific cost control and engineering work instructions for Change Management, Tracking of Engineering Quantities during Design, and Consistent Counting of Engineering Quantities.

Conducted specific training for entire office on the mandated culture change of not proceeding on a scope change without prior client approval.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP, Houston, Texas 06/2007 – 07/2016

Manager of Cost Control

Direct task delegation and performance management of 60 Cost Engineers and Specialists including providing home office and field cost control resources for all projects based out of Houston. Develop, manage, and update work instructions and training materials for cost control. Establish historical metrics and create and audit standard project reports. "Deep Dive" project audits identifying gaps between internal Quality Manager audits and Customer Satisfaction Surveys.

Achievements:

Turned around declining customer satisfaction scores and increased project workload by revising specific cost control work instructions for Change Management, forms, and flow charts, as well as conducting specific training for entire office on the mandated culture change of not proceeding on a scope change without prior client approval.

Enhanced client satisfaction regarding the Tracking of Engineering Quantities during the design process by revising Project Management procedures for Tracking Engineering Quantities during Design and standardizing on how to Count Engineering Quantities.

Facilitated development of project metrics allowing parametric estimating, comparing current estimates to past performance and analyzing over time through the development of a project performance historical database, “Data Mining” 5 years of past project data and loading that data into the historical database.

Delivered key contributions to management comprehension of specialized project status reports by developing and auditing standard monthly reports, as well as conducting project technical audits.

Properly staffed projects during heavy workloads through close collaboration with Recruiters and HR, as well as utilizing internet searches for sourcing, qualification, and on-boarding of new employees and minimized lay-offs by transferring personnel to other offices and departments during economic downturn.

THE SPEAR GROUP, Norcross, Georgia 01/2006 – 06/2007

Project Controls Engineer

Worked for Bristol Myers Squibb as Project Controls Engineer on construction of $198M pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Manati, Puerto Rico. Led cost management, change management, forecasting, invoice auditing, and cost reporting to Project Manager, as well as assisting in development of the validation plan.

Achievements:

Brought in project under budget, garnering support and confidence from Plant Manager by taking over Cost Control activities and bringing cost management under control.

SUPERIOR TECHNICAL RESOURCES, Buffalo, New York 01/2005 – 01/2006

Cost and Schedule Engineer (Consulting Project)

Contracted to Praxair for project moving specialty gases production facility from one site in Ohio to another.

Achievements:

Successfully completed project on time and within budget employing Artemis Projectview and Costview for Earned Value management by taking reigns of cost and the schedule management, assisting with Purchasing valves, coordinating receiving of valves, and palletizing for shipment, as well as introducing Praxair to Interactive Planning (IAP) for interactive development of project schedules.

GLAXO SMITHKLINE, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 06/1991 – 08/2004

Manager of Cost Control and Project Management Office

Oversaw Project Management Office managing plant site fiscal Capital budget of $100M and delivering key contributions to projects valued up to $20M. Provided planning, budgeting, cost control, change control, scheduling, and forecasting, as well as collaborating with purchasing, and expediting support for individual capital projects from preconstruction through start-up and validation.

Achievements:

Garnered promotion to Manager of PMO and PCM for all project controls services at plant site effectively providing project controls support to 20 Project Managers, facilitating delivery of benefits of plant site capital projects up to $20M. Previously managed a project controls staff of 15 at the R&D site for projects up to $125M

Streamlined activities and interactions between PMO, Project Controls, and Finance by refining the capital planning process thereby reducing capital budget by $8M as a result of training as Greenbelt, providing process improvements within Project Controls and PMO.

Facilitated consistent project reporting including change management and forecasting by developing comprehensive cost control system in Lotus, converting it to Excel, then pairing with IT consultant to convert system to a database application utilizing Oracle.

Assisted in the installation of SAP across 26 countries, on-time and within budget, by participating as one of 26 worldwide Schedulers working within Primavera on T-1 line supporting global schedule.

CAREER NOTE: Additional experience includes roles as Consultant – Cost and Schedule Engineer – RPG ENTERPRISES, Project Scheduler / Project Manager – VOLT TECHNICAL SERVICES, Cost and Schedule Engineer – BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO. Details available upon request.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration

University of Phoenix

Bachelor of Science – Contracting and Construction

Syracuse University – Syracuse, New York

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS / AFFILIATIONS

Project Management Institute (PMP) – Inactive

Lifetime Member – American Association of Cost Engineers

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite Primavera (3.1) Artemis Costview & Projectview

JPCS (Jacobs) IPCS (GSK) SAP Oracle

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