Project Manager Supply Chain

Bill Vance, PMP

Rocklin, CA ***** • 408-***-**** • *******@******.*** • LinkedIn

Project Manager Exemplary Leader

Critical Thinker with an Entrepreneurial Mindset, with an Emphasis on Continuous Improvement

Passionate, intuitive, and action-focused project leader, extending over 20 years of expertise in regulated environments, across all facets of the project management lifecycle. Promotes collaborative relationships with stakeholders, teams, and external experts resulting in time-sensitive project delivery. Inspires excellent project planning, communications, and team productivity, while identifying cost reductions, and innovative solutions to challenging situations. Demonstrates highly flexible and inspirational leadership skills that lead to team retention, satisfaction, and loyalty.

Strategic Planning & Execution

Continuous Improvement

Supply Chain - Logistics

Budget - P&L Management

Cost Reduction Strategies

Client & Stakeholder Relations

Building Partnerships

Timeline & Status Tracking

Performance Metrics

FDA/ISO 13485

Data Analysis & Comprehension

Operations Leadership

Wildfire Mitigation: Led a team of 10 experts focused on safety, integrity, and accuracy.

ERP Implementation: Drove a fully operational system in 18 months, which involved complete cross-functionality engagement of the entire business in an FDA-regulated, and fully validated process.

Global Supply Chain Management: Excellent capabilities in resource facilitation, acquisition, and global supply chain management.

Professional Experience

2022 to 2022 • PRO ENERGY SERVICES GROUP, LLC • Escondido, CA

Pro Energy is a certified and diverse supplier offering a wide range of services across the electrical distribution, and transmission industries, which include construction, testing, maintenance, and facility inspections.

Project Controls Analyst

Began with Pro Energy in a contract role, as the customer lost funding for this project so the position was eliminated.

Utilizes the cost and schedule plan to determine if project objectives are achievable.

Creates, maintains, and updates monthly forecast budgets.

Communicate regularly on project costs, schedules, and risk status to project team members, stakeholders, and the public.

Interface with design and planning resources and software systems as project owner, employing integrity, leadership, organization, communication, and excellent verbal/interpersonal skills.

2018 - 2022 • ENERGY EXPERTS INTERNATIONAL • San Ramon, CA

Energy Experts international (EEI), is a global management consulting firm that specializes in supplies, delivery, and utilization systems.

QC Audit Supervisor, Central Region, PG&E - Nine Divisions

Provided leadership for wildfire mitigation team performing a variety of support functions, utilizing 10 Qualified Electrical Workers, QEWs, to perform the following tasks. Met with teams from the Federal Monitor, California Public Utilities Commission, and PG&E management to showcase the newly founded programs.

Led QC audits of inspections performed on distribution and transmission assets using PG&E internal tracking systems. Reviewed all assigned reports before submission.

Performed circuit walks with an emphasis on locating problematic service issues. Utilized the PG&E mapping system to assign and track work completion, for various circuits throughout the PG&E service territory.

Directed Fire Investigation support to provide additional in-depth evidence of assigned assets adjacent to targeted assets.

Assisted with the buildout of a new curriculum to train new inspectors for PG&E’s Training school in Livermore, CA.

Provided support for the actual training and testing programs for new Inspection recruits.

Project Manager - PG&E (Temperature Alarm System, UG)

This project was designed to monitor Underground transformers, switches, and LBORs for PG&E to mitigate potential catastrophic failures.

Managed the Underground Temperature Alarm Device Project, TAD, which included the development of a budget, planning, scheduling, and product receiving process to ensure 100% accuracy, and maintained accuracy for distribution to the workforce, assigned locations for installation using a priority matrix agreed to with PG&E management.

Ensured all assets were working as intended at each site, and documented all appropriate installation criteria, monitored the install base for critical data, reported critical data to PG&E dispatch and management.

Provided weekly dashboards for the entire team.

Project Manager - PG&E (Temperature Alarm System, OH)

This project was designed to monitor overhead transformers for PG&E to mitigate potential catastrophic failures. Provided the EPIC team with asset analysis of 5 different suppliers for installation with a primary focus on safety and efficiency for PG&E personnel as well as planning for no customer outages. Also reviewed supplier portals to ensure the ability to monitor installed base for critical data.

Responsibilities included receiving products from suppliers, maintaining inventory control, planning, and scheduling the installation process, verifying, and requesting if permits are required for local governments and or Cal Trans, coordinating with local PG&E teams to support installs, verifying each site working accurately, monitoring site temperatures and communications, and creating dashboards for the team and management.

Performed the pilot program installations, monitoring, and related rework as requested by PG&E.

Project Manager - Y2020 Form 6 Project (PG&E)

Developed strategic plans in collaboration with PG&E leadership and monitored all reporting for accuracy. Collaborated with distribution control centers, distribution line technicians, and communication teams to prioritize project requirements when LRs were offline due to outages.

Identified 8,700 sites and 80 substations that required visits for troubleshooting.

Collaborated with PG&E dispatch teams to dispatch a team of approximately 400 trouble men to resolve each site. The project was completed within 75 days.

EARLY CAREER

Project Manager/Actuator Board Replacement Project - PG&E Construction Specialist - Gas Distribution - Scada Director of Supply Chain - Outset Medical Director of Supply Chain GIS Global - Medtronic Director of Materials, Facilities, EH&S - Barrx Director, Global Supply Chain - Hemosense/Inverness Medical Materials Manager – Thermo-Fisher

Education & Professional Development

Project Management Certification Program (PMP) - Project Management Institute (PMI)

APICS Certified (CPIM) – Association for Supply Chain Management

Certified in Manufacturing Studies, Business & Purchasing - Foothill College

Certified in Fire Science Course Studies - Fire Science, San Jose City College

Local Chapter Member - Project Management Institute - Monterey

Technology: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Visio; MS Project; SAP; QAD

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“I have known Bill for the last 10 years and know him to be a highly motivated and qualified Supply Chain and Project Management professional. He has very high integrity, excellent people management skills and understands how to motivate coworkers to complete complex projects.” – Dan Rogy, VP of Operations, Ceribell, Incorporated

“Bill Vance supported various programs and projects with the electric asset strategy and operations organizations for PG&E for over three years, including the support of the NOVA board replacement, Y2K correction, idle electric facility corrections, power generation and gas ops electric asset verification.” – Jeff Thomas, Senior Manager Asset Strategy, PG&E

“Bill and I have worked together for the past 4-years. He brings a diverse background in business and project management as well as demonstrated his PM skills by taking two crucial projects from pilot phase to full production, which had significant safety implications for both PG&E and the public, which is a testament to his project management and leadership skills.”

- Patrick Alameda, Director of Electric Operations, Energy Experts International

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