Project Manager Management
Resume:
KIANN PHALEN
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Professional Summary
Cost Engineer /Estimator/ Scheduler/Project Manager / Transmission and Distribution from 4kv to 765kv with over 17 years of experience in construction the gas, electric, water, data centers, sewer commercial industry, residential utilizing principles and techniques to problems of estimation; cost control; business planning and management science; profitability analysis; project management; and planning and scheduling.
Skills
Excellent customer relations Subcontractor management
Project scheduling (Primavera) Knowledgeable in construction safety
Strong interpersonal skills Mathematics
Commercial construction expert Sage/ Timberline
OSHA Certified Problem-solving
Project planning Accubid
Budget / Report Analysis Procedure development
Employee training and development SAP
Estimating Blueprint interpretation
Procore
Work History
Owner and Operator - Centerburg, OH-Selling Family Business 04/2002 – Present
Phalen Landscape and Design
Design and install hardscapes and soft-scape for residential and commercial properties.
Foundation plantings, water gardens, fountains, patios, and decks.
AutoCad is used to design and modify existing drawings.
Microsoft Project used to schedule large projects.
Estimating and consulting for commercial and residential customers.
Estimator 03/2021-01/2022
DTE Energy (Progressive Energy) –Detroit MI / Remote/Contract
Develop Low Voltage/ High Voltage Substation, Line, Solar, Battery Storage, boring estimates based on customer’s prints or information provided from PM or Engineer
Procure all material costs needed for project.
Provided estimate for the PMO to start checkbook to kick off project and stage gates for estimates and cost engineers.
Worked on estimating template to update material cost and contractor wages.
Design build of several projects containing control house projects
Worked with engineers to determine the 4.8 voltage conversion take offs creating Maximo CUEs for projects.
Estimator/Project Management 05/2020 to 09/2020
Hydaker-Wheatlake Company – Reed City MI/Contract
Develop High and Low Voltage Substation, Line, boring estimates based on customer’s prints or information provided.
Field and Site Walk downs on projects to get accurate information regarding site conditions.
Provide all documentation to submit for bid including P6 Schedule, Safety information, employee resumes.
Procure all material costs needed for project.
Procure all documentation to get set up as a new vendor with customers.
Estimator/Project Management 01/2020 to 05/2020
L.E Myers – Indianapolis IN/Contract
Field and Site Walk downs on project that were being bid.
Design build of the projects that I had estimated, won bid and controlled cost and schedule of projects.
Develop High and Low Voltage Substation and Line estimate based on customer’s prints or information provided.
Provide all safety, employee resumes, schedule and all customer documents needed to submit bid for work.
Obtain cost from Sub-Contracts for work that LE Myers does not perform.
Once awarded would procure materials, sub-contractors, and determine worker schedule based on the customer’s outage.
Awarded a 345kV breaker project from IPL that I bid and completed all their documents needed and it was performed under budget.
Cost Estimator/Cost Engineer 06/2017 to 09/19
Duke Energy (Johnson Service Group) – Plainfield IN/Contract
Developed scope of projects by collaborating with sponsors and planners and SME to determine the needs of the project.
Created solar, battery, transmission & distribution line and substation electrical cost estimates.
Created estimating template for line and substation.
Estimated a 36M INDOT project to relocate towers along 465 one of the largest projects in Indiana.
Worked in the development team to determine companywide process using new tools.
Worked with standards to determine CUEs for estimating and financial purposes.
Cost Estimator/Cost Engineer / Scheduler/Contract 04/2014 to 06/2017
Consumers Energy (DJI & Associates) – Jackson MI
Created transmission & distribution, solar, battery, electrical cost estimates and cost analyst for multi million dollars projects.
Managed to be within two percent of actual total cost of a three million distribution project for a major automotive manufacture.
Managed a portfolio of 50 million dollars of projects and a program of 20 million dollars.
Worked with AT&T, Telco, to determine IT necessity for our Grid Mod deployment.
Deployed over 4000 devices in the Grid Modernization program to help communicate incidents and reliability.
Worked on solar project in Grand Rapids, the first large solar project for Consumers.
Implemented some processes for the estimating department.
Created special project schedules using P6 and Microsoft Project, depending on the customers’ need.
Scheduler/Cost Engineer/Estimator 03/2013 to 12/2013
Atlas Industrial Contractors – Columbus, OH/Contract
Created custom estimates for full or partial project costs including conceptual, phased, design-build, change order, budgetary, hard-dollar, bid and definitive.
Created and updated project schedules and coordinated the work activities for subcontractors on-site.
Preformed daily construction inspections to ensure/verify construction compliance with approved contract documents.
Prepared detailed construction cost estimates for proposed additive & deduct alternates, evaluated contractor change order requests, provided field layout for building foundations, and site utilities.
Experienced in blueprint estimating take off for man hours and materials.
Provided inventory control and tracked equipment cost.
Received bonus for completing project ahead of schedule.
Project Coordinator/ Cost Estimator/Scheduler 10/2007 to 12/2012
American Electric Power (ITS Technology) – Gahanna, OH/Contract
Create and manage Primavera project schedules.
Successful management of transmission & distribution capital projects with multi-million-dollar budgets from initiation to closure
Acted as a safety inspector on construction sites for transmission projects I was involved in.
Manage and organize regional work plan to ensure projects are assigned and being worked according to in service date.
Provide training to the engineering and construction groups on how to use Primavera, generate reports from the client, and create dashboards on the web.
Assist within a group to structure and improve the PLMP (Project Lifecycle Management Process) for the Transmission group.
Kiann Phalen
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Senior Project Coordinator 05/2006 to 10/2007
Carrier Commercial Services – Westerville, OH/Contract
Trained and promoted continued education for construction and contractor employees on safety and procedures.
Scheduled all contractors and materials deliveries.
Offered technical assistance to service providers.
Obtained building and specialty permits from local jurisdictional agencies. Assisted the operations group with warranty service repairs
Some college at COTC and Columbus State- studied Business Management and Construction Management have six months left to finish.
Proficient in the following software programs:
Microsoft Office Suites
Microsoft Project
Primavera 6.0, &15.1 (administrator)
SharePoint (administrator)
Business Objects
PeopleSoft
SAP
Business Intelligence
Power Plant
Asset Suites
US Cost
Design
Capex
Sage / Timberline/Accubid
Visio
Auto Cad
Micro Station
JD Edwards
GIS
Procore
EcoSys
Maximo
Blue Bid
RS Means Data Online
Accounting
HeavyBid
References Available Upon Request
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