Project Management Field Service

ANDREW AKPAEDEM

Anna, TX ***** 832-***-**** *********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Skilled engineering professional offering 10+ years of experience in project management and field service in various engineering disciplines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, delivering on time, within budget, and with the highest quality standards. Seeking a position as an engineer or related position in a reputed company in which I can use my technical skills and experience to the upliftment of the company.

EXPERIENCE

Project Manager Leidos Engineering Company December 2024 – April 2025

Direct project team personnel, manage costs and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.

Manage technical, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions

Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers, and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project

Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures

Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables

Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables

Field Service Operations Manager Applied Materials Inc August 2021- October 2024

Independently plan, execute and direct cross-functional engineering projects across traditional product lines.

Manage projects on a cross functional basis, including direct supervision of team members

Manages $13M budget, undertaking cost-saving measures and daily operations that reduced expenses by 12%

Served as division Lean Six Sigma Leader. Developed a KPI program, tying plant level initiatives to meet corporate initiatives and matrices.

Developed and leads corporate report metrics with division and corporate personnel

Manages, coaches and directs a team of 32 customer engineers within the department. Responsible for salary planning, career planning, corrective actions where necessary, establishes objectives and performance appraisals.

Manage project costs and all financial aspects of product development including capital expenditures and cross functional expenses

Initiates reports necessary for the business. Prime interface with the product divisions: tech support, training, spares, reliability.

Devise new approaches to problems encountered through adaptations and modifications of standard engineering principles.

Identifying and resolve complex problems, including the development of new design experiments

Responsible for account planning with district sales engineer. Provides support plan for system sales to CSD management, sales, field engineering. Responsible for financial forecast for district. Responsible for cost efficiency within the district, measured by the financial result.

Manages RMA procedure. Measurement of the engineers on their effectiveness. Manages accuracy, understanding and update of customer engineer hours tracking. Personal cross check and signature, measures customer engineers, takes corrective action with customer engineers.

Engineering Project Manager EMSAR September 2016 – August 2021

Managed productivity deck of $10M

Reduced systems downtime by 15% by proactively identifying and resolving technical issues

Developed, built, and managed multi-departmental KPI programs, which consistently exceeded targets managing matrices

Collaborated with team to improve system integration methodologies

Managed team of 15 engineers, successfully completing multiple major projects

Implemented a new project documentation system reducing paperwork by 50%

Managed coordination between different teams, improving interdisciplinary communication by 17%

Recognized for optimizing resource utilization, reducing project costs by 10%

Identifying and resolve complex problems, including the development of new design experiments

Executes escalation procedures.

Devise new approaches to problems encountered through adaptations and modifications of standard engineering principles.

Field Service Engineer Black Limited Advanced Controls September 2014 – March 2016

Built electro-hydraulic actuators according to engineering standards.

Calibrated actuator stroke lengths using linear and rotary transducers; calibrated pressure, level and temperature transmitters.

Applied the use of unit simulations for refinery units.

Worked on live and shutdown Coker units, and Ficus for oil refineries

Performed SATs on new equipment installations

Completed turnarounds for refineries, power plants and water distribution stations around the world.

Completed FATs for customers on new equipment built in house and modified equipment to meet customer standards

Instructed classes on equipment for operators and I/E personnel who work on company's equipment

Field Service Engineer Emerson Process Management June 2012 – August 2014

Built pneumatic and hydraulic power modules, pumps, and valve actuators.

Pressured and monitored valve and actuator systems, inspecting and calculating stroke distances and times.

Read engineering drawings and specifications to assist in designing pumps and actuators to customer specifications for use in oil and gas applications

Oversaw testing on newly assembled valves, actuators, and pumps using pressure gauges and other equipment to meet engineering specifications

Documented reports and test results in appropriate logs

EDUCATION

BS Chemical Engineering Prairie A&M University

2011 – 2013

Focused on strategic, project management, operations and leadership in technical environments

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Prosci Change management certified

SKILLS

Project management

Communication

Root cause analysis

Risk Management

Technical expertise

Problem-solving

Statistical Process Control

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Budgeting

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