Project Manager Engineer

Trushar Patel

Permanent: **** W. Harrison St. Unit 2 Chicago, IL 60612 630-***-**** *******@*****.***

Objective: To obtain a position in planning and project controls.

Experience

Ericsson (Contract), Project Controls/Scheduling Lead - Pleasanton, CA June 2010 – June 2011 Ericsson (Contract), Scheduler – Pleasanton, CA January 2010 – June 2010

• Manage project schedules for AT&T New Site Build project in Northern California

• Produce Planned/Actual cash flow forecasting reports

• Provide Market Readiness Reports for critical projects

• Validate schedule dates between Ericsson and AT&T databases

• Present weekly meeting slides to AT&T management on project status, blocking issues, and bid proposals

• Update monthly management report showing project staffing, invoicing/true-up, and to-go status

Sargent & Lundy LLC, Project Planner - Nuclear Power Technologies - Chicago, IL April 2008 – January 2010

• Lead planner for Los Alamos National Laboratory projects, with a budget of $16M. Includes multiple resource-loaded Primavera schedules, and monthly progress reporting

• Lead planner for Exelon Nuclear projects, with a yearly budget of $20M. Included Primavera scheduling, reporting, and budgeting and cash flow monitoring

• Created and maintained Primavera scheduling, reporting, and budgeting and cash flow monitoring for Fort Calhoun, Bell Bend, Nine Mile Point, Harris, and Levy Generating Stations on a part-time basis

• Implemented Work Breakdown Structure codes to new projects, assigned budgets, tracked scope changes and man-hour charges to accurately assess status and potential cost overruns

• Created man-hour and dollar trend reports on a bi-weekly basis on responsible projects

• Created monthly “Status at a Glance” reports for project manager and client review

• Assisted project directors in development of bid packages and presentations to clients

Bechtel Communications, Project Controls Engineer - Schaumburg, IL November 2004 – April 2008

• Coordinated all management reporting in the Central Region, comprised of 14 states

• Developed and implemented a weekly schedule reporting system for Cingular Wireless (now AT&T Mobility) – which spanned 14 states and over 10,000 sites

• Performed cost analysis and control using an Access database; revenue for 450 sites was $5.7M

• Ensured all cost commitments had been allocated accurately and assigned budgets to awarded work

• Captured all “Out of Scope” costs that have been mutually agreed upon in the prime and billed client accordingly; assign, identify, and track scope on sites

• Created forecast reports to monitor “to go” job hours vs. remaining scope to complete, in order to paint an accurate picture of project viability and stability

• Responsible for closing out sites after scope of work had been completed to create an invoice from an agreed upon sign-off sheet from client

• Maintained Purchase Order records for invoicing $25M for sites throughout the Central Region

• Created service requisitions to contractors to award a base scope and additional out of scope work

Training

Catalyst Project Management – Itasca, IL

• Primavera 106 – Training course in Primavera 3 to Primavera 5 conversion

• Primavera 108 – Training course in Primavera 6

PMP Training courses/PMI PM Study online course

• PMP certification in progress

Education

B.A., Economics, May 2004

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, IL

Software

Primavera 3/5/6, Microsoft Project, Excel, Access, Visio, Word, PowerPoint

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