Project Management
Resume:
RICHARD DEAN HOLSBERRY
**** ** ****** ******, *******, WA
*************@*****.***
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Utilizes expert knowledge of Project Management standards, policies and procedures to support the Project Management Office in the delivery of effective project planning, execution and control. Known for skills in collaboration and the ability to facilitate communication. Equally adept at developing and establishing processes in the areas of earned value management, risk management and change control. Experienced operating within a matrix team environment spearheading the efficient implementation of project initiation, execution and control.
"Dean is an extremely conscientious and professional individual who is constantly seeking to improve his knowledge and skill. He partners with his clients in an honest, proactive, and supportive manner, and he is well-liked and respected by those with whom he works. Dean possesses superior integrity and I give him my unqualified recommendation."
Steve Wageman, Director of Education, MWH
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
* Microsoft Project Whitebelt
* Certified Primavera P6 Instructor
* Primavera P6 Software
* Primavera P3 Software
* Milestone Optimization
* Maximo Maxavera Integration
* Project Variance Analysis
* Earned Value Management
* Primavera Risk
* Analytical Problem Solving
* Work Management Procedures
* Change Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INNOVATIVE PRIMARY SOLUTIONS, SEATTLE, WA 08/11 - Current
Senior Project Controls Consultant, TN Valley Authority, Rogersville TN
Engaged by Alpha Corporation to lead TVA's John Sevier Fossil Plant project controls department in P3 3.1 to Enterprise P6 v7 conversion including the integration of Maximo work order system utilizing Pipeline’s Maxavera middleware.
* Spearheading enterprise level project configuration to capitalize on Maximo work order integration to task creation in P6 utilizing maxavera middleware.
* Direct Work Week Coordinators, Plant Planners, FOMO Management, Outage Scheduler and Daily Maintenance Scheduler to optimize work plans and validate data.
* Analyzes data flow between software suites to ensure that the execution of critical plant maintenance occurs in the most efficient manner possible.
* Conducts P6 client and web project management certification courses for plant schedulers, crew leads, foreman, planners and work week coordinators.
* Create custom reports to meet plant measurement of earned value indexes as well as for TVA upward reporting.
* Scrub data from P3 3.1 plant outage, templates and archive schedules for import into TVA P6 production database.
INNOVATIVE PRIMARY SOLUTIONS, SEATTLE, WA 11/09 - 07/11
Senior Project Management Specialist, Army Corp of Engineers, Seattle District
Entrusted to guide and train Project Managers (PM) in the most efficient processes to apply best industry practices. Assists in defining scope, schedule and budget of projects. Charged with developing project management plans that incorporate project management baselines such as earned value management principles, risk management techniques, quality management and control procedures.
* Key member of team steering Northwestern Seattle District (NWS) Civil Works (CW) Project Management Office (PMO) with planning and executing risk based schedules that meet agreed scope, cost and schedule baselines.
* Collaborated daily with 15 PMs, 8 Financial Analysts, 12 Project Delivery Team (PDT) members and Construction Branch to enhance planning, execution and control of Civil Works Portfolio of 195 active projects.
* Analyzed CW budget baselines for comparison of actual fiscal execution against the Fiscal Year (FY) plan.
* Adapted Army guidelines and industry best practice into project templates for Large Capital, General Investigation (GI) and Construction General (CG) Programs that reduce project initiation time and costs by twenty percent.
* Produces performance reports and meets with PMs on a monthly basis to collect progress information required for monthly schedule update cycle. Information is also used to meet management upward reporting requirements.
* Wrote best practice Change Control process for beta testing in NWS Civil Works program.
* Developed FY resource allocation report utilized by NWS Design Branch Resource Managers and CW PMs.
FLUOR ENTERPRISES, GREENVILLE, SC 11/08-11/09
Project Controls Specialist/Corporate P6 Instructor
Oak Grove Power Plant, Franklin, TX
Originally recruited to lead Fluor Energy Business Line's new Primavera Training Department. Subsequently asked to fill a critical need as a project controller for Oak Grove (OG) Power Plant in Franklin TX. OG was the most profitable single source engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) project in Fluor's history.
* Key member of planning team that executed and controlled a 2.5 billion, 11,000 activity EPC Critical Path Methodology (CPM) resource loaded schedule for Luminant Energy Co.
* Collected information, entered progress and validated data for corporate Oak Grove Project Earned Value Report used by Fluor management to track time, cost and schedule variance and overall schedule performance.
* Independently tracked and validated critical construction milestone accomplishment. Collaborated with Luminant Quality Representatives for product or work package acceptance.
* Maintained associations between scheduling, cost, and accounting disciplines to coordinate accurate transfer of project progress into project management software suite (PMSS). Comprised of Fluor's Change Management Log, Milestone Tracker, Cobra Financial System and Primavera P6 Project Management software (P6).
* Conducted weekly meetings with Fluor lead project engineers, quality personnel, procurement managers and construction superintendents to obtain progress information and input data into PMSS for Oak Grove Project Manager review.
* Spearheaded development of schedule in response to risk event that threatened the contracted finish date of the project. Assisted Fluor management in deploying a "what if" schedule that was adopted to recapture project completion within the time and budget thresholds.
* Collaborated daily with Oak Grove subcontractors to validate construction progress and report any potential risk events.
* Led monthly Oak Grove project controls classes for up to ten people in order to improve efficiency in using P6. Classes included using Steps, settings for Earned Value calculations, global changes, layouts, keyboard shortcuts and resource leveling.
South Texas Project (STP)
Key team member planning the South Texas Project (STP) units three and four for NRG Inc. STP was the first new construction of a nuclear power plant in thirty years. The project was high risk for Fluor and NRG. Fluor collaborated with Sergeant Lundy, Toshiba and Westinghouse.
* Played key role on team that planned 13.5 billion dollar, 55,000 activity EPC schedule, utilizing best practice Critical Path Methodology (CPM).
* Generated, validated and edited corporate STP Earned Value Management report for that provided our client and Fluor upper management with time, cost and schedule indexes information.
* Performed Risk analysis of STP using Fluor best practice risk as well as Pertmaster.
* Developed and refined reports from Primavera for Cost Engineering for analysis of cost overruns and variance.
* Led monthly Primavera P6 client and Primavera WEB 7.1 lunch and learn classes for six to ten engineering leads to increase general skills and efficiency of tool use. Coursework included running reports, resource allocation and intro to project controls.
* Administrator of security rights, user profiles, default settings, Enterprise Project Structure (EPS), Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) for standalone instance of Primavera P6 used by STP engineering and project controls.
* Administrator for MindSpring collaborative STP site. Maintained security rights and user profiles for fifty Fluor employees which led to resolved end user trouble tickets.
MWH GLOBAL, SEATTLE, WA 10/06 - 10/08
Project Controls Consultant/Certified P6 Instructor
Army Corp of Engineers, Seattle District
Originally the Army Corps of Engineers deployed a new project management software tool known as P2. MWH was contracted to guide NWS PMO using expert knowledge in Primavera P5, best practice project planning, estimating resources requirements, milestone optimization, and establishment of performance baselines.
* Key member of team that led coaching sessions for NWS Project Managers. Provided instruction in project initiation, milestone optimization, resource requirements and Corps of Engineers Financial Management System (CEFMS) business rules.
* Documented project management plans into CPM resource loaded schedules for 130 active NWS Military Branch projects.
* Teamed with Military Project Managers, Small Project Office PMs, budget analysts, construction management, and resident engineers to effectively develop, monitor and improve project lifecycles according to USACE guidance.
* Launched report to collect performance data from NWS Military Branch PMs that improved communication of critical project accomplishments on a routine basis.
* Wrote desktop guide for entering project codes in P5 project window for upward reporting. Adopted by project controls personnel in Portland and Walla Walla Districts.
* Coordinated with Northwestern Division (NWD) Military Program Analyst to resolve errors and missing data in upward reporting systems that were used by ACOE headquarters.
* Assist national P2 help desk with solving software interface errors related to the ACOE P2 system and Primavera software.
Anthony Construction
* Provided scheduling and analysis support on IWPF Navy Shipyard Construction Project.
* Project schedule was built in Primavera's P3 3.1 project management software using CPM best practices. Schedule contained 3000 resource loaded activities worth an estimated four million dollars.
* Produced and analyzed monthly Anthony Construction Management reports titled, IWPF Earned Value, P305 Predecessors and Successors, P305 Baseline Date Variance, IWPF Milestone, IWPF Payment Report and P305 Estimate to Complete.
* Analyzed reports to identify potential breach of contractually held dates and provide input on how to regain time.
* Initiated best practice baseline change control process for contract modifications that increased the scope of work (SOW).
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EDUCATION
Political Science Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Business Management/Information Technology Program, University of Phoenix
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
AACEI Board Member, PMI, LinkedIn, Oracle Risk
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