RICHARD HUSTON

16175 Cleveland St., Redmond, WA 98052

847-942-9833

richard.huston@ymail.com

 

CAREER  SUMMARY

 

Senior Project Scheduler with progressive project controls and earned value management experience in the aerospace, electronics, pharmaceutical and automotive industries.  Proficient in project management and controls, earned value analysis, monthly financial reporting, variance analysis, budgeting and managing capital projects.  Proven ability developing strategic business analysis with senior staff, creating, maintaining and management reporting using MS-Project and presenting financial information to broad audiences.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, Phoenix, AZ      2015 - 2016

A $40 billion global aerospace, automation controls and performance materials company.

             

Scheduler

Manage customer and team relationships with responsibility for cost and schedule integration and reporting.  Establish and perform variance analysis from budget and schedule baselines with multiple projects.

 

·               Create, execute and track complex project plans and apply EVMS controls in complex environment.

·               Plan, lead and participate in resource planning, budgets, risk management and recommend strategies for program changes.  Support proposals and client requests for ad hoc reporting.

·               Update EV metrics based on regular schedule status and CAM inputs, support EAC changes and incorporate them in the cost and schedule models in MS-Project 2013 and internal accounting tools.

·               Assist the team with analyzing cost impacts and corrective actions, open/close job order accounts.

 

COMMONWEALTH EDISON, Oakbrook Terrace, IL      2014 - 2015

A $27 billion public utility transmitting and distributing electricity to 70% of the northern Illinois population.

             

Lead Scheduler

Oversee eight Schedulers with responsibility to expand engineering project management controls and good scheduling practices in a project management environment.

 

·               Oversee operational aspects of ongoing projects and be a liaison between project teams and the functional organization.  Responsible for supervision, guidance and development of the Schedulers.

·               Anticipate project issues and develop resolutions to maintain productivity and quality to meet customer goals and objectives.  Use software modeling tools P6 and MS-Project 2013.

·               Responsible for innovation and implementation of process improvements.  Successfully created a software analysis tool to identify compliance with the DCMA14-point schedule integrity.

·               Constantly monitor and report progress to all stakeholders and provide evaluation and assessments.

 

NORTHROP GRUMMAN, Rolling Meadows, IL      2005 - 2014

$25 billion manufacturing leader in aerospace technology for global defense and commercial markets.

             

Senior Scheduling Analyst

Developed integrated schedules with multi-functional staff.  Managed program performance with earned value analysis, MS-Excel, MS-Project 2007 and 2010. Developed program cost/schedule models in MS-Excel, Project and Primavera within the company project management and financial system.  Coordinated cost account managers and program management to establish project schedules.  Recommended schedule and manpower changes to management based on analysis of modeling tools.  Performed Schedule Risk Assessment analysis.

·               Responsible for earned value management, including SPI/CPI calculations, WBS and OBS creation.

 

 

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·               Analyzed, clarified and resolved cost/schedule conflicts with existing and proposal projects.  Conformed cost/schedule to industry best practices standards using PMI PMBOK and KPIs .

·               Compiled, published and presented management scorecards, cost/schedule performance metrics and ad hoc management reporting requirements.  Projects included software development and R&D programs.

·               Developed and maintained responsive and productive relationships in a multi-discipline, intercultural engineering environment, collected status and variance commentary from CAMs, identified project risk.

 

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS-ADVANCE TRANSFORMER, Rosemont, IL      1999 - 2005

Leading global $30 billion manufacturer of lighting products, especially fluorescent, HID and LED lamps, medical products and personal electronics.

             

Senior Financial Analyst

Delivered financial results and variances to benchmarks, drove innovative financial perspective for supply chain cost reductions and manufacturing outsourcing, provided financial guidance to several departments.

·               Prepared financial statements with variance analysis and commentary, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, management scorecards and other ad hoc management reporting requirements.

·               Expanded strategic business planning through financial leadership using ROI, NPV and DCF for 70 new product introductions and substantiated $3.5 million of cost reductions annually.

·               Prepared analysis to source production from low cost global manufacturing locations, established transfer price models, initiated manufacturing outsourcing in Asia.

·               Instrumental member of acquisition team with due diligence and purchase accounting experience.

 

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, North Chicago, IL      1996 - 1999

Global $20 billion pharmaceutical, hospital products and diagnostic equipment company.

 

Senior Financial Analyst

Analyzed and reported financial results for $560 million global Division senior management.

 

 

·               Increased efficiency significantly by implementing Essbase reporting system for international sales channel analysis achieving aggressive two-month goal enabling greater ease and speed of data retrieval.

·               Conducted financial analysis of $650 million acquisition with M&A team and joint venture relationships with Asian and European manufacturers.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

American Graduate School of International Management,

(Thunderbird), Glendale, Arizona, 1993

 

MIM, Master of International Management,

International business, finance and accounting concentration.

Multinational corporate finance, financial statement analysis, and managerial finance.

MS-Excel, Access, MS-Project, P6, SAP, Essbase, Oracle, PeopleSoft

 

University of Minnesota, Duluth

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration