Kia Shakiba
10005 Columbine St.
Great Falls, VA. 22066
Phone: 571 212 3788
E-mail: k_shakiba@yahoo.com
Technical Highlights
o Having 15 years of solid project-base background in variety of industries including
Oil and Gas, Construction, Transportation, and IT including software development
projects.
o Ability to provide acceleration plans to bring in projects critical deliveries or
remediation plan to cover substantial delays and maintain baseline/initial critical
milestones.
o Ability to provide and present if-then scenarios as well as project analysis to help the
management team on choose the most realistic and pragmatic initial or revised plan.
o Ability to provide projects schedules SDLC based on both water fall and/or AGILE
methodology upon projects contractual delivery constraints.
o Ability to prepare Program on a Page (POAP) and dashboard status reports to
present projects/programs status, as well as projects deviations.
o Ability to provide Resource requirements, and budget management reports extracted
from projects Schedules.
o Good analytical and quantitative skills.
Employment Background
2014 – Present
Kapsch TrafficCom, McLean-Virginia
Principal PMO Portfolio Master Scheduler and Control Analyst ITS Solutions
- Kapsch TrafficCom North America is a lead end2end solutions provider of Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) (ETC) and solutions. The industry nature is a combination of
IT, and Construction handling in mostly two separate wings of Back Office System (BOS),
and Road Side System (RSS)- (http://www.kapschtraffic.com)
The Assigned duties in summary are to define, develop, control, and report projects status
across PMO portfolio of north American region of the company including US., Canada, and
Mexico. Duties performed thru the life cycle of Intelligent Transportation Systems including
Electronic Tolling Collection (ETC), All electronic Tolling (AET), EZ Pass, Managed Lanes and
Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) projects on both Back office System (BOS) and
Roadside System (RSS). What makes working in the mentioned industry charming is the
combined nature of two totally different industries of Civil/Construction, and IT/Software
Development with two heroically different Project Management approaches. Below are the
details:
o Develop project scenario from the inception point of WBS based on SOW reference
for new efforts
o Develop draft and final versions of proposals schedules based on released RFPs
o Develop and control portfolio master schedule to report active projects status
o Status projects physical progress against budget and report deviations across the
portfolio
o Status projects payment milestones against baseline and report deviations across
the portfolio
Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst
o Prepare corporate active projects status reports on a monthly basis. The report
include:
§ Active projects overall progress, work and cost % comp against baseline
§ Critical path analysis
§ Tasks behind the Schedule, and critical tasks behind the Schedule
§ One month look ahead program
§ Path to next major milestone /cutoff
§ Projects metrics report for work performance analysis
§ Portfolio Program On A Page - Dashboard
§ Status and Report projects payment milestones and impact analysis against
baseline
o Develop if-then scenarios and/or acceleration plans for ongoing projects
o Develop Work Load Plan (WLP) and resources status reports for both ongoing and
future projects in a hierarchical structure (RBS) sorted/grouped by resources classes,
skillsets, costs, and other filters such as on/off shore
2012 – 2014
Senior Master Scheduler/Resource Planner
Xerox, Germantown-Maryland
ETC Solutions
- Xerox Corporation, the American multinational corporation is active also in Electronic
Tolling Collection (ETC) within transportation industry with many currently working toll
roads nationwide. The nature of the industry work is a combination of IT, and Construction
work nature handling in mostly two separate technical teams called Back Office System
(BOS) and Road Side System (RSS) – (http://www.acs-inc.com/transportation/electronictoll-collection.aspx)
The
Assigned duties in summary were to define, develop, control, and report projects status
across the portfolio thru the life cycle of Intelligent Transportation Systems including
Electronic Tolling Collection (ETC), All electronic Tolling (AET), EZ Pass projects on both
CSC/BOS and Roadside. The nature of the industry is a combination of IT/SW Development
AND Construction with below details:
o Define and development projects scenario including WBS and projects Schedules for
Tolling Projects based on scope of work.
o Develop proposals schedules based on client’s RFPs.
o Design, develop, maintaining, and status projects Schedule
o Maintain, status and report program master schedules on a weekly basis
o Develop if-then scenarios for active projects
o Deployment of specific customized features of Web Project Access (WPA), and
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) environment including but not limited to
resource pool adjustment
2010 – 2012
Principal Primavera (P6) Scheduler/Planner
Audio Video Systems Inc. (AVS) Chantilly-Virginia
High-end AV Solutions
- AVS is a design, engineering and systems integration firm, which provides communications
and information technology solutions. AVS has been recently ranked first in the top ten of
2010, by the Washington Business Journal for Small Technology Companies for the
Washington, D.C. region - (http://www.avsinc.net)
The Assigned duties in summary were to define, develop, control, and report numerous
small projects status across the program thru the life cycle of Audio Visual (AV) systems
Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst
including classroom 21 standard program. The nature of the industry is a combination of
IT/SW Development AND Electronics with below details:
o Generating WBS, EPS, hierarchical resource/roles/working calendars, schedules, and
master schedule from scratch
o Generating schedules for company’s tens of projects, as well as proposals from
scratch
o Plan and allocate resources to activities based on project’s “Labor Estimate Sheet”
o Update and monitor project’s schedules for actual progress Vs. plan on a weekly time
sheet basis
o Providing Earned Value reports for projects/jobs based on either weight factor or cost
o Leveling resources peaks on schedule by shuffling activities or durations
o Monitor projects Earned Value and physical % complete against budget and report
deviations to keep the eyes on potential projects running over budget
o Providing feasibility reports for proposals by activities and resources to forecast the
peak seasons of work
Primavera (P3) Scheduler
2005 - 2010
Eni (Agip), Darquain-IRI
o Providing six-month look ahead program and resource status reports for active
projects as well as proposals (potential projects in scope)
Oil Field Development EPC Project
- Eni S.p.A. is the largest Italian multinational industrial company, in oil, gas and energy
field, present in 77 countries around the worldwide. Eni was the primary
Engineering/Procurement/Construction (EPC) contractor for the $5.4B USD Darquain oil field
development project and, the $6B USD phases 4 & 5 of the South Pars natural gas complex
which is the largest natural gas complex in the world – (http://www.eni.com)
The Assigned duties in summary were to closely control, and monitor contractor’s numerous
status report and progress certificates on two concurrent multi-work package exceeding
6,000,000 USD projects on daily, bi-weekly and monthly basis. The nature of the contract
was a Engineering Procurement, Construction project with major Civil, Piping, Mechanical
and Instrumental disciplines with below details:
o Review, comment and report Master Plan based on contractual dates
o Review, comment, and report contractor’s WBS for future parts of work
o Review, comment, and report contractor’s Weight Factors
o Review, comment , and check contractor’s progress certificates formats
o Site quantity surveys for actuals
o Review, comment , and check contractor’s progress certificates Reports against
actual quantity surveys
o Monitor and report project progress (EVMS & Cost)
o Identify and report deviations (Tracing Plan)
o Updating the detailed progress reports and management dashboards
o Prepare project monthly construction reports
2001 – 2005
Program Manager Assistant
Intelligent Data Miners (IDM Co.), IRI
Infrastructure Data Networks Solutions
- IDM Co. is the official distributor of Foundry Networks products in Iran which also present
network security, network storage and industrial automation solutions to the clients -
(http://www.idm-co.com)
Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst
The Assigned duties in summary were to be closely involved in a project from inception of
generating estimates and financial model spreadsheets of proposals thru bidding and
presenting the technical solution to the clients, thru the implementation phase. The
assignments were also including putting project Schedules together and status projects. The
nature of the industry was infrastructure / backbone computer WAN/MAN/LAN solutions with
below details:
o Provision of LAN, MAN and Campus LAN detail design solutions for enterprise
networks on the basis of cable/optical fiber technologies with the speed of 1 to 10
gigabit/s by utilization of advance Gigabit-over-Copper and 10-Gigabit Ethernet
technologies and L2/L3 Switching/Routing equipment in technical proposals formats
including: LOM (List of Material), BOM (Bill of Material) and, technical documents to
be submitted to the clients
o Provision of LAN, MAN and Campus LAN detail design resenting solutions to enhance
the core of already existing networks on the basis of cable/optical fiber by using the
above mentioned technologies and equipment
o Perform technical presentation of submitted proposals to the clients, to assist them
make their decisions regarding their project’s finalization including; discussions over
the proposed design, the active and inactive/passive components and brands
o Participating in routine weekly/monthly coordination meetings, as well as non-routine
urgent ones which runes in client’s office to supervise the progress of the ongoing
network projects
o Planning and scheduling of network projects by activities, work packages and phases
of execution an enterprise network projects including: design, material deliveries,
execution and handover
Educations Background
1995 - 2001
B.S. Degree
Software Tools Skills
o Primavera Project Management (P6)
o Primavera Project Planner (P3)
o MS Project 2013, 2012, 2007
o MS Project Server 2007
o MS. Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook, Visio and Word
o Deltek Costpoint
o JAMA
o JIRA
Individual Highlights
o Experience on government interfacing clients
o Ability to resolve technical problems with structured and methodical approach
o Team player character
o Ability to resolve unusual/force majeure problems when linear methods fails
o Ability to work well under pressure to meet critical deliverables
o Fast learning ability with trainings
o Dedicated and committed individual thru the completion of work
o Prepare and submit bi-weekly Progress Certificate Formats of the ongoing projects to
the clients for the approvals, essential for the claims
IAU, Tehran Jonoob
(Computer Engineering)
Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst
o Ability to provide trainings for new team members - mentor individual
o Having experience of working on oil field sites on continuous rotations basis (23/7)
o Having experience of working in hot climate environment (temperature over 130 F)
Trainings & Certificates
o PMP Prep Class Passed
o Primavera P6 Project Management training course certified
o Primavera P3 Project Planner training course passed
o PDU credentials certified (Required for PMP exam)
o InfoComm Project Management course certified (Gen. 105)
o Xerox Project Management course certified
o Release Management course certified
o System Development Process course certified
o Software Development Process course certified
o Project Review course certified
o Preventive Action Process course certified
o Innovation Process course certified
o Control of Records Process course certified
Kia Shakiba, Planning Engineer & Control Analyst