Joe Dickson

Master Scheduler

Houston, TX. 832-279-8269

Email: joe.odickson@gmail.com  

 

 

SUMMARY:

 

Innovative, results driven professional with over 6 years of experience in Project & Portfolio Management, Master Scheduling and Organizational Development. Focused on leadership and strategic planning, quickly defining priorities and addressing deficiencies while exceeding corporate objectives. Exceptional communication skills, ability to work independently and manage personnel and processes. Actively seeking a position with a forward moving company where growth and advancement are readily available.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

EPMA, Houston, TXApril 2014 - Present

Geokinetics, Houston TX – Consultant/Master Scheduler

·               Supported the PMO and worked collaboratively with Program and Business Intelligence Managers in an effort to monitor project scope, track project timeline, utilizing Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server (PWA).

·               Developed schedules that included project phasing, project milestones, and represented critical relationships between program tasks as required to the plan. Performed Critical Path Analysis and communicated results to project team and program managers.

·               Supported Program Mangers  in the creation of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and lead in the development of schedules (including resource loading) for identified WBS elements

·               Updated PPM tools like adding personnel and equipment resources to the Resource Pool and assigning these resources to the appropriate projects/programs.

·               Provided general PPM support to internal project staff and trained Project/Task Managers on how to update tasks in the PWA.

 

PSCU, Florida – Project Manager

·               Coordinated and prioritized project tasks, managed timelines, maintained project plan and communicated status to client as needed. Ensured that the implementation project was delivered on-time, within scope and budget.

·               Configured the application based on the implementation plan. Worked closely with Solution Architects to ensure appropriate follow-up of identifying client needs and follow-up activities.

·               Prepared and provided project analysis, status and reporting such as variance reports, forecast, Earned Value Analysis, Schedule Performance Index and Cost Performance Index (CPI) and communicated to the project team and the client.

 

Team Industrial Services, Houston TX – Consultant/Master Scheduler

·               Tracked schedules, identified and resolved critical path and network logic conflicts. Provided schedule visibility, reporting, and schedule analysis.

·               Analyzed schedule variances, and worked closely with Program and Functional Managers to develop recovery plan and ensured communication of the project plan to the client via weekly Status Report.

·               Identified irregularities between the project plan and the development tracker and met with client’s vendor to discuss the discrepancies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CGG VERITAS, Houston, TXFeb 2013 – Dec 2013

Project Planner/Master Scheduler

 

·               Responsible for supporting the project team by utilizing project planning documents and output from the interactive planning process as a basis for developing project schedules from proposal phase to project closing keeping company standards and client requirements into consideration.

·               Progress schedules, including actual start dates of activities that have begun, percent completion and expected finish date of started, but incomplete activities, actual finish dates for completed activities, revisions to activities that have not started, additions and deletions of activities that correspond to scope changes using Primavera P6.

·               Obtain Input from project team members, subcontractors, vendors and clients to support the development of the project schedule and subsequently update the schedule progress and forecasting.

·               Build work packages / systems schedule including logic, critical path, float, resource loading, weighting etc. and report deviation to appropriate cost control group and project management.

·               Ensure that contractual terms and conditions in the project schedule baseline are monitored and met during project execution.

·               Develop and update resource critical path method (CPM) project schedules as required on a timely basis.

·               In conjunction with the Risk Manager, Perform Risk schedule Analysis as required by project management.

·               Evaluate schedule alternatives to support project changes making sure that internal and external changes are recognized, captured, analyzed and reported to project management expeditiously.

·               Prepare and provide timely project status, analysis and reporting to the project team such as progress s-curves, variance reports, forecast, Earned Value (EV), Estimate at Complete (EAC), mitigation plans, manpower histogram, Engineering KPI and customized reports on Primavera P6 as required by project management.

 

BMC Software, Houston, TXJuly 2012 – Dec 2012

Project Management Analyst

·               Coordinated and managed Migrations/Cutover for Customers in all environments including Production and communicated to upper management.

·               Managed, performed regression testing and validated environments including Dev, QA and Prod for over 60% of clients.

·               Coordinated with resources especially Engagement Managers worldwide on a daily basis.

·               Coordinated and responded to request from resources on changes from the original specifications.

·               Uploaded and managed documents and migration dashboards on SharePoint.

·               Excelled in guiding the work technical teams. Worked with Data Base and Remedy teams to ensure that the migrations/cutovers were carried out successfully and achieving project milestones.

·               Trained resources in Pune (India) to make sure that testing was done appropriately.

·               Worked closely with customers and project teams to implement solutions.

·               Managed the entire project life cycle from engagement phase through go-live and project close-out.

·               Multi-tasked, flexible and effectively responded to changing project and client needs.

·               Tracked and reported project progress, issues and improvement strategies to the program managers.

·               Created Request for Change (RFC) for all Customers in US and EMEA.

 

 

First Data Inc., Houston, TXOct 2009 – June 2012                                       

Project Scheduler                                                             

·               Kept management personnel informed of critical path/near critical path schedule status and issues; provided recommendations for schedule improvement and recovery plans.

·               Updated and maintained schedules as the project progressed through their development and execution stages.

·               Ensured project planning and scheduling deliverables were accurate and delivered to the project Controls Manager in a timely fashion.

·               Identified and scheduled project deliverables, milestones and required tasks.

·               Hands-on contribution to the development and maintenance of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and Budgets that lead to the establishment of a cost/schedule baseline.

·               Develop schedules that include project phasing, project milestones, and represent critical relationships between program tasks as required to plan, coordinate, and visualize all significant program activities

·               Analyzed Earned Value monthly data Schedule Variance (SV,SPI)

·               Aggregated plans for all projects across the work streams and highlighted dependencies, conflicts and opportunities.

 

EDUCATION:

 

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics

Delta State University, Nigeria

 

CERTIFICATIONS / TRAINING:

 

·               Microsoft Certified Professional: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013

·               ITIL v3 Foundation

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

 

Microsoft Project 2010, 2013; Project Web App (PWA); Primavera P6; Microsoft Office Suite; SDLC, PMI Methodologies; Time Management; Team Collaboration; Problem Solving; Project Delivery; Critical Analysis.

 

 

Reference

Available upon request