136 John Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317

717-592-8380, jsknapp1@yahoo.com

Jeffrey S. Knapp

OBJECTIVE:

You want projects completed on-time and at-cost. I’m your man.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  · Advanced user of Microsoft (MS) Project and Primavera Project Planner

  · 7.5 years of schedule development using Critical Path (CPM) and Earned Value (EVM) Methodology

  · 7.5 years of developing resource allocation & financial spend plans

  · 7.5 years of in-depth schedule analysis, developing schedule simulations & identifying risks

  · 7.5 years of enhanced schedule reporting using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

  · “Faster than the rest” with advanced software familiarization and superb typing skills

  · Former NACI clearance with US Dept. of Justice

EXPERIENCE

Senior Scheduler

Wood Group Mustang – 08/2013 – Current

  · Developed Engineering, Procurement, Land-Acquisition, Permitting and Construction schedules for natural gas

pipeline, processing, metering & compression facilities

  · Brought Canonsburg Regional Office “up to speed” by implementing resource management to all current and new

P6 Project Schedules

  · Increased revenue 100% by assisting with Cost Control and Document Control responsibilities

Scheduling Manager

  · Increased project visibility 1200% by improving schedule level-of-detail and tracking individual deliverables through

all phases of development

Forge Group (Formerly Taggart Global) – 05/2010 to 08/2013

  · Developed Engineering, Procurement & Construction schedules for partial and turn-key material handling and coal

processing facilities

  · Created a one-man scheduling department, training Project Managers and Supervisors on the requirements for

effectively managing onsite labors and offsite fabricators

  · Developed schedules in MS Project (’07 & ’10) and Primavera Project Planner (P6, P7 & P8)

  · Maintained schedules in 5 countries: USA, Australia, South America, Canada and Mongolia

  · Developed more than 60 schedules representing over $500M US in Capital Projects

Lead Project Planner

Edwards Project Solutions – 09/2009 to 04/2010

  · Developed and maintained schedule for Information Technology (IT) software & hardware deployment for USDOJ

Antitrust Division

  · Improved cost-control performance by tracking over 1,700 weekly labor hours for more than 35 individual workers

in a resource-loaded MS Project schedule

  · Reduced schedule reporting cycle by 95% compared to previous scheduler

Assistant Project Scheduler

  · Improved data quality and reduced schedule update timeframes 66% by developing “Knappkin” time-tracking Excel

template using Microsoft VBA. Trained workers on “Knappkin” usage

American Electric Power – 03/2008 to 06/2009

  · Developed and maintained schedule for construction of coal-fired fluidized gas desulfurization (FGD) and selective

catalytic reduction (SCR) as part of EPA environmental control efforts.

  · Co-managed database of 17,000+ activities, with earned-value tracking on over $438M USD

  · Oversaw 3,000+ activities for Startup & Commissioning, leading to on-time completion

EDUCATION

  · BA Liberal Arts in Music, 2001, Pennsylvania State University

  · Vocational Diploma – Automotive Technology, 2005, Wyoming Technical Institute