SEAN L. COOK

 

__________________________________________SUMMARY_________________________________   

An achievement-oriented Senior Project Planning and Scheduling Specialist with broad experience in Aerospace, Oil/Gas, and Consulting with successful execution and management in all phases of projects, from proposal through project closeout with a project portfolio of $200M - $50B

 

_____________________________ SKILL SUMMARY_____________________________

-          Leadership: Lead with organizational aptitude to insure necessary resources/tools are available for project success while using the wisdom garnered over the years to foster project success. Develop strong relationships with internal/external clients while possessing strong negotiation, influencing and conflict resolution skills

-          Communication: Present results, mitigation strategies, risk, and issue resolution efforts consistently and concise to senior management

-          Baseline: Actively participate in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBR), develop/coordinate the WBS for teams to integrate new/additional budget into the Process Management Baseline (PMB)

-          Analysis: Review program schedules, validate and analyze results to generate updated program schedules, contract performance reports (CPR), estimate-to-complete (ETC), estimate-at-completion (EAC), and program performance metrics. Also assess master schedule health and project performance via indices (SPI, CPI, TCPI) based on forecast and earned value (EV)

-          Interdependence: Excellent at multi-tasking across functions while solving complex problems under limited supervision using unique ideas, able to think and integrate “Big Picture” view, and make recommendations on project direction and scope to senior leadership

-          Surveillance: Lead EV surveillance reviews, compliance reviews and other related audits 

-          Risk Assessment: Use indices to quantify program schedules are performing within guidelines via Risk Mitigation/Margin/Float, Monte Carlo Analysis, Schedule Assessments, Critical Path Methodologies (CPM) and use problem solving skill by developing what-if/schedule recovery plans scenarios for conscious decision making

-          Estimate of Completion (EOC): Developed metrics that prove the project completes and exceeds client and corporate completion requirements

-          Process Improvements: Continually surveying ways to improve processes and use the best of lessons learned and 5S attributes as a base for improvements

-          Training: Take an active role in training and mentoring talent in others to increase and enhance organizational cohesion

-          Focus: Use wide array of experience to develop team direction while using sound judgment to assess opportunities and resources based on prioritization

-          Subcontractor management: Review and integrate subcontractor schedules and ensures compliance with project requirements

 

_____________________________ADVANCED COMPUTER SKILLS______________________

 

·         Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Office Suite, System, Application and Products (SAP), ORACLE Ad Hoc, Sparcs, VMS, HMS, Sjet, Deltek Financial/Scheduling Products: Open Plan Professional (OPP), COBRA, SharePoint, WebEx, IM, Net Meeting, Lync

 

_______________________________________EXPERIENCE______________________________

 

The Boeing Company, International Space Station (ISS)-Houston, TX.     

Sr. EV Business Scheduler & Planning Analysts – Project Manager             July 2004 – Present

 

·               Serve as Scheduling Project Manager for multiple ISS engineering teams for various large Capital Investment projects and analyze multiple projects to plan the most effective execution sequence, priority and balancing across multiple functions

·               Develop formulated budget and resource load Master Schedules for the ISS and present in internal, external senior management reviews, audits and forecast best projection for finishing deliverable milestones ahead of schedule and under cost as well as resource load logically linked schedule from proposal through Gate Reviews to closeout

·               Manage and develop project schedule risk, benchmarks, various baselines and performance via a suite of analysis systems, tools and management reports to insure conformance with the ISS Project Management Guidelines

·               Manage and progress projects through the various Gates Reviews in forums such as ISS Program Board, Executibilty and Program Readiness Reviews

·               Coordinate and resolve long and short term planning and analyze business performance objectives by preparing financial forecasts, findings and present findings to senior management

·               Engage early and often with appropriate project team or function as a liaise to insure all encompassing scheduling services are provided throughout all ISS projects

·               Implement and maintain approved budget by formulating the monthly phased operating plan, tracking

       funding, analyzing historical schedule performance and costing resources

 

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The Boeing Company, International Space Station (ISS)-Houston, TX. – Continued

Sr. EV Business Scheduler & Planning Analysts – Project Manager                       July 2004 – Present

 

·               Develop assessment criteria to measure program performance, formulate recommendations, and provide various status reports to senior management

·               Ensure integrated cost and schedules are within negotiated parameters and control guidelines by managing the effort of the negotiated value, allocated resources and by means of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS)

·               Provide planning metrics, current status and plans, future projections, analyze WBS via risk management to foresee potential problems then formulate and recommend solutions

·               Present Employee Training and Developments (ETD) organizational strategy and direction to the Finance Leadership Counsel

·               Liaison to Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) Finance organization via Finance Integrated Training Team (FITT), Business Operations Skills Team (BOST), Finance Employee Survey Team (FINEST), Employee Engagement Team (EE) and Employee Involvement Team (EI)

·               Present and provide mentorship to the Student Development Program (SDP)

 

Accenture, Houston, TX.

Sr. EV Pipeline Consultant – Project Consultant                                            September 2003 – June 2004

 

·         Consult British Petroleum (BP) concerning EV, Revenue and Joint Venture (JV),India Transition Implementation

·         Plan, structure and execute project controls are delivered to quality and in accordance with program management

·         Ensure Programs OBS/RAM/SOW/Budget/Schedule and Baseline Changes are in accordance with EV process requirements

·         Monitored the expenditures and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the program progresses

·         Manage engagement or project to consistently achieve and support specific revenue and profit targets

·         Provided Asset Planning and Schedule support for asset and project work activities through close liaise with Project Engineers, Unit Engineers, Maintenance, and Operations personnel

·         Utilized SAP for the following:

o   JV Cutback, monthly close of the general ledger, preparing journal entries for the month end close, completing account reconciliation’s, participating in annual external and internal audits, preparation of monthly financial statements and related analysis (A/P,A/R), invoicing, and meeting with management to review results, apply EVM strategies and process improvements

 

Applied Research and Engineering Services Corporation (ARES), Houston, TX.

Financial and Technical Risk Program Manager             April 2000 – September 2002

 

Aerospace: United Space Alliance

·         Supervised and developed employee skills, business plans, marketing strategies to maintain and acquire new clients

·         Responsible for new business development, proposals, contracts and back office accounting

·         Developed compliance audits and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

·         Maintenance of project baseline documentation

·         Monitor the resource utilization and conflicts across all tracked projects

·         Develop reports on schedule activity and resources

·         Developed several cost improvements for multimillion-dollar projects 

·         Developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Quality Risk Assessment Policies

·         Performed financial risks, process improvements and developed associated metrics

·         Submitted task proposals to Government Contracting Officers (GCO)

 

Nuclear: Nevada Test Site (NTS)

·         Developed SOP for identifying cost associated with Safety Hazards

·         Developed metrics on Hazardous Substance Inventory Analysis

·         Developed chapters of the Transportation Safety Document (TSD) for the NTS

·         Measured Hazards and TSD using EVM (Baselines, variances, planning/schedule statusing, etc)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Elf Exploration, Inc. Houston, TX.

Sr. EV Revenue and JIB Accountant Project Manager                                            August 1999 – April 2000

 

·         Interfaced with multiple departments to maintain and minimize cost, safety hazards, and risk

·         Recorded monthly sales, production and related expenses

·         Transmitted Minerals Management Service (MMS) royalties to U.S. Department of the Interior

·         Recorded revenue, cost and expenses for abandonment well production and operations

·         Performed accounts receivable reconciliations, aging and collection

·         Administered sales contracts and analyzed all revenue sales for hardware and oil/gas products

·         Analyzed and reported wellhead, pipeline and pool imbalances

·         EVM: Developed and maintain project Schedules and analyzed Earned Value, Cost Forecasting and Cost

·         Resolved Division of Interest (DOI) issues and recommended process improvements

·         Account for pipeline and pooling arrangements

·         Administered sales of producing properties pre and post monthly closings

·        Prepared payout statements for company operated properties

·        Prepared revenue and tax statements for Property, Plant and Equipment (PP&E)

·         Evaluated and reported fixed assets and related Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization (DD&A)

·         Reconciled joint interest sub-ledger for oil/gas hardware

 

Shell Oil /Equiva Trading /Saudi Aramco, Houston, TX.  {CONSULTANT}         

Sr. EV Stock Analysis and Control-Crude Oil Accountant                                   August 1998 – August 1999

 

·         Utilized SAP for cash forecasting, flux analysis, monthly closing, memo sales, net settlements, EVM and lease purchases

·         Developed concept and product using MS Project scheduling tool, i.e.: resource charts, pert charts, Gantt charts, concepts of float, schedule status/EVM, and revisions

·         Consolidation of project data effectively with Oil well Account Managers on cross-functional teams

·         Trained Finance and Accounting modules to end users

·         Developed SAP handbook for Merger and Acquisition  (M&A) teams implementation and end users

·         Analyzed and verified AP, AR, volumes, pricing and gravity

·         Created volume discrepancy request and journal entries to reflect storage sales, hardware and purchases

·         Allocated various well volumes for accurate billing

 

Vastar Resources, Inc., Houston, TX.    {CONSULTANT}  

Revenue Accountant / Tax Analyst           March 1998 –July 1998

 

·         Accomplished assigned task 1 month ahead of schedule

·         Filed Severance Tax Incentives for the State of Oklahoma (SB841)

·         Analyzed, prepared and calculated allocations of base well production for tax refund

·         Audited well production reports from the Oklahoma Taxing Commission (OTC)

·         Ensured that all allocations and refunds fall within applicable statutes and guidelines of SB841

 

____________________________________CERTIFICATIONS____________________________

System, Application and Products (SAP)

Training Server for Centralized Schedulers

Cost Fundamentals, Foundations of Cost Accounting and Finance Overview

Process Based Management (PBM)

 

_______________________________________EDUCATION_______________________________

 

·               Texas Southern University - Houston, TX.

        Bachelors Business Administration - Accounting

 

 

 

 

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