Colleen
A. McCormley
316
North 6th Street,
Clairton PA 15025
412-445-9422
Wmm316@comcast.net
SUMMARY
Experienced in project scheduling and resource forecasting to engineering, procurement, and construction of
multi-million dollar projects. Role includes: Report monthly financials
and progress on individual projects. Cost analysis, cost forecasting,
cost accounting, earned value management, Primavera schedule development,
schedule maintenance, and cost/schedule auditing, and program analysis.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
4/2012 to 9/2013
Willbros Engineering; Pittsburgh,
PA
Senior Planner/Scheduler
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Develop and maintain EPC Primavera 7.1 schedules and reports for the
Engineering and Construction Pipeline industry. Communicate intercompany and
customers on the critical path and cost analysis of the project. Participate
on the resource and forecast utilization team for the Pittsburgh office. Work
closely with the Project Management and Project Controls department on the
policies and procedures of margin analysis.
5/2009 - 4/2012
Ansaldo STS USA - Pittsburgh, PA
Senior Project Controls
Scheduler
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Responsible for the project controls and financial support for the
wayside equipment, vital relays and train systems within the rail control
systems business. Provide Primavera P6 schedules and reports for multiple projects
and monitor resources, material, budget and cost to complete forecasts. Also
maintain the payment milestones and risks in providing an overall project
management review of the projects. In conjunction in supporting engineering,
provide material and resources schedules for field support through test and
commissioning and construction phases. Utilize Microsoft Office and Project
in the monitoring process in the developing and maintaining project
schedules.
12/2007 - 4/2009
Siemens Environmental Systems and
Services - Pittsburgh, PA
Senior Project Planner
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Within the air pollution control industry fully support the Project
Manager, in preparing, analyzing, and updating of the Master Project Schedule
to meet the Client's engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up
requirements. By being proficient in using Primavera 3e,5,6 scheduling
software and have strong communication skills and working knowledge of CPM
(critical path method), Total Float Analysis, Target File Utilization,
Variance Analysis, Manpower Allocation, Progress Performance curves perform
updates and analysis as required.
7/2005 - 12/2007
Westinghouse Electric Company -
Monroeville, PA
Senior Planning Specialist
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Develop and maintained detailed Engineering, Construction and
Manufacturing schedules within the Commercial Nuclear Energy Power Plant
Industry using P6 and P3.1. Support the competencies within Westinghouse in
updating the P3e Project Baseline Schedule, and identifying critical path and
obtaining project management approval for suggested changes to project scope,
schedule and budget.
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Primary resource for implementing Primavera 3e 5.0 and server for the
New Power Plant Division. Assisted in the building of the scheduling team and
integrated the project schedules for Engineering and Construction
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AP1000 program. Collaborate with Operation and Project Managers in
structuring project organizational WBS’s, resource hierarchies, structuring
calendars and defining custom field and code dictionaries that support
project accounting and budget forecasting. Support Field site Outage
assignments with P3.1 scheduling of the Structural Weld Overlay team for the
Pressurizer repair.
4/1993 to 6/2002
Bombardier Transportation USA
Inc. - formerly Adtranz, West Mifflin, PA
Planner / Cost Analyst
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Supported the Project Management of the Drives Product Unit
Engineering and Manufacturing Division with annual revenue of $35 million
dollars with a successful income before taxes of 12%+. Team support in
managing functional group financial estimates, spending plans, inventory
control and design proposals.
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Produced monthly financial planning budgetary expense forecasts and
variances for Drafting, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Engineering
departments. Launched a performance process reviews with management profit
center analysis of the capital budget, R & D, operative plan and general
ledger statements. Coordinated data with Finance, Accounting and
administrative levels to ensure data integrity and anticipated costs.
Decreased cost control errors by 50% by data accuracy and recommending cost
analysis models.
Integrated financial and planning analysis tools utilizing ad hoc
reports with various software, Business XL, Oracle, Excel and Primavera P3.1
and Microsoft Project programs. Developed and maintained Task Control Numbers
(TCN) and detailed Gantt charts to successfully reduced cycle times and
standardized the monthly Cost to Complete process.
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Extensively coordinated and influenced master schedules, material,
man-hours planning costs, and Capital Budget expenditures using Critical Path
Methodology (CPM) and Program Evaluation and Review Techniques (PERT).
Represented the Drives Product Unit in a support position for system upgrades
of mainframe applications, Intranet and Strategic Management Resource Mapping
Teams. Supported over 50 on-site associates along with domestic and
international field sites requests.
Storeroom Inventory Control
Manager - Bombardier Transportation USA Inc. (1993 to 1995)
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Increased the overall inventory accuracy to 99.8%. Implemented startup
of Bar Coding system while maintaining the "Dock to Kit" system.
Managed the productivity, quality and cycle time of a $14 million storeroom
in providing services to six manufacturing lines.
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Managed three off-site and two on-site 70,000 square foot warehouses
supervising Shipping, Receiving and Mailroom departments. Maintained a high
level of 20,000 annual receipts for manufacturing and internal and external
postal service for 1,000 associates. Achieved warehouse expense reduction
through consolidation and cube space utilization improvement from 62% to 82%.
Participated in a Total Quality Environment in achieving the ISO-9000
Certification.
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EDUCATION
MBA - Masters of Business
Administration - Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA 5/2001
BS - Education/Business
Management - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
AS - Computer & Information
Sciences - Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA