Dana Lee Resume – Page 3

 

Resume of Dana M. Lee              Project Controls Professional

Contact Information

 

Address:  325 N. Hale St. Grantsville, Utah 84029

Phone: 801-455-8228

E-mail: Strtchnit@gmail.com

Experience Summary

Over 20 years’ experience as a project controls professional utilizing the Earned Value Management principles and protocol to successfully create, monitor and complete projects on time and under or within budget.  Obtained extensive government oversight experience by working for Department of Energy at the Idaho National Laboratory on cradle to grave project development, cost loaded and tracked schedule creation and management. 

Qualifications

●    22 years of experience utilizing Primavera applications for schedule development and progress.

●    I am experienced in the implementation and execution of EVMS principles for government, aerospace and private sector heavy industrial companies.

●    I have successfully managed multiple projects and associated schedules for projects spanning multiple years and in excess of  $500 million.

●    I have extensive experience maintaining contract documentation and accrual processes for accurate cost reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

●    I have a strong working knowledge of the Veteran Affairs OIT ProPath processes and PMAS requirements.

Direct Hire Employment History

 

Hewlett-Packard/Enterprise System Services (HP/EDS) (Remote Worker)                

Project Manager              III                                                                                                                                            Current – Sep 12

·                       Responsible for providing project planning  and project manager support to IT Development projects within the Office of Information Technology Product Development division of the Veterans Administration.  Duties include but are not limited to maintaining baseline schedule details, provide weekly progress reporting on the health of the project against the baseline.  Collaborate with VA manager and team resources to ensure timely delivery of customer milestones and end user functionality in support of our Veterans.  Earned Value Management (EVM) principles and methodologies are used to define progress reported to the VA Project Management Accountability System (PMAS) dashboard.  The PMAS Dashboard offers VA Leadership with a view of project health and deliverables to monitor and ensure high success rates of delivery of IT software to our Veterans and Veteran Caregivers.

 

Process Engineer                                                                                                                                                          Sep 12 – Dec 11             

·                       Process Engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology, leading the effort of business process mapping (standardizing work processes) for VA use.  The standardization efforts have helped improve on-time deliver to 89% from 60% lowering costs for VA projects and other processes through improved implementation methodologies. Main responsibility as Core Process Lead to Project Management and consultant to sub-processes that fell under the umbrella of Project Management.

 

Project Manager III                                                                                                                                                   Dec 11 – Feb 10                                                                                               

·                       Responsible for providing project planning support to three IT Development projects within the Product Development division of the Veterans Administration.  Maintained baseline schedule details and provided progress to the baseline for ensuring timely delivery of customer milestones and accurate EVM progress reported to the VA Project Management Accountability System (PMAS) dashboard.  The PMAS Dashboard offers VA Leadership with a view of project health and deliverables to monitor and ensure high success rates of delivery of IT software to our Veterans and Veteran Caregivers.

Sierra Nevada Corp (SNC) (Salt Lake City UT)                 Apr 09 – Feb 10

Project Analyst II

·          Project Analyst for Navigation and Systems Landing development, department of the  CNS business group of SNC.  Involves working closely with Project Management in the system integration of proposal and execution stages of programs.  As an analyst the responsibility is to ensure integration of business processes are accurate and complete.  Evaluation of schedule and cost are executed daily to ensure executions to contracts are met.  Analysis is obtained through the use of Microsoft Project Web Access and Cobra.  Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to providing baseline support, resource allocation analysis and project close-out.

ATK Space Systems & Sensors (Magna, UT)                Jan 06 – May 07

Project Scheduler

·          Project Scheduler for James Webb Space Telescope design and build project. Assist project to implement integrated cost and schedule in accordance with EVMS requirements set for in the contract.  Interface schedule updates with customer and project teams.  Provide monthly analysis and trend reporting for better management of schedule.  Utilized MS Project to create and manage schedules.

Idaho National Lab – (Department of Energy, Idaho)              Jul 90 – Sep 03 

Project Controls Engineer             

·          Skill sets obtained and utilized: development and progressing of detailed Primavera P3 schedules; perform cost, scope, schedule and trend analyses; develop three year detailed work planning documentation (first project within Waste Management to receive unconditional approval from DOE-ID customer in 2001) and Life Cycle Baseline Planning; coordinate and initiate funding requests and work authorizations. Assisted project managers in establishing a code of accounts based on Project Execution Plans provided in a coordinated effort between the customer and contractor. The outcome provided for better tracking of discrete activities and their associated costs.  Responsible for forecasts and projections of issues that could impede progress and overrun projects. Project reorganization/downsizing resulted in termination.

United States Navy – Honorably Discharged                Apr 80 – Oct 88

Contracted Employment History – 6 to 12 month Temporary Contracted Positions

 

Aerotek Engineering Services to Utah Transit Authority (UTA)             

Contract Administrator

·                       FrontRunner South Commuter Rail project between Salt Lake City and Provo Utah.  Skill sets utilized: Interface liaison for client and contractor; contract invoice audit review for payment; compliance audit for scope and schedule and analysis of costs to expenditure forecast. Document control for unrestricted flow of project design and submittal documentation. Primary schedule application is Primavera P6 and company legacy software. 

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) to Veterans Administration IT Development             

Advanced Project Controls Specialist. 

·                       Provide cost and schedule analysis for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) software development that will replace legacy systems nationally.  Skill sets utilized:  bottoms up estimating of scope resources and budget; detailed schedule build for earned value management; critical path management; variance analysis and reporting to senior VHA management.  Software utilized, Primavera P5  and Team play.

Franklin Engineering Services to Kennecott Utah Copper              

Project Scheduler

·          Contract support for Kennecott Utah Copper Mine as master scheduler for major rebuild of Concentrator Process located at Kennecott Utah Copper.  Provided a schedule build for fast track project completion accomplished by utilizing Primavera P5 software.  Coordinated and conducted weekly status by outside contractors to provide progress to Kennecott senior management.  Interfaced with financial department to integrate both cost and schedule details for combined earned value reporting.

Amec Environmental & Engineering Services to Kennecott Utah Copper                

Project Scheduler

·          North Tailings Finger Expansion Project at Kennecott Copper Mine located in Magna, Utah.  Assigned as construction management interface between Kennecott and Subcontractor for large earthwork project.  Coordinate schedule creation with subcontractors to ensure resource loading appropriate for earned value reporting.  Process invoicing, quantity, and man hour reports.  Provide both weekly and monthly interface reporting to owner.  Provide trend analysis, total project cost, EAC, and ETC statistics to owner for cost and schedule monitoring.

Aerotek Engineering Services - Tetra-Tech EM, INC./Hurricane Katrina Relief Team               

Project Scheduler

·          Skill sets utilized: create and maintain the master schedule of activities applied to $24 Million steel fabrication and process equipment dismantling contract.  Project management skills utilized to demobilize project team and facilities; negotiate and complete the HAZWOPER  40 training, medical screening, and respirator fit testing of 14 project engineers reassigned to FEMA funded project.  The project ended September 2005 in litigation.

Reconnaissance Team Lead

·          Accepted an interim assignment on the Hurricane Katrina subcontract to the Environmental Protection Agency assigned to assist in the assessment of environmental impacts caused by Hurricane Katrina.  Responsibilities included the scheduling of 13 two member teams to participate with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency in the reconnaissance of Under Ground Storage Tanks (UST), Multi-Media Facilities, Aerial Operations, and Radiological Sources displaced or damaged due to the hurricane.  Provide daily reporting for EPA Incident Command of activities and issues encountered.  Interface with federal and state agencies to ensure appropriate documentation of data collected during field reconnaissance.

 

Certifications and Training

 

Certified as an Advanced project scheduler with Primavera 6.1.  Trained in use of Cobra 3.6a, Discoverer, Lotus Notes 5, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Primavera 6, iGrafx, SharePoint, ClearQuest,  MS Project, some SAP applications and various other Microsoft Office applications.

Education

 

Idaho State University,                            Pocatello, ID

Pasadena High School,                        Pasadena, Calif