- Fossil Fuel/Power Plant - Plant Shutdowns 2 years

-Prior to college - Obtained hands-on experience as a Plumber's Helper, Steelbuilding Erector (Butler and Star-type buildings) and as a Rodbuster with a concrete company for over 10 years.

Cost and Scheduling Experience & Duties include:

•Project control experience with Primavera P3 and P6. Importation of Microsoft Project schedules into Primavera schedules. Army Corp of Engineers SDEF (Standard Data Exchange Format).

•Assist Marketing, Estimating, and Project team leaders in the development of Proposal and Bid schedules.

•Function as a team leader throughout the plan and schedule development process, including the Design, Submittal, Procurement and comprehensive Construction Schedule.

•Develop and implement the WBS, work item lists and their logic including major project milestones and constraints between work items to determine the project Master Schedule.

•Implement cost and manpower resource loading development.

•Perform daily and weekly progress field walks to verify subcontractors are working on critical path construction activities and maintaining all other contractual baseline work.

•Develop customized field reports designed to facilitate field progress reporting. 

•Prepare 2-week look-ahead with customized column information for superintendents or assistant superintendents, responsible for determining their specific areas of field progress.

•Conduct P3 and P6 in-house training for all superintendents and project managers.

•Manage issues related to change of scope and documenting any specific deviation or series of deviations from the baseline schedule.

•Creation of Fragnets to represent any work slippages and time impact delays for future claim determinations on a month to month basis or at contracted updating periods.

•Physically input progress (start and finish dates, percent completions and remaining durations) on a monthly basis.

•Calculate Earned Value progress.

•Compare updated progress schedule to baseline schedule for time-scaled logic problems which may cause total float changes and project slippage.

•Review and analyze the results of status input and changes due to scope related changes and additions issued during the reporting period.

•Prepare tabular schedule reports outlining early and late dates and total float; cost and manpower histograms and s-curves.

•Provide an executive analysis and monthly narrative outlining the project performance vs. the baseline

schedule.

•Attend and support daily subcontractor meetings.

•Conduct weekly scheduling meetings with all project subcontractors and vendors for project compliance.

•Performed forensic scheduling methodology; development of as-built schedules; investigated change order process to establish and evaluate the cause and effect by analyzing lost productivity, project delays, acceleration, labor and or material escalation and deviations or series of deviations from the baseline to the actual work.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COST MANAGEMENT INC. (CMI), Orlando, FL  09/2014 – 12/2015

Master Scheduler – MBE Contract Consultant work - expired

•Created an integrated Master Schedule that incorporated multiple Construction Manager (CM) team schedules for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) on the $1.9B South APM complex.

•Built the entire Master Program for this 3-year project using the 8.3.2 version of Primavera P6.

•Coordinated interproject relationships between the CM’s common work.

•Developed and maintained all project milestones and contractual obligations of the CM teams.

•          Oversaw the development of the Hensel Phelps and Turner-Keiwit Joint Venture (JV) schedules. This included an Intermodal Transfer Facility (ITF), a 6-story, 2,400-space Parking Garage, the APM, and a PDL(Porte-Cochere).

•          Also created a Master Schedule for the North Terminal for various  renovation and new construction projects.

TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Orlando, FL   03/2013 – 02/2014

Senior Project Scheduler

Four Season Hotel / Convention Center – Disney property – 3 /2013 thru 2/2014

•Initially responsible for managing scheduling activities for a $300M Four Seasons/Convention Center project.

•Converted an existing Primavera P3 schedule to a P6 schedule utilizing a WBS format.

•Collected data and analyzed project information to support project schedules.

•          Provided ongoing management of CPM project schedules, including baseline analysis and acceptance.

•          Responsible for change orders and the analysis of delay claims or time extensions.

•Performed a comprehensive analysis of critical activities.

Citus Bowl – Renovation 2/2014 thru 9/2014

•Created and managed scheduling activities for the $300M, 10-month long Fast Track Florida Citrus Bowl renovation project, from demolition through complete rebuild.

•Created and maintained the baseline schedule with a WBS, in addition to providing ongoing analysis and support of critical activities while functioning under tight time constraints.

COST MANAGEMENT INC. (CMI), Orlando, FL  2011 - 2012

Project Manager - Orange County District Wide Operations/Portable Installations-MBE Consultant contract expired

•Developed and wrote all work scopes for each project assignment.

•Developed Bid List and invited subcontractor participation on bid projects.

•Walked contractors through project scope.

•          Evaluated each bid to ensure compliance with project specifications.

•          Awarded contracts to lowest bidder.

•Supervised and monitored each project throughout all phases of construction.

•Closed out each project and prepared final payment to contractor.

•Utilized Primavera P6.

BALFOUR BEATTY CONSTRUCTION, Orlando, FL                                                                      2006 - 2011

Senior Project Planner Scheduler

•Peabody Hotel and Convention Center expansion; GMP of $260M. 

•Handled scheduling duties for Midtown phases 2 and 4 in Downtown Miami; GMP of each phase was $250M. 

•Recorded and managed subcontractor work delays and stoppages on a monthly basis and input as fragnets, including all change orders.

•Scheduling duties (see above section; Cost and Scheduling Experience and Duties).

•Utilized Primavera P6 vers. 6.0 and 6.1.

SPACE GATEWAY SUPPORT, Kennedy Space Center, FL2005 - 2006

Project Manager - Hurricane Recovery Team 

•Managed and resolved all issues pertaining to hurricane and weather-related issues and mitigated Cape Kennedy facilities to ensure optimum operational readiness.

•Developed and wrote all work scopes for each project assignment.

•Compiled Bid List and invited subcontractor participation on bid projects.

•Informed contractors of project scope.

•          Evaluated each bid for project compliance.

•          Awarded projects to lowest bidder.

•Supervised and monitored each project during construction.

•Closed out each project and prepared final payment to contractor.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE  (cont.)

SELF EMPLOYED, Orlando, FL                     2004 - 2005

Consultant

•Provided consulting services to various companies on project planning and scheduling, including Addison Steel Erectors, Orlando, Florida; and Nash Plumbing, Lake County, Florida.

•Utilized Primavera P3.

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ALPHA CORPORATION, Dulles, VA2002 - 2003

Consultant for S.B. Ballard Construction, Virginia Beach, VA

•Provided planning and scheduling services on a wide range of projects, including:

-Kings Fork High School, Suffolk, Virginia - $75M.

-Aerial Delivery (parachute training facility for Army Corps of Engineers) - $40M.

-Baltimore Aquarium - Performed claims analysis throughout project construction.

-St. Mary’s Disabled Children's Hospital.

-Christopher Newport University Parking Garage - $25M.

-Jacksonville Public Library - $35M.

-Jacksonville Public Parking Garage - $30M.

-Langley Operations Center - $30M.

-Richmond 14^th Street Parking Garage - $30M.

-Virginia Beach Convention Center (pilecaps and foundations) - $28M.

-University of Virginia Arena and Parking Garage - Prepared proposal schedules.

-Norfolk Airport Parking Garage - Prepared proposal schedules.

•Ballard collected over $350,000 in a claim that was caused by worked stoppages and provided documentation that these work stoppages were not caused by Ballard work forces. Instrumental in developing Fragnets that verified Ballard's work performance and incorporated time impact analysis methods to illustrate the delays that were caused by the Owners’ subcontractors.

•Scheduling duties (see above section; Cost and Scheduling Experience and Duties).

SUITT CONSTRUCTION, Orlando, FL 1999 - 2001

OPRYLAND HOTEL / CONVENTION CENTER

Senior Scheduler

•Performed all cost and scheduling functions for $350M project that was approx. 1,000,000 sq. ft.

•Developed and maintained a baseline schedule with 7,500 activities. Interfaced with project managers and superintendents to develop the phasing and sequencing of the project. 

•Utilized Primavera 3.0 to incorporate Procurement and Fabrication activities, along with preparing a Comprehensive Construction schedule.

•Performed punch-out of the Hotel/Convention Center, taking photos for scheduling and tracking purposes, in addition to recording video for operations and maintenance.

•Scheduling duties (see above section; Cost and Scheduling Experience and Duties).

CLARK CONSTRUCTION, Tampa, FL1998 - 1999

COLEMAN FEDERAL PRISON - approx. $100 million expansion project

Senior Scheduler

•Utilized Primavera 2.0b to maintain a resource/cost loaded schedule that included approx. 5,000 activities.

•The project was a Federal job that required very strict scheduling specifications for approval of the baseline schedule.  Following the schedule’s approval by the Federal Review Board of Prisons in Washington, D.C., the reporting was performed on a monthly basis for ongoing review by the Federal Prison Board in Washington D.C. Monthly submissions of the approved AIA pay application were delivered by the project team to the agency in Washington, D.C. This included cost and manpower graphs and supplemental reports (S-Curves and Bell Curves).

•Utilized all forensic scheduling methodology to mitigate change orders caused by work stoppages on a monthly basis.

•Interfaced daily with superintendents and project managers on the progress of each activity. 

•Met every two weeks with the Bureau’s field managers with a 6-week look-ahead (2 weeks back and 4 weeks forward) for review of field progress. Also prepared a monthly narrative with the monthly update package.

•Scheduling duties (see above section; Cost and Scheduling Experience and Duties).