Jesse Cervantes

 

Experienced program coordinator with over 8 years of project planning, coordination, and leadership skills. Experienced Primavera P6 Program and Project Coordinator working with cross-functional teams, aligning internal team members, and external stakeholders in managing multiple projects simultaneously.  Skilled in communicating with stakeholder’s program or project status.  Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to interact with executive level external and internal clients.

DEVRY University, Chicago, Illinois                                                                                                                                Jul. 2007

B.S., Technical Management in Business Information Systems                                                                              

Gained a professional understanding of:

• Business Analysis • Project Management • Human Resources • Database Design • Motivation & Leadership

• Business Law & Policy • Network Design • Web Development • Management • English & Communications

• Public Speaking • Essentials of Accounting • Management of Technology Resources

 

Critical Path Method

·   Create the WBS by facilitating planning sessions to identify activities (relationships and durations), resources, and estimating hours

• Determine activity dependencies and durations
• Identify the critical path by analyzing the longest sequence of activities
• Update the critical path, review, and validate project schedules
• Compress project schedules in order to meet deadlines

 

Executing & Controlling

• Collect weekly status and update schedules
• Validate schedules after actuals have run
• Critical Path Analysis during control meetings
• Post updated schedules and reports
• Review/Validate timesheets weekly for accuracy

 

Resource Management

·         Analyze resource allocations

·         Forecast resource needs

 

Meetings & Facilitation

·         Weekly control meetings with Project Managers and with team leads to review project status

·         Facilitate planning and re-planning sessions to compress schedules as needed

 

Certificates

·   Project Success Inc. (PSI) “Project Success Method”. Highly integrated processes for defining, planning, and controlling projects to achieve success

·         PM Alliance “Advance Project Planning and Control Facilitation”

 

Advanced MS Word, Advance MS Excel, Advance MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, Primavera P6 Professional R8.3, Proficient in Spanish.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peoples Gas Engineering (PGL), Chicago, IL                                                                                            Sept. 2013 – Current

Engineering Scheduling, Reporting, and Controls - Work directly for the PGL Engineering department manager to provide oversight and management of all current and future engineering projects of gas pipeline installations.

 

Engineering Dept. Projects Reporting: 

·      Develop new reports and metrics as requested by engineering manager, and supervisors to:

o        track the status of every engineering project from design through construction

o        maintain and submit weekly status reports to engineering manager and supervisors

o        track and report the status of all engineering designs that are submitted to the Chicago Office of Underground Construction (OUC)

o        Create tracking reports of all 3rd^d Party due dates to ensure deadlines are met

o        Develop and maintain dashboards to assist in evaluating trends and recommend changes

 

Consultant and In-House Design Tracking:

• Create reports, metrics and dashboards to:

o        oversee and track every project that is assigned to in-house and outside consultants

o        track the quality of designs submitted to the Office of Underground (OUC/EFP) Construction

o        create dashboards to report on the quality of the design work based on the OUC submittal results

 

Planning Meetings and Facilitation

·   Managed weekly control meetings with engineering manager, supervisors, and senior engineers to review current project status and future workload to identify internal risks that might impact construction deadlines.

 

Primavera (P6 R8.3) Scheduling and Reporting

• Engineering in-house design with project planning & Project Schedule Development

·   Planning and leading weekly meetings to review schedule status with internal and external clients

• Make project decisions and develop action plans to ensure schedules stay on target.
• Review, analyze, and report on performance measures based on project design from consultants

·   Responsible for developing performance measures, dashboards, and reports to improve program monitoring capabilities based on consultant designs

• Assist in sequencing projects to meet deadlines based on the Chicago water and sewer projects schedule
• Provide construction schedule analysis in support of multiple water and sewer projects utilizing P6

·   Evaluate schedule progress and performance in order to identify developing issues that may impact the program goals

 

Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC), Chicago, IL                                                                       Oct. 2012 – Jul. 2013

Program Management Coordinator-Business Merger and Acquisition: Assisted program manager, and project managers with the development of project schedules to develop new business processes and requirements for various IT deliverables with the following:

·   Assisted in defining e business process requirements as solutions for new or enhanced business processes and systems

• Managed Risks, Issues, and Status Reports
• Managed Line Advisory team meetings
• Created weekly PowerPoint and Visio project plans to show Line Advisory stake holder’s project status

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caterpillar, Aurora, IL                                                                                                                                 Jul. 2010 – Oct. 2012

Program Management Coordinator 

Lead and assisted cross-functional project teams on small-to-medium sized projects through the development of the following:

• Project charters to concisely define the scope and objectives of various projects
• Work breakdown structures that included project deliverables, work phases, and activities

·   Network diagrams to show and identify the precedence relationships, durations, responsibilities, and resources

·   Validation and compression of project schedules to ensure the quality of the project plan and compliance with project deadlines

• Critical Path analysis

·   Generated project report packages (Status Memo, Gantt charts, critical path, responsibility, etc.) to inform stakeholders of schedule status and any project issues

• ­Provided general analysis of assigned projects to identify problem areas that needed attention by the

project managers

·   Assisted project managers during control meetings by displaying pertinent project views and running the project management software

·   Updated project files, project web-sites, shared drives, and databases with required reports during schedule update cycles

 

Pinnacle Security, Chicago, IL                                                                                                                  Jan 2010 – May. 2010

Service Technician                                                                                                            

• Installed home security systems for residential customers

 

SCHAWK Retail Marketing, Chicago, IL                                                                                                 Jun. 2005 – Dec. 2009

Project Coordinator                                                                  

·   Assisted project teams to develop business process requirements and solutions for marketing plans to achieve client objectives

• Assisted Account Managers in developing comprehensive workflow process for projects

·   Oversaw the implementation of marketing plans, including the development of production schedules, project coordination and operational oversight

• Developed and published communications to project team members and senior management

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