John Guest

101 East MacArthur Avenue, Apt 1002, Bloomington, IL 61701

johnguestjr@gmail.com | 202-573-7430

Summary:

·  Over 22 Years of collective experience with Construction and IT scheduling methodologies. Possess expert level Primavera Project Planner (P6 V7+), specifically Project Architect (Methodology Manager), EPS (Enterprise Project Structure), and WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) development.

·  Project Planner with proficiency in Waterfall Methodologies, Agile, Scrum and Horizon Planning.

·  Provide assistance to the Director of Scheduling on project controls policies and procedures and monitor and evaluate all project controls programs, and scheduling.

·  Strong Experience with MS Project, Proficient in information gathering using Excel extracts, emails, and Visio process models. Proficient in developing project budgets for short-term and long term planning.

·  Sets up life cycle project schedules with the tenants of the PMBOK in mind. Experience with cost-loading schedules and resource leveling remaining units.

·  Develop templates for EVMS. Modifies and tailors canned Primavera Reports to meet the organizational requirements.

·  Possess a thorough understanding of Risk Management and all of the other PMI Knowledge Areas,including but not limited to Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management,Project Time Management, Project Cost Management,Project Quality Management,Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management, andProject Procurement Management knowledge areas.

 

Certifications:

·  State Farm Systems Planner Training-February 2013                                                       

Studying for CAPM

Certified Associate Project Management

 

Education and Training

·  August Martin High School              June 1985

 

·  Pace University, New York, NY-1992-1996 COURSEWORK

 

·  U.S. Army Veteran

 

 

 

Skills:

Advance Scheduling Techniques, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) Development

Organizational Breakdown Structures (OBS), IT Project Management, ANSI/EIA Standard 748, EVMS (Earned Value Management Systems), Federal CPIC (Capital Planning & Investment               Control), Advanced Communication Skills, Negotiation, Consensus Management, Oracle               Primavera Products, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Professional, Windows 7, MAC OS X,               Photoshop, Photography, Forensic Claims Analysis, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)               software, Microsoft Access, Primavera, SAP, MIL-STD-881C

 

Professional Experience

      

 

Guest Enterprises, Inc.2013 - Present

Project:  Various Assignments, Bloomington, IL

President/Lead Consultant

·  Provides comments and recommendations for planning and scheduling requirements relative to staffing and project control. Prepares detailed staffing plans for planning and scheduling activities.

·  Reviews or assists in reviewing proposal provisions related to schedule and material control, and develops supporting data for contract negotiations.

·  Interfaces with designated client management and counterparts for specific planning and scheduling tasks.

·  Plans, organizes, and supervises schedule resource loading and leveling. Coordinates development of all bulk commodity release and installation curves. Integrates appropriate staffing requirements for each discipline/specialty relative to the overall project needs. Determines quantity and staffing levels in support of the project needs and schedule philosophy.

·  Responsible for identifying schedule restraints and their effects on the total project schedule. Works with all departments to ensure an understanding of the total project schedule needs. Also responsible for total integration of schedule activities. Identifies schedule considerations and problems resulting from inter-discipline or group restraints and interfaces.

·  Supports development of scheduling standards and procedures. Compiles, summarizes, updates, and maintains historical schedule data. Monitors and reports critical-path and schedule performance of the total project.

 

Computer Science Corporation (CSC)2012 - 2013

Project: State Farm Insurance, Bloomington, IL

Business Analyst, Planner

·  In conjunction with the Project Manager develops detailed resource loaded Primavera P6 project schedules.

·  Import schedule templates using the P6 Methodology Manager and Project Architect.  Tailor template to specific project needs and requirements.

·  Work with the functional organizations to develop realistic detailed schedules.

·  Conduct status reviews and analyzes program schedule status (resources, schedule duration, activity constraints, relationships of activities and critical path), prepares and delivers status reports.

·  Assist the project manager in critical program decision-making, balancing functional recommendations and overall program performance objectives.

·  Supports management and customer reviews as requested by the program manager.

·  Develops reports and techniques to monitor program schedule variances against the plan and current forecasts.

·  Create and baseline program schedules to include resource loading and calculate critical path(s).

·  Status and maintain program schedules on a frequent basis.

·  Provide impacts of future scope additions to current program schedules.

·  Creates and implements project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for one or more medium sized projects of low to moderate complexity. Prepares detailed statements of work and gains concurrence and approval from stakeholders regarding various project aspects and adjusts accordingly. Participates in delivery assurance reviews to ensure adherence to project management policies and procedures.

·  Assists in the staffing of projects. Organizes project team members to ensure communication and understanding of deadlines, assignments and objectives. Participates in work as applicable.

·  Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met. May revise as appropriate.

·  Performs ongoing review of project status; identifies possible project risks. Recommends and implements risk mitigation solutions as approved and as appropriate.

·  Works in conjunction with team members and stakeholders to manage changes to technical requirements, business requirements and schedule of the project. Provides input on possible changes needed based on current project status.

 

Guest Enterprises, Inc.       2011 - 2012

Project:  ConocoPhillips, Bartlesville, OK

Project Planner

·  As project planning subcontractor assisted in the separation of the company's upstream and downstream IT infrastructures. Imagine for a moment the information technology involved in making sure that both company's after the separation has redundant information technology capabilities.

·  The Project Planner is directly accountable to the Project Manager to provide consulting services, assistance, and advice on the internal IT Project Services deliverables from the Project teams in the Portfolio.

·  Manage and maintain cost, schedule, budget, staffing, progress, and forecast for the SST Portfolio.

·  Summarize on a monthly basis the Separation Transition project cost, schedule, risk, and resource information.

·                Participate in and support the development of the FEL (Front End Loading) and EXE (Execution) Project Plans using the Primavera P6 Project Architect and P6 Web Production database.

 

Guest Enterprises, Inc.                                                                                                                                     2010 - 2011

Project:  The Boeing Company 767 Relocation

Systems Analyst

·  Responsible for assisting Boeing in planning, acquiring, and implementing IT programs and systems.

·  Provided advice and support, through all phases of the IT acquisition life-cycle, including but not limited to:

·  Pre-acquisition - Developing RFIs, analysis of alternatives, and acquisition strategies and performing market research.

·                Acquisition - Developing SoWs, SOOs, PWSs, and related supporting material. Developing Source Selection Plans and performing training. Participating as an advisor and support person in source selections.

·                Post-award: Updating acquisition documents including modifications, and providing acquisition advice.

 

 

 

 

 

Parsons Transportation Group, Bellevue, WA                                                                                           2007 - 2009

Project:  WSDOT (Washington Department of Transportation) I-405 Project

Construction Scheduler

 

·  Analyze, evaluate, forecast, and report schedule status against an established baseline and provides monthly analysis of earned value;

·  Accumulate and access historical data, such as performance experience, for use in maintaining a realistic basis for future planning and forecasting;

·  Assess the impacts of construction changes with respect to schedule;

·  Compile schedule information and maintain the current status of 25 Design/Build and 15 Road & Bridge Infrastructure Construction projects, each project with nearly 10,000 resource-loaded activities.

·  Maintaining the Primavera P5/P6 schedule databases and creating, importing, and exporting XER backups of the subcontractor schedules for inclusion into sub-plans to the (IMS) integrated master schedules.  Worked closely with subcontractors to retrieve Schedule of Values for each trade.

·  Generates planning & scheduling deliverables including preparation of schedules, tracking of actual work against schedules, performing variance analysis studies, and updating of monthly operating Primavera reports.

 

Guest Enterprises, Inc.                                                                                                                                   2006 - 2007

Project:  The Boeing Company, Renton, WA

Primavera Scheduling Consultant

·  Recognized enterprise experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant organization, enterprise and business unit projects identifying time frames for key project milestones and ensuring alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion.

·                Directed and managed more complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identified project resource requirements, integrated and directed multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan.

·                Collaborated with others on the most complex projects assigned, as an enterprise role model, demonstrate ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of enterprise wide or extremely complex large-scale projects. Identified and resolved any issues to ensure the successful completion of the project.

·  Developed basic plans and approaches to allow execution of complex programs including: Integrated Planning (IMP/IMS), Requirements Management, Baseline Management, Organization, and Affordability.

 

Turner Construction Company, Reston, VA                                                                                           2005 - 2006

Project:  Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Dulles Package 5 and Package 6

Scheduling Engineer

·  As the Scheduling Engineer, responsible for overall program scope and schedule integration including the Integrated Master Schedule/Plan (IMS/IMP) creation, baselining and change control.

·  Construct and manage Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and work scope decomposition to achieve and effectively measure to program objectives.

·  Maintaining the Primavera P6 v5 schedule databases and creating, importing, and exporting XER backups of the subcontractor schedules for inclusion into sub-plans to the (IMS) integrated master schedules.  Worked closely with subcontractors to retrieve Schedule of Values for each trade.

·  Conduct schedule review and/or tracking for multi-million dollar projects.

·  Provide assistance to the Director of Scheduling on project controls policies and procedures and monitor and evaluate all project controls programs, and scheduling.

·  Maintain communications and support the interchange of information between the project and other involved agencies.

·  Provide assistance to the Director of Scheduling to analyze claims and value engineering proposals to establish schedule implications.

·  Act as liaison for scheduling group and program / project office to provide feedback and summary information regarding projects and program schedule.

·  Manage internal controls including implementing process controls, measuring projects performance, audit services and ensuring the integrity and validity of internally and externally disseminated information.

·  As the IMS Program Planner/Scheduler collaborated with program management, technical and business team members to plan, create, monitor and analyze network schedules for program schedule performance and EVMS metrics.

·  Audit program schedules to ensure a high degree of quality and adherence to Turner Construction Company standard practices in addition to compliance with the PMI PMBOK standards.

·  Ensure the IMS is vertically and horizontally networked in order to perform Critical Path analysis.

·  Coordinate with major suppliers and partners to collect and deliver schedule information related to, and integrated with, the IMS.

·  Validate cost and schedule integration between Primavera and Payment Request Database.

·  Conduct weekly/monthly detailed analysis to Program Events as well as intermediate milestones.

·  Maintain and control program schedule baselines.

·  Train Integrated Product Teams in the use of Primavera.

·  Identification of work that is out of sequence or behind schedule and determine reason for change or delay

·  Routinely performed forensic Time Impact Analysis by isolating the periods of concern in fragnets depending on reporting month.

 

Guest Enterprises, Inc.                                                                                                                                     2004 - 2005

Project:  NYC Schools Construction Authority

Senior Scheduling P3 e/c Consultant

·  Supported the NYC School Construction Authority with their implementation of Primavera Engineering and Construction (formerly Primavera E/C for Construction).

·  Monitored major milestones for large capacity school construction projects.

·  Managed resources for several hundred capital improvement and new construction projects.

·  Build what-if project plans for and monitor 5-Year Plans of future NYC SCA efforts.

·  Participated in the major business re-engineering process that is underway for all construction projects with regards to the migration of all project attributes to Primavera Engineering and Construction as the sole source for all project data past, present and beyond.

·  Worked as an integral part of a SCAs Project Management Office creating, maintaining, and monitoring the master project schedule for multiple construction contracts.

·  Responsible for creating and updating the integrated master schedule (IMS) with the input from team leads, maintaining the schedule and baseline, collecting task updates from the team leads, reporting schedule status and variances, updating the schedule statuses, resource loading the schedule and assessing schedule risk using the schedule and schedule-related metrics in Primavera P3 E/C.

·  Experience in maintaining and providing weekly and monthly variance analysis and working with team leads to gather schedule requirements, dependencies and activities.

·  Developing and maintaining complex integrated master schedule for ongoing programs in P3 E/C.

·  Ensures major work stream schedules and plans are horizontally and vertically integrated across the contract to support program outcomes.

·  Incorporate contractual and programmatic changes into the IMS in order to maintain realistic, current contract schedule baselines.

·  Assist the PMs and senior management with resource allocations and constraints, schedule and critical path analysis.

·  Prepare schedules and perform analyses such as critical path, schedule risks, and variance analysis.

·  Interfaces with all functions, including subcontractors, at all levels in creating and maintaining schedule data.

·  Prepares and maintains schedule change logs and supporting documentation if directed.

·  Produces comprehensive schedules in various formats and detail to suit different users or audiences.

·  Advises management and senior staff of the impact on schedule of performance measurement (work in progress) status and proposed changes.

·  Assists management, project managers and colleagues to understand scheduling concepts and alternative approaches in scheduling project activities.

·  Participate and support financial EAC (Estimate at Completion) reviews.

·  Assists in financial analysis, program planning and controls, earned value reporting, estimate at completion (EACs) and preparing contract financial or other management reports.

 

GreenTree Sales       2004

Project:  Home Depot Aisle Installations

MS Project Controls Manager

·  Prepares statements of work for project engagements and monitors performance to ensure that project commitments meet contractual specifications.

·  Determines need for and impact of changes in scope of project and makes recommendation based on determinations. Gains concurrence, approval, and consensus from stakeholders regarding the various project aspects, adjusts accordingly.

·        Manages costs, schedules and quality by overseeing project deliverables. Ensures schedule and budget are met. Identifies need for changes and revises within established guidelines/policies as appropriate.

 

Guest Enterprises, Inc./CODESOFT/IBM                                                                                           2003 - 2004

Project:  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Sr. EVMS Scheduling Consultant

·                Performs manual resource leveling and Resource Critical Path Analysis.

·                Implemented Earned Value Management (EVM) in accordance with client requirements and ANSI/EIA Standard 748, including identification of EV methods for individual work packages, alignment with the Spend Plan, and tracking EVM metrics for a multi-contractor program.

·                Participated with a team of contractors to manage the acquisition and implementation of a major Federal IT project.

·                Worked with inexperienced stakeholders to identify detailed tasks, durations, dependencies, and resources to build the dynamic project schedule with minimum task constraints.

·                Created a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and used it to create and maintain a complex Integrated Master Schedule in MS Project 2003. Utilized generally accepted best scheduling practices.

·                Performed Critical Path Analyses (CPA).

·                Performed both Pre-Award and Post-Award Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBR) to help ensure the IMS (and overall program plan) was thorough, complete, and realistic.

·  Establishes schedule baseline and Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)

 

Guest Enterprises, Inc.                                                                                                                                     1997 - 2003

Project:  Various Contracts

President/Sr. Scheduling Consultant

·                Develop and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects.

·                Develop or update project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing.

·                Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.

·                Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.

·  Assign duties, responsibilities, and spans of authority to project personnel.

 

U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers                                                                                                                         1989 - 1997

Project: Pentagon Renovation Program

Management Analyst (GS-0345-09) (Scheduling)

 

·                Monitored, evaluated, and reported on project milestone dates and critical activities, provided analysis and review contractor schedules and progress reports

·  Developed and maintained detailed and summarized Corps of Engineers specific design /procurement and construction schedules

·  Prepared the scheduling portion of Monthly and Quarterly reports

·  Participated in the schedule evaluation and presentation of new projects. Evaluated proposals for schedule compliance and evaluated schedule claims by contractors