WILLIAM A. TAYLOR

4112 Pea Ridge Road

Maryville, TN 37804

Phone: 865-223-3815

E-Mail: wa_taylor@yahoo.com

 

EDUCATION: 

 

BA Management, Park University, Parkville, Missouri, 1980, GPA: 3.76

 

SUMMARY:

 

Professional Experience: Broad experience in both management and technical execution of planning & scheduling, as well as project controls, for a variety of government and private industry concerns.

 

Goals: Continue to excel in bringing planning & controls tools and methodologies to drive successful execution of projects

 

Specialties: Technical leadership, strategic and tactical planning, scheduling tools expertise

 

WORK SUMMARY:

 

·   I am currently providing project controls consulting services for a company in the Non-Renewable Energy Sector, assisting them in developing a concept of operations for using Primavera P6 v8.2 as their sole project planning software.

·         I managed a group of Planner/Schedulers who maintained resource-loaded, logic drive network schedules for multi-million dollar engineering, design, and construction project to provide and install air scrubber hardware for major electrical power producers

·         While supporting the U.S. Army’s National Missile Defense Program Office to provide schedule and cost analysis, I developed an MS-Access program that provided cost analysis reports showing all the standard EVMS elements using the database provided by the prime contractor to the program office. Using this tool the Program Office gained insight into cost performance down to the element of expense level to supplement the contractually required reports provided at WBS level only. I analyzed periodic schedule deliverables in both Open Plan and MS-Project to provide contractor schedule status to key departments (Test & Evaluation, IFICS, Deployment and Sustainment) within the Joint Program Office in Huntsville, AL.

·         I have gained over twenty years of prior project management experience in both government and private sectors. For three years I was the Senior Scheduler for a major NASA Spacecraft project, where I was solely responsible for integrating both government and contractor schedules for a multi-million dollar project to launch a space telescope system. For two years I provided project controls expertise as a consultant to a major regional hydroelectric power producer, then to a major telecommunications company. In both consulting engagements, I provided project controls expertise to organizations that were just entering the realm of project management to assist them in tracking project cost and schedule performance.

·         More than seven years of my experience was in direct support of DOE Environmental Restoration projects, as a consultant to DOE project management organizations and as a functional manager directing a project controls organization supporting project managers for the Air Force Center for the Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) program. For over fifteen years I provided cost and schedule control expertise to various DOD project management organizations both as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, and as a civilian Project Controls consultant.

 

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY:

I have used Primavera Project Planning Software for project controls for over twenty years, combined with various cost/revenue-tracking tools, to model projects’ cyclic cost/revenue performance plans. I am highly experienced in MS-Project for Windows, having used it extensively for almost eight years. I developed an application in MS-ACCESS to provide Contractor Cost Performance Reporting data down to the element-of-expense. I am proficient is the use of MS-Excel spreadsheet software, having developed Visual-Basic modules to capture project tracking data in Excel for automatic inclusion in MS-Project. I am highly experienced in the use of Microsoft Office Suite software, such as MS-Word and MS-PowerPoint.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

2013 - Present Self-Employed Consultant, Project Planning & Controls

 

I am currently providing project controls consulting services for a company in the Non-Renewable Energy Sector, assisting them in developing a concept of operations for using Primavera P6 v8.2 as their sole project planning software.

 

2006 - 2013Manager, Project Planning & Controls, Alstom Power Environmental Control Systems

 

As Manager of Planning & Scheduling, Alstom Power Environmental Control Systems, I was responsible for setting planning & scheduling standards and best practices for the Planning group that provided project planning and scheduling support to Air Quality Control System projects. I was responsible for training, matching resource talents and capabilities to project requirements, and ensuring the best quality project support.

 

2003 - 2006Project Controls Analyst, Alstom Power Environmental Control Systems

 

I provided project planning and scheduling expertise for three major engineering, procurement, and construction projects. I maintained a resource-loaded, logic drive network schedule for a multi-million dollar engineering, design, and construction project to provide and install air scrubber hardware for a major electrical power producer. I was responsible for developing and maintaining a master project that consistsed of many sub-projects from various partners and suppliers.

 

2000 - 2003Sr. Project Controls Analyst, SAIC

 

I provided project controls analysis to several large programs with multiple projects, including bi-weekly cost tracking, invoice reconciliation, and periodic program reviews. I supported a scheduling task by developing a baseline schedule model for subsequent resource loading. I also provided senior-level project controls mentoring to junior staff members.  Assigned to the National Missile Defense (NMD) Project, I supported the Joint Program Office in EVMS and Baseline Schedule Analysis. Working closely with the Army Program Office, I provided in-depth analysis of the status of program cost and schedule aspects. Prior to my NMD assignment, I was attached to the DOE National Ignition Facility Cost Estimate Update Project, where I provided scheduling expertise and analysis for the client’s multi-level schedules. My particular emphasis was on analyzing and modeling interfaces between the NIF Schedule’s effects on its cost performance projections.                           

 

1998 – 2000Project Scheduling Consultant, BellSouth, Inc.

 

I provided scheduling expertise and project management advice to BellSouth startup organizations. When BellSouth formed a new organization to provide long-distance services to its regional local telecommunications customers, I was engaged to provide expertise in MS-Project to integrate a master program schedule for implementation of a major Line-of-Business. I implemented an enterprise management application, Project Office, as a time collection tool in the company. This afforded BellSouth the ability to capture resource data to provide project schedule data. The end result provided a never-before-seen profile of resource utilization, and approximated cost projections to corporate managers.

 

1997 – 1998 Project Scheduling Consultant, Tapoco, Inc.

 

I provided tools, methods and utilities for cost and schedule performance planning and tracking for the entire company. I was engaged to provide tools, methods, direction, and hands-on assistance to a company using Microsoft-Project, but having no experience in its use. I implemented a measured approach to scheduling project-oriented work and ongoing operations (level-of-effort) tasks. I captured resource data, and then resource-loaded the tasks to reflect labor parameters for seven hydroelectric dams in two states. I developed macros and Visual-Basic modules in MS-Excel to allow ease of task entry for people not used to scheduling software.

 

1995 – 1997Manager, Project Controls, IT Corporation

 

I trained and directed a professional team whose members were recognized for their success in helping projects deliver quality engineering products and services on time and within budget. I directed a staff of seven project controls people, who supported various environmental engineering projects, for the Air Force Center of Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) and for numerous other individual projects. We developed project controls tools, methods and procedures, and then used them to support cost and schedule planning and performance tracking. The primary schedule and cost control tool was Primavera Project Planner, and we modeled cumulative cyclic costs for projects requiring more stringent adherence to cost/schedule control systems criteria.

 

1994 – 1995Senior Project Controls Analyst, CDM Federal Programs Corp.

 

I analyzed deficiencies in cost tracking methods, and incorporated corrections that allowed more accurate cost reporting to clients. I was a contract employee providing cost/schedule planning and performance tracking for various DOE Environmental Restoration projects at several DOE reservations. I used Open Plan scheduling software and tracked incremental costs via a spreadsheet system.

 

1991 – 1994Senior Scheduler, TRW Aerospace Sector, NASA HQ

 

TRW was the prime contractor for the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility spacecraft, which was launched in 1999 as CHANDRA. I developed a resource-loaded schedule that allowed a NASA product manager to achieve final production in 75% of the time allowed for a company providing highly specialized optical mirrors needed for the Spacecraft. I used MS-Project to provide scheduling expertise and acted as Integrating Scheduler for over 25 projects from both contractors and government organizations. This project tracked contractor schedules and costs for a project whose budget was in excess of 250-million dollars.

 

1987 – 1990Senior Project Controls Analyst, JMCA, Inc.

 

I provided project controls expertise on both DOD and DOE projects. I developed scheduling methods and User Documentation. I developed training courses on custom scheduling software applications and delivered the training courses to clients.

 

1990 – 1991Manager, Project Controls, IT Corporation

 

I managed a group of Project Controls people and provided cost and schedule planning and tracking for numerous environmental restoration projects, for both DOD and DOE clients. We developed project controls tools, methods and procedures, and then used them to support cost and schedule planning and performance tracking. The primary schedule and cost control tool was Primavera Project Planner.

 

1976 – 1990U.S. Air Force Manager, Various Air Force Bases, US

 

I gained valuable management expertise in positions including Data Center Manager, Telecommunications Planning Director, and Executive Seminar Instructor. I implemented projects designed to plan, install, and provide for continued operations of telecommunications systems and data processing systems at over twenty Air Force bases. Certified as an Academic Instructor, I developed courses and taught at a Senior Executive Seminar for senior officers in the Computer and Telecommunications area.