·               Project Management

·               Project Financial Tracking

·               Earned Value Management

·               Budget Mgmt. & Analysis

·               Estimating, Trajectories

·               Proper Charging & Spending Plans

·               Project Closeout, Asset Mgmt.

·               Materials Mgmt.

·               Vendor Mgmt. Delivery Logistics

·               Procurement

·               Project Documentation

·               Reconciliations

·               Construction Drawings/Schedules

·               Project Specifications & Reviews

·               Contract Analysis

·               Implement change control

·               Data Analysis & Trending

·               Business Metrics, KPIs

 

Software:  Business Information Decision Support System DSS., Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 4g-10g,11g, CDR Business Intelligence, SAP Crystal reports, portals, ERP, Enterprise Asset & Maintenance Management system Maximo, CRM Salesforce, SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence, Contracts Management System CMS, PL/SQL query, Transmission Line Database, GIS. Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, Advanced Excel Macros, VLOOKUP, Data Extraction, MS Access, Visio, Flowcharts, PowerPoint, Novel GroupWise, Outlook, MS Office, Microsoft SharePoint, DocuShare w/Admin. functions. Running Scripts, Programming logic, advanced conditions, user stories, data modeling techniques, OLAP tools, Business Objects,  EUL, Data Dimensions, Database Tables, Relational worksheets, drilling, pivot tables, Oracle Analytical Functions.  Windows Platforms & NT, UNIX, DOS operating sys., CAD Unigraphics 3D Solid Modeling, AutoCAD, Computer Automated Controls, Assembly Language, VBA, Basic, C+, Fortran, read and manipulate java code in xml format.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Data Business Analyst - Cox Automotive, Manheim Remarketing, Inc.  03/15/2015 to 01/22/2016                  

SAS Business Intelligence and Box Data Management, Cloud file sharing and managing file access, CRM Salesforce, tracking business goals, creating trajectory reporting, Margin reporting, internal business reports, Analytics and Forecasting, Business integration reporting, Dynamic Dashboards. Import, convert data into SAS data cubes, Interpret, track, and show daily performance KPIs, to help define insightful business decisions. Extensive Data mining, created algorithms for anomalies, decisions, and performance metrics. Advanced Excel VBA Macro coding to automate many areas of complex reporting and algorithms, Using if then else, match index, case statements, complex formulas for business metrics to show changes in revenue, profit, average margin, avg. retail, gross percent margin, net margin, per vehicle and more. Track all transactions for vehicle delivery status vs. Baseline for different segments of business for a large integration initiative to incorporate Manheim Dealer Auctions into the Cox automotive division under Cox Enterprises throughout the United States.  Responsible for the reporting and daily distribution of detail and summary level reports to internal and external regional stakeholders, GMs, and vice presidents. Monitor, track, and provide feedback on all aspects of business data for both inbound and outbound logistics to auctions such as dealer consignment to order entry, holds, carrier assignment, dispatch, to pickup and delivery. Requirements management along with working closely with different business organizations such as operations, marketing, various dealer sales teams, agents, and order entry to troubleshoot reporting and provide custom data reporting to more effectively give accurate on time insightful information to sales team to help them grow the business. Strong communication and problem solving skills to resolve technical issues pertaining to end users of internal business software and computer programs.

Completed: SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence training course May 2015

 

7/15/2013 to 03/15/2015   Completed training for Project Management at Dynamic Worldwide Training Consultants

·               Obtained PMP and Microsoft Project 2010 & 2013 Certification in September of 2014,

·               Remained active in career search

 

 

United States Department of Energy/WAPA - Contract Assignment-  Phoenix, AZ              2/20/2013 to 7/15/2013                  

Project Commissioning Coordinator:     Held DOE clearance and CIP site clearance

·               Define Scope: Interview, Research, & identify requirements for testing in order to avoid redundant work and reducing project costs. Create scope, decomposition into work packages and schedule activities.

·               Schedule/Time Management: Mircosoft Project Developed, maintained and monitored commissioning schedule for tight deadline 230kV transformer replacement project.  Assigned resources, durations, constraints, identify lead, lag, float. Able to identify Critical Path, both forward passing and backward passing. Created Schedule Network Diagram.

·               Manage Stakeholder Communications w/ management, construction contractor, inspectors, maintenance, meter relay, protection communication and SCADA groups, and various key project team members on the installation status of equipment to facilitate scheduling crews to perform commissioning activities.

·               Verify Scope, Completion of Work and adjust schedule accordingly.

 

United States Department of Energy/WAPA - Contract Assignment-  Phoenix, AZ               5/12/2003 to 10/25/2012  

Project Management / Financial & Business Analyst:  Held DOE Clearance

Project Managements construction engineering liaison and Financial & Business analyst facilitating efforts between PMO, accounting, development and other organizations specializing in Monthly Project Financial Tracking and Project Closeout along w/ providing proper charging & business reporting solutions on Substations, Wireless Microwave telecommunications sites and Transmission line construction projects from conception up and through providing a complete Project Closeout package, Asset Management, and archiving activities.  Completed course in Transmission System Analysis March 29th, 2006.

 

Business Analyst - Development, Quality Management, Quality Assurance & control: Created advanced SQL statements, advanced conditions, logic formulas (decode, case, IF-THEN-ELSE, Rank, substring, concatenate, AND, OR etc.) within Oracle reporting tools to create, design reports, and run new complex queries based on changing business needs, SQL scripts, and reports that have been readily incorporated in day to day process by Project Management and business organizations to reduce manual errors and develop seamless operations. Export large data to excel, create massive formulas and vlookups to compare data and perform searches. Investigate possible data type changes, updates in data tables, anomalies between different reporting applications, accounting modules. Verify continuity and database changes reflected in all business modules and levels of reporting.  In depth data analysis within the database, tracking within different business modules to isolate and find outstanding discrepancies, constant monitoring, recommending solutions on a daily basis, and close communication and reporting with Developers, DBA and other department organizations using these reporting tools. Monitored effectiveness of proper charging process, verify charging in compliance to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Codes, Organization codes, Object classes.  Contributed to Quality Process Improvement and cost reduction measures by inventing and leading development, documentation and implementation of a new Quality Control Monthly Project Financial Tracking process utilizing the Federal accounting system. Process was up for being implemented as a standard process throughout all of Western’s regions of the US as part of its process consolidation effort.  Develop, lead and manage the migration of monthly reports into a completely paperless process and website that I created via Microsoft SharePoint and DocuShare. Administrative functions to administrator permissions based on sensitivity of data and SOC requirements from PMO.  Created, managed 3 internal business websites that documented entire processes from cradle to grave for Monthly Reports Process, Project Closeout, and a website for project managers to access instantly all up to date project financial information.

 

Stakeholder: Interview, Collect and Analyze executive reporting requirements from stakeholders. Managed & updated communication plan & distribution process to key project stakeholders on budget, progress and key milestone dates for environmental, design, award, and substantially complete dates.

 

Scope Management: Assisted in developing project scopes for Facility, Feasibility, System impact Studies, field visits to collect requirements for business cases for forecasted projects identified in 10 year plans. Determine network upgrade or direct assignment project. Assisted dev. & analysis of Statement of Works. Assisted with breaking down areas of scope into Standard divisions and then bidding schedule items within the Project Specifications. Performed Project Specification Reviews identifying errors/omissions/questionable items in divisions of sitework, concrete, steel structures, transmission line poles, substation electrical equipment, service building, environmental quality protection and drawings. Analyze GIS map data layers to provide scope description, exclusions such as federal, state and tribal lands, historical sites, geographic investigations, site access, maintenance, and right of way information. Gather information from EHV system configurations and layouts to aid in identifying Project Scope planning. Created drawing maps with AutoCAD for existing Transmission Lines showing completed Lidar mapping to aid in developing GIS system and support to ArcGIS software along with statistical reporting for creating a business case that included identifying areas of aging transmission lines that will eventually need replacement. Analyzed Arial Lidar mapping SOWs for identification and completion of deliverables.

 

Schedule/Time Management: Performed research into service contracts for project task orders and defined schedule activities matrix, Created monthly schedules outlining available and remaining resources for project fiscal year.

 

Cost Management: Estimated resource and material costs for activities using conceptual estimates, estimating guide, parametric, bottom up, analogous, independent, and pert estimating. Determined, implemented how to track different type funded projects to what level of reporting should be used. Performed cost variance analysis over time, Budgets vs. Actuals, EVM metrics. Schedule variance analysis and forecasting techniques.

 

Monitoring & Controlling Costs: Tracking all project related financial matters, created and inspected reports that monitor customer account balances, fiscal year spending plans, project budget summaries, engineering task budgets and variances, monthly expenditure activity, remaining obligations and commitments, fiscal year to date expenditures, de-obligations and detailed expenditures. Created and tracked Purchase requests (PR’s) and Purchase Orders (PO’s) and monitored approval processes. Run meetings, presentations on financial matters, take, create Minutes, Agendas. Monitored, investigated key acquisitions for completion statuses such as environmental tribal reports, geologic investigations or major equipment purchases or services. Created process flowcharts, graphs S-Curves, Bar Charts, Pie Charts, control performance indicators. Management and monthly distribution of monthly reports package to all stakeholders and key members. Perform daily reconciliations, compare many project accounts deriving from different reporting software. Created equipment, maintenance workorder reports from Maximo, inventory, warehouse, travel, credit cards. Provided in-depth data mining for charge error analysis proper charging effectiveness and variances to standards. Created charge error reports and tracked trending from examining many different departmental charges to determine who should or should not be charging to a project or task and why based on experience and various FERC regulations, Davis-Bacon Act requirements, SOW’s and project schedules and project phases. Monitor purchase order details, proper billing and invoicing, payment requests, change requests, contract submittals, correspondence and purchase request details for any errors. Managing and tracking task orders, SOW’s, delivery schedules and delays, shipments, distributions, clearing costs, overhead costs, travel, mileage, labor, tools. , provided timekeeping for engineering group.

 

Risk Management: Track action items on identified risks, assumptions, document risk assessment and status encountered during substation construction and delays that can affect project closeout or construction progress. Controlled risks by monitoring and creating Project Status Reports categorizing levels of risks, identifying new risks in project status meetings. Knowledgeable about probability and impact. Qualitative and Quantitative risk analysis.

 

Procurement Management: Identified, determined requirements supplied to Procurement Officer for approval for creation of Purchase Requests, Purchase orders, Solicitations for GFE, Services and Construction contracts ,SOW’s. Created Planned procurement profiles for large purchases over 150,000, NAICS vendor codes, estimated method of procurement and source selection criteria, business type such as, open, sealed bids, business types small business, GSA, open source, competitive, negotiated under the guidelines of the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations),Warranty, Identify lead times for procurement of GFE. Tracked and monitor solicitations and dates, RFP’s, RFQ’s, RFI’s, amendments, modifications to contracts, bid proposals, verify charges entered correctly into the system and monitor process approval status, work closely with buyers, verify final billing. Understand Bid analysis, scorecard evaluation, Fixed-price contracts FFP, FPIF, FP-EPA, Cost –reimbursable CPIF, CPFF, CPAF and Time and Materials.

 

Project Closeout: Verify all requirements and deliverables were accepted and complete for closure of incremental funding contracts, letter agreements, power marketing contracts and O&M contracts for ownership, responsibility, maintenance, and operating of installed equipment, construction contracts, vendor contracts, purchase orders, amendments, modifications, bid schedules. Investigate, solve, and report discrepancies. Capture & review lessons learned. Developed, documented, implemented financial models of detail cost allocation of Federal, vendor and contractor labor and equipment, removals and their depreciation Create Federal and Customer assets to be booked to plant and entered into Maximo. Determine assets lifecycle, service life and maintenance management of fixed and mobile assets. Analyze plant reports, plant accounting transactions, field asset inventory sheets, Inventory mgmt., and provide asset information for balance sheets. Specialized experience in replacement theory and depreciation theory. Investigate issues pertaining to ownership of property assets. Verified installed equip., locations on various types of installation drawings. Interpreting, analyzing in depth construction project specifications, field reports and accounting documents. Advise, mentor, train, provide information, guidance or recommend solutions on any financially related project charging issues or errors encountered from, audits, employees, vendors, both direct and indirect charging.

 

EDUCATION:

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certificate of Completion Graduated: September 24, 2014

Microsoft Project 2010 & 2013 Certificate of Completion

Dynamic Worldwide Training Consultants, Tempe, Arizona Graduated: July 31, 2014

 

A.A.S. Degree - Electrical Engineering Technology - Power Option

State University of New York - College of Technology, Canton, New York

Graduated: with High Honors with the Highest Cumulative GPA in the Power Option curriculum with GPA 3.55

 

A.A.S. Degree - Hotel Restaurant Management

Schenectady County Community College, Schenectady, New York – Graduated

 

Civil Engineering - 1 Semester - Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, New York