Email:

SarahLBenjamin@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE:

EXPERIENCE:

5/11 – Present Project Portfolio Manager

  ¨ Manage four portfolios for this pharmaceutical manufacturing plant. Each portfolio contains

approximately 4 – 5 million dollars of projects annually. Total projects per year average around

75 per portfolio. Provide support for senior leadership by facilitating steering committee

  ¨ Ensure timely communication to project team leader of potential or current schedule and/or cost

impacts with mitigation scenarios for effective decision-making.

  ¨ Support project managers and other users of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management

system (EPM) that provides all project schedules and cost data through a web based interface.

Detailed report generation and customization. Communication of technical issues within EPM.

  ¨ Administer SharePoint site for Project Management where each project site is linked and utilizes a

standard folder structure for project documentation.

2/08 – 5/11 Sr. Project Controls Engineer

  ¨ Led the implementation and training of Primavera P6 v7 Web Access. Technical communication

of IT requirements for Primavera software.

  ¨ Create, update and maintain project schedules. Development of project and activity coding.

  ¨ Analyze “what-if” scenarios and proposals for impact to project plans. Perform critical path and

earned value analysis. Lead interactive planning sessions at project inception with key project

personnel.

  ¨ Present project plans, alternatives and performance metrics to senior leadership for improved

managerial decisions.

  ¨ Produce monthly reports for management and end user groups that accurately reflect status

against funding authorizations and target schedules, and identify key accomplishments, critical

issues and potential areas of concern.

6/08 – 12/08 (Part-Time) Project Controls Consultant

  ¨ Built project schedules for electricity transmission infrastructure upgrade projects in Microsoft

Project. Gathered bi-weekly status and communicated updated schedules to clients.

  ¨ Assisted with conceptual changes to the earned value management system in a proprietary

project controls database built with Microsoft Access.

  ¨ Provided suggestions for integrating the financial accounting systems with the project controls

database for improved data accuracy. Close coordination with the cost controllers resulted in

improved internal processes.

Sarah Benjamin

Mobile:

(617) 852-1790

To utilize best practices in project management at a growing company.

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Pfizer

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weil Engineers

1/07 – 12/07 Project Management Consultant

  ¨ Engaged as full-time consultant at an engineering company where I acted as an interim project

coordinator and trained the resident project managers on ways to track and improve the

profitability of their projects. Tools used for project financial tracking were Microsoft Excel,

Primavera, and an ERP system called AS400.

  ¨ Created a budget revision and tracking system for the client in the business of heavy capital

equipment for the plastics industry. Each order is considered a project, and has a budget

between $300,000 and $3,500,000. The projects take an average of 6 months to move through

the phases of design, procurement, assembly, and installation. Budget revisions took place in the

client’s AS400 ERP system, and on a weekly basis I compiled them into an Excel spreadsheet for

overall management reporting. This Excel “dashboard” now drives management review of profit

margins for work-in-process.

  ¨ Built schedules for selected projects to cover the entire phase of design through installation.

Many projects faced penalty charges for late delivery, and the schedules I developed helped to

minimize these penalties. The work continues at this client to standardize the scheduling of

individual projects into a centralized and consistent system using templates. This scheduling work

was done in Primavera 5.0.

  ¨ A separate but concurrent project was managing a “Lean Operations” consulting engagement with

a piston manufacturing company in India. I was involved on this project for 5 months. The

project scope was to organize the entire logistics chain for the client on a “pull” system based on

customer demand rather than a “push” system based on plant production capabilities. The client

was utilizing SAP as the backend management software. I was onsite in India approximately 10

days per month. I managed the project schedule with MS Project, created and checked the

documentation, and maintained issues lists to keep the project team organized.

2/06 – 12/06 Account Executive for Scheduling Software

  ¨ Demonstrated Primavera scheduling and project management software products for prospective

clients such as Construction companies, Power Utilities, and Engineering companies.

  ¨ Received Certified Primavera Training Courses P102 and P106 (Basic and Advanced Scheduling)

  ¨ Pre-sales consulting including cold and warm calls to clients to discuss Primavera project

management software and pl logic services. Follow up work included preparation of estimates

and proposals for sales and services to clients. Technical writing including inside sales procedure

manuals and documentation.

  ¨ Organized a Conference for Utility companies to discuss scheduling standardization. This entailed

repeated contacts with project managers at Nstar, National Grid, and the United Illuminating

Company to discuss their scheduling procedures.

2/04 – 2/06 Project Controls Engineer & Marketing Director

  ¨ Assisted Senior Project Managers with project controls processes, budget updating and

construction scheduling using Primavera. Contracts ranged from $10mil to $75mil. Attended

project status meetings and documented team updates, schedule modifications, and change

orders. Wrote schedule narratives on behalf of the owner to document delay claims.

  ¨ Developed broad marketing plan for this project management organization. Implemented

Microsoft CRM and customized the application for the organization’s specific marketing strategies.

Developed marketing campaigns incorporating lead generation, calls, and internet outreach.

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2/02 – 2/04 (Part-Time) Customer Service Representative

  ¨ Responded to customer inquiries, debugged web-based system used for computer brokerage.

8/00 – 8/01 Technical Trainer

  ¨ Developed new product, electronic training course presenting the automation equipment.

Populated the Generation21 Learning Management System, and debugged course presentations.

11/98 – 8/00 Environmental Engineer

  ¨ Assisted senior environmental engineers with wastewater treatment projects, CAD modifications,

environmental surveys, compliance reports, cost analyses, report compilation, presentation

graphics.

  ¨ Developed new product, electronic training course presenting ISO14000. Built and marketed an

interactive CD-ROM-based training program from concept to production. The training program

taught corporate environmental managers how to implement the ISO 14001 standard. Software

demo available upon request. Promoted product with marketing campaigns and presentations at

various tradeshows.

CERTIFICATION:

EDUCATION:

ACTIVITIES:

2001 - Present Lacrosse Referee, Sailing Instructor

I teach sailing and referee lacrosse on spring and summer evenings and weekends.

I was the head varsity lacrosse coach for a high school team. I taught sailing full-time

during the summers, and traveled abroad.

TECHNOLOGY:

Software & Programming Experience

Primavera P6 versions 5 - 7. Primavera P3. Oracle SQL queries related to Primavera. P6 SDK.

Microsoft Project 2003, 2007, 2010. Microsoft Project Portfolio Server now called Enterprise Project

Management (EPM). Primavera Contract Manager / Expedition. Crystal Reports. AS400. Goldmine.

Microsoft CRM. Dreamweaver. Flash. Photoshop 7. AutoCAD. Pro/Engineer (ProE).

Microsoft

Office (Access, Excel, Frontpage, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, Visio, Publisher). WebTrends.

Webalizer. HTML. XML. SQL.

Perl. Javascript. ASP. PHP. CSS.

Massachusetts Engineer-In-Training (EIT) achieved in April, 1999

Pursuing PMI’s PMP (Project Management Professional)

University of California, Santa Barbara: B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Graduated: June 1998.

Overall GPA: 3.2

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