2012 - current

Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH)

Client:
SPAWAR

(1 year)

Deliver project management best practices services to Program Executive Officer Command, Control, Communications, Computers, & Intelligence (PEO C4I) programs. Interface with Missile Defense Command (MDA) our client, prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, and other government organizations. Present PM best practices to Acquisition Program Managers (APMs) and Regional Installation Systems Managers (RISMs). Promote Schedule Management Maturity (SMM) culture to quantify schedule management value. Mentor fellow Booz Allen Hamilton professionals.

2008 - 2012

Associate at SM&A

Client:
Parker Aerospace

Irvine, CA

(4 months)

Client:
Sierra Nevada

Louisville, CO

(2 months)

Client:
Boeing Satellites

El Segundo, CA

(18 months)

Client:
General Atomics

San Diego, CA

(20 months)

Lead team of 9 PM consultants, Schedulers, EV Analysts and Risk Analysts to establish PM Governance and Operations culture.  The team developed process documents for schedule, cost, risk and project change management areas.  Plans included implementation of commercial tools including MS Project 2010 Server, COBRA, Milestones Pro, WBS Chart Pro, PERT Chart Expert, MS SharePoint and MindView for brainstorming.

Developed WBS & IMP & IMS for their NASA CCIDC proposal (Commercial Crew Integrated Design Contract for next Space Shuttle).  This effort involved interviews with executives, senior engineers, team members and subcontractor proposal team members.

Reduced schedule management process burden on senior program management and team members using Microsoft VBA, MS Project and MS Excel.  Increased management reporting values by utilizing MS Project Master technique, Milestones Pro, WBS Chart Expert and PERT Chart Expert applications.  Won prestigious war coin award for outstanding contributions to team efficiencies and Program Special Merit recognition for applying effective techniques that were beyond the norm.  Presented Monthly Status Reports to clients and executives. Intel Satellite program budget $174M.

Reversed negative schedule performance trend on a NavSea R&D program ($10M). Created Integrated Master Schedule showing resource utilization across multiple projects, resolving resource conflicts.  Communicated effectively with client’s executives, program chief scientist and engineer, team members, subcontractor, clients support organization and program owner. Utilized MS Project, MS Excel, VBA, ProPricer, PERT Chart Expert, Milestones Pro and other applications.  Reduced data processing cycle times from days to minutes and increased data accuracy with integrated electronic data exchange with ProPricer and COBRA applications.

2003 - 2008

EPM Consultant at Delta Solutions, Inc.

Client:
ACS - City of Carrollton, TX

Petrobras of America

Houston, TX

McAfee

Plano, TX

Established PM culture and implemented Microsoft Project Server; Managed Wireless WAN project for 2 municipalities – 5 team members - $0.5 million budget; Managed 800 MHz Trunked Radio project for 3 municipalities – 10 team members - $3 million budget

Teamed with another consultancy and established PM Oil & Gas Engineering culture utilizing MS Project Server and Primavera P6

Teamed with another consultancy and established PM IT culture; Managed data center consolidation project

2000 - 2003

Director, PMO

Omnicom Group

Rapp Collins

Irving, TX

(3 years)

Established PMO and Portfolio / Program / Project Management culture and organization with six professional Project Managers and 90+ indirect IT team members.  Led development of web based process flow charts, templates, examples and descriptions. Interfaced with challenging client over contract requirements regarding project management practices reversing negative attitude to a positive partnership arrangement.  Projects included loyalty and business intelligence applications for Mercedes, Hyatt Hotels, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and Busch Gardens.  These development program budgets total on average $25 million.  Our team also managed a data center consolidation.

1996 - 2000

PM Consultant at Electronic Data Systems (EDS, now subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard)

Client: State of North Carolina

Raleigh, NC

(1 year)

Client: Fleet Bank (now Chase)

Columbia, SC

(7 months)

Managed Mental Health Claims program with 30 team members and a $7.5 million budget

Presented progress reports to state leaders and internal corporate executives.  Identified and promoted issue resolution and risk mitigation.

Established PMO with seven Fleet bank employees by creating all processes, forms, examples and flow charts.  Created standard WBS and MS Project template.

1983 – 1996

Project Scheduler – Project Manager

Delta Solutions;

Universities Research Assoc.;

E-Systems

(now Raytheon);

Texas Instruments;

Automatic Data Processing (ADP)

Earned experience in scope, time, cost, risk, communications, resources, quality, proposal and subcontractor (procurement) management for DoD & DoE programs such as:

--- Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (Dallas, TX, Waxahachie, TX)

--- Pine Gap Facility (Alice Springs, Australia)

--- JSIPS – (Garland, TX) – U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy & Marines

--- P106 (Classified) Program

--- AAWS – U.S. Army Infra-Red Imaging Missiles

--- DMOS IV Front End Facility