Reza Mallahi

m.reza1978@yahoo.com

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT

“Motivated and Experienced Project Professional with a Genuine Passion for Driving Improved Cost

and Schedule Performance through Continuous Improvement in Information Technology and

Infrastructure Projects”

Decisive, action-oriented, and results-focused Project Professional providing over ten years of systems engineering,

program planning and controls, focused in Information Technology and the construction industry. My objective is

continued growth in the project management consulting disciplines. My current proficiencies include advanced planning

in Oracle Primavera, oracle Risk analysis, and Microsoft Project. I am highly regarded for my ability to interpret big data

into actionable information and providing integration of cost, schedule, and technical data into the bigger picture.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Project Management

  ü Microsoft Project and Project Server / PWA

  ü Microsoft Project SSI tools, Polaris, Argo

  ü Oracle Primavera (P6) and Risk Analysis (PRA)

  ü Crystal Ball, @Risk, Milestone Pro, Steelray

  ü Microsoft SharePoint

Professional Development

  ü Master’s Degree in System Engineering

  ü ITIL v3

  ü ISO 9001 Lead Auditor

  ü PMP (February, 2016)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Caelum Research Corporation; Washington DC

Core Competencies

  ü DCMA 14 Point Schedule Assessments

  ü Earned Value ANSI/EIA 748

  ü Construction Methodologies (EPC, DBB)

  ü IT Methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)

Leadership

  ü Team Collaboration

  ü Advanced P6 Usage, Software Dev Kit and Data Transfers

(PMSDK and XER)

  ü Strong Analytical Problem Solving Abilities

  ü Articulate Oral and Written Communicator

2015

IMS Senior scheduler on General Service Administration (GSA) program (IAE). Responsible for developing all the IMS

related supportive documents such as: IMS management plan, change control process and reporting process and

implement them. Other role and responsibilities are as following:

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Create technical governance schedule from scratch and maintain it.

Create IMS for IAE program from scratch and maintain it.

Create IMS WBS for the IAE and technical governance schedule based on agile approach.

Collect monthly updates from team, incorporate them in technical governance schedule and IMS and create reports

based on IMS management plan.

Utilize Smart sheet (web based project management solution) to maintain the IMS.

  · Use JIRA and Confluence (web based safe agile project solution) to collect and mitigate date and incorporate it in

Microsoft project.

  · Participate in PMO meeting and review sub project’s schedule and perform health check on them.

TANTUS TECH; Washington DC

Senior Project Management Consultant on Department of Health and Human Resource (DHHS)

program/projects (FSIP, FBIP). Responsible for developing a schedule and earned value related plans at the

program / project levels and obtaining client approval, performed schedule and EVM analysis on FSIP sub-projects

and created schedule and EVM analysis reports on a monthly basis.

  · Developed and implemented schedule and an earned value management plan.

2014

  · Developed the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) level IMS and maintained performance status on a weekly

basis.

  · Participated in the EPMO schedule, EVM reporting related meetings and communicated with clients and other

contractors regarding program/project status.

  · Provided oversight of third party contractor’s Earned Value Management in coordination with other Program Support

Team members.

  · Participated in program/project baseline development, baseline reviews, and Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)

compliance.

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  · Provided timely indications of actual and/or potential problems, and consolidated assessments and findings in a clear,

cohesive, and concise manner.

  · Reviewed Contractor Performance Reports (CPRs) and compared it with the project schedule and provided assistance

to the government acquisition office.

6K SYSTEMS; New Carrollton, MD

2012 - 2014

Senior Scheduler/Lead on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) programs. My primary responsibility were

developing/maintaining the schedule(s) in Microsoft Project 07/10 in terms of communicating with the clients,

schedulers, functional managers and other team members. Also, reviewing schedules with project stakeholders,

gathering and detailing activity and progress updates from team leads and resources, baselines, and other schedule

management processes are also my responsibility.

  · Developed project plans based on agile and waterfall methodologies.

  · Gathered data form client, team leads and provided schedule updates.

  · Supported the program with a 50K+ line schedule.

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Maintained/updated Cross Project Dependencies (CPDs) and solved external link errors.

Created weekly and bi weekly reports and dashboard.

  · Participated in risk and issues meetings for analyzing impacts on schedule and creating risk analysis reports.

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ADERAS; Washington DC

Utilized Structure Solutions Inc. (SSI) tools in Microsoft Project environment in order to perform schedule quality

assurance and integrate master schedule such as Critical Path, schedule logic trace and multiple project.

2012

Senior IMS and EVM Consultant in support of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGS) Projects.

Responsible for setting up projects based on client’s methodologies and modifying, developing, and updating

(automatically and manually) of projects (bi-weekly and monthly basis). Analyzed project risks and issues during

projects life cycle with Primavera risk analysis. Primarily responsible for reviewing team members timesheets and

reconciling between times keeping systems (Unanet, Primavera timesheet).

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Collected, synthesized and reported on project data originating from multiple data collection systems.

Analyzed, appraised and forecasted project expenditure cash flows based on schedule data.

  · As the project risk analyzer, led coordinated project risks identification, analyzed (qualitative & quantitative) factors

and monitored risks to properly execute mitigation contingency plans.

Created multiple What-If projects based on assumptions and prepared comparison reports.

  · Developed resource loaded schedules and update them on bi-weekly basis.

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ISIPO

Identified critical path items in the schedule and provided management with necessary reporting of schedule slippages

and possible resource adjustment requirements to maintain critical path items.

Analyzed schedule's sensitivity based on SI, CI, SSI, CRI, Pearson (  ), Kendall (  ) and Spearman's (  ) indexes.

Senior Project Engineer used Primavera Project Planner (P3) and Microsoft project to develop the

projects/programs plans and worked with different teams and groups to maintain and create related performance

reports. Participated in to the risk related meetings with the clients to address the unknowns in the schedule and

create the contingency plans.

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Analyzed cost budgets to allocate overall cost estimates to individual tasks.

  · Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on Software

Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

  · Managed cost budget to allocate overall cost estimate to individual tasks.

  · Produced project status reports, managed the team and resolved day-to-day issues with emphasis on Project Life Cycle

(PLC).

  · Responsible for staff/account management and prioritization and forecasting.

  · Developed and maintained CPM in resource loaded schedules.

  · Developed project plans and assumed responsibility for project profit and loss.

EDUCATION

Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering

2009

2004 - 2011

Maintained project schedule for multiple software implementation efforts and created combined reports based on s

EVM indexes (SPI, CPI, SV, and CV).

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