Objective: Project Planner/Scheduler position where my skills and experience will combine to increase overall project/program effeciency and capability.

 

Security Clearance - Top Secret (Inactive)

 

Focused professional with demonstrated background in planning, scheduling, earned value analysis, data analysis, data gathering, multitasking, and a drive to accomplish goals and objectives.

Department of Defense Experience

ü       I plan, schedule, and coordinate the movement of personal property shipments for the DoD

NASA Experience

ü       Planner/Scheduler for ASRC/ARTS at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) on Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Ground Project

ü       Supported Project Monthly Review (PMR); reviewed prime contractor’s schedule & associated project status reporting ensuring critical needs are being meet and communication flows openly

ü       Created a wInsight training guide for distribution to anyone on the project who needs training; guide helps those who have some wInsight experience understand the tool better, and provide step by step instructions to those with no experience on how to use the tool.

ü       Along with one other scheduler, rebuilt the entire Ground Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) based upon inputs from the special Ground Schedule Tiger Team enlisted to evaluate NOAA facility non-availability schedule impacts and to propose alternative options for maintaining a December 2016 JPSS-1 launch

ü       Massive schedule development effort included:  planning and running special twice-weekly Ground Integration Working Group (GIWG) schedule meetings to establish and distribute new schedule guidelines and facilitate inputs to the schedule; creating a new schedule template for NEE and external participants to populate the NOAA portion of the J-1 Mission Master IMS and to communicate their inputs to the Ground IMS; reworking the Flight Vehicle Test Suite (FVTS) schedule inputs; participating in planning meetings to create the new Mission Operations Support Team (MOST) schedule; participating in Mission Synchronization Working Group (MSWG) meetings to coordinate hand-off needs and review Giver/ Receivers; revising and developing the Giver/Receiver portion of the Ground IMS; working with the PIM to identify Ground Schedule Risks for input to the Flight Project’s revised Joint Confidence Level (JCL) effort; and meeting with the PIM and program scheduling team to discuss incorporating the Ground IMS into the JPSS Master IMS

ü       Intensified and accelerated schedule redevelopment effort was a major element in the successful completion of Step-2 of the JPSS-1 MPDR and is a critical element to meeting the review’s main success criteria of closing the JPSS-1 schedule to a December 2016 launch date

Southwest Research Instite (SwRI) Experience

ü       Lead Planner on NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Project, Central Instrument Data Processor (CIDP) sub-project, for Southwest Research Institute (SwRI); performed cost, schedule, and complete EV analysis and reporting

ü       Reported earned value on MMS Instrument Suite (IS) project, Integration and Test (ISI&T) project, and IS Master (ISMstr) project

ü       Used available software tools to analyze/report earned value; Scheduling tool – Microsoft Project & Primavera (P6), Budget/Cost/Earned Value tool – Cobra, enhanced earned value tool - wInsight

ü       Acted as a liaison in defining program logic/relationships between the master project schedule and subsidiary schedules.  Resolved schedule issues and conflicts

ü       Coordinated the products created by the schedulers, ensuring consistency, uniformity, and quality of products.  Adjusted products as required and coordinate those adjustments with the schedulers 

ü       Supported the program reviews as required, including the major Program reviews.  Developed charts and other products as required using Powerpoint, Milestones Pro, Microsoft Excel

ü       Technical knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and integrating project and program schedules / Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) on federal government programs

ü       Provided analysis and metrics to identify potential problems and assessment of critical path

 

 

ü       Performed duties relating to planning, scheduling, and cost control monitoring of divisional projects

ü       Conducted proposal support, WBS development, schedule development, detailed estimation, budget allocation and maintenance to cost accounts, spend plan definition, schedule and cost analysis

 

 

SwRI Experience (Cont)

 

ü       Completed continual schedule and cost maintenance, monitored and reported on cost and schedule performance and associated variances, and estimate to complete/estimate at completion analysis

ü       Monitored spend plan maintenance for routine management and customer review, identified degree of conformance to baseline plans, schedules and budgets, interpreted current results

ü       Identified deviations or unfavorable trends for corrective action, projected long range effects, assisted in developing and presenting alternate plans and schedules as required

ü       Implemented techniques to ensure accomplishment of divisional and project objectives; prepared reports on all phases of assignments as required; prepared monthly Cost Performance Reports (CPR)

 

 

Core Competencies

 

▪    Project Management ▪    Project Planning ▪    Data Analysis ▪    Data Gathering ▪    Scheduling ▪    Earned Value Management ▪    Earned Value Analysis ▪    Operations Management ▪    Decision Making ▪    wInsight Administrator ▪    COBRA Administrator

▪    Communication Planning ▪    Facilitation ▪    Results Delivery ▪    Financial Analysis ▪    Information Security ▪    Meteorology ▪    Change Management ▪    Transportation/Logistics ▪    Risk Management ▪    Earned Value Administrator ▪    Stakeholder Alignment

 

Employment History

Department of Defense (DoD); 2014-Current ASRC/ARTS/NASA; 2012 – 2014; Scheduler/Planner Southwest Research Institute ; 2008 – 2012; Project Planner/Earned Value Administrator/Resource Analyst Dish Network; 2008; Field Services Manager Casino Queen; 2007 – 2008; Security United States Air Force; 1984 – 2007; Logistics, Meteorology, Superintendent, First Sergeant Professional Classes Completed   ▪    Humphreys & Associates - Earned Value Management Systems ▪    New Horizons - Microsoft Project 2010 Level 1 ▪    Deltek University Cobra 5 – Advanced ▪    Primavera (P6) 106R-Resource Management Module – Advanced                       ▪    Humphreys & Associates - Advanced Earned Value Management Techniques ▪    New Horizons - Microsoft Project 2010 Level 2 ▪    Primavera (P6) 102-Project Management Module – Basic                                                       Formal Education Master of Business Administration Degree – 2010 Major:  Business University of the Incarnate Word – San Antonio, TX   Bachelor of Science Degree – 2007 Major:  Management Park University – Kansas City, MO Graduated Magna Cum Laude   Associate Degree – 2001 Major:  Meteorology Community College of the Air Force