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Richard Craig Gibson

South Carolina

1-864-349-1702

richardcraiggibson@yahoo.com

Relocation compensation not required.

DOD. United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Immediate within travel distance plus one day.

Numerous references available once request of interview is established.

Project specific custom software, forms, databases, automated methods, reports, presentations, etc. are available to confirm but are client confidential, joint or sole property of the candidate and will not contain actual project specific data.

 

 

                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL CAREER OBJECTIVE

Continue experience as a client oriented team member acquiring proficient knowledge within the structure of project controls. Professional goals extend to achieve a consistent management foundation, which includes define, outline and progress measure client task assignment for client products, forming and maintaining effective control methods, creatively overcoming challenges, utilizing team members to achieve objectives, acknowledging goal achievement, defining specific change solutions and observing all available aspects to accomplish an efficient project success.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER PROFICIENCY SUMMARY

 

Professional experience gained in Project Controls and Management while working on large complex power plants, industrial process maintenance and various software upgrade projects. Involvement includes Lead Project Control Engineer, Planning, Scheduling, Cost Engineering, Cost Control, Change Control, CPM, Cash Flow reporting, Commodity Tracking, Progress Analysis, CPI, SPI, U/R and Earned Value Analysis. Capabilities and use of programs includes, but are not limited to, Expert knowledge and use of MS Excel 2003, 7, including all associated functions and MS Power Point 2007, excluding HTML. MS Access 2003, 7, including macro & SQL development, Advanced knowledge and use of Silverlight 3.0,4.0,5.0, Adobe 7,8,9,X Reader and Writer, (PrimaveraP3, P6-6.1, P6-7.1,  including Critical Path, Network Merging, Import, Export, Global Change, Organization, Resource Loading and Leveling, WBS, Dictionaries, PERT, Logic, Lag, Float, Hammock, Milestone, Calendar, Filter, Layout and Report). Excellent knowledge and use of  MS C#,  MS .Net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0.Net Classes, Structures, Functions, Methods, DLL’s and Events. P3e, SQL, Visual Basic 2008, MS Server 2008 Standard, SAP, Prolog Accounting Management System, MS Word 2003,7 and MS Outlook 2003,7. Average knowledge and use of  MS Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications 7.0,  P2(P6) and Primavera 5.0, AutoCAD 2006, MS Project Standard 2003, MS Picture Manager 2003, MS Front Page, Trax Gate Log, Timberline (Estimation Module), JD Edwards. Novice use of MS Visual Basic .Net, .Net 1.0 , MS Windows Embedded 6.0, MS Visual Studio Professional 2010, ORBIT and Fox Pro.

CURRENT PROJECT(s) DETAILS

05/2013 – 06/2013 ~ Human Technologies Inc. / Bosh Rexroth Corp / Charlotte, NC– USA

Database Architect Design, Create and Maintain $60,000.

· 5 weeks to design, create and establish C# .Net auto maintain within a MS Access Application Graphic User Interface ( GUI ) ODBC Network Database for product sectors in reference to corporate website HTML Responsibility Links.

 

12/2011 – 04/2013 ~ Unemployment

01/2011 – 10/2011 ~ Hire Expectations / Public Service Electric and Gas – ( PSE&G ) / Newark, NJ – USA

Project Controls Engineer, Resource Cost Scheduler, Database Architect Design, Create and Maintain $99,000 plus $26,000 a year perdiem.

· Member of Project Controls, Cost, Resource Load, assign Budget and At Completion Cost for the schedules of over 72 Projects.

· Designed, created and maintained a MS Access Application Graphic User Interface ( GUI ) Database for tracking and reporting change orders from the back end of SAP utilizing MS Access ODBC connections and relational queries also including various SQL procedures to determine change order number, current commitment, actual spent, percent of change if any compared to original budget, percent expended and percent remaining from the total PO and / or drill down to the PO sub line level.

· Prepared monthly cash flows for all projects within the responsible division for various steps of the projects including Project Management, Design and Engineering, Construction management, any sub contractor work for the construction portion of said projects as well as builts and consult with project managers for management of contingency funds.

· Balanced P6 schedule at completion dates after the SAP actuals import process had completed in preparation for the new integrated version of forecasting through P6.

· Created Projects in SAP utilizing the company approved standard WBS format and determine which points will be charged and require an asset number.

· Attended daily to semi daily contractor and in house update meetings to determine if the project was on target for at completion cost, needed a change order, or a requisition for Sub Contractor addition etc..

· Added, updated or status project master control list for my responsible division and any pertinent information pertaining to the 72 assigned projects.

· Worked with contractors to adjust resource start and finish dates to reflect the current anticipated cash flows for current budget and actuals.

· Developed project cash flows utilizing current bid approved pricing utilizing input from the contractor, work flow schedulers and project managers.

 

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PROFESSIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE DETAILS - Continued

 

 

10/2010 – 11/2010 ~ MOCA Systems / US Army Corps of Engineers / Inman, SC – USA

Sr. Programmer 95,000 per year.

· Developing Matrix Mapping Systems for SAP Enterprise Data Warehouse and USACE Databases for the P2v3release which utilizes an ASP.net dashboard layout for custom report creation.

 

04/2010 – 10/2010 ~ MOCA Systems / US Army Corps of Engineers / Winchester, VA – USA

Data Analyst 80,000 per year salary.

· Consolidated a Series of SQL batch files into one simplified file greatly reducing the potential for error and

   increasing productivity support.

· Developed naming convention for files / tables retrieved from multiple databases and platforms.

· Designed output to a MS PowerPoint from visual basic adjusting for screen position, and formatting including table styles etc.

· Developed final report view for a complex multi table dataset saving the customer thirty additional steps for compiling and                                                                               displaying data. This critical product is used daily.

· Designed reports dashboard within MS Access for point and click automation of a series of reports and output, including new

file naming convention that allows for dynamic linking to the most current view via. MS SharePoint html.

 

04/2010 – Present ~ Innovative Data Controls / USA

Silverlight Web Site Design / Develop / Upgrade Various Contractual Award Agreements Per Desired Design

 

11/2008 – 04/2010 ~ Designing applications targeting Project Data Management Platforms / Bloomsburg, PA – USA

 

10/2008 – 11/2008 ~ Siemens Energy / NES Overseas / Orlando, FL – USA

Scheduler 60.00 per hour including 1036.00 per week perdiem.

· P6 Project Schedule consultation, revise and develop in preparation for Contractors Review and Acceptance Meeting.

· Upon overseas departure of the supporting scheduler, provided temporary support to compliance for critical Management preparation and review of all activities, date and logic driven ECC Packages of startup to approval.

 

06/2008 – 06/2008 ~ Microsoft Windows CE OS Platform Engineering / BSQUARE/ Washington DC – USA

Personal and professional training to include knowledge and application to develop software and platforms for Windows Mobile.

· Windows Compact Edition R2 .Net Compact Framework Operating System - Learning Acceleration Session.

 

04/2008 – 04/2008 ~ Bloomsburg University Corporate and Continuing Education / Bloomsburg, PA – USA

Personal and professional courses pertaining to Project Management (The Management Academy Four Part Session.)

· ( P963A ) - Survival Skills for New Supervisors - Session 4

· ( P814A ) -Building a Successful Work Team - Session 3

 

05/2007 – Present ~ Microsoft MCSE-MCSA / MS Online Labs / McGraw-Hill / USA

Personal and professional courses pertaining to achieving various Microsoft Certifications.

· MS Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 and 2008-Program languages including C#, C++, Visual Basic, and various component level programming techniques for implementing custom data grids for analysis and manipulation plus methods of software development for MS Office custom data integration, manipulation and custom user interface tools.

· MS Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2, MS Server 2003 Windows Server Enterprise SP2 R2 and MS Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Hyper-v Virtual Machine Server.

· MS SQL Server 2005 Enterprise.

 

04/2007 – 05/2007 ~ BP / Turnaround Management Company / Amarillo, TX – USA

Project Controls Analysis Consultant / Project Controls Manager 47.00 including 2,400 mob/de-mob split and 595.00 per week perdiem.

· Project consultation estimation and implementation of the organization, direction and control including overall evaluation of all employees in regard to moral for a turnaround project.

· Planning and cost system setup with the software tools necessary to effectively control the cost and schedule.

 

03/2007 – 03/2007 ~ Southern Company / Johnson Service Group / Parrish, AL – USA

Project Controls Analysis Consultant / Master Scheduler 60.00 including 20.00 per hour split rate perdiem.

·Schedule consultation and estimation for software revision in support on multiple plant units.

 

02/2007 – 02/2007 ~ Ameren / Alstom / Aerotek / Festus, MO – USA

Project Controls / Master Scheduler 60.00 including furnished apartment and all meals.

· Member of Project Controls Team supporting a Boiler and Heater Expansion Change out.

· Updated and revised upcoming outage schedule utilizing P3e and Primavera 5.0 in support due to a temporary staffing shortage.

 

10/2006 – 01/2007 ~ Pennsylvania Power & Light / Shaw Group / Hudson Global Resource / Washingtonville, PA – USA

Cost Analyst 60.00 per hour only.

· Member of Project Controls Team supporting a FGD retrofit.

· Reconcile an 18 million dollar civil sub-contract to quantify and verify three million dollars in change orders.

 

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PROFESSIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE DETAILS - Continued

 

10/2006 – 01/2007 ~ Pennsylvania Power & Light / Shaw Group / Hudson Global Resource / Washingtonville, PA – USA

Cost Analyst 60.00 per hour only.

· Member of Project Controls Team supporting a FGD retrofit.

· Reconcile an 18 million dollar civil sub-contract to quantify and verify three million dollars in change orders.

 

08/2006 – 10/2006 ~ Dayton Power & Light / Black & Veatch / Wagner Industrial / Headway / Manchester, OH – USA

Sr. Project Controls Specialist / Master Scheduler / 55.00 per hour including 465.00 per week perdiem.

· Member of Project Controls Team supporting a FGD retrofit.

· Recreated, updated, cost coded, man loaded and devised logic with a work break down structure with the bid schedule utilizing P3 to conform to the DPL contract preventing contractor dismissal.

 

03/2006 – 03/2006 ~ Excelon / Fluor / Vialinc / Eddystone, PA – USA

Sr. Project Controls Specialist / 44.00 per hour only.

· Contracted to maintain, revise and/or develop the Online Flour Cost Structure MS Access Database.

· Created MS Access Macro to VBA Module function modeling which allows for quicker expedition and less logic error.

· Client preferred Raw Module modeling to revise database functions which would not allow for practical use of upcoming plant maintenance within the current time constraints and budget for shutdown support.

 

01/2006 – 02/2006 ~ NRG / Teksolv / Innovative Data Controls / NRG Coal Power Plant / Delaware City, DE – USA

Engineer / 40.00 per hour only.

· Supported Client with Auto CAD 2006 in conjunction with one line drawings for piping connections and equipment layout of the cooling water purification filter systems.

 

11/2005 – 01/2006 ~ Valero / Nooter / Teksolv / Innovative Data Controls / Valero Oil Refinery / Paulsboro, NJ – USA

Planner / Scheduler / 40.00 per hour only.

· Overall support from bid to construction schedule update and revisions of a Cat-Cracker Project.

 

11/2005 ~ Innovative Data Controls, LLC

Incorporated as a specialist company providing expert data management and unique staffing solutions for troubled or crisis projects

 

2/2005 – 11/2005 ~ Paternal leave of absence

 

11/2004 – 1/2005 ~ Washington Group International / US Army Corps of Engineers / Bagdad, Iraq - Middle East

Sr. Project Controls Specialist / 80,000 per year salary plus 96,000 per year hazard and bonus pay.

· Member of Project Controls Team during an ongoing effort to reconstruct and/or restore the water and power within the country of Iraq.

· Developed and partially created a MS Access custom menu and macro driven network database for Reed PSD Security, which automated timesheets and properly distributed staff assigned to project number within a given secure transport vehicle for the purpose of reporting billings. These reports were automatically e-mailed to project controls and imported in text format into The Washington Group MS Access Database for quickly and accurately creating bi-weekly invoices.

· Developed, created and maintained a MS Excel menu driven Spreadsheet Workbook to input Reed PSD Security timesheets, which properly distributed weighted dollar amounts for fairly and accurately invoicing projects by use of staff assigned to project number within a given secure transport vehicle.

· Utilized MS Excel to update, prepare and assign the appropriate utilized project cost codes to invoice the Iraqna Cell Phone charges, which consisted of over 270 users averaging 35,000 dollars per month.

· Reviewed, updated and maintained the 6.6 million dollar Erbil Subcontract log utilizing MS Excel Spreadsheets.

· Prepared, verified and organized the Reed Static Guard Security billings of over 350,000 dollars bi-weekly for invoicing, which included all water projects.

· Prepared, verified and organized the Reed PSD Security billings of over 650,000 dollars bi-weekly for invoicing, which included all projects for power and water.

· Utilized JD Edwards to review and extract actual billable and invoiced costs when reviewing MS Excel Monthly Subcontract Invoice Logs.

· Supported schedule development for 8614, Baghdad Governate T&D project during the schedule teams’ R&R period utilizing P3.

· Utilized The Washington Group Corporate Code of Accounts to properly assign cost codes to all power project requisitions for Iraq.

· Assigned as Lead Cost Analyst for all power projects at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq.

· Attended a one-week Pro-Log Corporate Accounting Software Update and Government Standard Cost Process for Reporting Training Course in Bucharest, Romania.

· Attended a one-week Terrorist Awareness and Country Orientation Training Course at The Washington Group International Corporate Headquarters in Boise, Idaho.

 

 

 

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PROFESSIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE DETAILS - Continued

 

 

10/2004 – 11/2004 ~ Strategic Contract Resources / Dominion Natural Gas Transmission / Catlett, VA – USA

Project Controls Specialist / Lead Database Architect / Lead Material Coordinator / 32.00 per hour including 735.00 per week perdiem.

· Assigned as Lead Project Support Specialist during the final construction and testing of a natural gas metering and regulatory station.

· Designed and created a MS Access custom menu and macro driven database for tracking material Purchase Orders and Change Orders from SAP requisition data.

· Performed daily walk downs to compile current material surplus and remaining to install reports.

· Ordered, tracked, status and assigned the remaining aspects of material to finish construction of a natural gas metering and regulatory station.

· Interfaced and corresponded directly with the Project Manager to analyze and assess the urgency of material needed in determining the most efficient and cost effective shipping methods.

· Retrieved and reported data within the guidelines of Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section 404 and SAP license agreements using SAP text exports to establish mirrored Purchase Orders within a MS Access database.

· Reviewed engineering drawings to update the project installation status and establish a missing balance of materials within a MS Access datasheet form and a basic MS Excel spreadsheet report.

· Completed a backlog, which involved physically matching up material object tag numbers from requisitions for comparing Purchase Orders from invoices and verifying physical deliveries of shipments requisitioned.

· Reviewed all Purchase Orders to verify or properly assign an accurate WBS code from hard copies within MS Access, which conformed to sensible guidelines of the established SAP Dominion Corporate coding structure.

· Measured and counted pipe, valves, electrical equipment, associated specialty equipment and items to match object tag number with requisition item number to compile and determine by report, either a complete or partial purchase order status.

· Verified over 2,000 hard copy Purchase Orders referencing back to requisition in conjunction with drawings to installed and actual onsite material.

 

4/2004 – 10/2004 ~ Science Applications International Corporation / US Army Corps of Engineers / Buffalo, NY – USA

Project Controls Analyst / 30.00 per hour only.

· Member of Project Controls Team during a custom software integration for the USACE’s Buffalo District Civil Works Programs Utilizing The Project Management Business Process that included development and revision of multiple project schedules into P3e for P2(P6) / CEFMS / ORACLE data interface.

· Developed and status 42 full production schedules including WBS, WCC, CPM, proper calendar assignments, Labor and Non-labor resources, Level-of-Effort Activities and USACE Head Quarter milestones. Responsibility pertained to projects within General Investigations, Construction General, Continuing Authorities Program, Operations And Maintenance, Flood Control, Regulatory Functions and Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action Programs, which ranged in budget from $60,000 to $2.1 million dollars.

· Utilized P3e to develop or revise multiple project schedules while working closely with project managers to focus on WBS, activities, dates, durations, resources and refine logic within P3e PERT layout, which quickly and accurately reflected the actual activity order and occurrences within projects.

· Estimated the Flood Control Program for the 2005 resource budget utilizing 2004 percentage weighted work item expenditures to compile proper resource loading of activities within P3e.

· Compiled, status and completed 127 Project Initiation Forms with Operation and Maintenance Project Managers ranging in labor and non-labor budget from $40,000 to $1.6 million dollars to satisfy the required fields within CEFMS for P2(P6) implementation.

· Participated in Quality Control by verifying various critical project schedule pieces including proper WCC, WBS, prior fiscal year activity CEFMS link, non-labor owning organization, RMS interface code assignment, matched allocated budget roll up, required milestones, responsible manager and accurate contract section activity logic.

· Created a MS Excel Macro Driven spreadsheet as a P3e tool utilizing visual basic for interacting with management which incorporated project specific pasted activity rows, all USACE resource labor and non-labor codes and defined WBS or Milestones not able to be resourced. Activities were assigned columns including project owning organization, contract, MIPR, Labor or Non-Labor. This established process quickly, accurately and consistently summed up and defined by assignment all budgeted project hours and costs for P2(P6) implementation.

· Maintained and custom developed a MS Access SQL driven Database as a pre P3e tool which managed, updated, grouped and status the program summaries, inconsistencies, missing data fields and Total Authorized Cost to report Project Initiation Form readiness.

· Created a MS Excel Macro Driven spreadsheet as a P3e tool utilizing visual basic and incorporated different resource work calendars to be used when using lag between predecessors or successors that quickly and accurately forecasted start or finish dates.

· Compiled from project managers any necessary data for P3e schedule implementation within The Buffalo District Civil Works Programs, which include General Investigations, Construction General, Continuing Authorities Program, Operations And Maintenance, Flood Control, Regulatory Functions and Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action Program.

· Received 40 hours of P3e and P2(P6) training that was sponsored by the USACE and hosted by Primavera.

 

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                    PROFESSIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE DETAILS - Continued

9/2003 - 11/2003 ~ Washington Group International / Shell Oil Refinery / Delaware City, DE – USA

Project Controls Engineer / 25.00 per hour including all expenses.

· Member of Project Controls team on an as needed contract during a Shell software upgrade from ORBIT to SAP.

· Prioritized maintenance tasks using Shell Critical Analysis Code and assisted with scheduling utilizing MS Project.

· Calculated work order labor cost summaries using Refinery Maintenance Corporate Estimating Standards.

· Analyzed manufacturers data sheets for calculating task steps pertaining to reactive maintenance including, valves,               pumps, equipment, vessels and associated piping.

· Planned and submitted subcontractor agreement of labor and cost for insulation conditioning and replacement.

· Performed site walk downs to calculate scaffold needs and associated labor during erection and dismantle.

· Performed walk downs to verify insulation needs and determine assignment of craft or sub-contractor responsibility.

· Performed walk downs to establish work order locations and review inspection reports for proper component numbers.

· Analyzed system drawings to determine fresh air planning and control room verification of special permit tasks.

· Reviewed Shell inspection reports to determine specific steps for planning the correction of failed components.

· Developed material lists and assisted with procurement.

· Received ORBIT training to utilize site component diagrams.

· Received Corporate Estimating Standards training to assign correct labor hours for various maintenance tasks.

· Received ARC training for SAP backlog planning.

· Submitted routine maintenance tasks in a petroleum refinery setting.

 

7/2003 - 9/2003 ~ Washington Group International / BP Oil Refinery / Toledo, OH – USA

Project Controls Engineer / 25.00 per hour including 490.00 per week perdiem.

· Member of Project Controls team on an as needed contract during a BP maintenance pre-turnaround and shutdown.

· Created scaffold update Primavera reports for specific unit areas to submit percent complete and total float.

· Analyzed Primavera PERT reports for change notices to determine the most efficient sequence logic of completion.

· Created Primavera critical path graphs and reports to analyze areas of concern pertaining to the project end date.

· Created custom layouts that filtered user codes to submit Primavera schedules by unit responsibility.

· Utilized Primavera calendars to set and recalculate activity duration due to specific craft holiday absence.

· Utilized Primavera Work Breakdown Structure to add, revise, maintain and update pre-turnaround schedules.

· Revised Primavera schedule with change orders after analyzing BP work order descriptions.

· Applied BP user code standards dictionary to create new Primavera activities for work order additions.

· Assisted in the development of MS Excel spreadsheets used for calculating and updating all associated equipment cost.

· Assisted in the use of Fox Pro to import schedules for various formatting and reporting not available in Primavera.

· Created Primavera update status reports for unit associated piping.

· Updated Primavera activities after reviewing various foremen submitted updated reports.

 

 

4/2003 - 7/2003 ~ Hake Group - Bogan / Valero Oil Refinery / Paulsboro, NJ – USA

Project Controls Engineer / 25.00 per hour including 10.00 per hour perdiem.

· Assigned as Lead Site Project Control Engineer on a 3-month contract, $ 30 million Clean Fuels / Scrubber Project, which included procurement, construction and testing of various refinery electrical substations.

· Created detailed Primavera electrical substation schedules utilizing Timberline estimates and blueprints which included labor hours for manholes, civil, trenching, various trench boxes, grounding, conduit, masonry, equipment, and associated bus duct.

· Created a point and click process utilizing a MS Access custom menu driven database to import all weekly installed quantities from MS Excel spreadsheets and Timberline actuals for SQL query.

· Established budget forecast, weekly cost projections and earned value reports.

· Created Visual Basic Macros to automate, group and summarize weekly downloaded Timberline data, which included actual labor hours, labor and equipment cost and all associated cost codes associated to specific areas for reporting.

· Developed and maintained detailed labor cost projections utilizing MS Excel spreadsheets and Timberline actual labor hours divided by earned labor hours multiplied by total budget dollars.

· Developed and maintained detailed MS Excel spreadsheets for site walk downs to track entire project conduit installation, which were developed utilizing Timberline labor estimates for reporting progress which was driven and summarized by actual date of installation to establish earned value.

· Attended weekly schedule review meetings to submit and discuss critical path, project completion date, percent complete, equipment cost, labor projections and creative solutions to minimize project challenges.

· Developed and maintained MS Excel Spreadsheet takeoffs utilizing field supervision and blueprints for manholes, civil, trenching, various trench boxes, grounding, conduit, masonry, equipment, and associated bus duct.

· Performed daily site walk downs to establish progress for manholes, civil, trenching, various trench boxes, grounding, conduit, masonry, equipment, and associated bus duct.

· Created and maintained MS Access databases to compare cost code dictionaries.

· Assisted in the process of four Primavera master schedules imported into the client Primavera main network schedule.

· Developed schedule logic by discussing specific construction steps with field supervision.

· Utilized Primavera calendars to assign specific craft from five to six-day workweeks.

· Updated various Primavera schedules for associated responsible units.

 

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                    PROFESSIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE DETAILS - Continued

 

 

2/2002 - 4/2003 ~ Washington Group International / Detroit Edison Coal Power Plant / Monroe, MI – USA

Project Controls Engineer / 20.00 per hour only.

· Member of Project Controls team on a one-year contract, $ 850 million Low Nox Program, which included 4 SCR and 10 Burner Replacement Projects at various sites.

· Responsibilities included operating and maintaining detailed cost reports utilizing Prolog Accounting Management System.

· Presented management with timely high-level roll up and cost variance reports utilizing MS Excel spreadsheets.

· Developed and maintained weekly productivity trending charts utilizing MS Excel bar graphs and MS Excel spreadsheets.

· Tracked and reported installation progress of structural steel performing site walk downs, interfacing with field supervision, highlighting blueprints and updating takeoffs utilizing MS Excel spreadsheets.

· Developed and maintained piping progress utilizing MS Access tracking databases and MS Excel spreadsheets.

· Developed and maintained MS Excel spreadsheets to track detailed equipment for reporting actual and projected cost.

· Maintained detailed staff cost projection reports utilizing MS Excel spreadsheets.

· Created Visual Basic Macros to automate reporting after importing the Trax Gate Log, time sheet cost coded hours with associated labor, material and subcontractor costs.

· Created a point and click process utilizing a MS Access custom menu driven network database for grouping and reporting which included custom tools for cost code matrix dictionary comparison, automated SQL query summation and prior week comparison to efficiently update budget codes within Prolog Accounting Management System.

· Created an automated cost code updating process in a MS Access custom menu driven network database. This process was used for searching all existing cost codes with description, unit, responsibility and / or key word to ensure proper timesheet cost coding.

· Partially created a MS Access custom menu driven network database for change order tracking, grouping, and to determine proper summation including, back charges, cost increases, within scope, rework and design change categories.

· Created and maintained MS Access custom menu driven databases for tracking, grouping, summarizing, forecasting, accruals of sub-contract work orders and blanket contracts for all associated insulation.

· Created and managed a MS Excel network spreadsheet that utilized a timesheet format with controlled field entry for craft labor for project completion validation, submitting and reporting actual labor to accounts payable.

· Created and maintained MS Excel scaffolding sub-contract graphs and reports for tracking and accruals of work order submittals.

· Created and maintained custom MS Excel graphs for client reporting and project director presentation of unit rate, which established a profit snap shot of all piping, welding, ductwork and structural steel.

· Created a MS Power Point site portfolio to portray a snapshot of all project aspects and progress. When due, was presented to majority shareholders of Detroit Edison by the Project Director for interest, review and discussion.

· Upon permission of Detroit Edison, created a 36-page MS Power Point site portfolio containing examples of all Project Control components utilized at Monroe to portray proven accomplished methods. When due, was presented to “Progress Energy” by the Washington Group Vice President of Power for consideration of contract at a similar SCR Project.

· Reviewed all daily craft time sheets to manage, verify and determine by description proper cost code assignment.

· Created and managed custom drawn, point and click macro driven earned value weld maps utilizing Visual Basic and MS Excel spreadsheets for the total assembly of all SCR Ductwork. After a walk down, highlighting drawings and clicking lines, which, represented change order welds, Project Management easily reviewed over 7,000 feet of welding progress.

· Created a weekly activities met reporting system for the client utilizing a MS Excel spreadsheet with MS Excel graphs containing trending history to report the percentage of prior week started activities compared to the prior one-week look ahead.

 

11/2001 - 2/2002 ~ Washington Group International / Detroit Edison Coal Power Plant/ Belle River, MI – USA

Project Controls Engineer / 20.00 per hour including all expenses.

· Assigned as Lead Site Project Control Engineer on a 3-month contract, $ 20 million Burner Replacement Outage Project.

· Developed and maintained a full production detailed outage Primavera schedule.

· Provided daily project status to Site Manager, Program Project Controls Manager and the client.

· Presented critical path to management to identify and avoid potential schedule delays.

· Reviewed and presented detailed Prolog Cost Reports to management.

· Identified and reported cost and schedule variance reports to management.

· Maintained a MS Excel spreadsheet and MS Excel graphs for tracking all piping progress.

· Created and maintained a daily digital picture portfolio with custom drawings relating to components for progress. By consulting with field supervision and only isometric drawings available, devised a labor break out of components to establish a progress tracking system which utilized an eight-step completion of 21 coal burners and a six step completion of 14 tube bundles.

· Developed and maintained one and three-week lookaheads, Milestones, PERT reports and Critical Path for weekly management meetings.

· Created and maintained MS Excel manpower graphs to determine accurate demobilization of craft.

· Created and maintained sub-contractor work orders for tracking labor, actual cost and cost projections.

· Reviewed daily timesheets to ensure and determine proper cost coding.

 

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1/2001 - 10/2001 ~ Washington Group International / Exelon Natural Gas Power Plant / Weymouth, MA – USA

Project Controls Engineer / 24.00 per hour only.

· Member of Project Controls team on an as needed contract $ 700 million Natural Gas / Co-Generation Power Project, which included engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning.

· Presented lead scheduler with field progress for schedule updates utilizing MS Excel spreadsheets and assisting with Primavera Software.

· Presented management and scheduling with detailed construction progress utilizing MS Access custom reports.

· Performed daily site walk downs, tracked and reported specific project activities within a MS Excel spreadsheet for associated milestones interfacing with field supervision.

· Developed and maintained quantity takeoffs in daily progress tracking tables with MS Access databases and MS Excel spreadsheets for various Critical Path areas of construction.

· Developed status tracking MS Excel form entry spreadsheets for equipment testing, punch list and system turnover.

· Designed, developed and updated a MS Access database to track all piping isometrics drawings and revisions.

· Designed, developed and maintained quantity takeoffs utilizing civil drawings into MS Excel spreadsheets to track over 5,600 cubic yards of concrete installation.

· Designed, developed and maintained quantity takeoffs utilizing isometric spool drawings within a MS Access database and reports for tracking over 38,000 feet of piping spool installation for 34 systems and 82 sub-systems.

· Performed daily site walk downs for locating progress, blueprint highlight tracking and field supervision verification of piping, structural steel and civil associated progress.

· Created a MS Access database to import and automate comparison of all Mitsubishi engineer drawings associated with Washington Group Document Control drawings to ensure supervisors adhered to the most current revisions.

· Created site map break out within a MS Access database to easily measure piping installation progress grouped by the responsible foreman.

· Responsible for and assisted with morning and evening brass shack distribution to become familiar with standard union craft codes.

MISCELLANEOUS PRE-CAREER EXPERIENCE

 

 

10/1999 - 7/2000 ~ USA Navy / Submariner / Groton, CT – USA

Electronic Navigation / Communication / E3

· Obtained a Secret Security clearance.

· Fast-attack and ballistic missile submarine design isometrics and specific designated use.

· Participated in various types of mass evacuation drills, SCBA use, fire extinguishing and flood control.

· Foreign countries travel etiquette, threat and safety awareness training.

· Basic component construction knowledge of navigation and communication equipment within submarines.

 

4/1999 – 7/1999 ~ Mattress Discounters / Annapolis, MD – USA

Assistant Store Manager / 39,000 per year salary and commission.

· Assisted in staff management and daily operations of an annual $2,000,000+ retail store.

· Received delivery schedule logic training.

· Received customer etiquette training.

 

8/1996 - 4/1999 ~ Mattress Giant / Pompano Beach, FL – USA

Store Manager / 32,000 per year commission only.

· Managed staff, and all daily operations of an annual $1,200,000+ retail store.

· Received basic accounting and bookkeeping procedures training.

· Received team management training.

 

6/1994 - 12/1994 ~ Bartlett Nuclear / BG&E Nuclear Power Plant / Prince Frederick, MD – USA

Insulator Apprentice / 10.00 per hour only.

· Maintained Q-Security Clearance during a shutdown refueling outage.

· Performed work orders for removing, fabricating and installing various types of insulation including fiberglass, chil-cote, temp-mat pads, cal-sil, arma-flex, stainless steel and aluminum jacketing rivet or banding within plant, turbine and radiation containment areas.

· Received forklift-operations certification.

 

8/1993 - 6/1994 ~ Airco / BG&E Nuclear Power Plant / Prince Frederick, MD – USA

Insulator Apprentice / 8.00 per hour only.

· Obtained Q-Security Clearance during a shutdown refueling outage.

· Utilized various types of jacketing installation methods and equipment including water shed, fish-mouths, end caps, basic wrap, beading and break folding.

 

 

 

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RELATED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION DETAILS

 

5/2004 ~ Science Applications International Corporation / Army Corps Of Engineers / Buffalo, NY – USA

· Received USACE, Understanding the Project Management Business Process (ER 5-1-11) Training which outlines             

One project, one team, one project manager, Plan for success and keep commitments, The Project Delivery Team is responsible for project success, Measure quality with the goals and expectations in the Project Management Plan, Manage all work with the PMBP, using corporate automated information systems, Build effective communications into all activities and processes, Use best practices and seek continuous improvement.

· Received 40 hours of P3e and P2(P6) training, which was sponsored by the USACE and hosted by Primavera.

· Attended and completed SAIC’s Ethics and billable code time keeping training course.

 

10/2003 ~ Washington Group International / Shell Oil Refinery / Delaware City, DE – USA

· Utilize and expedite the Petroleum Refinery Maintenance Corporate Estimating Standards.

· ORBIT software training, ARC training for SAP and basic SAP operations, Shell Critical Analysis Coding for distinguishing reactive and proactive planning, Shell work orders, and inspection report analysis for fresh air planning methods.

 

8/2003 ~ Washington Group International / BP Oil Refinery / Toledo, OH – USA

· Primavera (P3) Work Breakdown Structure to update and report separate activity groups.

· Experienced and utilized BP user code standards dictionary as the most organized and logical format of any project, which shall be a new personal standard when creating future full production schedules.

· Utilizing Fox Pro to import and manipulate schedule data for custom reporting. This software is similar to MS Access.

· Increased knowledge and experience analyzing Primavera (P3) PERT reports to discuss and revise sequence logic.

· Washington Group International, Refinery Corporate Safety Class.

 

5/2003 ~ Hake Group - Bogan / Valero Oil Refinery / Paulsboro, NJ – USA

· Conduit and cable schedule definition and analysis to achieve proper quantity takeoffs.

· Timberline training and network applications for reporting weekly actual data.

· Concepts for establishing cost-coding structure, merging multiple Primavera schedule(s) or to existing master networks.

· Valero Refinery and Hazardous Material Safety Awareness.

 

2002 ~ Software Engineering / Community College / Monroe, MI – USA

· Continuing education when accessible as an undergraduate with six Credits.

 

6/2002 ~ Washington Group International / Detroit Edison Coal Power Plant / Monore, MI – USA

· Knowledge, establishment and use of Cost Coding Structuring, Change Control, Cash Flow Analysis, Unit Rates, Schedule Performance Index, Cost Performance Index, Cost Projection, Cost Performance Management, Baseline to Current Budget and Earned Value Analysis.

· Identify various change order cost responsibility types including re-work, field change, design change, back charge, within contract scope and cost increase.

· Prolog Accounting Management System program training within budget code establishment and use.

· Utilizing cost code matrix systems and properly calculating cost code transfers.

· Corporate methods for tracking equipment costs and cost projections.

 

1/2002 ~ Washington Group International / Detroit Edison Coal Power Plant / Belleriver, MI – USA

· Maintaining detailed Primavera production schedules including change scenarios.

· Basic update and reporting use of Prolog Accounting Management System and Operations and utilization of Citrex Global Network System.

· Primavera (P3) resource loading, leveling, logic sequencing and PERT report analysis.

 

3/2001 ~ Washington Group International / Excelon Natural Gas Power Plant / Weymouth, MA – USA

· Basic status and recalculating updates of Primavera (P3) activities and Earned Value Analysis.

· Developing quantity takeoffs for civil, piping, structural and equipment blueprints.

· Understand and analyze piping isometrics for system and sub-system awareness.

· Identify Primavera (P3) Critical Path activities for separate progress reporting.

· Identify various piping connections including weldolets, sockolets and threadolets.

· Establishing punchlists for system turnover and import of MS Excel spreadsheets into MS Access database tables.

 

1998 ~ Visual Basic 5.0 / Community College / Fort Lauderdale, FL – USA

· Manufacturer upgrade to Visual Basic 6.0, pursuing when accessible as an undergraduate with three Credits.

 

5/1997 ~ Mattress Giant / Corporate Training / Hallandale, FL – USA

· Retail management training class “Team Begins with You”, “Understanding Customer Satisfaction” and “Increasing Commissions with Accounting Awareness” .

 

1992 ~ Electronics Principals and Applications / Calvert Vocational Tech / Calvert, MD – USA

· Two year Certification of Advanced Electronics in Semiconductors and Components.

· One year Certification of Basic Electronics in AC and DC Current.

· Knowledge and use of Complex Schematic Diagrams.

· Semiconductor testing equipment knowledge and resistance troubleshooting methods.

 

 

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PROJECT SOFTWARE SUPPORT SUMMARY - Continued

Science Applications International Corporation / Army Corps Of Engineers / Buffalo, NY – USA

Challenge:                            Project Managers’ P3e activities where pasted on a spreadsheet in rows. Columns where assigned various resource codes. Managers’ projects were printed out to fill in the appropriate hours in the cells corresponding to the correct resource at the activity level. Open columns at the far right end of this spreadsheet where used to assign Non-Labor hours or Contract and MIPR dollars. Whole Work Breakdown Structures and Milestones were resourced which is not the correct method within P3e or P2(P6). Non-Labor parent and child codes were not consistent, Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests and Contracts needed owning organization codes, which is mandatory for P2(P6).

Solution:                            Created a MS Excel Macro Driven spreadsheet as a P2(P6) tool utilizing visual basic click button control and drop down combo boxes for interacting with management which incorporates project specific pasted activity rows, all USACE resource labor and non-labor codes and defines WBS or Milestones locked out not able to be resourced. Activities are assigned columns including project owning organization, contract, MIPR, Labor or Non-Labor which quickly, accurately and consistently sum up and define by assignment all budgeted project hours and costs. This process allows quicker, consistent and more accurate Matrix completion, which enables P2(P6) input to proceed quicker since codes are consistent with P2(P6) libraries, which results in less project downtime and a comparison for budget balance.

 

Challenge:                             Upon creation of Project Managers’ activity logic, lag is incorporated between activities with either a predecessor or successor to start or finish on a specified date. Guessing at duration of lag deducting weekends and holidays, depending on which calendar the resourced activity is loaded with, was time consuming and trivial until the right number typed arrived at the desired date. This was time consuming and created doubt in the confidence of Project Managers on the P2(P6) knowledge of schedulers and the security felt by Project Managers of their projects in someone else’s hands was decreased.

Solution:                             Created a MS Excel Macro Driven spreadsheet as a P3e tool utilizing visual basic and incorporates different resource work calendars to be used when using lag between predecessors or successors to quickly and accurately forecast start or finish dates which pin points the lag duration based on the date desired. This alleviates doubt of efficiency for the Project Managers and creates confidence of trust for their projects handled by the P2(P6) deployment team.

 

Challenge:                             When pre-deployment of P2(P6) data compiling was initiated it became apparent a database was needed to track all Project Initiation Forms required before a project is scheduled. A MS Access Database was designed to input data from the PIFs. Later reports of over 250 different projects within programs were needed to check the status to accomplish the milestone date of P2(P6) deployment.

              Solution:                             Maintain and custom develop a MS Access SQL driven Database as a pre P3e tool for managing, updating, grouping, status and reporting Project Initiation Form readiness, program summaries, inconsistencies, missing data fields and Total Authorized Cost using SQL query driven filters based on custom criteria. This quickly pin pointed the Projects that needed special attention that might have overrun the deployment date of P2(P6).

 

Hake Group - Bogan / Valero Oil Refinery / Paulsboro, NJ – USA

Challenge:                            Cost and labor updates were printed in Adobe format from Timberline. Over 130 rows of cost code update information were manually entered into a MS Excel spreadsheet. Preparing the updates for budget forecast and weekly projections required one staff member absolute focus of two days. Pressure to establish a smaller duration of update turnaround lead to data entry errors and quickly diminished report accuracy confidence.

              Solution:                            Created Visual Basic Macros to automate downloads, group, summarize and process weekly Timberline data into a MS Excel spreadsheet. This process included actual labor hours, labor and equipment cost and all cost codes associated to specific areas for budget forecasting and weekly projection reports.

 

Challenge:                             After updating weekly installed quantities in MS Excel spreadsheets, this information was manually entered at the appropriate cost code within an actual cost and labor MS Excel spreadsheet. This method, with MS Excel functions, established weekly-earned value. Errors leading to deadline failure needed elimination.

              Solution:                             Created point and click software utilizing a MS Access custom menu driven database to import all weekly installed quantities from MS Excel spreadsheets and Timberline actuals for SQL query. The final product established budget forecast, weekly cost projections and earned value reports. This established an efficient, secure, consistently accurate and effective reporting management system.

 

Challenge:                             Upon review, analysis and discussion of specific cost code budget overruns, it was apparent the current MS Excel spreadsheet updates and verbal method of communicating change order cost coding was outdated or not reaching all intended craft foremen. This lead to numerous cost code transfers, lengthy research of filed time sheets, inaccurate earned value reporting and improper analysis of craft production.

              Solution:                             Created and managed a MS Access custom menu driven database to daily import Timberline project cost codes and compare queried history dictionaries. This enabled select craft foremen to receive updated daily or weekly cost code charge lists, prevented budget deviance, ensured more accurate labor cost coding and quickly established the need for change order estimates required.

 

Challenge:                             As the final portion of the awarded contract was revised to cost reimbursable, reported installed quantities became questionable because the method of Primavera schedule update and quantity installed was driven by opinion percent complete. This easily misleading method prompted the request of progress measurement.

              Solution:                             Developed and maintained detailed commodity takeoffs in MS Excel spreadsheets utilizing blueprints and Timberline estimates. Responsibilities became inclusive to daily site walk downs and tracking the entire project for conduit installation. Reports grouped and summarized by actual date of installation. This reporting system established accurate and accountable project progress.

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PROJECT SOFTWARE SUPPORT SUMMARY - Continued

 

Washington Group International / Detroit Edison Coal Power Plant / Monroe, MI – USA

Challenge:                             Trax Gate Log updates were supplied weekly from accounts payable on floppy disk, which was used to update Prolog Accounting Management System. Once receiving the disk, over 800 rows of cost code update information had to be formatted from text to MS Excel format with the labor hours column formatted as numbers and the cost column formatted as dollars. Four units had to be cut into new sheets separating labor, material and subcontract code types, which totaled twelve update sheets. This process, without error, had a minimum four-hour duration.

              Solution:                             Created Visual Basic Macros to automate importing the Trax Gate Log into MS Excel spreadsheets including all formatting, unit grouping, labor, material and subcontract separation, twelve-page reporting, and total summaries. This user error free process finished briefly after a button click.

 

Challenge:                             Once Trax Gate Log updates were established within MS Excel spreadsheets the cost codes needed to be matrixed to a new coding structure. This required a MS Excel cross tab query, which demands all data compared and dictionaries to ascend in order. If a new cost code was present, it was apparent since the number of rows compared was greater than the dictionary. With numerous delicate areas for user error, matrix-coding inconsistency and added review sessions, this process, without error, had a minimum five-hour duration. After completion of reports, over 800 rows of cost code update information had to be reviewed and entered in Prolog Accounting Management System, which, without error, had a minimum thirteen-hour duration.

              Solution:                             Created point and click software utilizing a MS Access custom menu driven network database for grouping and reporting. Custom tools provided cost code matrix dictionary comparison for new code reports, automated SQL query summation, cost code transfer capabilities and prior week comparison reporting. Data input duration into Prolog Accounting Management System significantly decreased due to efficiently updating only those cost codes reported having a change. Comparatively the Trax “Data Reporter” System was an absolute positive impact opposed to embarrassing client report errors and total process duration of three days. This new entire process from Trax Gate Log import to Prolog Accounting Management System update completion used untouched data transfer, eliminated user error and achieved two-hour total process duration.

 

Challenge:                             Within the project time span, multiple craft promotions to foremen positions existed and over 260 project change orders occurred. In result, numerous time sheet cost-coding errors became a normal but frustrating expectancy. Upon personal lengthy research of filed time sheets, transferring incorrect charged accounts including, change orders or misunderstood cost code descriptions due to limited character space within Trax code listings, a more cost and time efficient process needed to be developed to verify and code time sheets.

              Solution:                             Created automated cost code dictionary updating process in a MS Access custom menu driven network database used for searching all existing cost codes with description, unit, responsibility and / or key word only. This system ensured the most current cost code reports and ensured proper timesheet cost coding.

 

Challenge:                             Upon contract fulfillment, numerous obstacles in construction became an overwhelming management problem in determining responsibility of cost. Between the client’s various methods of change order status leading to continuous indecision of approval or denial and contractor construction continuing to be captured within cost code overruns, an equal communication and reporting method needed to be established.

              Solution:                             Created a MS Access custom menu driven network database for tracking over 260 change orders. Cost code information included request date, status, category, estimate hyperlinks, distributed cost, distributed labor, responsible party and approval or denial date. By incorporating a data field for setting total lead-time from request date of each change order, reports were derived for decisions due. Grouping by category, the client and contractor could easily determine proper summation and responsibility of cost including, vendor back charges, cost increases, within scope of contract, rework and design change categories. After lengthy analysis of time sheets from project day one, related portion cost code budget overruns were addressed and transferred to the appropriate managed categories.

 

Challenge:                             During a third quarter project meeting the cost projection submittal of a specific sub-contractor had tremendously exceeded expectation. Research began into the sub-contractor work accomplished and work remaining. The tracking method used for the sub-contractor was copied invoices, associated checks paid and the accounts payable list of invoice numbers. Weekly budget reporting and a data management system needed to be established.

 

Solution:                             Created and managed a MS Access custom menu driven database for tracking, grouping, summarizing, accruing and blanket contract separation for all associated sub-contractor work orders. By analyzing each past submitted invoice with the sub-contractor to determine proper category grouping of the work accomplished, the groups of work remaining was easily addressed and future invoice format would include these new categories. Database fields included invoice number, description, unit, amount, cost code and contract type. Drop down group selections included paid, unpaid, insulation, asbestos removal, lead paint removal, civil rework and miscellaneous labor. Once all past invoices were entered, the reporting of sub-contractor work could be easily managed and analyzed with various custom grouping and summation methods.