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Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Manage all aspects of Earned Value for contracts within the business unit, creating baselines, performing BCRs, managing CAs, producing monthly IPMR formats 1-5, and leading comprehensive EACs.
• Encourage team members to identify out-of-scope work, seek out an ECP, and receive additional award and fee for deliverables (AUP).
• Guide CAMs and PMs on how to better plan work using appropriate EV techniques and ensuring teams are set up for success, considering staffing, prior performance, and R and O.
• Serve as main Finance/Earned Value POC for subcontractors and PMs who have received contracts from Draper.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Provided oversight for all active construction projects on the East Coast totaling $500 million.
• Collaborated with project teams to guide cost and schedule management by creating multi-year construction schedules in Asta Powerproject and managing corresponding budgets using Earned Value in Oracle Project Unifier.
• Performed critical path analysis to ensure on-time delivery of construction projects.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Responsible for managing a combined annual budget of $22 million through earned value management.
• Transitioning engineering leads to using a data-driven approach when providing revised estimates at complete, by creating tools in excel, which will increase the accuracy of program financials.
• Create the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) from the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and implement Budget Change Requests (BCRs) as needed.
• Meet with engineering leads monthly to review year-to-date budget accruals and adjust the remaining forecast.
• Perform quarterly headcount analyses to ensure engineering and program goals are aligned with the program budget.
• Increased CPI by 7.5% by re-baselining engineering budgets which brought program metrics within goal thresholds.

Greater Boston Area

• Managed a budget of $4.7 million, consisting of funding for technical engineering scope, material, and subcontractors.
• Acted as the main POC for seven customer sites resolving technical inquiries by engaging various engineering groups to resolve customer requests.
• Applied technical chemical engineering and EHS regulatory knowledge to solve a backlog of chemical and EHS issues.
• Mitigated effects of a supply chain shortage by creating a shelf life extension procedure for an adhesive chemical to ensure adequate quantities were available for production.
• Served as an internal consultant on chemical issues by providing recommendations on chemical shelf life, REACH (EU chemical) regulations, and EHS issues.
• Coordinated a quarterly status report to our customers, which required obtaining input from seven engineering groups across two business units.

Stafford, Connecticut

• Produced $25K in annual savings by implementing in house wastewater treatment for hazardous wastewater previously being shipped off site.
• Supported manufacturing and waste treatment in daily operations by resolving any issues that may arise in the microfiltration system, batch treatment, and metals precipitation process.
• Planned, Approved, and logged all wastewater discharge data to ensure compliance with our state-issued permit, as well as compliance for state and federal audits.
• Spearheaded an effort to reduce labor hours by 70%, by using MATLAB to automate an annual EPA report.
• Tracked all costs related to wastewater treatment and environmental KPI's, compared against historical data, and investigated variances.
• Collaborated with the area supervisor to implement a new shipping method which led to $30K in annual cost savings.

Stafford, Connecticut

• Developed, tested, and scaled up an in-house treatment process for highly acidic metal bearing waste, which led to $30K in cost savings.
• Designed and installed a system to automate the mixing process for three corrosive chemicals, to increase safety and minimize employee exposure.
• Performed a failure analysis on a batch treatment process to identify the cause of failed treatments.
• Collaborated with the local water treatment plant to reduce harmful COD levels in the wastewater discharge.
• Conveyed project updates and timelines to upper managements though a weekly presentation.

West Hartford, CT

• Assisted in a worst-to-first turnaround of an $8M store, transforming one of the districts lowest-ranked-stores.
• Reported on sales and employee productivity to the Store Manager, to ensure store performance was aligned with company goals.
• Lead the front-end department, created employee schedules, verified all employees were complying with breaking regulations, closed registers, and prepared nightly deposits.

Westfarms Mall

Westfarms Mall