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Durango, Colorado, US

Responsible for proposal development and oversight of SBIR, STTR, TACFI, and STRATFI contracts.

Durango, Colorado, US

• Integrated finance, business development, and PMO tools and processes to scale from <5M revenue to 20M+.
• Established a robust framework of tools, processes, standardized language, and common metrics to empower project managers in accurately pricing and effectively stewarding projects to ensure consistent profitability.
• Mentored and trained project managers on cost and schedule best practices as well as provided advisory support through change management and rebaseline procedures.
• Spearheaded the creation of mobile payload processing concept and authored winning proposal, securing a $1.7M Direct to Phase II SBIR contract and unlocking eligibility for up to $15M in STRATFI/TACFI funding.
• Streamlined project estimating processes and post-award stewardship, ensuring projects adhere to initial estimates and have clearly established baselines for documenting and approving change management.
• Negotiated ERP license costs, saving over $40k, while efficiently managing ERP implementation under budget. Currently in process of architecting project management framework to seamlessly integrate with new ERP system.

Durango, Colorado, US

• Set foundation for data-driven project management by developing finance, business development, & PMO processes.
• Built interactive sales pipeline dashboard showcased to investors, facilitating a $6M seed round investment.
• Engineered comprehensive business intelligence dashboard, democratizing access to company-wide bookings, revenue, transaction details, forecast project and operational costs, and resource planning for all stakeholders.
• Championed adoption of timesheets, automated month-end labor allocations, and built labor forecasting tool for complete project cost and resource management.

US

• Managed remote international team of 15 planners to successfully approve baseline plan for fabrication and installation of $9B FPSO and subsea scope offshore Guyana.
• Mentored team of junior project engineers in planning best practices and contractor management.
• Negotiated contract job specifications, coordination procedures, and schedule development and control plans for contracts from $20M-$2B, establishing clear schedule development, management, and reporting expectations.
• Bridged organizational silos with Tableau dashboard to provide real-time updates to globally dispersed team.
• Coordinated with international engineering teams and vendors to review and approve deliverables and resolve procurement, fabrication, and installation issues that placed project objectives at risk.

US

• Enhanced Global Projects PMO tools and processes.
• Programmed Excel VBA add-in, GanttBeDone, to facilitate the creation of summary level integrated master schedules synchronized with detailed production schedules in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Streamlined coordination procedure templates by removing costly onerous requirements.

US

• Led international joint venture between energy majors to produce front-end integrated cost and schedule estimate for $18B LNG facility expansion in Papua New Guinea with minimal disruption to operations.
• Accelerated completion nine months by implementing single source contracting strategy on critical path scope.
• Recommended modifications to site selection and facility layout that provided risk mitigation for long lead equipment, improved logistics, and increased construction productivity 10%.
• Persuaded internal stakeholders to approve early funding of key scopes to improve schedule three months.
• Organized multi-disciplinary workshop between key stakeholders and mapped interdependencies between commercial agreements, regulatory approvals, government negotiations, finance requirements, and contracting activities.
• Analyzed project execution impacts of competing process technologies and presented results to senior leadership.

Houston, Texas, US

• Performed bids, cost and schedule stewardship, and systems turnover of brownfield projects from $150M-$530M.
• Provided comprehensive onboarding and training of local Indonesian project engineers, fostering stronger collaboration with Indonesian contractors.
• Led development of cost/schedule estimate and execution plan to win $150M ethylene furnace contract.
• Negotiated over $50M in cost savings related to client requested change orders and delays.
• Built an Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and schedule to expedite a $180M facility expansion project.
• Addressed client concerns regarding project schedule by strategically prioritizing incremental scopes to provide a 50% production capacity increase ahead of schedule, thus enhancing client satisfaction.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led PMO business initiative to incorporate internal and external benchmarks into project risk analysis.
• Wrote processes and methods to utilize empirical data in project estimation and review process.
• Won $4.4B EPC contract through implementation of new benchmark and analysis methods.
• Enabled executive management to methodically determine risk profile of proposed projects.

Austin, TX, US

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Wylie, Texas, US

Master Of Science, Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Civil Engineering