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Santa Fe, TX, US

Denver, Colorado, US

• Collaborate with Project and Mission Managers to generate project plans based on contract requirements and deliverables.
• Review EAC's monthly, reforecasting plans to align with project changes due to changes in scope, contract modifications or launch delays.
• Utilize Vena for reporting of EAC’s, and gathering additional project specific information necessary to present accurate reporting.
• Assist billing personnel with customer inquires for outstanding Accounts Receivables.
• Continually engage with Project Managers concerning upcoming billable milestones, ensuring milestones are billed timely and accurately.
• Provide support to NetSuite system updates, including setting up new projects, assigning resources, and creating billing schedules.

Houston, Texas, US

• Generate labor and material invoices for multi-million dollar engineering and construction projects
• Set up projects in Oracle from inception according to specific contract requirements
• Review processed vendor invoices for accuracy prior to billing the client
• Provide weekly accounts receivable and payable aging reports to management, requesting payment status from clients for overdue invoices
• Communicate funding status for unbilled revenue to management weekly and monthly for gross margin reporting
• Maintain invoice logs for each project and provide to project controls for monthly reporting

Houston, TX, US

• Managed group comprised of quality engineers by scheduling and overseeing tasks to meet mission requirements o Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) TIG of ~ 5 engineers (2002 – 2010) o Deorbit/Entry/Abort-Once-Around (AOA).
• Created critical mission data for use by the shuttle flight crew one day prior to landing
• Performed statistical analyses to evaluate trajectories are within specified limits and generated 2300 cycle simulations to clear violations
• Implemented a new process to thermally assess Entry trajectories 2 days prior to launch, increasing product output and mission safety by 11%
• Inspected, modified and validated software programs and scripts that provided automation and streamlining of tasks and decreased execution time by 50%
• Mentored 13 employees in the TAL and Entry Groups by providing technical and software training in order to generate mission products

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• Participated in 9 public and private client audit engagements - clients included oil, gas and business advisory services
• Conducted testing steps for various financial line items in the trial balance to provide reasonable assurance the client was presenting accurate financial data in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting.
• Performed fieldwork and updated audit databases / work papers with testing requirements, methodology and results
• Identified and reported audit findings / material misstatements to Senior staff and obtained appropriate evidence from the client to substantiate or correct the discrepancies
• Prepared lead sheets for various accounts, conducted bank and accounts receivable confirmations and performed tie-out of 10-K
• Incorporated management’s modifications into the Management’s Discussion & Analysis document

• Published work plans quarterly and yearly for ~60 personnel
• Reported planned versus actual time-charging hours monthly for managing accounting metrics
• Maintained the timecard and correction database, issuing correction forms as needed
• Generated TAL flight products and analyses for each shuttle mission
• As PC Coordinator, solved problems by fielding questions concerning hardware and software capability, submitted Discrepancy Reports to repair equipment, and maintained metrics for all issues each month, charting.

• Initiated purchase requests for funding on 6 NASA contracts and for procurement of supplies and equipment totaling more than $100 million
• Developed and analyzed budgets through maintenance of the cost reporting database and analysis of contract financial reports (533’s)
• Conducted variance reporting of planned versus actual costs
• Maintained task schedules and service request databases
• Created and updated various presentation charts and graphs for technical reviews