Heath Hutto Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Project Controls Lead for the Hilltop Tacoma light rail expansion.

Houston, Texas Area

Coordinated six cost analysts in reporting on Company's flagship 2019/20 project with a total cost over $2 billion.Managed capital calls for JV partners and determined monthly cash needs.Personally handled forecasting on projects with $600-$800 million in annual spend.

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed all cost control functions on Company's largest projects from start-up through close-out, including a $170-million pipelay project in the Gulf of Mexico and a $130-million project off the coast of West Africa.
• Developed cash forecasts for projects with frequently changing schedules and intricate payment terms (combination of reimbursable, lump sum, and day-rate scopes).
• Improved labor reporting tools.
• Reduced Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) by 28% by developing relationship with client and anticipating deliverables.
• Trained new staff on cost control and helped standardize department-wide procedures and interface mechanisms with other departments.

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed all project controls functions (Estimating, Cost reporting and forecasting, and Scheduling) on the ten-year, multi-billion dollar LOGCAP IV contract with a variety of fee structures.
• Developed cost projections for use in business unit revenue and profit forecasting; briefed business unit executives weekly on cost performance.
• Responsible for developing and assessing SOX controls for LOGCAP IV project controls.
• Originated and instituted more detailed cost structures to enable more detailed reporting for an increased number of paying entities.
• Developed extremely detailed and meticulous report of all costs incurred on Task Order 3 by project, customer, fiscal year of funding and funding type and presented to the Government with suggestions for funding.
• Developed new interface between MS Excel and Cobra to expedite cost reporting functions.

Isa Air Base, Bahrain

• Developed new MS Excel reports to produce separate cost reports for different client groups.
• Instituted new tracking methods for change orders, separating labor, subcontract, and material costs for over 100 separate construction projects.
• Modified MS Access databases and created data links with MS Excel to improve accuracy of material pricing on estimates for new work.
• Reduced project staffing while increasing number of locally produced estimates, schedules, and cost reports.

Bagram, Afghanistan

• Personally managed and executed Project Controls response to transition of contract to LOGCAP IV. This involved the development and negotiation of descope, demobilization, and transition proposals for over 400 active.
• Managed a staff of 35 performing all Project Controls functions for six separate task orders with annual budgets of $750 million and total contract values of nearly $3 billion.
• Served as an integral member on several committees responding to Defense COntract Audit Agency (DCAA) audits. Frequently participated in audit conferences and developed a substantial report refuting DCAA questioning of.
• Instituted change management process for rolling definitization of approximately 50 ACLs per month across Afghanistan, allowing expedited billing of costs and eliminating award fee reductions associated with.
• Participated in negotiations with PCO on proposals in excess of $1 billion USD.
• Oversaw creation of over 50 field estimates per month, including several eight-figure estimates in response to the 2009 Afghanistan troop surges.

Tikrit, Iraq

• Managed a staff of 24 performing all Project Controls (PC) functions for a group of eight sites with an annual budget over $400 million.
• Developed formal and informal cross-training and data-sharing initiatives between PC sub-groups to increase cohesion and consistency.
• Established a PC/Procurement/Accounting working group focused on task order closeout, resulting in expedited closure of aging Purchase Orders, construction projects, and requisitions.
• Independently developed reporting and forecasting instructions for IT-related charges and wrote procedure for Labor forecasting used throughout LOGCAP III.

Tikrit, Iraq

• Managed a staff of six Cost Specialists and Senior Cost Specialists at multiple locations with responsibility for an annual budget over $400 million.
• Instituted change order tracking processes to allow visibility on all change order expenditures.
• Directed C-Sites Basis of Estimate development for 2008 and 2009.
• Managed final analysis and redevelopment of variance explanations and completed final project controls efforts prior to requests for additional funds (RAF) from client for two expired task orders.
• On short notice took over management of task orders in Kuwait, and produced task order summary reports, budget reconciliations and verifications, exhaustion of funds calculations, and spend plans for several task orders.
• Single-handedly performed all cost functions for LOGCAP III operations at Taji ($115 million annual budget). Closed all outstanding financial commitments from previous years. Identified and corrected $11 million in.

Baghdad, Iraq

• Analyzed all twice-monthly cost reports prepared at DFI Sites (an area covering the Baghdad region and with an approximate annual value of $800 million) and worked individually with submitters to improve accuracy.
• In addition to increased supervisory and training responsibilities, continued individual projects to completely close out previous task orders. Under my direction DFI reduced its unresolved financial commitments on.
• Developed macros in MS Excel to track changes between cost reports and improve overtime reporting.
• Performed exhaustive and substantial analysis of staffing plan, contract changes, and workloads for 2006 performance period. Created final briefing submitted to LOGCAP III Chief of Staff.
• Co-directed Basis of Estimate process in developing proposal for 13 sites and 35 functional areas. Organized and scheduled presentations and meetings, developed training and supplementary guidance, trained and directed.

Baghdad, Iraq

• Modified existing MS Access database to allow tracking of labor hours by project and created reports to compare labor hour expenditures on projects across departments.
• Reviewed direct hire timesheets for conformance with company and government requirements on a daily basis; increased compliance with policy from 70% to 98%.
• Developed requirements listing for personnel, subcontracts, and equipment in future project years.

B.A., Classics

B.A., English