Heidi Crookston

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Senior Project Management Consultant @ Manta Ray Consulting, Inc.
san francisco, california, united states
Heidi Crookston's Location
Ada, Michigan, United States, United States
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About Heidi Crookston

Project consultant who leads diverse teams, manages change, and delivers to meet scope, schedule, costs while managing risks and opportunities. Drives best practices with an operational focus in process optimization that delivers business results by focusing on continuous improvement of people, processes and tools. Expertise in implementing Earned Value Management tools, systems and processes to effectively manage, control, and report on cost, schedule and progress measurement for a project. Proven capabilities in problem solving, strong communication, relationship building, mentoring, and training.Project Manager/ControllerProcess Leader Lean Six Sigma Operational Process OptimizationImplementing Agile on EVM Projects Earned Value Management Trainer EVMS Auditing EVMS Surveillance OfficerEVMS Liason to Government (DCMA)Earned Value and Financial Analysis/ReportingEVMS Process Development and ImprovementDeltek Open Plan, Cobra, wInsight, WelcomRisk, WelcomHome toolsetMS Project and Office Suite

Heidi Crookston's Current Company Details
Manta Ray Consulting, Inc.

Manta Ray Consulting, Inc.

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Senior Project Management Consultant
san francisco, california, united states
Employees:
11
Heidi Crookston Work Experience Details
  • Manta Ray Consulting, Inc.
    Senior Project Management Controls Consultant
    Manta Ray Consulting, Inc. Mar 2017 - Present
    San Francisco Bay Area
    MRC is a specialized EVMS firm that provides government, civil, and commercial clients with quality, customized project management consulting. Providing practical solutions and industry expertise to solve difficult EVMS challenges and assist project teams in the planning, execution, monitoring and control for large million and billion dollar projects. Current assignment: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Project Infrastructure Modernization Division (PIMD). Project Controls Leader for the Under $20M and Environmental Management portfolios. Responsibilities included building a project controls team. Developing work processes, procedures, templates, and reports that are tailorable to LBNL Earned Value Management System (EVMS) guidance. Applying these processes consistently to provide a quality work product and data integrity to deliver planned predictable results. Training Project Controls Analysts and Project Managers to attain Earned Value and DOE 413B shared knowledge base. Project assignment - Argonne National Laboratory, Project Management Office. Identify opportunities, document, train, and implement process improvements while optimizing tools to drive higher resource utilization and EVM system performance.Project assignment - Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, at Argonne National Laboratory. APS will undergo a massive $815M upgrade that will replace the current electron storage ring with a new, more powerful model. Project assignment - Large Hadron Collider Atlas Phase II Upgrade Program for CERN Particle Accelerator. LHC is located at the European Organization for Nuclear Research facility in Switzerland. Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York serves as the United States' host laboratory for ATLAS collaborators across the nation. This project is in collaboration with Department of Energy Office of Science, National Science Foundations, Universities, and CERN.
  • Ge Aviation
    Project Management Excellence, Senior Process And Tools Manager
    Ge Aviation Apr 2014 - Mar 2017
    Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area
    Project consultancy • Delivering subject matter expertise, guidance, oversight and training to support project management best practices and process optimization. With a target focus of facilitating project teams through project planning and execution and setup of operational controls and monitoring. Ensuring process compliance through lifecycle tollgates, reduced cycle time from planning to execution phase to 45 days or less, and providing specialized training programs for project teams.Continuous improvement and product development integration• Team leader in advancing Project Management maturity across the entire Aviation Systems Engineering and Technology organization including initiatives related to people, processes, tools, training, consulting and project-specific requests. • Strategic process leader to drive organization to become continual learning engines with focus on training and process optimization.Lean Six Sigma initiatives• Leads Lean projects as part of the global continuous improvement and simplification efforts. As the change agent instrumental at moving the development teams from a waterfall to agile environment through strategic thinking, acting, and influencing. This was done through drawing upon a group of diverse stakeholders to address this complex challenge and focusing on process definition and implementation of practices across people and tools.
  • Ge Aviation
    Engineering Project Manager, Aircraft Vehicle Health Management Systems
    Ge Aviation Apr 2013 - Apr 2014
    Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area
    Product Line Management• Worked with team to drive product line management strategy to build a Health Management System Architecture and Integration team and infrastructure within the Aircraft Vehicle Health Management Systems product group of GE Aviation Systems. • Implemented an organizational structure, systems product infrastructure, tools, and team to support the next generation in avionics embedded with Aircraft Vehicle Health Management.
  • Ge Aviation
    Engineering Project Controls Manager, Integrated Modular Avionic System
    Ge Aviation Apr 2010 - Apr 2013
    Shanghai City, China
    COMAC C919 Avionics Joint Venture• Led project team in implementing best in class project management and operational practices. • Worked with global and virtual teams, suppliers, and senior leadership within the program. • Provide leadership and guidance in analyzing and understanding performance and health metrics to meet/exceed business objectives and goals. • Created communication packages for executive-level audience and disseminated to stakeholders.
  • Ge Aviation
    Earned Value Management Manager
    Ge Aviation 2006 - 2010
    Earned Value Management System Certification• Led core team in EVMS certification initiative to gain government certification of earned value management system and processes. • Authored and sustained System Description Document and EVMS Policy.• Directed efforts for building the automated EV Library website and co- authored the EVMS Systems Design Document, process manuals, handbooks, work instructions and training materials for EV project management. Program Sustainment and Support for EVMS projects• Chief interface with government for EVMS Compliance Reviews, audits, and analysis.• Conducted EVMS internal and government surveillance, and EVM training. • Created automotive EV Library website for on-line access to training and materials.
  • Farmers Insurance
    Program Manager, Independent Contractor
    Farmers Insurance 2005 - 2006
    Provided project leadership for process and system development initiatives while working with subject matter experts in collecting requirements, formulating, documenting, and implementing solutions based on a corporate governing project management methodology and guidelines.
  • Gordon Food Service
    Project Manager
    Gordon Food Service 2001 - 2005
    Managed multiple ERP system implementations ranging from $200,000 to $1.8 million projects. Projects included building custom applications, upgrading existing applications, new business unit integrations to core procure to pay operating systems and process re-engineering for supply chain applications. • Standardized and implemented project management principles to improve risk management and internal information system controls. • Worked closely with project sponsors and stakeholders as well as project leads to develop, plan, and implement ERP systems. • Consistently delivered on aggressive project schedules a quality deliverable that met customer expectations and was within the budget, and scope of the project. • Implemented the Lawson POIC application module and customized the costing component to comply with the business accounting requirements and initiated a process change that resulted in capturing purchase order costs, inventory valuation, and reporting at a more detail level. • Managed multiple procure to pay business unit integration projects with aggressive project program schedules. Each new business unit and was successfully integrated to parent companies core operating systems. The core procure to pay operating systems included Lawson POIC, Manugistics, MNT, and Special Orders. • Collaborated with system integration and application developers, enterprise architects and engineers in re-designing solutions for Lawson POIC system communication interfaces including defining, planning, and developing a prototype of the re-designed solution as part of a system stability initiative.
  • Whittman-Hart / Marchfirst
    Senior Business Consultant
    Whittman-Hart / Marchfirst 1998 - 2001
    Provided project leadership to translate financial analysis and financial support services business requirements into data delivery designs, application implementations, ROI analyses, business process re-engineering, software selections and report writing. • Re-engineered a multi-million dollar automotive manufacturer’s financial planning and reporting process. Implemented data and relationship structures that provide information at multiple levels of detail, across multiple dimensions (such as time, customers, and products) and multiple metrics (such as revenue, costs, and margins). • Collaborated with operations management for a large logistics company to translate business information requirements for logistics analysis and operational reporting. Built design structures that mined data from Oracle databases and provided daily operations and financial reporting for new business initiative.
  • Commonpoint Mortgage Company
    Senior Business Analyst
    Commonpoint Mortgage Company 1997 - 1998
    Developed a profit planning and budgeting process and led Senior Management through software selection. This application would provide financial data to support strategic profit planning efforts, financial analysis, and reporting needs.• Led implementation of Hyperion Pillar ‘s planning and budgeting and forecasting application this included defining requirements, analyzing, designing, developing, testing, documenting, and training of newly hired personnel.
  • First Of America Bank Corporation
    Senior Financial Analyst
    First Of America Bank Corporation 1994 - 1997
    Responsible for corporate level financial analysis and reporting, financial modeling and annual profit planning and budgeting for affiliate banks. Provided monthly forecasting, capital investment, pricing, and market analysis; monitored trends and exceptions; analyzed and reported on the causes; modeled scenarios to drive improvements to effectively execute against strategic planning goals.
  • Independent Bank Corporation
    Financial Analyst
    Independent Bank Corporation 1991 - 1994
    Performed financial analysis and reporting at the corporate level for a multiple bank holding company. Utilized risk management and business intelligent software to perform asset liability modeling for profit and acquisition planning.

Heidi Crookston Skills

Program Management Ms Project Process Improvement Project Management Project Planning Risk Management Forecasting Earned Value Management Aerospace Cross Functional Team Leadership Six Sigma Leadership Software Project Management Integration Pmo Erp Business Intelligence Analysis Software Documentation Strategy Testing Management Enterprise Architecture Requirements Analysis Systems Engineering Business Process Improvement Engineering Management Microsoft Project Software Development Systems Design Engineering Business Analysis

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Heidi Crookston works for Manta Ray Consulting, Inc.

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Heidi Crookston's current role is Senior Project Management Consultant.

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Heidi Crookston's email address is heidi.crookston@ge.com

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Heidi Crookston attended University Of Wisconsin-Platteville, Aquinas College - Grand Rapids.

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