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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Master Science Project Management, Engineering Project Management

Activities and Societies: Student Council Member Graduated with Honors. Wrote White Paper titled "Cross Walk between Earned Value.

Bachelors Of Science, Finance And Computer Science