Jason Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

• Establish or enhance existing processes; conceptualize new initiatives.• Conduct reviews to calculate project viability via NPV and IRR calculations.• Establish workforce manning requirements and charge-out rates.• Maintain forecasts and gross margin analysis for internal costs, including estimate at completion expenditure forecasts.• Oversee the production of budgets and forecasts.• Verify adherence to proposed project budgets, schedules, and requirements.• Lead the activities of staff across a range of functional teams.• Drive the on-time completion of client IT implementation and upgrade projects.

Ncr - National Capital Region, Philippines

• Maintained oversight of a multi-functional team responsible for tasks in areas including accounting, cost control and procurement.• Streamlined day-to-day activities by developing strategies and setting goals; ensured that employees worked productively and were nurtured professionally.• Executed operational and project plans.• Enhanced existing processes and implemented new initiatives.• Devised and implemented forecasting, reporting, and planning processes.• Performed regular reviews; updated cost forecasts, staffing plans, and key performance indicators.• Provided leadership throughout change implementations including process changes to include automation and improve overall efficiency.• Submitted productivity reports both internally and externally to clients.

Perth, Australia

• Directed the activities of a team consisting of administrative, financial, and technical personnel.• Led internal and external contractor resource allocations weekly to ensure 100% coverage and flight/accommodation availability.• Served as the administrator of vendor contracts; participated in contract renewal negotiations.• Facilitated recruitment and hiring of new team members; delivered training and mentorship to promote swift onboarding and high productivity.• Produced periodic project cost reports and cashflows; analysed forecast trends.• Prepared gross margin analyses at regular intervals.• Completed month-end reporting; summarised and presented results to senior management and board members.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

• Founded a startup focused on a combination of marketing and 3D printing.• Maintained oversight of company profit & loss; identified strategies to grow revenue and minimise costs.• Oversaw all aspects of business development, from market research and finance to operations and marketing; established and enforced the company's vision and standards.• Cultivated relationships with potential investors and partners; attended various startup and business events to form a professional network.

Perth, Australia

• Conducted deep analysis of all generated data regarding cost expenditure, schedule development, and onsite delays.• Completed VBA, SQL, C# Programming to create new and update existing processes and integrate Excel, MS Project, and MS Access with SQL Server; enhanced data management within the shutdown space.• Coordinated the implementation of change management processes, reducing overall project risk by 50%.• Offered knowledgeable contributions for mobile application development, including real-time progress and cost measurement• Generated reports reflecting cost and schedule metrics against initial approved budgets.• Designed analytical and KPI dashboards within Tableau.• Decreased shutdown expenditure by AUD $60M within the first 6 months.

Perth, Australia

Provide project controls expertise to a multitude of small brown fields maintenance and CAPAX projects. Development of procedures and processes to handle forecasting, accounts receivable and client reporting. Contribute guidance to other areas of project controls (estimating, planning, document control) as required.

Temporary role on Naval Defence projects, supporting the project controls and procurement teams

Perth

• Provided leadership and direction for both local and remote project controls teams.• Performed regular analyses of project controls deliverables during project engineering and installation phases; defined causes of low productivity; implemented mitigation plans to restore productivity levels.• Collaborated with clients to gather/review requirements and transform the same into actionable plans.• Devised a series of Access and Excel trackers and reports to monitor and improve the quality by providing early warning signs and identifying gaps and issues.• Drafted, negotiated, and renegotiated vendor contracts.• Served as the Project Manager where required on small projects (<$100K).• Guided the development of a database application to replace the existing Excel file workflow, thereby streamlining cost management processes.• Optimised the allocation of funds from a restricted cash flow during the global financial crises.

Perth, Australia