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Zurich, Zh, Ch

Houston, Texas, Us

Twelve-year career at GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes highlighted by increasingly responsible leadership roles based on exemplary multidisciplinary team management, risk mitigation and process improvement talent. Position highlights include:● Lead by example approach, recipient of the 2019 Project Manager of the Year Award.● Full project lifecycle ownership from conceptual to contract closeout, accountable for delivering projects on time, on schedule and in full compliance achieving financial objectives. Orders with a net value from $45MM and up to $100MM.● Reviewed customer contract and technical specifications against company proposals to validate scope of work, budget and delivery dates by reviewing integrated project schedule.● Customer main point of contact, primarily responsible for contract management.● Led cross functional teams and developed detailed communication plan, including Roles & Responsibilities. ● Issued, monthly financial reports, weekly high visibility items report and cost control summary.● Managed invoicing via letter of credit, wire transfer; forecast revenue recognition, submitted reports to executives and finance management.● Facilitated kick-off and internal recurring meetings, resulting in high level of engagement to develop and implement project plans strategy and best practices. ● Monitored milestones, tracked and controlled cash flow and outcomes, special focus on cost control and problem resolution, conflicts and dependencies. ● Analyzed critical path to perform commercial and technical risks analysis providing best cost-effective risk mitigation plan.● Managed local and international resources, planning, procurement, documentation, certifications and lessons learned.● Led preparation of proposals and contract negotiations for commercial terms and conditions. ● Mentor-Coach approach to motivate project managers to enhance confidence in operations.● Managed project deliverables as per contract and incoterms 2010.

Houston, Texas, Us

● Established a collaborative environment to launch a Project Management Office (PMO), resulting in a strategic direction to a cooperative functional team supporting business data driven analysis and performance.● Defined a strategic project planning to eliminate gaps and optimize supply chain operations processes and procedures, through manufacturing engineering road maps training and continuous improvement initiatives. ● Project delivery metrics improved from 45% to 75% and 75% to 90% quarter over quarter during fiscal year 2017 and 2018 respectively meeting Annual Operating Plan (AOP).● Presented orders status in a simple end user-friendly fashion, supported sales and marketing business development and customer relationships.

Houston, Texas, Us

Promoted to Senior Program Manager to lead a project management team and subcontractor firms to implement best practices for company’s sensitive innovative New Product Introduction (NPI) program development.● Teamwork and partnership with functional teams, standardization of project management plans to insure projects on-time delivery. Developed client’s relationship such as Exxon-Mobil with $63MM Hebron project.● Demonstrated ability to encourage innovation, implementing best execution plans towards New Product Introduction (NPI) projects. These new products created a positive impact towards business plans contributing to the award of a $100MM contract.● Mentored and influence approach for team members to own accountability in a consistent basis, promoting performance measures to improve management, time, presentations skills and decision-making judgment.

Houston, Texas, Us

● Responsibilities to lead emerging technologies and Front-End engineering design (FEED) of Drilling Subsea equipment. This was one of most important business cases. Managed technical project plan, quality standards and system performance testing to validate the product design as per customer specifications and industry regulations.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Managed projects portfolio and provided technical leadership to the automation engineering team and field service group in the design packing, manufacturing, Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), installation and commissioning of:• PLC’s software development, Networks configuration, HMI’s software and interfaces, sizing and selection of AC Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) and DC Drives systems.• Responsibility for hardware selection and detailed engineering for control panels, Low voltage MMC’s, custom E-houses, Switchgear distribution systems, including single line diagrams, electrical schematics, mechanical layouts and Bill of Materials (BOM’s) for clients across different industries to include Oil and Gas, Power Generation, Water treatment and Pulp & Paper. • Ownership of operating budgets, proposal development, project scheduling, risk analysis, subcontractors firms, timeline, status reports, change orders, documentation, product quality and HSE policies.• Demonstrated leadership to successful projects delivery as per customer requirements through Agile and Water fall methodologies.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Responsible to develop electrical engineering systems, High & Low voltage. Including Generators, substations & distribution, switchgears, circuit breakers, protection & control panels, MCC’s, UPS & Battery banks, including electrical schematics, mechanical layouts, Bill of Materials (BOM’s) and Factory Acceptance Test procedures.• Selection of Protection Relays, such as Universal Relays Platform(UR’s), Multiln Relay family, Current transformers (CT’s), Voltage Transformers (VT’s), Lockout relays, Test Switches, terminal blocks and all other auxiliary equipment.• Supported manufacturing and assembly process as needed to complete projects on time. Strong collaborator to support sales by developing technical proposals and providing progress reports of existing orders.

Zurich, Zh, Ch

• Project engineering responsibilities to coordinate cross-functional teams to complete and release engineering packages for manufacturing of protection panels for Gas Turbine power plants. Solved problems as needed with minimal supervision. • Filed engineering supervisor, managed and coordinated installation, start-up and commissioning of power plants electrical balance of plant equipment. • Plant equipment included: High/ Medium Voltage Power Transformers, MCC’s, start-up generators, Power Distribution panels, switchgears and Unitary substation equipment, UPS & battery bank systems, AC Motors and their protection relays

Credential Of Readiness, Accounting And Business/Management

Certification, Project Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering