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Hailey, Id, Us

Manages technical and financial aspects of Power Delivery projects, manages and develops client relationships, and markets services to existing and new clients. Manage project teams in a matrixed reporting environment, Provide internal mentoring and leadership to junior team members as assigned and as a regular order of business.

Arlington, Va, Us

Serves on the Core Execution Team; Deployment, Fielding, & Life Cycle Sustainment Integrated Product Team. Responsible for product deployment and fielding, growth opportunities, proposal activities and program execution. Ensures a successful initial product fielding. There-after, execute customer sustainment through the product’s life cycle. Ensure performance to technical, cost, schedule, and quality requirements. Drive affordability and continuous improvement. Support new business pursuits. Focus on global capability, international execution.

Allentown, Pa, Us

Serve as single point of accountability for the delivery of $750M in large, complex electric utilities transmission and substation capital projects. Responsible for all project/contract management activities throughout the project lifecycle. • Expertise in Project Scope Development; leads, develops and refines the scope, schedule, and estimates through strategies that increase the level of detail and accuracy.• Responsible for the integration of engineering requirements including; permitting, constructability, right-of-way, siting.• Selected as Program Manager for the 14 phase, $1.25M Schuylkill Area Reliability Project and the $170.9M Eldred Area Reliability Project, managing internal and external development cost for complete project scope.• Drives team execution of the Transmission Operating Model Project Life Cycle from conceptual planning to detailed design, construction, close out and turnover including conducting stage gate reviews.• Influence and unify a wide range of functional organizational leads and subject matter experts to achieve required objectives.• Challenges assumptions and applies process improvement principles to optimize the organizational operating model, assertively and constructively pursuing issues and confronting problems.

Washington, Dc, Us

Executed $230M for the Afghan National Security Force infrastructure development program, establishing priorities and managing project contract delivery in a dynamic and austere operating environment with responsibility for 28 direct reports.• Selected as District Special Project Manager for the Deputy of Programs Management, providing specialized oversight to three regional area offices managing 285 projects valued at $6.5B.• Synchronized Owner-Operator and Construction Agent interoperability, establishing focus and priorities for projects’ schedules and budgets, resulting in savings of $4M.• Created a decision-making process for the management of problem contracts that was integrated into the organization’s Aggressive Schedule Management 12-step method.• Defined project risks and appropriate courses of action to reduce risk, escalating critical issues for appropriate and timely resolution.• Led, established, and maintained strong and effective working relationships with diverse stakeholders in support of successful project execution strategies.

Reston, Va, Us

Specialization in delivering innovative, tailored solutions for large program transformation efforts that enhance the clients business. Assist senior-level decision makers build agenda, develop implementation strategies, and implement them to achieve sustainable, value oriented results. • Developed and implemented force structure, training, and utilization plans for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Directorate of Contingency Operations Field Force Engineering Program, for domestic incident response and military contingencies current and emerging requirements.• Team Lead; guided contractor and client team to develop an enterprise resource planning tool using the ENGlink network, for strategic portfolio development, prioritization of projects, and budgeting. • Developed, led and/or participated in table top and computer simulation exercises designed to identify essential tasks, processes, and organizational arrangements necessary to make the client more effective in supporting domestic and overseas events.• Responsible for leading Task Quality Management QC/QA processes and procedures to the assigned task orders using independent technical (peer reviews) and program management (PM) reviews. Included quality verification of routine onsite work and reach-back.• Assesses an organization from a people, process, technology, and cost perspective. Solutions approach based on gap identification between high-level mission, vision, capabilities, and people, process, and technology.

West Chester, Oh, Us

Recommended initiatives to improve people, product or equipment issues to achieve continuous improvement in safety and quality objectives. • Prepared movement plans for materials and product transport for optimal workflow, managing the daily activities of 40 direct reports.• Controlled the crew’s production and cost statistics.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

OPERATIONS PLANNING - Dongducheon, Republic of Korea 2007-2008As the Brigade Engineer Officer: provided combat and general engineering, topographic, and construction direction for a 5,000 soldier brigade; Organized and employed engineering and construction assets. Supervised 6 direct reports. • Prioritized 60 projects covering renovation, security enhancement, drainage, and bridge maintenance. • Project Scoping: $13B U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys development project.• Credited as being Top 5 most versatile and competent officers on a brigade staff of 40+ officers. STRATEGIC PLANNING – Donducheon, Republic of Korea 2006-2007As a Brigade Plans and Exercise officer: developed brigade level war-time operations/theater-level contingency plans and training exercises. Created concept land use plans for cross-country mobility, military bridging operations, and base camps layout. • Geospatial analysis & terrain visualization used as training aids.• Served as a simulations planner, developing over five, $10M live-virtual-constructive training exercises.• Briefed operations plans to all levels of staff and audiences of up to 100 participants.OPERATIONS MANAGER (Battalion Operations Officer, Company Executive Officer, Platoon Leader) - Fort Campbell, KY / Fort Rucker, AL / Afghanistan, 2000-2005 / Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1996• Served as the principal staff officer for operations of 450 soldier battalion. • Land use management and construction for five different geographic locations in Afghanistan.• Developed a personnel online management tool; resulting in 90% of personnel actions being automated.• Coordinated the shipping configuration and global transport of 25K+ pieces of equipment.

Master Of Science (Ms), Project Management

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics / International Business