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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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Geospatial analysis & terrain visualization used as training aids.
• Served as a simulations planner, developing over five, $10M live-virtual-constructive training exercises.

Master Of Science (Ms), Project Management

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics / International Business