Karen Marie Graham, Mba, Pmp, Dasm Email & Phone Number

Tulsa, Ok, Us

Tulsa, Ok, Us

Professional P6 Project Scheduler for Road and Bridge Project work in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Florida.

• Lead the evaluation, contract negotiation, acceptance, planning, scope, execution, and close of publication projects, on-time and within budget. • Contractor liaison and distribution manager of published items. • Content writer, editor, author, illustrator, and graphic designer. • Substantive editor and publisher of 2 illustrated children’s books and 3 novels. • Develop and foster relationships with contractors and our signed authors.

Columbus, Oh, Us

AEP Energy Project Manager Sr (2022 - present)• Manage multiple base to intermediate IT projects to support the operation and sales of electric and gas in the competitive market• Lead cross-departmental teams in matrix team environment • Engage in budget creation and forecasting, scope management, work order management, invoice approval, and other financial controls• Monitor scope quality, cost, and timelineAEP Transmission ROW Supervisor, PSO/SWEPCO (2021 - 2022)• Managed multiple projects and programs within a matrix team environment related to the acquisition of land, land rights, licenses, leases, permits, and other documents necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of electric transmission lines• Provided leadership, direction, training, coordination, and effective communication to stakeholders throughout project in a safe, efficient, economical, risk-balanced, quality-focused approach to achieve goals and to obtain maximum customer satisfactionAEP Transmission Work Scheduling Supervisor PSO/SWEPCO (2016 - 2021)• Responsible for establishing a new organization in the SPP region and implementing the interdepartmental changes associated with the adoption of a new organization. This included defining the organizational business processes, procedures, and training materials for new hires• Lead team to schedule, staff, and conduct outages for Transmission. AEP Transmission - Project Controls Analyst Sr. (2013 - 2016)• Provided cost loaded, ready-to-execute, baselined, resource-allocated, logic-driven schedules. Managed approximately 60-100 projects at any given time using Primavera P6• Maintained project schedules throughout execution and close—collected progress data from internal and external customers, monitored achievement of deliverables, documented feedback from project team, developed and implemented project status reports, audited critical path performance, and provided consistent, accurate communication to the project team

Washington, Dc, Us

• Provided cost loaded, ready-to-execute, resource loaded, and logic driven schedules. • Maintained project schedules throughout execution and close: collected progress data from internal and external customers, defined and monitored deliverables, documented feedback from project team, developed and implemented project status reports, audited critical path performance, and provided consistent, accurate communication to the project team. • Designed PowerPoint training material for how to perform various P6 Web Functions for new users. • Provided one-on-one software support and troubleshooting, as well as formal classroom training, for users in both Web and Client versions of the P6 software. Average class size was 16-20 attendees.

• Wrote technical RFP / RFQ solicitations for vendor and service suppliers for oil and gas engineers and Project Managers who worked on projects in India and Ecuador.• Coordinated shipping import and export of project material purchases and services to meet project timeline requirements. • Prepared international customs documents and maintained document archive of records.• Special project Project Manager for Dr. Joshi – created new document management organization system for 5GB of info, coordinated with PM and teams in its design, and provided training material for new program once implemented.

Houston, Texas, Us

Project Planner (2009-2010) • Provided cost loaded, ready-to-execute, resource loaded, and logic driven schedules. • Maintained project schedules throughout execution and close: collected progress data from internal and external customers, defined and monitored deliverables, documented feedback from project team, developed and implemented project status reports, audited critical path performance, and provided consistent, accurate communication to the project team. • Performed budget analysis via SAP and provided report to project team and stakeholders.• Led project update meetings in place of PM, as needed.• Nominated member of Communications Focus Change Management Group.• Designed PowerPoint training material for how to perform various P6 Web Functions for new users. Strategic Staffing Analyst (2008-2009) • Facilitated the pre-screening, pre-interviewing, contract negotiation, and acquisition of externally sourced temporary staffing for Project Managers and Department Managers in support of projects and normal operations. • Provided general guidance and formal training to external staffing service vendors in the use of our e-payables system.• Developed a SharePoint site to educate and facilitate the use of our temporary staffing service to help our customers secure project and operations staffing needs quickly and easily. United Way Donation Chair for the ConocoPhillips (2008-2009)• Increased donations by 20% in 2008 by creating a Bartlesville business mailing list and sending out a solicitations mailer with a post card follow up. • Collaborated with volunteers to organize and execute an online auction.• Each year we raised approximately $40,000 on the auction portion of the fundraiser.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Leadership And Organizational Development

Continuing Ed, Adobe Cs5

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Applied Technology

Associate Of Science (As), Computer Science

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