Lisa Nies, Mba, Csm, Six Sigma Green Belt Email & Phone Number

United States

Manages and responsibility for administration of single or multi-faceted projects for applicable enterprise bank department(s) which: researching and compiling data, supervising the design, implementation, testing and monitoring of approved corporate projects. Act as a liaison between departments and management. Defines project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals, defines project success criteria and disseminates to all parties involved throughout project life cycle. Develops and maintains a relationship with department managers and senior management to ensure the direction and focus of project is in line with the business plan.

Ft.Worth, Texas

Supervise at premier manufacturer company of educational materials for elementary programs and early childhood organizations for projects up to $500k. • Training and supervising execution and close out of each project with contract labor workers.• Guiding proper planning, tear-down and assembly of education material and furniture at each job site.• Maintain excellent visual presentation of merchandise and signage.• On hand communication with directors and teachers with staging and lay-out of furniture. • Surpass expectations regarding customer service; communicate and build customer feedback in regard to school use of products

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

PROJECT CONTROLS Project: Phase 1 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on disaster responseManage $1.5 million project, consist of 300 damaged houses in Houston area and oversee and direct three sub-contractor’s companies to complete repairs to FEMA specified living condition requirements. • Prepare strategy plans with CEO and general contractor for site assessments of houses, documenting damages, restoration scopes of work, and formulating cost estimates per work order, complete on schedule satisfactory to FEMA and the homeowner.• Responsibility for reporting project metrics, tracking, writing, and delivering project status reports, communicating project directives, to the CEO and VP SW Region.• Daily status calls with Superintendents - safety, schedule, cost, problem-solving, audit support field assessments, and monitoring project evaluation and measuring performance. • Manage and perform close out functions of the project – $.250k change orders, collaborating with homeowners to sign off warranty final execution documentationMANAGER, SW REGION NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Responsible for $9.0 million sales budget to developing and implementing strategies and new market entry programs to assist in expanding Universal Blastco Lining and Coating business in Texas and SW Region. • Lead source, identify and provide initial new clients in the Energy, Chemical and Oil/Gas market. Planned and conducted prospect visits – Lunch and Learn meetings. • Present to and consult with senior level management with a view to developing new services, products, and distribution channels. • Designed new Logo, Slogan for Universal Blastco and provided redesigning documents to CEO for company web-site. Organized tradeshows, created marketing materials,and identification of potential market segments.• Integrated and supported estimating, contracts and project management with RFPs, RFIs, prequalification and potential vendor lists.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Mining Business Division: Managed $145 million annual budget for the Northern and Southern Region Mines. Focused and guided to improve a $750 million 5-year long lead plan for capital expenditures, heavy and light equipment, and retiring mine assets. Reported monthly variance and dashboard reports to Executive Mining VP and Director of Finance as well as conducting financial analysis, submitting decision support documents, SOX compliance approval and implementing cost and change management activities. Key Contributions: • Focused on high value targets by prioritizing between Capital, Maintenance and Operations projects given the limited capital and construction resources which had a target of completing within budget of 15%, where range was between -10% through 12% of Actual final cost• Controlled and regulated a $50 million dragline relocation project with 3% change orders. Provided monthly accruals, reviewed invoices and authorization. Implemented a SharePoint for the team and vendor documents.• Supported the Mt. Pleasant, Longview, Waco, and College Station Mine Sites. Traveled weekly to review budgets and projections/tracking cost per project and monthly journal/transactions by vendor.• Implement and contributor to the development of project execution strategies, project execution plans and project control processes• Supervised and developed four cost control engineers and three capital asset team members• Strong team member communicating cost with Dallas corporate planning and accounting and mine site operations, engineering, maintenance departments. Ensuring costs are captured, understood and projected within financial systems (EPS/PeopleSoft)

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Construction Management Managed a $2.30 billion capital construction budget to support a 1,650MW Coal Fired Power Plant, and $980 million budget to support an 650MW Coal Fired Power Plant. The project took 36 months to complete and had less than 1% change orders. Key Contributions:• Responsible for project cost control functions and management reporting, generating and organizing monthly presentations for Construction Generation & Mining projects to Vice President and Project Manager. Directly engagement with the EPC contractors to develop detailed daily, weekly, and monthly status reporting. • Accountable for Construction Cost Reporting, Estimating, Change Management, Business Procedures, and Risk Assessment. Coordinate with site and support units to ensure that accurate and timely cost data is available for preparation of cost reports.• Document Management within the Construction SharePoint; responsible for capture, storing and organizing vendor, and site and internal documents as well as Audit support.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

MANAGER, PROJECT CONTROLS & PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION 1996 - 2006 • Monitored and coordinated cost and schedule for Military programs and integration of engineering progress and the overall status of functional discipline. Interface and responsible for working with Program Managers to improve program cost targets, schedules and quality requirements. • Developed military integrated plans that include risk management, look-ahead visibility of critical program milestones and strategic planning. Weekly meetings and presentations to executive staff and on-going communication with customers.• Executed and interpreted policies and procedures for Program Management and Business Development with modifications to new business capture team and proposal processes and policies. SENIOR IT COST ANALYST AND BUSINESS PROCESSES 1993 – 1996• Responsible for managing and analyzing IT Business cost, statistical studies, trends, financial plans , unit performance, value drivers, implementation and interpretation of business processes. Manage team members that produced the long range business plan , risk and strategy reports. • Created the collaborative platform and managed the Executive Site dashboard and other integrated systems as assigned and process improvements. Financial Warehouse Core team member - automated multidimensional database for financial reports and presentation tool to management.SENIOR MANUFACTURING COST ANALYST 1987 – 1993• Responsible for Manufacturing’s cost estimating, budget and total cost reports; analysis and coordination of contracts, depreciation, IT and equipment cost. Supported functional departments in the area of strategic business plans. • Prepared monthly executive presentations and weekly status craft indirect/direct headcount to Process Managers. Interfaced with Human Resources, Assembly, Manufacturing Support, and Engineering.

Master’S Degree, Business Administration, Management And Operations

Bachelor’S Degree, Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Member of ACU Track Team