Melissa Barrick Mcdaniel, Pgmp, Pmp, Ccmp Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

A Senior Principal level Program Controls Sector Leader specializing in program team mobilization and process definition and delivery.

Currently Ms. McDaniel is the Chief Project Controls Manager at Parsons Corporation. In this role, she provides project management and controls leadership for cost, schedule, and risk on a $310M lump sum construction project. She coordinates daily with various subcontractors, internal field operations, owner representatives and other project stakeholders to resolve project issues. She works with the Project and Construction Managers to perform cradle to grave analysis on project cost, schedule and risk.

Greater Chicago Area

Develops processes and procedures, demonstrations of software capabilities, customized training efforts for Oracle's Primavera products, providing technical and user assistance to software end users, Project Management Process analysis and recommendations, resource management and client service management. Provides leadership and mentoring to all implementation staff. Responsible for deploying industry best project management solutions for client specific projects. Develops custom training and mentoring session to assure the end user has complete capability to perform required functions for their position.

Senior level implementation consultant providing industry best practices for deploying Oracle's Primavera software.

Chicago Regional Project Controls Manager supporting Program Management and Delivery.

Project Controls Practice Leader for Program Management Business Solutions. Can provide Needs Analysis Assessments of current organizations business and project management practices and recommend best practices according to industry specific models.Also a senior level Primavera Implementation consultant with exptensive experirence in P6 and Contract Manager. Able to provide direction for best practices in project management processes, policies, and procedures. Primavera Certified Trainer.

A senior level Primavera Implementation consultant with exptensive experirence in P6 and Contract Manager. Able to provide direction for best practices in project management processes, policies, and procedures. Primavera Certified Trainer.

Responsibilities include assisting in RFP process with proposal schedules, cost estimates, and negotiations of work packages, developing and maintaining cost & resource loaded project/program schedules, tracking daily incurred cost & schedule progression, preparing monthly client Cost Performance Reports and weekly internal performance reports, assisting with cost to complete estimates, preparing and modifying project budgets & schedules, and performing project cost/schedule analysis. Maintains the Federal Project Controls Group software systems & databases. Assisted in combination of two separate client based groups into a Federal Project Controls Group. Migrated project controls reporting systems from a local office based system to a company-wide accessible system. Migrated Primavera Expedition from various local office servers to enterprise-wide solution on the Internet. Company-wide knowledge support base and trainer for Primavera products including P3 and Primavera Expedition.