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Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

• Lead bl-weekly product backlog prioritization in JIRA for entire Hazard Awareness and Warning Center’s technical tool portfolio. • Analyze and document business requirements for technology enhancements and emerging tools. • Wrote RFP and IT functional requirements, led vendor analysis, and liaison between end users, product owner, and developers for artificial intelligence (AI) wildfire smoke detection EPIC project. • Write business cases and participate in project prioritization during annual funding process. • Business Data Steward for HAWC applications in Palantir Foundry. • Lead user acceptance testing, training, and change management for transition from Wildfire Incident Viewer v1.0 through v4.0. • Mentor more junior business system specialists in creating dashboards in ArcGIS / PowerBI and project management. • Develop job aids and training manuals for application support.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Sr. Project Controls Analyst - Pacific Gas & Electric, Transmission & Substation Portfolio Management• Managed the cost analysis for the vegetation management right of way and FAA lighting portfolio in electric transmission. • Collaborated with leadership team to define KPIs and develop Power BI Dashboards for expense program management centralized reporting.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

• Developed, evaluated, and managed quality control metrics and PowerBI dashboards for entire company.• Created and managed onboarding processes for project management new hires. • Mentored new project managers and led monthly portfolio review meetings.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Professional Project Manager - Pacific Gas & Electric, Substation, Central CoastOversee the scoping, design, construction and commissioning of electric substation projects for the largest gas and electric utility company in California. Projects typically have a multi-year duration, multi-million dollar budget, and a high profile within the community or local/state news agencies. They require the management of cross-functional, multi-location project teams using cutting edge project management methodologies.• Create and maintain project plans — define activities, work breakdown structures, predecessors, successors, resources, and baselines.• Measure progress to activities and milestones in project plans.• Prepare business cases, contingency releases and manage project budgets with established project governance rules.• Analyze and report on variances for project cost and schedule.• Negotiate and execute contracts, process change orders, post gross receipts and report actuals.• Develop, monitor and update cash flow projections.• Analyze and report on variances for project cost and schedule.• Create and maintain budget and resource allocation forecasts.• Produce deliverables as directed by project sponsor and management in alignment with each engagement’s Statement of Work.• Report to stakeholders – ensure all applicable cross-functional personnel are informed using meeting minutes, action logs, risk registers, milestone attainment reports and status reports.• Represent the client to government agencies and make presentations to senior management and stakeholders.• Lead the project team in identifying, resolving and tracking issues.• Escalate risks and issues in order to find ways to keep projects on schedules and on budget.• Identify and communicate lessons learned and incorporate prior lessons learned as best practices into projects.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Career Project Manager - Pacific Gas & Electric, Substation, Central Coast

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Associate Project Manager - Pacific Gas & Electric, Substation, Central Coast

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As a Project Manager on the Professional Services team, I was responsible for managing the implementation of BuildingOS for a diverse portfolio of organizations to help them reach their energy/water/gas efficiency targets. l worked with sustainability managers, facility engineers, IT and BAS technicians, solution architects, integration engineers, application support specialists, installation contractors, and hardware vendors to deliver advanced enterprise software to a sophisticated customer base. Lucid's team has made resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption. At Lucid we are working to transform the energy management industry and enable the future of connected devices with an operating system for buildings.• Maintain regular status communication with customers, team, and management coordinating project plans, timelines, and tasks for up to 45 projects at a time.• Understand networking, meter communication protocols, and data transfer formats.• Employ a hybrid project management approach to achieve customer goals under designated constraints.• Oversee and troubleshoot activities related to systems integration, application configuration, technical support, data quality assurance, and training.• Collaborate across all departments to continually improve service delivery processes, product, and scalability of the company.• Redesigned the project management process and helped launch the Professional Services team.• Created project launch materials, assisted in the creation of the Statement of Work, and collaborated with the Professional Services Manager to establish KPIs and success metrics for the project management team.• Collaborated with Product Management team to translate costumer concerns to new product features and bug fixes.

San Francisco, California, Us

An employee-owned construction company, Ryan Associates has been building custom residential and commercial projects since 1979. We are passionate about our work, and particularly love the challenge of building complex custom homes. The Assistant Project Manager works to ensure efficient and profitable execution of high-end, custom, residential construction projects around the San Francisco Bay Area. This includes managing the flow of incoming and outgoing information, communication within the Ryan Associates project team and communication with the owner, architect and other design consultants. • Ensured efficient and profitable execution of luxury ($10-$15 million) custom, residential construction projects.• Managed project document records including the submittals, RFIs, change orders, and monthly invoicing / billing process.• Worked with architects, consultants and designers to develop solutions to potential logistical, schedule or field complications • Assisted Project Manager with monthly subcontractor invoicing cycle in preparation for progress billings.

GSE Construction is a general engineering contractor. Their history of outstanding performance includes everything from building municipal water and waste water infrastructure to private sector design-build enterprises using innovative treatment processes.Working directly under the Vice President of Industrial Services, I served as the Acting Project Manager / Construction Superintendent and oversaw the field operations of GSE's small projects group. My responsibilities included:• Managed the water / wastewater service division portfolio including project planning, and the tool / vehicle fleet. • Communicated and coordinated execution of work with clients, craft personnel, vendors, and subcontractors. • Prepared project documents including submittals, requests for information (RFIs), look-ahead schedules, change orders, timecards, contractual notifications, and daily reports. • Coordinated project administration/accounting including preparation of progress payments, budget monitoring, subcontractor payment calculations, and material procurement.

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Through intensive fellowships, New Sector Alliance prepares emerging talent from across the nation for high-impact careers in the social sector. The New Sector Residency in Social Enterprise (RISE) program is an intensive, 11-month leadership development program for emerging professionals and recent graduates. Throughout the program, Residents receive rigorous training and exclusive, one-on-one mentorship from a diverse selection of leaders involved the the social impact sector, including management consultants and nonprofit professionals.• Assessed port policies related to federal, state and local workforce and contract compliance regulations.• Managed an internal audit of the port's compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.• Developed a 5 year timeline for the capital improvement plan.• Created dashboards, spreadsheets, and documents to track policy and project goals.

Washington, Dc, Us

AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) strengthens communities and develops leaders through direct, team-based national and community service. In partnership with non-profits—secular and faith based—local municipalities, state governments, federal government, national and state parks, Indian tribes, and schools, members complete service projects throughout the region they are assigned.AmeriCorps NCCC is a full-time, team-based residential program for men and women age 18-24.• Managed 9 corps members collaborating with 4 NGOs in urban and rural development. • Supervised corps members, facilitated team meetings, and enforced rules and regulations.• Coordinated logistics between the team, staff, and project sponsor.• Facilitated conflict resolution and tracked member development pertaining to team positions.• Prepared weekly progress reports, project completion reports, and evaluations.

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Parsons is an engineering, construction, technical, and management services firm. They conquer the toughest logistical challenges and deliver design/design-build, program/construction management, and other professional services packaged in innovative alternative delivery methods to federal, regional, and local government agencies, as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. They're a leader in many markets with a focus on transportation, environmental/infrastructure, and defense/security.I interned at Parsons every summer between 2007 - 2010.• Created and managed construction cost estimates for public water systems.• Developed hydraulic and energy consumption spreadsheets.• Wrote and reviewed water treatment feasibility reports for 48 municipalities.• Investigated and debugged financial analysis program.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Engineering

Certificate In Business Intelligence

Certificate In Data Analytics And Visualization

Web Development, Python, Javascript, React, Django, Bootstrap, React

High School Diploma, Honors/Regents High School/Secondary Diploma Program