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Virginia Beach, VA, US

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Develop and manage project schedules to ensure timely completion of project deliverables and milestones.
• Conduct critical path analysis to identify key activities critical to project success and ensure timely completion.
• Monitor schedule progress against established baselines and adjust schedules as necessary to maintain project goals.
• Develop cost estimates and budgets for project activities, including labor, materials, equipment, and sub-contracted services.
• Monitor project costs and analyze variances against established budgets to identify cost overruns and cost efficiencies
• Develop and implement cost management plans, processes, and tools to control project expenditures and minimize associated risks.

Regional Municipality Of Durham, Ontario, Canada

• Control Project Schedules and Updates on a daily basis.
• Gather and analyze financial data.
• Determine standard costs and investigate variances with actual costsPrepare detailed reports, both periodically and ad-hoc.
• Help management make critical decisions based on costs and benefits (e.g. investments, market growth, pricing changes)
• Create and manage budgets, and monitor spending.
• Conduct audits on financial processes and transactions.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Working on Nuclear Projects related to Ontario Power Generation and Bruce Power, maintenance and outages in conjunction with Isogen.
• Established new governance processes with an aim to ensuring adherence to established delivery methodologies and conformity.
• Reviewed the budgeting and forecasting for all projects. Ensured client satisfaction with the program processes and team by effective communication (status reporting, continual.
• Recommended/ coordinated the prioritization of projects and provided a strategic approach for the delivery of projects.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Worked on Nuclear Waste Facility project as a senior cost and schedule analyst:
• Managing project schedules updated and supervising schedulers.
• Performed project planning, Analysis, controlling, and oversight activities in support of the delivery of successful project outcomes.
• Prepared earned value analysis and prepared schedule metrics reports.
• Financial planning for Engineering projects from RFP process to work management.
• YE and Monthly review of Engineering financial planning and PO status reports.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Generated and executed project development work plans & schedules; functioned closely with the project team, consultants, and controls to develop a detailed complex plan on how to implement the project.
• Work Management Support in Vacuum Building Outage Support. Review of daily tasks for Engineering on the schedule.
• Worked directly with the Outage group and shift supervisors on daily tasks and reviewed critical paths.
• Oversee a portfolio of projects, ensuring effective management of project plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Identify and optimize the utilization of project resources.
• Prepared Cost Reports and variance Reports and communicated with Management every month.

Pickering, Ontario

• Selected by client from 35 project managers to lead ECC Project engagement for Ontario Power Generation (OPG); efforts will extend nuclear power plant life cycle by 15 years, at a cost of $10B.
• Initiated and led cost saving strategies for OPG/Projects and Mods; developed strategic plan including cost benefit analysis to address operational infrastructure and production gaps
• Established program metrics and success factors by analyzing project schedules in accordance with project Best Practices, as well as contributed cost effective operations by enhancing the logistics project efforts.
• Guaranteed that all the deliverables to meet the quality objectives of the project and proactively completed on schedule and within budget, as well as developed design models expertly.
• Established Business Planning requirement for running for using Cognos Powered by Oracle in PMO department and highlighted benefits and value to increase mindset of solution offering.
• Completed technical work scopes and assessments for tender documents to monitor the performance of design/build/commission participants to make sure compliance with the Project's requirements.

• Accomplished cost and schedule analysis, and risk analysis and ensured effective recommendations as to the optimal cost and effective manner of achieving project results.
• Examined & analyzed schedule performance, and accepted options to resolve planning & control problems.
• Assembled data & endorsed priorities, resource requirements, business plans and budget content, etc
• Recognized opportunity to save $2.3M in annual costs and increase operational efficiency by 14% by introducing an integrated process for measuring systems performance, which optimized the production process.

Pickering

• Established and prepared DCP & DCN reports of the Filed Change Progress for senior management.
• Delivered Matrix and P3 Schedule for Unit1 & Unit4 Outage to plan business strategies & budget content.
• Assessed services & products of external firms, in accordance with corporate policies & divisional programs.

Pickering, Ontario, Canada

Cost Engineer | May 2004 to Jan 2005Suggested and executed specific process improvements within OPGN constraints to improve productivity, as approved to provide planning and control expertise to develop plans and schedules. - Accomplished cost and schedule analysis, and risk analysis and ensured effective recommendations as to the optimal cost and.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Computer Programming Analysis

Activities and Societies: • C, C++, Java, Oracle, DBS, Unix

Bachelor Of Applied Science (Basc), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering