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Expert level key contributor to management of assets, primarily influencing capital and large O&M financial decisions, ensuring appropriate justification that aligns with business strategies. Solve complex issues by identifying innovative solutions and policy recommendations with integrated resource plans to achieve business goals. Recognized as expert with demonstrated project and team leadership skills. - Lead teams in selecting asset investments to improve financial performance. Evaluate economic initiatives and cost-benefit. Determine initial scope, fiscal viability, budget, and schedule. - Ensure strategic planning initiatives are effectively implemented by performing complex business case and feasibility analysis of utility assets. Assist with research and development of cost benefit analysis, rehabilitation or replacement options.- Identify and quantify business risk exposure associated with specific assets, mitigation strategies. - Lead team of stakeholders such as engineering, project management, supply management, safety, environmental, NERC compliance, operations, and maintenance experts in capital business plan development of assigned asset portfolio. Identify and recommend appropriate assets, implementation schedule, and quality management plans.- Utilize specialized decision-making tools for complex initiatives to identify best strategy for achieving business goals that incorporate risks and solutions. - Present and brief organizational leaders and executives on a variety of capital and asset concerns. - Lead teams to determine asset useful life, condition assessment, replacement scope and schedule.- Actively monitor current policies, industry market innovations,trends, technologies, and regulatory developments that impact asset portfolio. Provide timely recommendations.- Review operational processes and procedures to develop optimization recommendations and audit recommendations.

Senior level professional performing project portfolio-wide quality control, planning, modeling & forecasting & provide leadership in the overall portfolio control function. Proficient in all areas of project portfolio management, project support, & project controls. Maintain models and data sets of the portfolio of projects while ensuring effective use of data for future modeling. Interpret business issues & recommend best practices. Solve complex problems with a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. Lead functional teams & projects, including directing staff work. - Advise project managers to resolve problems related to project scope, costs, & schedule.- Analyze, develop, & maintain models on portfolio performance & forecasting with metrics. - Use analytics & business acumen to identify, prioritize, structure, & solve complex problems that support strategic, innovative decision-making throughout organization.- Proactive communication with stakeholders & management levels.- Expert leader in defining problems, collecting data, applying advanced concepts, establishing facts & drawing valid conclusions. - Project manager & management advisor in interpretation of project control policies, programs, & procedures.- Collaboratively works with project analysts, project managers, & functional managers to develop & implement project delivery systems & control methods including written procedures leading policy development.- High level of customer service & promote team building ensuring strong relationships with peers, stakeholders and management. Promote collaboration, effective decision-making, & development of solutions.-Represent the PMO positively and with professionalism.-Mentor & train staff in best practices.-Advanced knowledge in project management, including schedule development & maintenance with resource loading & program dates. - Develop new project delivery practices to improve productivity & address management problems.