Tara Strupp Moore, Pmp Email & Phone Number

League City, TX, US

Friendswood, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas

• Ensures that the package is executed in line with the Project Procurement Strategy (PPS) and effectively manages all tactical aspects of the package from RFQ, PO and post order management until final delivery closeout.
• Accountable for the successful delivery of the assigned package inclusive of proper application of Vendor Manufacturing Management (VMM) process and package dashboard reporting.
• Provides root cause analysis to define with vendor immediate corrective actions and share out comes when package is related to a strategic vendor and strategic category.
• Set-up the packages by collecting lessons learned, multi-disciplinary input and defining project package gates and planning accordingly.
• Conducts internal contract checkpoints, provides active support to Project Buyer for contractual risk management and vendor claim management.
• Provides support and participation in construction/integration, pre-commissioning and commissioning activities.

NASA JSC

• Reports to MORI Headquarters & COMIT PMO Director, providing accurate, effective and timely reporting on all business issues.
• Responsible for the overall Project Management customer commitments pertaining to customer satisfaction, financials, schedules and quality.
• Ensures clear communication and understanding of project status, changes and performance to the customer and MORI Headquarters and COMIT PMO Director.
• Reconstructing Best in Class PM standard operating procedures, plans, roles and responsibilities, checklists, website and training center.
• Responsible for high-level relationship management with customers and current and future business partners.
• Facilitates bi-weekly PM round-ups, weekly contract Project Management Review (PMR) meetings, special project actions itemtraining and improvements.

Houston, Texas

• Champions management disciplines and provided processes, structures and tools, for individual project managers, documentation specialists and PDC electrical engineers, across the organization.
• Drives a culture of continuous improvement, throughout the company, by eliminating misconceptions of an Electrical PDC driven corporation and the need within the industry.
• Created the first PMO, along with realigning all internal ISO procedures, to reflect a change of organization from an operations driven approach, to an overall PMO.
• Adapted an overall ERP system (Procore Construction), in order to align and equip the company’s growth and ERP Intellects.
• Responsible for all contract negotiations, risk management, organizational development and strategic integration, on a day by day interactions with bid reviews, contract and estimate review.
• Primary mission is preparing the company for continued growth, by innovating and teaching a lean organization. Creating a culture of processes and standards, to ultimately reflect a streamlined quality product, on-time.

Cincinnati Area, KY

• Maintaining project budgets using financial forecasting, while monitoring Profit / Loss for a concurrent project backlog over $20Million: USBOR- Hoover Dam, Indiana Power & Light, American Electric Power and Entergy.
• Monitoring scope by initiating internal or external commercial change requests for all changes to base-lined scope, organizational wide, including all internal PM staff.
• Conducted internal audits throughout a project to ensure all commercial and contractual obligations, as well as customer commitments, throughout projects, to ensure all deliverables conform with requirements.
• Utilizing continuous process improvements, to review and influence business and employee development processes, improve company policies and programs, and create solutions with implementation strategies.
• Supervising Field Service Technicians, Project Engineers, Project Specialist, Service Associate for all projects. Including the coordination of personnel and equipment to sites, contractors and over site for cost and.
• Coordinating and overseeing meetings between engineers, fabrication shop employees, vendors’ contractors and customers, including construction AUTOCAD drawing reviews, capacity planning, and customer and vendor.

Houston, Texas Area

• Manages the Global Service Divisions Project Management actions from a Program Management level by instructing divisional Supervisors & Master Scheduling on Global Service strategies and processes.
• Provides a communication interface between internal and external customers
• Monitors costs, forecasted costs, budgeted costs and divisional financials against monthly, quarterly and annual objectives.
• Implemented training programs (I Speak Communication 101, Continual Education Classes and PMI Preparation Courses) to develop and encourage a motivated Project Management team.
• Responsible for managing Project Management resources and reorganizing Global Service functional job descriptions.
• Creates and maintains all Individual Development Plans, Reviews and Project Management annual objectives.

Houston, Texas Area

• Supervise and coordinate all aspects of customer orders from order entry through shipment including order validation, scheduling coordination with production, change order negotiations, coordination of customer visits.
• Resolves all order related issues with a focus on P/L driven commercial and contractual obligations.
• Provides proactive leadership and direction for a group of 25 Project Managers.
• Provides weekly training sessions to the Project Management team along with Sales & Estimating.
• Attends/Chair weekly production, capacity and jobs in trouble meetings in order to resolve issues and provide status updates.
• Trains, motivates and markets with each employee on a one on one basis.

Houston, Texas Area

• Assisted in defining and staffing an effective team within the Project Management Department of eight employees.
• Developed and implemented a Ship Loose process used by the logistics department to minimize customer issues shipped from our facility. Reduced over 50% of Ship Loose Warranty Claims resulting in substantial monetary.
• Responsible for the mitigation and reconciliation of customers Post Sale Service and Warranty issues submitted by Project Management. Worked with the group members on how to successfully triage a Problem Report.
• Enhanced customer service by reducing initial response time to 24 to 48 hours after initial contact and implemented processes encouraging immediate customer contact.
• Responsible for meeting and exceeding a 6 million dollar spare parts budget.
• Instrumental in creating, training and encouraging the use of group processes and procedures within our Best Practice Guidelines.

Houston, Texas Area

• Lead multiple power distribution projects for heavy industry customers throughout the globe. Consistent successful project management yields to lower project costs, early start-up and commissioning, and therefore.
• Developed project schedules, order entry documents and managed change order communication all while maintaining anywhere from 30-50 million dollar backlog.
• Responsible for all major project P/L oversight in order to accomplish a prosperous GP.
• Sole point of contact for several customer’s at one time throughout the life of the project.
• Direct multiple functional groups including engineering, production, purchasing and logistics to ensure timely delivery of products.
• Facilitated training experience for new employees within the project coordination group.