To obtain a career oriented position where I can positively contribute to a company's cost, schedule and profits goals. As an individual, I am seeking a diverse company that will allow me to use the skills and talents I’ve accrued and allow me to broaden my career and advance as a key team member.
Michael Perkes
Objective
To obtain a career oriented position where I can positively contribute to a company's cost, schedule and profits goals. As an individual, I am seeking a diverse company that will allow me to use the skills and talents I’ve accrued and allow me to broaden my career and advance as a key team member.
Summary
My most recent position has been as an Operations and Delivery Project Manager with a leading company in the water treatment industry. My duties are to manage several projects from the receipt of contract through completion of fabrication and delivery and commissioning of equipment at the customer’s location. Scope, costs and schedules are managed via Earned Value Management Systems. My role includes considerable verbal and written communication with management, stakeholders and most important, our customers.
Skills and Accomplishments
• 26 years of leadership and support in operations, product delivery and project management.
• 24 years team development. This includes training large groups of staff and management in various formats, with an emphasis on team building while positively motivating them to excel.
• 24 years of purchasing and procurement within several different markets including heavy industrial.
• 14 years of building international customer and vendor relationships including extensive experience with diverse cultures and countries in France, UK, Russia, China, Japan, Germany and Mexico.
• 14 years organizational & planning management, defining project scope, identifying critical path, focusing on details and overcoming obstacles and management of risks. Taking the initiative to make critical decisions under pressure to keep projects on schedule and on or under budget.
• 14 years computer experience including Microsoft Suite and project management programs.
Other Skills and Accomplishments
• Managed 23 projects concurrently following PMI, Six Sigma, and Agile methodologies while mitigating scope creep and maintaining profit margins.
• Extensive experience in maintaining relationships with domestic and international customers, including: vendor relations, negotiation and purchase of raw materials, procurement of fabricated equipment, electrical and software development.
• A natural curiosity to understand new technical material, equipment, systems and knowing how and when to appropriately apply them.
• PMI/PMBok certification in fall of 2009.
Professional Experience
EIMCO Water Technologies
Operations and Delivery Project Manager
October 2007 to March 2009
• Operations & Delivery Project Manager for power and industrial market including experience with nuclear and government contracts upwards of $5.5M dollars.
• Management of multiple projects from receipt of customer contract through delivery and commissioning of water treatment equipment including field progress assessments with customer and contractors.
• Engineering and procurement management, mechanical drawing review including P&IDs and electrical schematics. This includes identifying and managing critical paths to avoid schedule variance.
• Integrated project costs ownership through establishing planned value baseline, milestone progress invoicing, change request implementation and contract reconciliation at project completion.
Project Manager
July 2007 to October 2007
• Contract execution, project booking and maintaining a project schedule and cost performance index including using pm scheduling programs Primavera Sure-Track, P3, P5, and Microsoft Project 6.0.
• Submittals preparation, transmittal and customer approval to proceed with fabrication.
• Fabrication procurement, manufacturing scheduling and materials purchasing under OSHA standards and regulations.
• Equipment testing and quality acceptance, supplying the supporting documentation for approval.
• Delivery preparation, shipment scheduling, acceptance and installation for the customer.
• Operation and maintenance manual approval and shipment for customer acceptance.
Easton Technical Products
Buyer
March 2006 to July 2007
• Responsible for purchasing of MRO supplies and raw materials within ISO 9001 and 14001
guidelines including procurement management of several capital projects.
• Purchasing a wide scope of materials for a major aluminum/composite manufacturing facility, including daily maintenance items to machined components.
• Developed productive relationships with vendors resulting in best prices and timely delivery on parts and materials.
• Sourcing new vendors and replacement vendors as needed to support manufacturing and engineering.
• Ordering from bills of material from mechanical and electrical drawings.
Sr. Account Services Executive
October 1997 & March 2006
• Accomplishments: Outstanding Customer Service Executive 2005
• Selling and supporting sporting good products to dealers and distributors in US, Canada and Europe. Managed 12 major accounts and 150 direct dealers through out the world.
• Extensive field and trade show support with customers and consumers.
• Providing technical support for Easton Archery Products.
• A 10 year senior board member in quality and continuous improvement meetings and participated with ISO joint and internal surveillance audits.
Technical Support Representative
September 1995 to October 1997
• Provided technical and product support for Easton products.
• Processed warranty events for consumers.
Additional / Software Experience
• More project management experience upon request.
• Novell, Syteline, ROI Manage 2000, Microsoft Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint products. Primavera Sure-track, P3, P5. Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, AutoCAD.
Education
• University of Utah: Finance and Business Management. PMP Exam Prep. PMP Credentials pending.
• Seminars: Fred Pryor and Franklin Quest time management seminars.
References
• Jay Barrs; Senior Product Specialist, AMAG Inc, 1988 Olympian, Gold Medal Archery 1988:
• Samuel Saeva; Contract Price/Cost Analyst, DCMA : • Ed Rowsell; Sr. Mechanical Engineer, EIMCO Water Technologies: • Dana Ardovino; Program Manager SATCOM Programs, L-3 Communications:
Citizenship
• United States Citizen – Top Security Clearance Eligible.
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