 PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2000. Over sixteen years of experience in Project Management with emphasis on Program Management Office: Project Controls, scheduling tools and techniques and process work.
 Subject Matter Expert in Primavera Software, Scheduling and tracking Project Health Metrics SPI, CPI and Earned Value Management.
 Experienced with Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications Software Development projects using PMI Methodology, software Development, SDLC, Water Fall and other Methodologies.
 Experienced with Software Development, Process Design, Documentation (Process, Customer Documentation and Reports), Customer Problem Tracking, Change Control Board (CCB) and other PMO functions, mentoring, problem solving, improving quality and customer satisfaction.
 Six Sigma Green Belt
Areas of Knowledge and Experience
* Project Management * Computer Science * Software Development
* Teaching * Academic Research in Physical Chemistry
Areas of Interest
* Project Management * Project Scheduling Tools and Techniques
* Enterprise Resource Planning * Quality * Software Development
Work Experience
Senior Associate, Power Delivery Systems, Sargent & Lundy, Chicago, IL (5/2007-2/2010)
• Primavera tool deployment (P3E, P6 and P6.2.1) and Database Administration in Citrix Environment and Load Spring CAM Console.
• Developed Electrical Engineering substation project schedule template. Worked with engineering teams and prepared Resource loaded Project Schedules in Primavera using the template and achieved reduction in turn around time for preliminary project schedule preparation by 65% from about 3 weeks to around 4 days using Primavera Project manager (P3E, P6 and P6.2.1). Handled about 20 to 25 small projects and 4 large projects with budgets ranging from over $250K to over $1M.
• Generated and Presented Primavera Reports Critical Path Reports, Look Ahead Reports with Report Editor. Presented Customer Reports - Primavera Resource Allocation Reports, Earned Value & Planned Value Reports, CPI & SPI Reports in Excel format.
• Provided Project Controls support for aabout 3 months with Primavera P3,
Program Manager, Cellular Networks, Motorola, Arlington Heights, IL. (3/1992-3/2007)
Program Control Specialist: Over five years work experience with Primavera Project Management Tools. Over ten years Program Management Office work experience to support cellular software development life cycle with Primavera P5 and earlier versions (of TeamPlay, TeamPlayer), PERT Master, PB Views, Hyperion, ABT Power Bench, Microsoft Project, MS Office, Visio and other Project Management Scheduling Tools & Techniques. Familiar with SDLC and software development methodologies (Water Fall, Spiral, Agile, etc.)
• PMO support for programs with budgets ranging from over $3M to $20M. Tracked and Reported Project metrics (CPI, SPI, EV), Schedule variances for Gated Milestones for CDMA and GSM technology programs. Program Resource Management for GSM Technology Programs. Tracked schedule risks with Monte Carlo Analysis using PertMaster and Program Cost tracking with Hyperion. Interfaced with customer PMO.
• Tracked project milestones, M-Gate milestones and deliverables for GSM program projects.
• Primavera Lead Application Administrator for Networks business: Owned Application Security Matrix for Network Division. Beta tested tool upgrades, assisted in tool deployments (versions 2.0.x onwards). Managed Help Desk for Primavera with MONET/ Remedy tools.
• Authored Primavera tool focused process documents.
• Deployment of Primavera tools and upgrades
Project Scheduler for CDMA Releases
• Beta Tested and evaluated ABT's RMS 5.x Scheduling Software package documented the problems and work around.
• Deployment of ABT (now owned by Niku) Power Bench
• Developed and maintained master projects schedules for CDMA Programs.
• Interfaced with ABT to resolve problems.
• Moved users’ schedules from MS Project into ABT repository.
CCB Manager for CDMA Releases:
• Managed CCB requests and meetings during software development build cycles.
• Maintained both dynamic and static Web pages for Program Management Office.
Uni*Quality (Motorola Contractor 2/91-2/92)
Contract Software Engineer/ Project Manager for Motorola. Responsible for Lab Support, Unix/ Shell Scripting/ Tool Development; Process Documentation, Customer Documentation and Project Development Plans.
Other work Experience
Software Development Experience with Unix/ C
Software Developer, Member of Technical Staff AT&T Bell Laboratories (9/87-5/90)
Contract Programmer (7/90-9/90)
Assistant Professor, Computer Science (8/86-8/87)
Computer Science Teaching Experience
Education, Training
Master’s in Project Management, Keller Graduate School of Management, IL
M.S. Computer Science, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (INDIA)
Completed Project Management Professional Development courses from ESI International
Six Sigma Green Belt: Trained & Certified.
FERC Training
Affiliation
Member, Project Management Institute (PMI)
Member, American Society for Quality (ASQ)
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