Defence
Senior Planner, BAE Systems (Yarrow Shipbuilders), Royal Brunei
My role was as Senior Planner for the Royal Brunei project. I was responsible for a five-person team and reported directly to the programme manager and working with the project managers’. This was a large-scale 5-year project involving the building of three patrol vessels. During my period there, we moved from the embodiment design to detailed design and started the production phase.
My responsibilities included ensuring the production of all the planning reports (weekly and monthly).
Project Controller, BAE Systems, Various Projects
I was working in the Sensor Systems Division within the Avionics sector. Working on 3projects totalling over £10 Million pounds and lasting up to 7 years. My responsibility was to support the two Project Managers’ and produce the monthly Contract Status Report working very closely with the project accountant. The report contains the project costs for the month, the committed and forecast costs, the sales and claims costs and the trading data. The main application used were Artemis Views 4.1.5 and the ERP package to obtain and construct the project costs.
Project Planner/Controller, BAE Systems, Joanna & others
The financial controller from Basildon asked me to help them out in their Edinburgh office as they lagged behind Basildon. I worked very closely with the Project Manager on a £23 million project to build the project plan and then continued as the project controller. After this, I helped roll this process to other projects ensuring each project could produce the monthly cost report. My last role was responsible for supporting 7 Private Venture (PV) projects and I being part of the bid team when new bids came in.
Shea Walls
Scheduling Manager at Northrop Grumman
Cost and Schedule, See List, Several Defense
Northrop Grumman - Cost and Schedule (Huntsville, AL) - CURRENT
L3 Communications - Coleman Aerospace - Schedule
Alcon - Schedule
Triton Network Systems - Schedule
Hard Rock Cage Corporate - Schedule
Stephen Devaux
President of Analytic Project Management (founded 1992), a PM training and consulting company in Boston, MA.
Author of Total Project Control: A Manager's Guide to Project Planning, Measuring and Tracking (John Wiley & Sons, 1999) and numerous articles. Creator of TPC methodology and metrics, including critical path drag, the value breakdown structure (VBS), the doubled resource estimated duration (DRED), the cost of leveling with unresolved bottlenecks (CLUB), and the DIPP and DPI profitability indices.
Nathan Carter
I served as an engineer officer in the British Army for eight yearsin a succession of positions before leaving to pursue a different career. I have planned, managedand deliveredprojectsinvolving teams including up to 500 multi-disciplinary managers and tradesmen across Europe, Canada and the Middle East, often in austere environments.
Regimental Operations Officer, British Army, Defence Construction
During this post I was responsible for managing all operational deployments for a unit of approximately 500 cross functional personnel on behalf of the Commanding Officer (equivalent to Director). I undertook initial scoping, planning and overall coordination for a number of simultaneous construction projects across the UK which included simple structures, building works and fit out. I planned and executed the training and subsequent deploymentof 100 tradesmen to Afghanistan within a significantly reducedtimeframe.