Amanda Blaine

• Supervise and direct a team of eight facility project managers in.
• Provide leadership to project teams in order to ensure successful completion of projects.
• Resolved conflicts among team members by providing guidance and direction as needed.
• Ensured compliance with organizational standards related to quality control, safety regulations and other applicable laws.
• Provide training and materials for new employees who are joining the team or taking over existing roles.
• Delivered high level of service to clients to extend relationship and encourage further projects.
• Implemented process improvements to drive efficiencies in the program management team.
• Coordinated with stakeholders across multiple teams to plan, track and report on progress of projects.
• Conducted regular meetings with team members to discuss program updates and changes processes.
• Provided guidance and support to Project Managers as needed for successful completion of tasks.
• Prepare detailed reports outlining project performance against newly created KPIs.
• Analyzed data from various sources in order to identify trends that can be used for making informed decisions about future projects and resource assignments.
• Monitored performance metrics and identified areas for improvement in order to increase efficiency.
• Mentored junior Program Managers by providing guidance on project planning, scheduling and risk management techniques.
• Established strong working relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels within the organization.
• Analyzed customer feedback data to determine areas of improvement that could be applied across programs.
• Coached, mentored and trained personnel to create positive working environment.
• Scheduled and managed equipment replacement before end-of-life.
• Created seven year strategic project portfolio to maintain current facility infrastructure with approved budget
• Continue to execute all project manager duties as indicated below
• Managing largest facilities project with a project budget estimated at $3.9M

• Brought projects in on-time and in accordance with budget and quality standards.
• Built strong community relations with contractors and customers to optimize cost savings and complete timely preconstruction.
• Forecasted, scheduled and monitored project timelines, personnel performance and cost efficiency.
• Led project stakeholder meetings to convey project requirements, scope, milestones, status and regulatory compliance.
• Enhanced development and drove continuous improvement of project delivery process by providing strong program leadership.
• Modified and reconstructed project plans to better align with customer organizational objectives.
• Coordinated complex contract administration, including defining project milestones and developing budget.
• Mitigated regulatory risks by increasing guideline compliance through clarification of policies and procedures with other departments.
• Monitored milestones and deliverables to stay ahead of schedules and proactively spot potential roadblocks.
• Proposed or approved modifications to project plans.
• Facilitate and coordinate moving personnel at customer facility and surrounding customer buildings.
• Facilitate move coordination meetings to go over all moves with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the success of the moves.
• Created and documented several processes for purchasing specialized ergo furniture.
• Created templates and checklist to ensure projects and moves are standardized.
• Create Statements of Work (SOW) and Rough Order of Magnitude cost values (ROM's) for each project received.
• Perform and create Technical Evaluations on Contractor proposals.
• Review project designs and blue prints prior to execution to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Created and obtained customer satisfaction surveys to ensure the process and services are most beneficial for the customer.
• Create lessons learned meetings and document then correct any reoccurring unnecessary problems.
• Provide all communications to the customer and any building impacts through web programs, email, signage and verbal.
• Using the Auto CAD software, create basic concept layouts for customers review and approval.
• Successfully decommissioned two facilities which included relocating the personnel prior to closing.

The exact same experience as identified above just with a different company due to contract changes.

• Involved in two strategic initiatives; Work Management and Integrated Scheduling Capacity Planning (ISCP). To help coordinate and optimize enterprise processes across the three sites.
• Facilitated monthly briefs to Senior Leaders on capacity concerns/opportunities to aid the three sites into enterprise discussions of resource needs.
• Facilitated monthly information briefings to customer on capacity resources and how we use the tool to mitigate the work load.
• Captured enterprise metrics.
• Provided guidance and training for Engineering, construction Departments and customers to resolve operational issues.
• Created and implemented a work management checklist to ensure processes are maintained.
• Investigated and provided IS/CP information that offers options in aiding management decisions for surge support across three sites, then consolidate that data and brief to the customers.
• Created training plan to include manuals and curriculum on how to create project schedules then instructed existing Project Managers and Engineers across three different sites using the manuals.
• Created and managed detailed project schedules through their lifecycle
• Create integrated Master schedule for over 300 projects of varying sizes and thousands of activities.
• Conducted meetings to review high visibility projects, priority of existing projects and advise project Managers on scheduling issues.
• Suggested corrective actions and review project schedule and capacity to ensure that projects stay on schedule and have allotted resources.
• Coordinated, interfaced, and interacted with Project Managers, Construction Managers, Engineers, and Architects regarding the progress of current projects.