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Bridget Matthews

Los Angeles,CA

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Controls Manager

Alstom Transportation
Los Angeles, CA
09.2021 - Current
  • Lead and coordinate Project Reporting – Management, Customer, Financial
  • Engage project teams in the successful achievement of project objectives and strengthen relationships
  • Proactive risk, saving and opportunity management
  • Define in advance project core team staffing, as well as its WP resources
  • Lead the performance assessment for the project
  • Management of the project progress and its KPIs, and reports to senior management, with transparency during the business/critical project reviews.
  • Accountable for project QCDP performance and optimize Project Financial performance
  • Implement project strategy in line with contract requirements, including allocation to Sub-Systems (planning, cost, quality, performance)
  • Maintain alignment of key project stakeholders towards project goals.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable rules, instructions and standards
  • Continuously ensure alignment with customer contractual requirements

Technical Project Manager

Bombardier Transportation / Alstom Transportation
Pittsburgh, PA
04.2018 - 09.2021

Manage software releases and implement baselines for testing/installation to support a successful Positive Train Control project

  • Manage the failure Corrective Action Systems database and present Key Peformance Indidcators (KPIs)
  • Lead the triage meetings for engineering review and lifecycle review
  • Coordinate and implement the system baselines to be used for field and factory testing
  • Oversee the software control process by delivering new software releases to the customer

Principal Engineer - AP1000 Config Mngmt

Westinghouse Electric Company
Pittsburgh, PA
12.2015 - 04.2018

Ensure the construction sites have available the current & configured design documents to mitigate risk of a catastrophic event at the nuclear site.

  • Manage the organization's Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
  • Implement rigorous design change process to ensure the design constructed is complete
  • Ensure the Electronic Database system and CMDB are compatible with the design change process
  • Provide design solutions for engineers at Home office and on-site construction
  • Improve the existing processes and procedures used to maintain the appropriate design documents for the customer

Senior Engineer - AP1000 Configuration Management

Westinghouse Electric Company
Pittsburgh, PA
04.2014 - 12.2015
  • Create procedures, processes, and work instructions.
  • Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics to better evaluate future enhancements and improve data integrity.
  • Reduce COPQ by finding and repairing incomplete/bad data within the database system.
  • Work with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure correct documents are being
    provided to the construction sites.
  • Improve the existing processes and procedures used to maintain the appropriate design
    documents for the customer.

Senior Engineer - NPP - Piping and Supports

Westinghouse Electric Company
Pittsburgh, PA
06.2010 - 04.2014

Finalize design for piping penetrations in support of construction schedule.

  • Lead for piping penetrations since June 2010
  • Responsible for issuing and maintaining constructions details (~ 70) for all piping penetrations
  • Effectively organized all penetrations (~800) in order to reach a completed design
  • Ensure all design changes are incorporated into penetration design
  • Contribute to the overall success of organization by maintaining satisfactory Corrective Action metrics
  • Present new issues and metrics at monthly group meetings

Engineer - NPP - Piping and Supports

Westinghouse Electric Company
Pittsburgh, PA
01.2008 - 06.2010

Perform piping and fatigue analysis to qualify the process piping being used in construction.

  • Create and maintain an accurate Microsoft ACCESS database for all piping penetrations
  • Coordinate efforts between multiple engineering groups
  • Performed stress analysis of piping packages using isometric drawings and PIPESTRESS software and employing the ASME codes associated with process piping (section B31.1)
  • Performed fatigue analysis of piping packages using PSFATSTR
  • Daily interaction with the computer aided engineering model of the power plant
  • Use causal analysis theory and extent of condition evaluation to investigate high level Corrective Actions

Engineering - NPP - Layout and Structures

Westinghouse Electric Company
Pittsburgh, PA
04.2007 - 01.2008

Perform finite element analysis to populate the input to be used for piping design

  • Verified the ANSYS building model to produce response spectra to be used in design analysis for AP100

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
12.2006

Objective

Seeking a job opportunity to utilize my experience in Management and Project Engineering and further my skills working with multi-functional teams

Skills / Certificates

* Team Collaboration * Documentation and Reporting * Data Compiling and Analysis 

* Completed SQL Training * Qualified to sit for PE Exam * KPI Metrics and Report Creation

* Awarded multiple PowerUp Recognition Awards * ANSYS – Certified ANSYS training May 2010 

* Apparent Cause Investigator (ACI) – July 2008 * George Westinghouse Signature Award – September 2008

 * Engineer In Training (EIT) – October 2007 * MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Data Mining/Analysis

* Navisworks, UNIX, PipeStress, PSFATSTR

*Smart Plant Foundation®, Electronic Data Management Systems (EDMS)

Timeline

Project Controls Manager

Alstom Transportation
09.2021 - Current

Technical Project Manager

Bombardier Transportation / Alstom Transportation
04.2018 - 09.2021

Principal Engineer - AP1000 Config Mngmt

Westinghouse Electric Company
12.2015 - 04.2018

Senior Engineer - AP1000 Configuration Management

Westinghouse Electric Company
04.2014 - 12.2015

Senior Engineer - NPP - Piping and Supports

Westinghouse Electric Company
06.2010 - 04.2014

Engineer - NPP - Piping and Supports

Westinghouse Electric Company
01.2008 - 06.2010

Engineering - NPP - Layout and Structures

Westinghouse Electric Company
04.2007 - 01.2008

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Marquette University
Bridget Matthews