Chris Sokolowski Bsie
Kingwood,TX
Summary
Senior Project Manager with 14+ years of experience in both Client/Contract and Consumer sales industries, team member, helper in need, and an individual with a broad skillset.
Achieved success through an approach to project success to first understand how the team works, and ensure it does not have a silo mentality; encourages openness, feedback, collaboration, and ease of communication to set a comfortable and effective working environment. Focuses on setting achievable expectations, and is approachable, responsive, prompt, and always looking for ways to explore methods and analysis to continuously assist project execution.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Supply Chain Project Manager
SBM Life Science
03.2021 - Current
- Facilitated portfolio performance review and collaborated with team members to improve accuracy and routine for latest status.
- Communicated project status, portfolio changes and monthly performance information to organization across 60-80 R&D, Design, and Licensed Formulation projects
- Complied with established internal controls and policies.
- Analyzed business processes to identify cost savings and operational efficiencies.
- Applied Stage Gate methodology and structure for proper 'phase' definition/expectations with periodic improvements to tailor to business needs.
- Member of SBMs Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) committee to baseline and work to achievable goals set by company.
- POC for Smartsheet project management for SBMs portfolio tracking, metrics, and scoping.
- Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed
Subsea Project Manager
TechnipFMC
09.2013 - 05.2020
- Cradle-to-grave project ownership; from quote, to contract, to execution, planning, and communication of progress in order to meet deadlines.
- Routinely coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve issues/risks, and to actively find opportunities to benefit on-going project execution.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
- Collaborated with internal finance and Portfolio team to analyze and develop financial models for our client in order to provide flexibility of use of T&M, Lump Sump, and Fixed price models with defined criteria.
- Managed multiple projects in parallel ranging from $50k maintenance scopes, to multiyear $30m offshore installation/construction projects for our Client. Delivered over 15 capital offshore 'installation' projects, and 45+ support and capital hardware modification projects.
- rig/platform operations maintenance/inspections, flowline and jumper installs, topsides install/refurbishment, subsea hardware installation of tubing heads, trees, and hangers, as well as retrieval for refurbishment.
- Developed and Managed WBS structures for proper price/cost data analysis in order to identify areas of concern or improvements for future scoping
Global Process Engineer
FMC Technologies
01.2011 - 09.2013
- Established global engineering process/documentation governance with cross-functional team members from our various engineering locations.
- Monitored and audited projects for compliance to engineering requirements for documentation and process adhesion
- Routinely updated and kept up governance structures with with weekly, monthly, and quarterly review of requirements, improvements, clarifications, and adjustments as needed (with global teams)
- Managed and updated the BPMS/BMS interface for engineering in order to ensure latest revisions are up-to-date for inputs/outputs/phases/templates, and controlling processes
- Coached newly hired employees and interns while observing progress and delegating tasks.
- Conducted root cause analysis to identify, prioritize and eliminate process losses.
Manufacturing and Process Engineer
FMC Technologies
09.2009 - 01.2011
- Used lean manufacturing principles to develop, evaluate reduce administrative 'waste' in operational processes.
- Developed operational task-router definition plan, with method to analyze and estimate durations/timing and logic for proper time and cost expectations for different types and quantities of products.
- Router definition process reduced time to develop operational steps from 1-2hrs to 5min, improved quality to always contain proper/updated documentation, and improved accuracy of estimated to actual by a significant percentage.
- Held Monthly reviews with new engineers to analyze data 'estimates' vs. 'reality' as based on a self-developed calculated method, and adjusted calculated formula parameters as need in order to improve accuracy
- Developed Quality Non-Conformance categories as based on common terminology and proof of concept via an independent user test to observe if different operators would, independently, select a common problem code at least 80% of the time based for the same issue.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, TXBachelor of Arts - History
University of Oregon
Eugene, ORSkills
- Capital Expenditures
- Vendor Supervision
- Supplier Selection
- Supplier Negotiations
- SAP APO
- Financial Forecasting
- Operational Efficiency
- Strategic Oversight
- Contract Management
- Waterfall Methodology
- Multitasking Abilities
- Interpersonal Communication
- Written Communication
- Flexible and Adaptable
- Process Optimization
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
Languages
Polish
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Ukrainian
Limited Working
Timeline
Supply Chain Project Manager
SBM Life Science
03.2021 - Current
Subsea Project Manager
TechnipFMC
09.2013 - 05.2020
Global Process Engineer
FMC Technologies
01.2011 - 09.2013
Manufacturing and Process Engineer
FMC Technologies
09.2009 - 01.2011
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
University of Houston
Bachelor of Arts - History
University of Oregon
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