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Helene Kouakou

Tampa,FL

Summary

Professional Project Management Specialist with experience working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs. Versatile project coordinator with background successfully executing diverse project tasks to meet deadlines. Highly skilled at communicating with colleagues, monitoring status and achieving key milestones. Enthusiastic problem solver and talented team player with superior planning and decision-making skills.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data Entry operator

Faith Home Health Tampa
Tampa, FL
08.2014 - Current
  • Establish and Maintain and enter patients’ data into company’s system
  • Manage 120 patients’ electronic files
  • Perform office regular tasks
  • Help customers with their needs

ADC Process associate/scanning operator

Goodwill Suncoast
Tampa, Florida
01.2013 - 12.2013
  • Received donations from people and process them into carts
  • Prepped confidential documents and drawings, and scan them for clients

Project Engineer

Nestle - Yopougon Factory
Ivory
06.2009 - 04.2012
  • Coast
  • Coordinated capital investment projects and improvement projects(about $1M) with SAP
  • Established HACCP, SHE(Safety, Health and Environment) and SOP procedures of two projects according to company guidelines
  • Investigated equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations to maintenance crew to increase factory efficiency to at least 90%
  • Made recommendations to improve design, construction means and methods, and materials based on field or changing conditions
  • Assessed scope and requirements to make accurate project design determinations for two capital investment projects
  • Reviewed contractor proposals and sets of drawings prepared by construction firms to identify missing information, generate questions and align budgets
  • Reviewed contractor proposals to determine favorable partnerships for on-time and under-budget project completion
  • Evaluated change order requests in response to out-of-scope work activities
  • Delivered concise instructions to technical team to maintain quality control
  • Planned and managed engineering projects and continuous improvement programs to reduce labor and costs

Project Engineer

I2T, Societe Ivoirienne De Technologie Tropicale
, Ivory Coast
01.2006 - 05.2009
  • Assist drafters in developing structural design of products using drafting tools or computer-assisted design (CAD) software (ProE)
  • Determined and scheduled priorities as required to progress engineering work
  • Controlled engineering activities to maintain work standards, adhere to timelines and meet quality assurance targets
  • Liaised with company executives and project managers to acquire resources to move projects forward.
  • Communicated with industrial equipment installers to deliver technical support throughout project execution.
  • Identified technical risks within managed projects.

Education

Master's degree - Engineering Management

Ohio University
05.2020

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

National Polytechnic Institute HB (INP-HB)
Yamoussoukro, Cote D'Ivoire
07.2004

Skills

  • MS Office (MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook),
  • Technical Analysis
  • Strong Communication and Organizational Skills
  • Scheduling
  • Team Player
  • Ability To Multitask
  • Budgeting

Affiliations

Member of the Honor Society of the USA Member of ASME since 2017 Member of SWE(Society of Women Engineers)

Certification

  • Certified Lean Six-Sigma, May 2020

Timeline

Data Entry operator

Faith Home Health Tampa
08.2014 - Current

ADC Process associate/scanning operator

Goodwill Suncoast
01.2013 - 12.2013

Project Engineer

Nestle - Yopougon Factory
06.2009 - 04.2012

Project Engineer

I2T, Societe Ivoirienne De Technologie Tropicale
01.2006 - 05.2009

Master's degree - Engineering Management

Ohio University

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

National Polytechnic Institute HB (INP-HB)