Experience

Colonna's Shipyard

• United States
• Maritime Transportation
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Program Manager

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  I must oversee and lead Program-level and/or business line initiatives. I’m accountable for management of all employees under my cognizance, contract delivery, task order estimating, technical proposal development, estimate review, preparation, and formatting. I also prepare and maintain financial budgets, meeting contractual requirements and deadlines. Last but not the least I serve as the primary customer contact for program activities. • Support new business capture, customer retention and employee recruitment. Reports to executive leadership and responsible for financial and budgetary projections. Provides input to corporate management regarding company’s strategic path for development and capacity for future growth through core capabilities, solutions, and strategic partnerships. • Leads Program and Business Line execution by streamlining processes from award to project planning (kick-off meetings, team compositions, personnel, schedules, etc.) and ensuring the Project Manager is fully prepared to transition into the process and take the lead. Contract, delivery, and task order estimating, technical proposal development, estimate review, preparation, and formatting. • Acts as primary customer contact for our customer’s program activities; leading program review sessions and providing weekly customer briefings. Communicate with management/subcontractors/customers regarding CDRLs and internal programmatic initiatives.



Gulf Copper and Manufacturing

• United States
• Maritime Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Manager

  • Aug 2020 - Jan 2023

  I support our US Navy, Military Sealift Command, MARAD and US Coast Guard customers in the Norfolk, VA area. I am an expert on ship systems, managing large government programs with a history of success as the ability to perform ship checks at various locations around the world. I can understand and administer ABS Classification guidelines, USCG and SOLAS requirements. I have easily demonstrated the ability to motivate my employees and build a solid functioning team. I have the great ability to organize and manage multiple priorities and work under deadlines and schedule pressures. * Works with Business Develop personnel to prioritize opportunities and estimate costs and bid terms on available projects. Works with various Gulf Copper departments and resources to meet project and contract requirements. Approves purchases and expenditures related to projects and contracts. Meets margin goals for projects, as well as to monitor expenditures against revenue for projects and contracts. Develop and monitor project schedules. * Monitor customer satisfaction during and after project. Creates project work plans with input from Production Department and revises as required. Identifies resources needed and enlists or assigns responsibilities to other team members. * Develop and disperse project budgets to Production Department and to Project Accounting group. Holds and directs pre-job meetings with project staff (Production and Accounting) to ensure understanding of scope and requirements for day-to-day management of projects. * Manages day-to-day operations of the project through production meetings or regular meetings dictated by customer. Investigate deviances in man/hour projections and revenue projections to determine cause (change in scope, poor performance, other) to minimize exposure or recognize source of additional revenue. Perform an overall job analysis with Production and Estimating Departments to review performance and establish standards for work.



Embraer

• Brazil
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contracts Specialist II

  • Nov 2018 - Aug 2020

  I have helped negotiation and manage Change Orders totaling over $200M in U.S. Defense contracts for Aviation modifications in several programs. I represent the company in many Government conferences, negotiations and meetings for the EDSI Contracts Department whereas I’m delegated the authority as the acting Contract Manager. I also interact with all departments within the company as well as the immediate point of contact of all contractual issues or concerns with all Contract personnel of the U. S. Government, Prime Contractors, Subcontractors and vendors. * Correlates, develops & reviews Request for Proposals (RFPs) responses. Interprets RFP requirements to ensure proposal compliance; Ensures Proposal review process is conducted and proposal complies with approved parameters. * Acts as the formal business interface with multiple external and internal customers on programmatic issues including change management, organizational conflict of interest (OCIs), and Proprietary Information Agreements. * Coordinate & work effectively with Legal, Program Management, Quality, and Logistics & Production. * Leads negotiations and ensures contract reflects agreement.



Global Marine Industrial Services LLC

• Norfolk, Virginia Area

• Contracts & Estimating Manager

  • Feb 2017 - Nov 2018

  I successfully negotiated over $37M worth of U.S. Defense contracts to perform work on US Navy vessels. After contract awarding I managed the oversight of each Contract Administrator assigned on their perspective contract as well as providing weekly reports to corporate executives and Government representatives as the face of the company attending all required conferences and meetings. * Provided Contract Management oversight to assure the Company objectives and regulations are current with the US Government and US Defense Contracting requirements (FAR/DFARS). * Reviews Contract budgets and prepare organizational reports to forecast scheduled completions to avoid delays. Performed proposal review process to ensure proposal complies with approved standards. * Serves as the expert in Defense Contracts and helps interpret FAR/DFARS regulations and requirements. * Performed proposal review process to ensure proposal complies with approved parameters.



BAE Systems Hawaii Shipyard

• Honolulu, HI

• Sr. Contract Administrator

  • Nov 2015 - Feb 2017

  I was assigned the Lead Contract Administrator and worked 17 Cost Plus Award Fee awarded U.S. Defense contracts during my tenure. Of these 17 awarded Cost Plus Award Fee contracts, all my avails finished as under-runs, therefore resulting in financial profits for the company. * Receives all RFQs from the Prime or Government and communicates with the Production Team to decide which Work Items we would like to bid for work on each ship repair contract. * Review each work spec & associated drawings/references before deciding which paragraphs we were not capable of performing * Track the overall progress and budget expenditures throughout the avail of each Contract Administrator. * Drafted the contract language and ensured the accuracy of the cost and pricing data.



BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair

• Contract Administrator/Estimator II

  • Sep 2011 - Nov 2015

  As a Contracts Estimator/Administrator in the Marine Industry we are asked to estimate the total labor hours, total material and subcontractor cost required to complete each work item that we intend to bid on each within each project and to submit as a proposal to be competed nationally amongst others for U.S. Defense contracts. Each project size is different; some range from 10 thousand to 100 million, depending on the length of the avail (21 days to 1-1/2 year in most cases). Once contract is awarded we are responsible to manage the budgets and perform & negotiate all Change Orders throughout the life of each contract. * Supported contract disputes and served as the customer interface with the Subcontractor. * Preparing pricing proposal spreadsheets for final review and submittal * Interfacing with vendors, subcontractors and program personnel to scope pricing * Lead TAR negotiations with the government and ensured contract reflect agreement.

• Project Scheduler

  • Sep 2008 - Sep 2011

  As the Lead Scheduler I was assigned to manage the availability of the workload and manning assignments for the prime contractor as well as each subcontractor. I was asked to conduct weekly Government presentations to showcase the Forecast for each program throughout the year. This allowed the company a better understanding when we should up the manning to stay on track to meet deadlines. * Preparing weekly reports of production and manning to the Navy * Maintaining and updating budgets to calculate percentage of production per job * Producing various charts & graphs for presentation weekly * Interfacing with vendors, subcontractors and program personnel to establish the schedule

• Apprentice Electrician

  • Sep 2004 - Sep 2008

  I was taught the basic fundamental knowledge of being an Electrician. During my tenure I was assigned the Lead Apprentice role and worked and trained as a Supervisor. I was taught the format of pre planning and managing the work loads of each job. I was responsible to manage the amount of material needed as well as to budget the man-hours needed to complete the task of each worker assigned to my team. * Prepared and planned for jobs to meet deadlines * Organized and maintained paperwork for job progression * Displayed leadership as a crew leader of designated tasks