Helping various entrepreneurial clients (private) across different industries: define, organize and develop ideas into business concepts while utilizing project management techniques to keep scope creep and budget overrun to a minimum.

Responsibilities/Activities/Expectations General: - Oversee execution/performance of the project and client acceptance before and after completion - Prepare, develop and maintain the project plan and schedule to meet all project objectives - Provide budget analysis, labor planning, and coordination of activities of company and contractor personnel - Monitor project completion from initiation through delivery to meet schedule, resource and cost projections - Develop, implement, and track project metrics to report performance - Conduct presentations for department leadership and lead project team meetings as required Specific: - Evangelize, schedule, support, and monitor all aspects of Engineering Applications projects ranging from major new software release implementations, license management, training coordination and budget development - Work collaboratively with all entities involved in the project and serve as a liaison between program leadership, staff, IT departments and the user base - Serve as mediator to internal issues and conflicting priorities for members of cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or upgraded existing products to the user base - Perform risk analysis to identify, track, plan/schedule and resolve critical path conflicts - Utilize project management techniques (e.g., Gantt, milestone charts, etc.) to gauge progress and identify performance variances to facilitate focus and intervention on critical areas