Alan Smith

Keyvan Kevin Kianpour

PMP, PSP

Personal Profile

serving the project management community in many vertical markets, Construction, Information Technology, Public sector, and Energy.

Work Experience

Consultant - WeCPM, LLC

September 2014 - Present

  • Helped finalized internal project management training manual.
  • Oversaw and conducted Primavera training and implementation that resulted in the advancement of a pharmaceutical plant, Gilead.
  • Organized Site and Facility Acceptance Tests (SAT/FAT) to coordinate the resources between suppliers and the pharmaceutical plant owner to commission the facility.
  • Contracted in Calgary, CAN and Halifax, CAN for Primavera training and implementation
  • Contracted in Aurora, NC for Primavera training and executing a project for setup, maintenance, and staffing
  • Contracted in Miami, FL and Ada, OK to help manage the renovation of a concrete manufacturing facility
  • Contracted in Houston, TX for an off-shore as an analyst & Primavera P6 Implementation; Assisted with transition from a decentralized Microsoft Project and single user Primavera project management model to a centralized client server based Primavera environment

Program Operation Manager; IRD (International Relief Development)

July 2009 – May 2014

Served as the program operation manager and contract analyst within IRD operations department

  • Responsible for setting up the project plans based on contract requirements, addressing resources, costs, and project schedules.
  • Responsible for training the personnel for Oracle Primavera software products
  • Responsible for helping new staff prepare project schedules, and cost and resource plans
  • Assisted in project evaluation, from conception to conclusion
  • Responsible for the Electronic Record Management, archiving technology using intelligent bar-coding techniques
  • Responsible for preparing and creating P6, P6Web, PCM, and operations training manuals for Project Management users
  • Helped setup the PMO office in Kabul - Afghanistan, Baghdad - Iraq, Ramallah - West Bank, Amman -Jordan, Addis Ababa – Ethiopia where the office monitors contact management requirements

CPSI Capital Projekts Software Inc.

June 1987, July 2009, President

Served as regional distributor (Washington DC Metro Area) for Primavera Systems, provided full life cycle project management services for over 2000 clients in the Washington Metro area. PSP (certified Primavera Solutions Provider).

  • Conducted Sales and Promotion of Primavera software _P3, P6, PCM (Contract Manager), Risk, EV cost Manager, SureTrak
  • Managing company finances; book keeping and accounting, Payable and Receivable
  • Hiring and managing staff
  • Procurement of hardware and software products to provide turn-key systems for the clients
  • Office management – Leasing, supply management, inventory control, Insurance, Bonding, Travel etc
  • Served both private and public agencies; examples are DOS OBO and Clark Construction company

Senior Product Manager – Kelar Corporation, Los Angeles, California

June 1985 – June 1987

  • Responsible for sales, advertising and marketing campaigns for the Primavera Products
  • Responsible for software demonstration at client site or seminar locations
  • Responsible for interfacing with the manufactures, suggesting for enhancements, updates and upgrades
  • Responsible for processing sales orders and managing staff
  • Responsible for Primavera software application installation, training and support
  • Territory covered was all California, Arizona and Nevada

PC-Telemart

June 1983 – June 1984

Software application development and support.

Key Skills

Certifications

  • PMP - 2013
  • Primavera Project Manager Professional, up to version 8.3, heavy-client and Web-client
  • Primavera Project Manager EPPM (Enterprise Program Project Management)
  • Primavera Contract Manager (Contract document management; formerly, Expedition) version 14.2
  • Primavera SureTrak
  • Primavera Risk Manager version 5.0

Software Application

  • Oracle Primavera Suite – P6, Contract Manager, Risk
  • Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
  • Visio
  • SharePoint
  • Autostore (Electronic and Physical document Archiving)
  • ESRI (GIS - Mapping)
  • Magpie (SMS) – Data Collection
  • BizFlow (Process Management / Workflow software management)
  • QuickBooks (Accounting)
  • Hard Dollar (Estimating)
  • Sales Force (Customer Relation / Care and sales management tool)
  • Training- Primavera Unifier – June 2015

Other

  • Languages: Fluent in English and Farsi, proficient in Russian
  • US citizen
  • Willing to travel

Education

Manchester Polytechnic, UK

Mechanical Engineering

George Washington University

Civil Engineering

Control Data Institute

Computer Science

Project Management Institute (PMI)

PMP

Primavera Systems - Certified PSP

(Primavera Solutions Provider), and trainer