Los Alamos National Laboratory

PM tec provides continuing program management, project management and project controls support to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).  Our experienced professionals support LANL organizations, projects and programs within Environmental Programs, Safety and Security Programs, Nuclear Programs, Infrastructure Programs, Threat Reduction Program, Construction Projects, Science Programs, Formality of Operations, and Business and Operations Improvement Projects.   PM tec’s support includes all facets of project and program management from strategic planning and decision making to project controls and project execution. 

PM tec also provides strategic support to senior management.  Some examples include providing a strategic and accelerated approach to program planning through our Fast Start process.  This process has benefited LANL by reducing the project planning time by 75%.   Our senior staff is also positioned in leadership roles across the Laboratory where we provide strategic support and direction in the areas of program management and project controls efforts.  A PM tec senior staff member served as the Project Leader for LANL’s successful implementation/certification of their earned value management system.  Project success was formally recognized by both the University of California and DOE’s Director of the Office of Management.

PM tec implemented Primavera Project Management for the Nuclear Weapons Program at the Laboratory, for the current year of execution plus five “out” years (into the future). The effort required intensive data structure design, especially for the institutional Enterprise Structure and Resource Dictionary. Since the Resource Dictionary requires updates several times annually, PM tec designed an automated process to support the updates.  PM tec worked closely with CFO to maintain rate and escalation structures in the EVMS, including the handling of complex indirect rates and outsourced work.

PM tec employs a number of professional staff to support the classified and unclassified IT environments for LANL’s Institutional Project Management Tools.  Our staff has provided custom interfaces to accounting (Oracle), tool development (Work Packaged Generator for developing work packages for planning work), network administration, server configuration, and other hardware related IT support efforts.  Other efforts have included a site-wide implementation of Primavera Enterprise (P5/P6).  PM tec personnel provide daily administration support to LANL’s site-wide implementation of P5/P6 including the administering of user accounts, security privileges, troubleshooting issues (help desk), and coaching/mentoring users for improved efficiencies.  Desktop instructions and various process/procedures are written to support the effective use of LANL’s earned value management system including interfaces between P5/P6 and PRISM (EV tool).  PM tec personnel provide integration expertise with SharePoint reporting/dashboards and other tool integration through the use of Primavera’s APIs.  PM tec provides certified Primavera trainers to LANL for training curriculums.

Our staff has provided custom interfaces to accounting (Oracle), tool development (Work Packaged Generator for developing work packages for planning work), web interfaces for earned value reporting and data input, network administration, server configuration, and other hardware related IT support efforts.  Other efforts have included a site-wide implementation of Primavera Enterprise (P5/P6).  PM tec personnel provide daily administration support to LANL’s site-wide implementation of P5/P6 including the administering of user accounts, security privileges, troubleshooting issues (help desk), and coaching/mentoring users for improved efficiencies.  Desktop instructions and various process/procedures are written to support the effective use of LANL’s earned value management system including interfaces between P5/P6 and PRISM (EV tool).  PM tec personnel provide integration expertise with SharePoint reporting/dashboards and other tool integration through the use of Primavera’s APIs. 

PM tec provides certified Primavera trainers to LANL for customized or standard training curriculums.

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