Christen Walker

Christen Walker

Staff Analyst

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    BGCAPP Project Controls Lead

  • Education

    • Eastern Kentucky University

      2024 - 2025
      Master of Business Administration - MBA
    • Eastern Kentucky University

      2014 - 2018
      Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Business Administration and Management, General 3.5
  • Experience

    • Myers and Stauffer LC

      Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
      Staff Analyst

      Audit disproportionate share hospital (DSH) submissions to ensure proper compliance with government regulations. Coordinate with providers and other accounting firms to request additional reconciliation items. Create and manipulate Excel files using a variety of functions, always ensuring proper HIPAA compliance when handling personal health information (PHI). Organize the creation of a training binder for the Medicare cost report.

    • Commonwealth of Kentucky

      Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
      Health Program Administrator

      Build and oversee numerous REDCap database projects for healthcare partners around Kentucky; create and give data trainings to internal management and external partners.Provide REDCap end user support; create and manage users. Manage the REDCap Database for the Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program. Track, analyze, and report on blood pressure data for many different partners, coordinating the facilitation of blood pressure data for the HDSP program. Design and implement data quality and data archiving procedures which are still in use today. Write, edit, and review federally funded grant documents; grant awarded after successful submission. Show less

    • Amentum

      Jul 2021 - Sept 2023
      Project Controls Analyst III

      Manage the cost, schedule and performance for multiple accounts on the BGCAPP project such as Business Management, Human Resources, Plant Engineering, Treaty and the Static Detonation Chamber 1200, etc., integrating relevant information from collaboration with Control Account Managers (CAMs) and Human Resources; perform cost and usage variance analysis. Forecast estimates to complete (ETCs) on assigned accounts, adjusting monthly based on current need and expectations, providing accurate estimates at complete (EAC) to project and company management. Write variance analysis reports (VARs) to support management by analyzing accounts and utilizing Earned Value Management (EVM) principles to explain cumulative and current period cost/schedule variances as well as variances at complete (VAC) and To-Go Performance Indicators (TCPI), Schedule Performance Indicators (SPI) and Cost Performance Indicators (CPI) . Responsible for the BGCAPP Treaty Summary VAR which is reported to federal government stakeholders on a monthly basis. Populate Variance Analysis Report spreadsheets monthly for the BGCAPP Amentum Project Controls team using Prism reports and Excel functions. Utilize Power BI daily to assist with data analysis and labor tracking efforts. Ensure accurate labor forecasting weekly and monthly. The Amentum BGCAPP Project Controls Team has maintained overall labor forecasting accuracy of 100% since November 2020. Show less

    • Parsons Corporation

      Mar 2024 - now

      Provides guidance, direction, and specialized assistance for the resolution of difficult and complex project control problems.Analysis, evaluation, and forecast project costs and performance. Accumulates and accesses historical data, such as performance experience, for use in maintaining a realistic basis for future planning and forecasting.Develops or maintains an established system to show the hierarchy of plans and schedules; keeps project and company management fully informed.

      • BGCAPP Project Controls Lead

        Nov 2024 - now
      • Principal Project Controls Engineer

        Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Christen Walker
      2022 BGCAPP Mile Marker Award BGCAPP Sep 2022 Awarded for assistance with a project sponsored job fair.
    • Awarded to Christen Walker
      2021 BGCAPP Mile Marker Award BGCAPP Sep 2021 Awarded by the Bluegrass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant's Project Controls Manager for going "above and beyond the call of duty" in assisting the Project Controls Department.
    • Awarded to Christen Walker
      2023 BGCAPP Mile Marker Award BGCAPP Awarded for the planning and successful execution of a project-wide event celebrating International Women’s Day at which the BGCAPP Project Manager, Dr. Candance Coyle, was the guest speaker.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Treasurer

      Issued by Bonnie Brae Homeowner's Assocation on Jun 2022
      Bonnie Brae Homeowner's AssocationAssociated with Christen Walker
    • Worship Leader

      Issued by Lexington First Assembly of God on Feb 2017
      Lexington First Assembly of GodAssociated with Christen Walker