Joel Kohler Project Management Gets Results

Profile

Joel Kohler Project Management Inc., based in the Boulder and Denver area, is a capable project management and project engineering company.

It services the commercial, government, industrial, and IT sectors. Typical projects have included project management and project engineering services towards the development of facility, infrastructure and industrial expansion, power generation including conventional / renewable / nuclear, and IT process control automation.

Joel Kohler has a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and has years of experience managing successful projects in energy, environment, infrastructure, and IT process automation.

Profit from over 20 years of leadership experience in engineering and finance, with responsibility to management for cost, scope, schedule, and technical performance.

Project Management for Small Businesses

Joel Kohler PMP is now offering PMI-certified, project-structured management services to small, emerging, and startup businesses. This is ideal for new businesses that require the development and maintenance of comprehensive project-planning documents in support of management reporting. Joel Kohler is fluent in the current suite of standard tools used in the project industry, including MS Project, Excel, and P3. These tools are used to develop and maintain project plans, schedules, project controls, cost accounts, and work breakdown structures.

Credibility is essential to small and emerging businesses in order to support owners' and shareholders' need for accurate management reporting. With Joel Kohler developing your project-planning documents, you can be assured that management will have a crystal-clear view of project progress and the management direction. Learn more about Project Management for Small Business.

Philosophy

"Project Management is a people oriented business. While project management software is a powerful tool, at the end of the day, it is successful interaction and face-to-face contact with a diverse group of professionals that gets things done - on time and on budget. Speaking both technical and budget or schedule languages is an essential ingredient to smooth project integration."

Success Strategies

Know where you have to go
Be proactive, always on the look out for trouble
Don't ever assume engineers are comfortable communicating with anyone outside of their specific engineering disciplines

Qualifications at a Glance

Accomplished project engineering manager with over twenty years of progressively responsible experience in engineering design development and design management
Proven team leader, manages project teams from project planning through execution
Skilled in design integration, contractual requirements verification, and performance assessment
Direct experience balancing project engineering, safety, and finance interfaces

Key Project Management Skills

Leadership: Hands on experience building and leading project teams and stakeholder groups from project initiation through project operations.
Collaboration and Integration: Routinely collaborates with a diverse group of subject matter experts during project initiation, scope development, and project execution.
Change Management: Direct experience with managing the RFI and design change processes.
Multi-tasking: Managing multiple scopes, schedules, budgets, and stakeholder communications.
Communications: Excellent communicator with verbal, writing and presentation skills attuned to project goals and stakeholder needs.
Negotiation and Problem Solving: Conversant across multiple engineering disciplines, understands complex problems and capable of negotiating mutually-acceptable solutions.
Team Building: Hands-on experience building and leading project teams from project initiation through project operations.

Education, Clearances, and Certifications

Northwestern University, M.B.A. Finance
New York University, M.E. Nuclear Engineering
Temple University, B.A. Mathematics
PMP certification from Project Management Institute
Inactive Q clearance from the U.S. Department of Energy

Put your project on the right footing. Contact Joel Kohler today.

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Project Engineering

Bringing a seasoned project engineer and manager on to your team often adds precision to the engineering process - with handsome returns in cost and schedule savings.

Every seasoned project manager knows that lurking beneath the surface are eleventh-hour surprises, inadequate interpretations of mission critical requirements, complex and costly engineering designs, and failure to meet requirements.

Seasoned project managers must see the big picture to survive. From experience working on many diverse engineering projects, for many different clients, they have solid communications and problem solving skills. They know where to find, and how to fix, the inevitable problems. They can also help staff engineers more readily implement correctly-engineered solutions.

Need to get your project back on schedule, on budget, or on track? Contact Joel Kohler today.