Graham Dinicola

About Graham Dinicola

Senior Program Manager with 8+ years of experience spanning field project management and…

Experience

1. Sr Program Manager - Cost Controls, Planning & Analysis

   Amazon

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Strategic Cost & Risk Management• Oversee the cost management program for a $1.2B+ annual CAPEX portfolio across 500+ logistics projects for five business units in North America. • Spearheading development efforts of an end-to-end, enterprise-wide cost management platform, aligning process and requirements with various stakeholder groups (PMO, finance, capital planning & governance, and project managers), scaling to manage $5.6B+ in CAPEX and 200+ users.• Standardized executive level cost reporting, KPIs, and KPMs, working to improve data fidelity and decision making through implementation of a work breakdown structure (WBS).• Integrated cost and schedule datasets, laying the foundation for earned value management (EVM) and proactive risk mitigation.Portfolio Analysis & Program Innovation• Identified $238M in cost avoidance through portfolio analysis of $2.5B in open funding, leveraging risk assessment and financial forecasting. • Developed and launched a third-party cost auditing program, recovering $32M (546% ROI) by implementing in-flight audit practices to catch billing discrepancies. • Established a change management framework analyzing 1,800+ requests, preventing $60M in projected cost by addressing front end gaps in scope, design redundancies, and process inefficiencies.

Education

• Oregon State University

  Bachelor's Degree

  2012 — 2016

Skills

• Marketing
• Bluebeam
• Sap2000
• Arcgis
• Photoshop
• Microsoft Word
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Customer Service
• Microsoft Office
• Matlab
• Autocad
• Viewpoint
• Leadership