PHILIP RANDOLPH ABBEY
Tel: 619-640-2597 – Mobile:
504-432-7790 E-mail to pr_abbey@hotmail.com
SUMMARY
A seasoned financial and
program analyst with thirty-six years of
experience including international consulting, management, supervision, cost
engineering, program development, training, and FEMA Public Assistance. I am an
expert in the use of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS-Project.
Skills include tariff
and rate development, cost analysis, revenue forecasting, project planning and
administration, proposal development, cost estimating, financial modeling,
strategic planning, budget development and local government administration. I
have worked abroad in
RECENT RELEVANT
EXPERIENCE & FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Public Assistance
Specialist (Contractor), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), AECOM
International Development Co., New Orleans, Louisiana, 2006-2008.
In Iowa I worked with 11
applicants preparing project worksheets. This included developing the damage
assessments, preparing and estimating the scopes of work. During this
assignment in prepared 70 project worksehhts.
Working with FEMA and
the public schools my team performed damage assessments in 128 schools
throughout the City of New Orleans. I prepared and managed over 120 Project
Worksheets (PW’s) and worked with the applicant to develop correct scopes of
work for funding under the Stafford Act. and Des
Moines, Iowa, 2008.
Local Governance
Specialist (Contractor), FEMA, AECOM International Development Co., Lake
Charles, Louisiana, 2006.
On this Long-term
Recovery Plan (ESF-14) assignment I was the team’s local governance specialist
and also worked as the Public Safety element’s coordinator.
Construction Manager - 2005
Site Supervisor, The Sandi Group, Baghdad International Airport (Camp
Liberty). Iraq, 2005.
International Advisor – 1999 to 2005. Six assignments are listed.
1-Institutional
Development Specialist, DFID, Enterplan Ltd, Basra,
Iraq. 2004
Responsible for assisting local official in developing management skills and
assisting them in obtaining respouces to enhance
service delivery in the four southern governorates of Iraq. I was also
responsible for researching and writing a description of local government organisation and budgeting for the Basra Governorate.
2-Local Governance Financial Advisor, USAID, RTI
International,
Responsible for
assisting local officials in developing meaningful budgets and liaison between
the municipal officials and the Coalition Provisional Authority in identifying
needs and developing solutions.
3-Municipal Financial
Advisor, World Bank/Development Bank of Southern Africa, GRM International,
Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 2003.
Responsible for guiding
the development of municipal operating and capital budgets in conformance with
new national government statutes. The goal is to demonstrate how well the local authority is using
national treasury grants in improving the social and economic conditions of the
metropolitan area’s poorest residents.
4-Senior Financial
Consultant, USAID, PADCO, Inc.
Responsible for
analysis, review and validation of public utilities financial models and
budgets for a USAID sponsored project in Kyiv and two provincial cities in
5-Interim Finance &
Administration Manager, USAID, Metcalf & Eddy,
Responsible for managing
the financial and administrative affairs of a USAID contract in
6-Tariff and Financial
Planning Specialist, Chemonics International,
Assisted the Alexandria
General Organization for Sanitary Drainage (AGOSD) on a USAID-funded
institutional support and strengthening project. Responsibilities included
development of a tariff and financial model to determine economic rates and
technical assistance with long-term utility financial management.
City of San Diego, San Diego, CA, Water (Utilities) Department,
1993-1999.
Senior Analyst CIP
Budgets & Project Manager, Facilities Services, 1997-1999.
Supervised the Water
Department’s capital budgeting process, Prepared the capital
budget ($1.0 billion/5 years) and performed the project control
functions supporting the project managers. Supervised a staff
of six.
Operations & Special
Projects Analyst and Contracts Administrator, 1995-1997.
Performed special
studies seeking better ways of doing business. Administered agreements
between the City of
Rate Analyst, City
Manager’s Office, 1993-1994.
Responsible for building
a financial model with a rolling 20-year horizon to be used in planning future
expenditures and revenue stream for the City of San Diego’s Municipal and
Metropolitan sewer systems.
Other duties included
preparation of official statements, billing contracting agencies, assessing the
impact of proposed revenue sources and working with contracting agencies to
develop equitable cost sharing for capital projects.
Pre-1993 I worked
primarily as a Financial Analyst in the Aerospace industry in the United
States.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Public
Administration. San Diego State University,
Master of Business
Administration. Andrews
U.,
RELEVANT AWARD & PUBLICATIONS
Iraq Reconstruction
Service Medal, Awarded by the British government for civilian service in Iraq
in 2004.
Abbey, Philip R.,
Program Evaluation for the Support to Municipal Development and Management in
the
__________, Revenue
Enhancement for AGOSD.
February 2001.
___________, Ability to
Pay. February 2001.
Prepared 29 December 2008