EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Results driven, Project / Facilities / Construction Manager with extensive multi-discipline design engineering experience. Self directed, track record of significant cost savings and schedule adherence on challenging projects. Dedicated, creative, problem solver with outstanding leadership decision-making skills. Passionate determination to exceed customer expectations to create a positive corporate difference.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Strategic Planning - Venture Capital - Proposal and Bid Reviews - Presentations - Organizing and Training Project Teams - Procedure Writing - Scope, Schedule and Cost Integration - Risk Management - Partnering with Team Concepts - Engineering Design Management - Licensed General Contractor with Legal, Insurance, Tax and Accounting Expertise - Construction, Quality and Safety Management - Progress Reports, Invoices and Change Orders - Punch Lists, Closeout and Startup - Document Control - Maintenance / Facilities Management - Microsoft Windows, Explorer, Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio - AutoCAD, Primavera, SIRE, IPCS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
UTAH TRANSIT AUTHORITY SLC, Utah Manager - Facilities Design and Construction
Orchestrated design and construction of $51 million train maintenance facility.
*Optimized all project phases to slash half the cost of similar buildings. Shaved $8 million from budget through creative resource management and aggressive, fast track schedules.
*Procured $25 million federal grant to provide venture capital.
*Maximized cash flow by negotiating a $1million lease for existing facilities that necessitated a complicated construction work plan with multiple cooperative teams, safely sequencing work around the small, heavily populated site.
*Established unique partnering concept with six diverse teams. Evaluation performance scores averaged “excellent minus”.
*Selected by Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce to attend 11 month Utah Corporate
Leadership Conference to broaden networking influence in local government.
Transformed an obsolete, 20-acre, dilapidated, mothballed facility into a modern train complex with a new appraised value of $39 million, utilizing only $8 million of working capital.
*Innovated a unique project plan to meet extreme budget and schedule restrictions by packaging property acquisition, design, renovation and maintenance into a unified, fast track, design/build project.
*Engineered and negotiated an inexpensive, complicated, environmental agreement to mitigate responsibility for 55 years of previous waste contamination.
*Procured a government grant for investigation of a creative geothermal heating concept to minimize energy consumption.
*Initiated creative tenant relocations to fully utilize the large facility.
Expedited design and renovation of a $4.7 million corporate office facility.
*Slashed 22% of budget through unique Time and Materials, Design / Build, project work plan.
*Accomplished impossible fast track schedule requiring two-month duration for initial personnel move.
*Supervised construction of a $5 million rail bridge spanning the I-215 freeway.
*Coordinated critical, detailed shut down windows with Utah Department of Transportation, UTA TRAX train, and the contractor for seamless execution
Developed prototype corporate transit asset management plan to save significant maintenance costs and provide future blue print for capital expenditures.
Completed successful projects
*$4 million rail yard and maintenance facility.
*$2.1 million expansion of eleven park and ride lots along the TRAX train corridor.
*Parking lots and bus/train transportation interfaces for the 2012 Winter Olympics.
ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS (HERCULES) Magna, Utah Construction / Civil Engineer
Managed civil / structural design and construction for a $45 million test facility damaged by a Titan rocket motor malfunction at Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB).
*Hand picked for critical assignment because of reputation for excellence in a fast track environment that required extremely critical schedule, safety and quality commitments. Worked 72 hours a week in a fishbowl climate with team matrix management and four levels of government oversight.
*Slashed millions of dollars by conducting extensive testing procedures on the existing structure to prove it was sound and did not require demolition.
*Presented Hercules H2A2 award for efforts beyond the standards of expectation.
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