MANAGEMENT / STRUCTURAL / FORENSIC
Resourceful, innovative professional with over 12 years progressive Structural Engineering and Management experience within a broad range of environments and projects. Held P&L and management responsibilities. Expertise in extracting and understanding client needs to design and create the features desired within any engineering project. A Hands-on Manager with proven skills in analysis, modification, design, troubleshooting, coordination, organization, training and improvement of operations through policies that promote a team-based work atmosphere, superior customer service, creative thinking, process enhancement, and a positive result for the corporate bottom line.
SELECTED RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Managed up to thirteen Staff Engineers at various levels of experience while developing a comprehensive training program at a company where none existed. Implemented and maintained a program designed to progressively teach and mentor Staff Engineers through various departments and roles.
• Enhanced employee morale through promotion of a team-based work atmosphere.
Provided assignments of increased responsibility coupled with additional training and performance incentives to encourage a sense of ownership in the overall operation.
• Maintained a high level of quality-driven production, was responsible for, and often exceeded, forty percent of the total company deliverables for a two hundred-plus employee firm.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by assigning the best engineer to work on the
client’s needs. Strong business relationships were built which resulted in
additional, repeat, new and referral projects that helped the company grow.
• Managed all aspects of the engineering of several large projects including
recruitment, hiring and training of staff, budgeting, scheduling work and activities, project status, troubleshooting, establishing policies and procedures, performance evaluation, and motivation of employees.
• Manage all aspects of a business including development and marketing plans,
hiring and firing, engineering, client relations, accounts payable, accounts
receivable, payroll, workflow procurement and project management.
• Provide mentoring and additional training on a continual basis to contractors,
designers, and drafters involving structural ideas and concerns. Delivered small
group, one-on-one and on-the-job instruction in basic engineering concepts,
construction feasibility and code related issues.
• Increased structural integrity and reduced costs through analysis of the structural steel connections of a project at the Aladdin Casino Hotel in Las Vegas. Made recommendations to the Engineer of Record to limit the different bolt sizes used in construction.
• Designed a 2-story commercial building with structural steel roof attached to
concrete masonry walls. Coordinated between structural steel manufacturers and
masonry contractors to ensure the interface between the 2 systems was structurally adequate for what is now the Polk Professional Center.
• Successfully produced a structural steel request bid for the Dearborn Tower
Project in less than 3 business days. Analyzed the plans and features requested by the client and then used computer modeling from similar completed construction schemes to speed up the estimating for this 50+ story project.
• Researched and put together a proactive plan to renovate a 2-story wood
structure built circa 1925. Brought the entire building to today’s standards in
structural soundness without detracting from the building’s historical significance or architectural appeal.
• Analyzed the existing structures and came up with a novel approach in the
design a...
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