A position as Construction Project Manager where construction knowledge, high mechanical aptitude and commitment to safety can contribute to profitable operation.
Vikas Shair
38660 Lexington Street # 620 Fremont, CA shair.v[at]gmail.com 510-542-3069 (Cell)
408-941-7810 X 245(Off) _________________________________________________________________________________
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER/CONSTRUCTION MANAGER/ENGINEER
with 25 years experience in
• Construction • Engineering • Architecture • Energy • Environment • Power • IT
Experience includes:
• Owners representative • Architect/Engineer • Contractor • Consultant • International
Skills and Strengths
• Corporate strategist and key member of the management team with extensive knowledge of engineering design in civil, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, HVAC, life science, remediation and operating systems.
• A crisis manager: bringing common sense, organizational skills, and a logical decision making process to solving sensitive, time-critical problems. Strong in customer relations, assume responsibility for actions and accountable for outcome.13+ years experience in project and program management.
• Proven team leader and troubleshooter with developed analytical, organizational and strategic planning skills.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of construction and environmental laws, OSHPD, OSHA, CEQA, ADA.
• Built and managed 1.6 M square feet of building spaces that includes university complexes, residential housing complexes, commercial buildings, aircraft hangers and gas stations.
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Construction Project Manager: Countrywide Corporation, Milpitas, CA 07/2007 – Till date
Bank Real Estate Services Department (CA, HI and NV Division).
Project Management as related to new construction, tenant improvement (TI) & capital improvement projects.
• Project design and planning coordination. Analysis of alternatives of project delivery systems. Value engineering, Life
cycle cost analysis. Constructability reviews. Budget development. Project delivery selection. Preparation of estimates,
bid packages, deliver request for proposals (RFP) to contractors, receive bids, analyze, negotiate and award contracts.
• Provide technical oversight of facility layout, including considerations related to process, electrical and operations.
• Project schedule development on MS project. Coordination with contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers/ vendors.
• Monitor progress of the projects. Monitor quality of construction. Monitor adherence to schedule. Perform technical
administration of contracts, coordinate between design and construction. Approve revised design drawings and details.
• Interface and communicate with customers and management. Liaise with city/municipal/government departments for building permits/certificate of occupancy. Troubleshoot and provide effective solutions to all site related problems.
• Insure compliance to local building standards, codes, company standards, project specifications by all contractors.
• Create requisitions, change orders, purchase orders and process submittals, RFI’s, invoices. Liaise with disposition team for buy-out of excess lease of closed branches. Manage Branch openings, remodel, expansion & closures.
• Review all as built drawings, construction, space & area allocations, and reflected ceiling plans and services drawings.
• Manage completions, construction walk through, delivery punch list & project closeout.
Project Manager
First Bay Financial Inc. San Jose, CA. 10/ 2006 – 07/2007
• Developed outsourcing model for civil structural, MEP & IT works. Prepared statutes for company capital venture investments in home/commercial buildings. Write, review & critique technical reports & construction documents.
• Collaborated with business users to learn the needs of various business groups. Performed analysis of business modules and processes to evaluate efficiency. Managed power point presentations to internal team and to clients.
• Estimating quantities and costs. Value engineering and cost accounting. Prepared project proposals to determine time frame and funding limitations. Charted responsibilities for the design and execution of the engineering project.
• Analyzed all construction, development and operational requirements. Maintained company suites and sublease spaces. Performed after hours cost savings. Prepared Green house modular plans. Energy engineering project management. Prepared complete financial analysis and reports against spending/expend, profit and loss.
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Program Director: Infrastructure/Real Estate/Facilities.
S.K. University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Srinagar, India. 5/2003 – 10/2006
• Plan Projects. Review design, bid package and Invite bids, negotiate and award contracts to contractors and vendors.
• Oversee multiple projects, Administrative, lecture rooms, and research buildings, laboratories, hostels and staff housing, drinking water treatment plants, cold storage plants, data center, energy parks and green houses.
• Manage a team of over 50 highly qualified project managers, engineers, and site superintendants with 8 direct reports including managing in-house architectural & structural design team. Select Architect/Engineers for specialized works.
• Review project plans, project reports, estimates and schedules, drawings, specifications and contract documents.
• Conduct review meetings with vice-chancellor and works committee regarding project progress and financial aspects.
• Chair weekly progress meetings with contractors, subcontractors, project/design teams and municipal representatives.
• Cross-functional coordination with state government, external funding/nodal agencies and with vice-chancellor.
• Direct & coordinate activities of project staff for adequate time/cost management. Approve project bills change orders.
• Maintained existing campus university immovable and movable property /assets. Managed land development and land acquisition for expansion of university research and extension stations, that includes high altitude and remote stations.
• Managed project walk through and completions, snag and delivery punch lists and close out. Manage handover.
• Manage in house trainings for technical site staff. Hired technical staff for on going and new projects.
Responsible for quality assurances in design of civil, electrical, plumbing, mechanical/ HVAC projects.
Contracts Manager:
Rigid Construction Group LLC, Dubai, U.A.E. 11/1998 –5/2003
• Manage construction of steel structure buildings that includes hospital, retail, commercial and public works buildings, warehouses, aircraft hanger and shopping mall. All Pre-engineered from Butler Steel USA: Projects worth over $415M.
• Managed a team of 160 site managers, engineers, labors, and fabricators on multiple sites, and in fabrication yard.
• Monitor progress on weekly basis, project planning on prima vera P3, use constraints and float, establish target/crash dates for completion of the activities and projects. Review, material, tractability, identification, indents and approve.
• Produce and submit bills, change orders and invoices to the clients. Follow up for payments. Produce monthly forecasts.
• Analyze machinery & equipment requirements. Allot machinery and workforce on daily basis to project engineers.
• Measure performance and implement corrective actions. Evaluating options & devising work around and advising team where their performance needs improvement. Conduct weekly progress meetings with management and project team.
• Assurance of adequate cost management of 22 projects. Develop cost saving methodologies, commercially managed to achieve 3% saving in operating costs by leveraging volume purchases and effective vendor rebate management.
• Conducted interviews and hired engineers. Produced reports on annual performance of all direct and indirect reports.
• Conducted internal audits for quality assurance, quality control and site/project safety per ISO 10011 requirements.
• Manage walk through (with clients and project engineer) completions, assist in delivery punch list and project closeout.
Resident Engineer
Zabeel Architect/Engineers, Dubai, U.A.E. 7/1997 – 11/ 1998
Selected for the role by Dubai City Municipality for their prestigious $90 million project. “Construction of Car Exhibition Center.†comprising of 130 car showrooms & utilities.
• Project development & implementation of design build construction measures. Manage constructability reviews.
• Oversee 4 contractor Project Managers. Co-ordination between main, sub contractors, vendors and suppliers.
• Interface with own design team to incorporate changes to suit site conditions. Lead the cross functional teams.
• Inspect works in general for any safety non-compliance. Conduct timely checks for quality control and assurance.
• Review and incorporate changes as required in contractor’s/subcontractor’s shop/working drawings and approve
• Review, approve or reject building material, samples and submittals including mock ups and involve client at times.
• Analyze progress to generate necessary reports for future planning on primavera P-3. Update and set mile stones.
• Develop strategies leading to quality works & performance management. Manage tool meetings for instructions.
• Provide technical support to contractors for electrical mast, radar and networking, television tower installations.
• Check on site test reports for approval or rejection. Process change orders and invoices with quantity surveyor.
• Process all contractor requests, RFI’s, CVI, method statements from project managers with due diligence and accuracy.
• Chair weekly progress meetings with main contractor, sub-contractors and client and prepare minutes of meeting and distribute among all parties for action and compliance and follow up to remain on track. Award best performers.
• Oversee completions, construction walk through (with municipality inspectors), delivery punch list & project closeout.
Project Engineer Contracts Manager:
Promo seven Holdings, Dubai, U.A.E. 9/1995 – 3/1997 Project Management for construction and redevelopment of EGPC filling stations to secure new image “EMARATâ€. Sub Architect/Engineers: Consult Ltd.Dubai & W.S.Atkins, Dubai. Construction of Six Petrol & Diesel Filling Stations, super market buildings, fast food restaurants (Mac-Donald, Pizza Hut & KFC), auto car wash & lube express services and product pipelines. Including demolition and remediation works per local laws for existing gas stations at various locations in Sharjah & Dubai.
Quality Control/Contract Engineer
Mace Contractors Ltd. Abu-Dhabi, UAE 01/1994 – 09/1995
Execution and supervision for Contract “Miscellaneous utilities for National Petroleum Construction company (NPCC) offshore development†and waste water treatment and pipeline works for government contract C-148/3 also at Mussaffah.
• Construction of settling basin, aeration and sedimentation chambers. piping, treatment systems, and plant house
• Laying of waste water pipeline including construction of manholes, collection chambers and inspection chambers.
• 220 Meters micro tunneling Non disruptive road crossing (NDRC) with water jet technology on Al Ain-Abu Dhabi road.
• Construction of utilities main water storage and fire fighting pump houses and fuel pump house including piping.
• Construction of gas station, NPCC offshore and PMV including product pipelines, and underground fuel tanks.
• Precasting works: JRC-12/JRC-14 telephone chambers, fresh water chambers, fire fighting chambers, communication and computer chambers, foundation blocks power and air take points. Installation of all these chambers to line and level..
Laying of fiber optic telephone cables, and computer structured cables and electrical cables in the yard. Carrying out tests like liquid penetrant, magnetic particle, visual and radiographic per defined standards, Insuring material supplied by subcontractors match with the contract specifications. General inspection of structural steel, piping/pipelines, cladding and other building material. Summary of First Ten years after graduating My job career started in estates department of University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar, India in November 1983, wherein I worked as Assistant Engineer & Assistant Executive Engineer for a decade till I took up an assignment abroad in Middle East in December 1993. In university I supervised multiple project sites viz: veterinary sciences & animal husbandry complex, project worth INR.52 million, besides supervising projects of significant size like laboratory/lecture rooms blocks, hospital/clinical building, boys hostels, residential apartments, forestry block, library building, cold store/refrigeration building, auditorium building, shopping complexes, water treatment plant, museum, seed processing units Irrigations/drainage canals, road works and fencing All these building works include water supply, plumbing, sanitary, drainage, electrical, mechanical (centrifugal, jet, submersible pumps) & HVAC services. My main responsibilities were quality control on project sites, follow up of daily site reports, coordinating with contractors & consultants, checking bills raised by contractors, site management and complete supervision. I also did huge maintenance works of existing facility in various faculties’ and 15 satellite stations of the university.
Education:
Masters in Construction Management (in progress) –Cal State East Bay-CA. Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (1983) - University of Kashmir, India.
Trainings:
• Primavera project planner, suretrak project manager, version 3
• Auto-Cad Lt 2003. Visio 2007
• Program on durability of concrete & concrete with blended cements.
• Program on energy conservation & energy efficiency in buildings.
• Internal auditing course (ISO 10011): Quality Matrix Auditors, Dubai.
• Computer Operating Systems & Applications. IBM Lotus Notes.
• Awards and References: Available on request
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