Great leader and communication skills. Work on a team enviroment to make sure the project will commit or exceed all budget, schedule, quality and safety expectations.
Project Manager
Credentials
Managed projects successfully in the US and international markets since 1999. Strong experience on design-build projects leading and coordinating them throughout all stages including pre-design, design, value engineer, permitting, bidding process, construction, delivery and close-out. High level of design, cost, schedule, quality and safety controls meeting and/or exceeding customer’s expectations and company goals. Effective leader and good team relationship builder with customers, contractors, engineers, public/private entities and other key team members facilitating the design and construction management process.
By working directly with the leader of operations for the Latin America region, successfully executed the first project overseas for a design/build company, starting with the process of opening a new market. Some of the activities accomplished involved, establishing local and key relationships, understanding the local culture and the way they do business, getting familiar with local costs, systems and codes and doing presentations of the Company to potential clients. Since 1999 the company is still doing business in Latin America.
Bilingual: Fluent in English and Spanish.
Responsibilities
Manage directly relationship with clients, contractors, suppliers and other key team members involved in the project by keeping them updated, informed and motivated until a successful project completion, close-out and delivery. Directly in charge of construction management services throughout the project with primary focus on design coordination and review, bidding process, overall cost, schedule, quality, and safety control. This includes RFP, contractor qualification process including meetings, bid analysis and value engineer studies, develop contracts and its management, pre and design review, logistic development and tracking, schedule issue/tracking/improvement, material procurement/tracking, change order management, budget/cost tracking-maintain and projections, safety inspections, quality control management, submittals & RFI process, project meetings, pro-active actions by thinking in advance of any potential issues that could impact the project to develop and track a plan to avoid such situation, project and financial reporting, project close-out releases and documentation, and establishing, developing and maintaining relationships with existing clients and seeking for new ones for future business.
Education
Master in Construction Management
Universidad Iberoamericana
Mexico City, (Mexico)
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
Universidad Javeriana
Bogota, (Colombia)
National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER)
Construction Management Seminar
Clemson University, South Carolina
29 CFR OSHA 1926
Occupational Safety and Health Training
Jacksonville, Florida
English – Spanish
Microsoft Office, Outlook, Power Point, Word, Excel, Primavera, Sure Track, Microsoft Project, Prolog, Timberline, Pay-Dirt
Experience
HA Management Consulting, LLC. • Management Consulting Services • 2009-Actual
Owner / General Manager
Provide management consulting services to clients during design coordination process, permitting, construction activities, close out and successful project delivery. Assist the client on all project management activities by manage budgets, schedules, quality and safety controls. Team work scenario with the client keeping a great communication at all the time and in a timely manner, including but not limited to weekly reports, coordination conference calls, site visits, and executive monthly reports which describes and illustrates project status, cost projections and financial report.
Edwards Construction Services, Inc. • Design-Build General Contractor • 2006–Dec 2008
Project Manager
• Iron Mountain – 70,000 s.f., 40’ high warehouse expansion, new drain-field system and site improvements for a records management facility; West Palm Beach, Florida.
• Pepsi Bottling Group – Office renovations of existing facility at Miami, Florida.
• Pepsi Bottling Group – New warehouse expansion and site improvements at existing facility in Daytona Beach, Florida.
• Pepsi Bottling Group – New warehouse expansion, dock positions and site improvements at existing facility in Melbourne, Florida.
• Pepsi Bottling Group – New dock positions and loading/unloading area at existing facility in Augusta, Georgia.
• Spice World – Jenard Fresh – 70,000 s.f. new refrigerated warehouse, new offices & non-cold storage area included; Orlando, Florida.
• Taylor Farms – Refrigerated warehouse expansion and new waste area for a vegetable process plant; Orlando, Florida.
The Haskell Company • Design-Build General Contractor • 1999–2006
Project Manager & Business Development for Latin America Region
Ingenieros Civiles Asociados – ICA; Mexico City - Mexico • General Contractor • 1997–1999
Quality Control Manager
ISO-9001 - Certification and Quality Assurance Control (QA). Worked on the international quality system program - ISO-9001 implementation for the entire company until received certification. Continued working on QA for a US$170 million project.
• Torre Chapultepec. – 54 story high-rise AAA office building on Reforma Avenue close to downtown Mexico City (Mexico).
Ingenieria de Estructuras; Bogota - Colombia • Structural Design Company • 1992–1995
Structural Engineer
Worked as a structural design engineer for concrete buildings between five and ten stories high. Developed the actual seismic design, generated drawings (ACAD) and supervised in a timely basis the projects to control that the construction follows the requirements established in the design.
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