To fully utilize my engineering and business skills.
Senior Engineering Project Manager
Project Management ~ Process Improvement ~ Six Sigma Quality ~ Strategic Planning ~ Financial Analysis
SUMMARY:
Extensive hands-on, cross-discipline experience in the engineering, project management, facility operations, construction, manufacturing and Information Technology areas. Saved companies over $60,000,000 to date by using Continuous Improvement analyzing methodology and implementing solutions that streamline workloads and reduce bottom line costs. Strong financial background in budgeting, controlling expenditures, and cost analysis with proven expertise in achieving superior value engineering cost reduction benefits. Ability to effectively interact with senior level management and influence actions/decisions of others via in-person or via technical and marketing writing skills.
An excellent Communicator, Collaborator, and Change-Agent leader with vision, flexibility and strategic thinking.
Over 30 years of expertise as a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE), and a Motorola-trained Lean Certified Six Sigma Black-Belt (CSSBB) and Quality Award Winner with a successful record of accomplishments and a consistent history of utilizing engineering solutions to increase accuracy and productivity while reducing expenditures. Earned the Motorola Worldwide Recognition Award (Best one out of a thousand employees) for Six Sigma Projects.
Strong understanding of Government FAR Acquisitions, Earned Value Management, cost accounting, contract management, risk management, issue management, scope planning, project definition, scheduling, and flow charting. Able to provide personal leadership that encourages ethical business practices, compliance with all government regulations, and responsiveness to the needs of customers. U.S. Citizen open to self-relocation throughout the USA.
TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY
Certified Project Manager / Project Management Professional (PMP): The Project Management Institute
Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt: CSSBB, Motorola-Trained, Lean Trained
Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE): The Society of Manufacturing Engineering
State of Kentucky Municipal Wastewater Operators License, passed licensing test.
Real Estate Agent License: IL & CA
AutoCAD, MS Project, Primavera, Visio, Filemaker Pro, Oracle & SAP ERP, Maximo & TMA CMMS Systems
EDUCATION
University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
Bachelor of Science in Engineering: Specializing in Project Management, Manufacturing & Finance
Keller Graduate School of Management, Chicago, Illinois
Master in Business Administration Coursework
Rock Valley College, Rockford, Illinois
FAA Airframe & Power Plant Mechanics Program, Licensed Private Pilot with Instrument Rating
EXTENSIVE CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING PROGRAM:
Lean, Six Sigma Quality, Kaizan, Facility Management, Quality Circles, Successful Negotiator, Dale Carnegie Management, Covey Personal Leadership, Interpersonal Skills, Risk Management, Government Contracts, Building Construction Management, Continuous Improvement, Dealing with Difficult People, Effective Leadership
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL SERVICES (NCS) – Vista, California 5/2009-Present
Solar Division ( http://www.nationalcommercialsolar.com )
Solar Power Design and System Integration
Senior Consulting Engineer / Project Manager
- Project Development, Training, Business Start-up, Design, Biding, Purchasing, Contractor Oversight, Funding
Provide consulting as Owner's Representative
Cost Accounting: vendor pricing analysis, continuously search for lowest cost of ownership
Prepare and/or review conceptual and detailed design drawings, specifications, and engineering reports.
Complete feasibility studies for proposed renewable energy projects including technical, economic, environmental, and regulatory issues.
Prepare detailed equipment specifications and evaluate bids. Conduct reviews and inspections of existing power requirements and make recommendations for improvements.
Interface directly with clients and address their concerns in a clear, professional manner.Â
SILIKEN RENEWABLE ENERGY – Carlsbad, California 5/2008-5/2009
Solar Power Panel Manufacturing and System Integration
Director of Operations
- Executive Management, Business Planning, Project Development, Business Development, Project Management, Design, Biding, Contractor Oversight, Construction,
Overview: Able to provide all engineering, sales and operational functions of a solar power integrator.
Management: Provided New Business Start-up guidance for a Spanish solar power panel manufacturer and integrator by opening a San Diego, California manufacturing plant and Corporate Headquarters.
Engineering: Author response to Request for Proposals (RFP), perform Site Visits, collect and analyze customer data, review aerial photos and layout solar fields, select components, cost-out project and author Bid Responses. Developed standardized proposals to create accurate scheduling, shorten turnaround time, and control costs. Project design work to 45 megawatt / $250,000,000 project value.
Cost Accounting: construction costing for rooftop, ground and carport mounting methodologies, Solar Integrator/Vendor vetting, bidding, and component procurement, civil work, permitting and installation costing. Negotiate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) funding and evaluate vendors and their products.
Business Development: trained and managed three Directors of Business Development, developed client relationship with potential customers, provided Feasibility Studies and make customer presentations.
Operations: purchasing, developed order processing methods, website design (www.silikenusa.com), company brochure design, software selection, desktop & server backup, and office layout.
Manufacturing: Solar Panel UL certification, factory work flow, component procurement and warehousing.
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL SERVICES (NCS) – Vista, California 4/2001-5/2008
Corporate Engineering Consulting Services
- Project Management Contractor Services: Provided diverse full-scope technical planning, risk review, financial analysis and operational assessments based upon Six Sigma and Voice of the Customer principles.
Business Analyst: Develop business plans, addressing all issues, including client investment analysis, and buying and leasing strategies operations, policies, corporate structure, and web site development.
Manufacturing Process Improvement & Cost Reduction: Lean Manufacturing, Six-Sigma Quality, Kaizen, facility design and relocation, automated assembly equipment, standardization and production planning.
Financial: Budget development, review of current business operations, implementation of operational enhancements, strategy development, real estate holdings analysis, investments, facility space planning.
INLAND EMPIRE UTILITIES AGENCY, Chino, California (5/2007-5/2008)
Municipal Wastewater District
Solar Consultant / Project Manager - Contractor
- Project Manager, Design, Biding, contractor Oversight, Construction, Water Treatment
Solar Power Plant Project Engineer for the design and construction of four solar power plants totaling 3.5 megawatts using rooftop and ground mounted fixed & tracker-style systems. Performed feasibility studies, authored Request for Proposal, vendor bid review, vendor selection, Award of $32,000,000 Contract.
PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT, Laguna Woods, California (2006-5/2007)
Property Management / Engineering
Senior Engineering & Business Analyst
- Planning, cost justification, recommendations, contracting and construction management
Corporate-level engineer providing Board of Directors with realistic analysis and proper long-term recommendations for major maintenance and construction of condo & public facilities throughout Laguna Woods Village consisting of 12,733 housing units on 2,100 acres with valuation over $8 Billion.
Project Manager for high value facilities, including refueling stations, elevator restoration, theater audio & seating renewal, energy conservation, life-safety systems and other municipal-scale projects.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY / FEDSOURCE, Brea, California (2004-2006) Federal Contracting Office
Construction Engineering Manager / Business Development
– Federal Contracting Office engineering advisor providing architectural, engineering and business development assistance to nationwide Federal Agencies and Military Bases
Provided prompt customer support and cost-effective design for bid and vendor analysis, process improvement, site assessment and site work verification; authored Statements of Work, process design/improvement scenarios with metrics to track and control the process.
Project Manager for installing US Government’s 2nd largest solar photovoltaic power system at Navy Pearl Harbor Hawaii generating 309 kilowatts. $3,100,000 project value.
Construction of taxiway at March AFRB, CA and a training “dirt-airstrip†at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
Extensive large-scale experience in complex design, scheduling & construction on over 20 military bases: Building renovation/demolition, solar voltaic systems, power system upgrades, transformer replacements, UPS Generators, environmental remediation, and facility energy efficiency lighting and HVAC retrofits.
Guided government’s Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) via Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) in the review of incoming customer work requests, selection of proper contract vehicle, management of the Project Coordinators and Field Superintendents. Provided Earn Value Analysis and contractor payment authorization.
FIRST AMERICAN CORPORATION: Santa Ana, California (2003)
Real Estate Title Insurance
Information Technology Consultant
Developed data center's Financial Model & Pricing Structure for company’s new retail hardware/software.
EBI ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS: Los Angeles, California (2001-2002)
Property Condition Analysis
Property Condition Engineering Auditor
Performed large-scale commercial building pre-sale Due Diligence analysis for real estate property lenders by completing Property Condition Assessments per ASTM E-2018 standards.
MOTOROLA - World Headquarters, Schaumburg, Illinois 1984-2001
Telecommunications / Electronics
Information Technology Manager (1999-2001)
- Oversaw Facilities IT operations for 2,300,000 million square foot & 10,000 employee corporate facility campus
IT Help Desk: Developed quality metrics; managed servers, desktops and data warehouse systems.
Deployed Automated Facility Management using IT based resources such as:
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) that managed one-thousand maintenance and repair work orders per month within the facility; also tracked major facility equipment and subsystems (maintenance history with development of a reoccurring maintenance schedule and forecast of future failure expenses) using TMA Systems. Contributor on the Maximo Analysis Team.
OSHA Material Safety Data emergency rapid electronic distribution function across a large facility.
Web-based Conference Room Self-Reservation System reducing costs by $70,000 per year.
Video Conferencing: Designed and deployed standardized facility requirements, equipment and web sites.
Implemented NT Data Servers, workstations, data backup, website and national crisis management system.
Engineer Mentoring, training and personnel reviews.
Facility Engineer (1998-1999)
- Facility Support Services: Project Management, Design & Construction, Space Planning, Fit-out
$5 million of internal construction projects--provided the operational design, bid & review, contract-construction-payment management, secured bids, negotiated pricing, terms and management of external contractors. Also provided space planning, furniture layout, procurement and budgeting.
Data center and electronic laboratory construction involving HVAC, life-safety, chillers, power system enhancements and environmental remediation.
Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) analysis and installation.
Fast-track construction of 43,000 square foot building at $1,000,000 under budget, and ahead of schedule.
Real Estate Asset Manager / Facility Services Manager (1993-1997)
- Facility Management: Planning, Facility Consolidations/Relocations, Cost Reduction, Construction
Portfolio management of over 80 remote-site offices, field service centers, and distribution warehouses throughout the USA and Europe.
Enterprise-wide SDLC development of the Real Estate Asset Management Database Software Development - led Team of 13 international managers in the creation and deployment of real-time software managing over 750 worldwide facilities. Software has since been released as a retail product.
Developed an award-winning, six sigma, Rapid Real Property Disposition Process.
Construction Project Manager: design and construction of the new sole Federal Radio Repair Facility in Washington, DC. Designed a new facility with new production methodologies that decreased repair labor costs by 30% and had the lowest facility operating cost company-wide.
Environmental Engineering work providing Phase-1 studies and managing Phase-2 remediation.
Systems Implementation Engineer (1986-1992)
- Electronic Equipment: Product Development, Production, Installation, Customer Service, Data Center, Base Station Cell Sites, Business Development, New-Engineer Mentoring
Engineered cellular telephone building layout and construction, including nine data centers / Main Telephone Switching Centers (MTSO), telecommunication interconnect technology, AC/DC power conversions, Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS): battery & diesel generator backup, RF/microwave systems, towers, antennas, FAA filings, and as-built documents.
Advanced Technology Manufacturing Engineer (1984-1985)
- Product Development, Design for Manufacturability, Lean Manufacturing, high volume electronics.
Technical Operations and Quality Assurance Engineer liaison providing quality assurance for the Product Development Design group involved in Printed Circuit Boards and two-way Radio Communication Stations.
Provided training to instill “Design For Manufacturabilityâ€, “Design For Assembly†and supply chain shipping.
Saved the company over $100,000 annually by redesigning cellular base stations to lower construction costs.
AMPHENOL SPACE & MISSILE SYSTEMS / ALLIED SIGNAL, Broadview, IL 1982-1984
Lead Manufacturing Engineer: Peacekeeper (MX) Ballistic Missile Program,
- Low Volume, high quality, Aerospace, Military, National Emergency Production Status, Nuclear Weapon Component Prototype Development to Production, Full Development Cycle
Prototype Design & Manufacturing Engineer for the MX Ballistic Missile Umbilical System; developed process, selected vendors, reviewed contracts, trained production/quality personnel and assembled systems.
Production of components for TOW missile, Boeing 757 fuel system, and other aerospace products.
Relocated entire engineering and aerospace production facility from California to Illinois.
Quality Material Review Board engineer analyzing out-of-specification components and developing quality aerospace supply-chain procurement.
Received US Air Force "Best Subcontractor" Award received for achieving quality and cost objectives for the MX Ballistic Missile Program.
SIGNODE, Glenview, Illinois 1980-1982
Industrial Engineer / Methods Analyst
- High Volume Strapping Material and affixing Machines, Environmental Management
Lean Manufacturing saved $508,000 by reducing scrap reduction on rolling mill and slitter operations.
Reduced plant-wide chemical waste by over 90%.
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES / AMERICAN BOSCH, Cincinnati; Ohio 1979-1980
Manufacturing / Facilities Engineer
- New Product Design and Facility Deployment for High Volume, Environmental Management
Designed manufacturing lines, automated distribution warehousing system, coolant filtration, and waste handling for a new 430,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art gasoline fuel injection manufacturing plant for Ford Motor.
FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION: Bearing Co. of America, Greensburg, Indiana 1977-1979
Manufacturing Engineer
- Machining, Assembly & Packaging, Environmental Management, High Volume, Full Production Cycle
Utilized Lean Manufacturing techniques; saved $120,000 by developing automated robotic assembly machines, testing, and implemented them.
Originated project to install one of the first commercial YAG lasers into the production line.
Designed/constructed centralized machining coolant filtration equipment and related supply piping.
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