I offer my proven record of business development experience using my project management and project controls knowledge to attract new clients as well as manage the relationships of familiar ones.
Business Development Executive
Project Controls / Program Management
Fifteen years of project controls, project management, construction management, dispute resolution and claims experience. Highly successful engineering consulting experience, including business development and client relationship building, with several large public agencies in the New York City metropolitan region. Excellent leadership, management, communication, customer service and organization skills. Created and managed a highly profitable and successful Cost Estimating Group within a large consulting firm. Professional Engineer in New York State. Master of Science Degree from Columbia University in Civil Engineering.
Expertise Program management, project management, project controls, earn value method, conceptual and detailed cost estimating, resource and cost loaded Critical Path Method (CPM) scheduling, risk management, construction disputes and claims, contract administration, pre-construction, change order preparation and negotiations, and business development.
Selected Accomplishments
• Generated repeat business contracts with clients by providing excellent service and delivery submittals.
• Assisted and participated in on-going disputes and claims resulting in largely successful outcomes involving several NYC public agencies.
• Able to motivate others and build strong teams that can work together to accomplish target goals.
• Repeatedly prepared construction estimates within 5% of the contractor low bids.
Relevant Experience
Senior Principal Engineer / Chief Estimator 2002 - 2010
Hazen and Sawyer, P.C.
• Created and managed the Cost Estimating Group responsible for developing conceptual, preliminary and final design estimates for all of the company’s North-East regional office projects.
• Developed a corporate cost estimating database in sage timberline.
• Managed construction change orders and conducted negotiation sessions.
• Generated detailed cost and resource loaded CPM construction schedules.
• Analyzed contractor progress utilizing the earned value process.
• Participated in value engineering sessions at NYC OMB to help improve project design by suggesting ways to reduce cost, shorten schedule and minimize project risks.
• Managed risk assessment analysis sessions as well as prepared project risk registers.
• Prepared business proposals and short-listed selection presentations.
• Promoted to Senior Principal Engineer in five years.
• Managed a staff of three experienced estimators.
Lead Project Controls Engineer 2001 - 2002
STV Inc.
• In charge of day-to-day project management issues such as: contract negotiations, change order requests, invoicing, subconsultant contracts, and project personnel approvals, etc.
• Analyzed the progress of various design project utilizing primavera project planner and expedition.
• Interacted with a team of MTA, Parsons Corp., PB, etc. project schedulers in the creation of an integrated project schedule (IPS) utilizing a consistent Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• Tracked budgeted, forecasted and actual cost information utilizing Welcom Cobra software.
• Analyzed various tunnel design options and participated in schedule recovery workshops, value engineering seminars, and cost and schedule reduction exercises.
Project Controls Engineer 2000 - 2001
The LiRo Group
• Managed all aspects of a construction project, from pre-construction, design development, bid and award period, construction until final project substantial completion.
• Prepared CPM schedules for project planning and estimating progress.
• Trained field personnel in the use of Primavera Expedition for project controls.
• Heavily involved in several construction disputes and litigation.
• Performed constructability reviews.
• Organized and QA/QC contract specifications and drawings
• Provided pre-construction and design-build services for select clients.
Chief Scheduling Engineer 1998 - 2000
F&V Metro Contracting Corp.
• Generated and updated 21 project schedules for a total contract amount of over $300M.
• Created and managed an in-house worker production rate database
• Helped generate competitive bids
• Participated in various Value Engineering (VE) evaluations and presentation.
• Prepared engineering shop drawings for submittal.
• Managed construction delays with project stakeholders.
• Created in-house scheduling team which includes three experienced CPM schedulers.
• Produced time extension requests that resulted in impactable and excusable extensions of time.
Licensure and Certifications
• New York State Professional Engineer No. 082379
• Completed Chartered Institute of Arbitrators certificate program – Arbitration / Adjudication Module 1
• Project Management Institute Project Management Professional No. 50134
• The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International Certified Cost Engineer No. 2363
Education
• Columbia University
Masters of Science, Civil Engineering/Construction Management
• Columbia University
Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering
• City College of New York at Queens College
Bachelor of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies / Math and Applied Mechanics
Professional Development
• Completed Sage Timberline Estimating Extended Certification Class
• Completed American Council of Engineering Companies Risk Management Course
• Completed Professional Engineering Training Courses accredited by New York State
• Completed Penn State University Project Management Certification Course
Software Experience
Sage Timberline Office, HCSS, Primavera Project Planner (P3), Expedition, WinEstimator Pro Plus, Means Cost Works, Welcom Cobra, AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, DocuShare, and Microsoft Office software. Visit Personal Website
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