Secure a high level construction executive position in a progressive and prosperous company where creativity and innovation are encouraged with quality control, budget control, schedule implementaion, and safety.
JIM MILLER
SUMMARY
Jim Miller is a Construction Executive with over twenty years of operations and project management experience utilizing the skills of communication, strategic thinking, leadership, client development, budget control, and employee relations. Jim has an entrepreneurial spirit, expertise in finding creative solutions
to complex issues and demonstrates integrity, enthusiasm, dedication and a good-natured presence.
QUALIFICATIONS
· Outstanding Construction Executive with extensive experience in multiple disciplines
· Highly motivated leader works well independently and collaboratively with project teams and leaders
· Real world experience balancing short and long term projects while developing budgets, performing pre-construction, and managing project teams to ensure company profitability
· Initiates and implements profit centers through company programs and procedures that reduce overhead costs and improve the bottom line
· Keen ability to analyze and convert large amounts of information and knowledge resulting in insightful conclusions and strategic solutions useful for project teams and upper management alike
· Tenacious, results oriented, diplomatic problem solver who researches, negotiates and resolves complex project, business and company issues and conflicts
· Leads and builds project teams by promoting partnering, communication, and quality control to realize budget and schedule control, timely billing, safe jobsites and exceptional results
· Liaison who understands the interests of owners, clients, architects, designers, engineers, vendors and subcontractors, and finds common ground to facilitate working solutions for common goals and highly successful project completions
· Identifies, contacts, and secures client relationships to acquire new projects and solidifies customer service with client advocacy while maintaining the company interests
· Negotiates and writes owner contracts while maintaining all legal requirements and fairness, and providing value engineering as needed to meet the client’s budget requirements
· Developed and wrote a Project Operations Manual defining the responsibilities for the Project Executive, Project Manager, Project Superintendent, Project Engineer and Project Coordinator
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VICE PRESIDENT
· Realized business expansion with extensive strategic thinking, vision, planning, and implementation
· Built a successful company equipment program adding a profit center
· Spear-headed new vendor payment procedures that improved billable and payable time cycles while markedly adding to the company’s bottom line
· Targeted and reduced waste and redundancy in the company to lower overhead costs
· Resolved company challenges early reducing surprises and ensuring the best results long-term
· Consulted on complex projects with fast track schedules that required creative planning
· Recruited, interviewed and hired new employees for office and project team personnel
· Coached, trained and developed office personnel, estimators, project engineers, project superintendents, and project managers
· Supervised project teams and collaborated on producing monthly cost projections, master and monthly schedule updates, and job site safety programs
· Promoted a risk management company culture to reduce, mitigate and resolve the risk of budget issues, schedule delays, safety issues, design errors, and productivity issues
· Collaborated with government entities on numerous projects, satisfied all the City, County, State, and Federal interests to conduct construction work in Lake Washington, WA
· Resolved claims with research, analysis, documentation, direct negotiation and arbitration
SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER
· Directed the daily and project specific operations of two remote offices - one in Eastern Washington State and one on the Big Island, Hawaii
· Initiated and promoted company team collaborations to improve the quality of construction services and the accountability of all involved
· Identified available resources and found new ways to outsource for projects to succeed
· Managed and built highly complex, detail-intensive, and premier quality construction projects
· Supervised, delegated, and mentored office personnel, estimators, project engineers, project superintendants, and project managers
· Wrote and assembled project marketing proposals and responses to Requests for Proposals
OWNER'S REPRESENTATIVE
· Facilitated and re-invigorated the project vision with a large group of project team members
· Advised and directed the owner, architects, engineers, interior designers, builders, subcontractors, vendors, and suppliers
· Achieved a very successful project for the owner and all the project team players
PROJECT MANAGER
· Managed the construction of a new third story and expanded emergency suite for an existing public hospital during harsh winter conditions and while the hospital remained in full operation in Chelan, WA
· Provided key input building a young company by being proactive, working on all business challenges, procedures and opportunities
· Successfully handled multiple projects while balancing the needs for the success of each project
· Delivered project goals, benchmarks, and commitments on time and within budget
· Wrote contracts and assisted in developing new contract language
OWNER / OPERATOR
· Created and maintained a general contracting business in Seattle, WA
· Worked at a very high quality level with owners, architects, designers, and engineers
· Promoted best practices to maximize the benefits for both business and clients
· Developed strong written and oral communication skills to be clear and ethical in all business transactions and projects
· Perfected cost estimating, scheduling, planning and management
POSITIONS HELD
· Shaw Construction, Grand Junction, CO Jul 2007 – Nov 2008
o Senior Project Manager
· City Construction, Honolulu, HI Sept 2003 – Jun 2007
o Director of the Big Island, HI, office
o Senior Project Manager
· Schuchart Corporation,Seattle, WA Sept 1991 – Aug 2003
o Vice President
o Director of the Chelan, WA, office
o Senior Project Manager
o Owner’s Representative
o Project Manager
· Miller Construction, Seattle, WA May 1977 – Aug 1991
o Owner / Operator of General Contracting Business
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