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Program Leadership and Management: Lead the Design & Engineering Project Management Office, overseeing the planning, execution, and management of design activities across North America. Ensure design programs align with the company’s strategic objectives, project timelines, and quality standards.Design Standards and Processes: Develop, implement, and maintain design standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency, efficiency, and high quality across all projects. Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the program, optimizing processes and workflows to enhance productivity and effectiveness.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with internal customers, including engineering, construction, operations, and project management teams, to ensure seamless integration of design activities with other project functions.Project Oversight and Support: Provide oversight and guidance to design teams, ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in compliance with standards. Support the resolution of design-related issues, conflicts, and challenges that arise during the project lifecycle.Resource Management: Handle the allocation and utilization of design resources, ensuring the teams are adequately staffed and supported to meet project demands. Oversee the recruitment, development, and performance management of design team members.Budget and Financial Management: Develop and handle the budget for the PMO, ensuring resources are allocated effectively to support project needs. Supervise and control design program costs, finding opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.Risk Management and Compliance: Identify and mitigate risks associated with design activities, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies.Reporting and Documentation: Prepare and present regular reports on design program status, performance metrics, and key issues to senior management and other customers.

Design Leadership: Lead the development, review, maintenance, and enhancement of design packages, standards, and specifications to ensure consistent, reliable systems.Project Oversight: Attend assigned sites regularly and frequently. Lead internal and external design teams ensuring their collaboration aligns with design and sustainability goals. This includes actively tracking design-related RFIs, design deviations, and change requests on-site and driving timely responses from internal and external SMEs.Procurement and Vendor Management: Support procurement and regional project leads in the selection of local partners for design development, contract oversight, and Value Engineering (VE) implementation with the General Contractor (GC) and Engineer of Record (EOR). Manage and evaluate external design teams and consultants, including contractual support and negotiation, performance and business reviews.Process Improvement: Develop and enhance design, procurement, and construction processes to streamline Operations delivery, including change management with consultants and contractors.Quality Assurance and Risk Management: Anticipate, report, and mitigate design and engineering quality, risks, and opportunities.Coordination and Integration: Be a proactive custodian and conduit for all design changes proposed by other VDC departments and third parties, ensuring crucial adjudication and, where appropriate, seamless integration.Change Management and Process Support: lead in supporting and coordinating the Change Management/REACH process on-site, ensuring its effective implementation for all engineering functions and disciplines including but not limited to CSA, M&E, BMS, security, ICT, and Data Module fit-out. Provide comprehensive reporting to development delivery leadership, highlighting the performance and impact of implemented changes.

Coordinate Design Engineering team deliverables, milestones, goals for all projects post-handoff, including Customer Fit-Outs, Remediation, and Special Projects.Manage Design Engineering team's incident response and inquiry.Lead the Design Engineering team involvement in the project collaboration tools (Procore, SharePoint, SmartSheet).Assign and manage all work and task requests for the Design Engineering team.Prepare progress reports and assist in the presentation to leadership on Development Projects and Automation Systems remediation and integration.Prepare Key Performance Indicator reports on Design Engineering Development Projects and other requests processed through the ticketing system.Manage the Design Engineering team's documentation including file and archive system.

United States

North America: Project Coordinator for Design Engineering team for client's North America program. Track and manage design engineering deliverables, consultants, and construction needs. Standardize and streamline internal processes and procedures to reduce cost and schedule impacts across the program.AUS: Project Coordinator for $8M, 3MW buildout in 24,000 square feet of shell space within live data center. Managed complete process from inception, including bid process, budget estimate, and construction schedule, through design and construction challenges associated with client’s acquisition mid-project. Managed budget, plan, and procurement of OFCI equipment including (2) 2,250 kW generators, (2) 2,500 kVA transformers, (2) ATS, (2) STS/PDUs, (120) RPPs, (1) 1500kW UPS, (10) CRAHs. Managed project financials, including purchase requests, invoices, pay applications, and change orders of vendors and contractors. Reviewed and managed A/E drawing plans and specification packages, equipment submittals, RFI’s, and MOPs. Coordinated and track field reports, special inspections, commissioning reports, as-builts, and closeout paperwork.Software: Procore, Bluebeam, Adobe, Microsoft Office Suite

Austin, Texas, United States

Project Engineer for $8M, 3MW buildout in 24,000 square feet of shell space within live data center. Managed complete process from inception, including bid process, budget estimate, and construction schedule, through design and construction challenges associated with client’s acquisition mid-project. Managed budget, plan, and procurement of OFCI equipment including (2) 2,250 kW generators, (2) 2,500 kVA transformers, (2) ATS, (2) STS/PDUs, (120) RPPs, (1) 1500kW UPS, (10) CRAHs. Managed project financials, including purchase requests, invoices, pay applications, and change orders of vendors and contractors. Reviewed and managed A/E drawing plans and specification packages, equipment submittals, RFI’s, and MOPs. Coordinated and track field reports, special inspections, commissioning reports, as-builts, and closeout paperwork.Project Engineer for $6M retrofits to (2) conjoined DC buildings. Managed architectural, engineering, and controls scope and schedule for increased cooling capacity including (1) water-cooled chiller, (1) air-cooled chiller, and (1) chemical treatment system. Retrofits included upgrades to (2) UPS systems including full battery and cabinet replacements. Upgrades to site security measures including new access gates, gate relocations, and exterior security UPS relocation. Managed design, budget, and schedule for 5,000 square feet of office fit-outs for customers and client’s executives.

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States

- Conducted public engagement through business’ social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).- Provided structured and unstructured site photos.- Assisted with daily business operations (providing breakfast, cleaning and maintaining the property, meeting guest needs).

-Enhanced skills in carpentry, construction plans and estimates, plumbing, welding, brazing, plasma cutting, fabrication, practical shipboard firefighting and damage control.-Planned, performed, and directed construction and renovation projects that totaled over $500,000 in government funds and utilized both military and civilian employees.-Overhauled unit’s government vehicle and trailer management system for 29 vehicles and 19 trailers, pinpointing major discrepant accounting and decreasing the unit's annual cost burden by 10%.-Conducted over 500 hours of emergency-situation training resulting in the qualification of more than 100 crew members and maintaining the ship’s emergency bench strength through 2 large-scale staff changes.-Conceived unit Mentor Program to correct lack of guidance for junior members, linking dozens of individuals with mentors to aid in their professional development and adjustment to shipboard and military life. -Assisted department managers in organizing, maintaining, and communicating job records, reports, maintenance schedules, and organizational and departmental documents utilizing proficiency with Microsoft Office.-Developed and boosted federal and local inter-agency relations throughout multiple states on the Gulf Coast, resulting in positive and successful interactions during mission objectives.-Created and implemented district-wide MS Excel database to index navigational aid discrepancies and updates with 100% accuracy, allowing for precise cost analysis of exact expenditures within each channel of the area of responsibility.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Communications, Business Administration And Communications

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