Current Projects:The sale of a 100 acre parcel in Desert Hot Springs (Riverside County), California. Property is jointly owned, with an expired Conditional Use Permit for a 499-unit mobile home community.The sale of a 5-acre, 360-degree view lot on a hillside in the De Luz area of Temecula (Riverside County), California.

Independent consultant for steel industry related projects.Project Manager, Steel Service Center Facility ExpansionManaged the “greenfield” development of a 7.5 acre expansion project for the Phoenix, AZ, steel service center facility of an international NYSE company. This $3.4m project includes the grading and paving of 3.7 acres, installation of a new rail spur, erection of a 45k sq ft craneway building, and material handling and storage upgrades. Responsible for managing the primary contract, eight sub-contracts, and two contracts with the electrical power supplier; negotiating all change orders; payables. Infrastructure Project ManagerConsulting Project Manager for a $19mn, 18 month supply contract for the Puente Hills Intermodal Facility & Railroad Improvement project in Los Angeles (www.phimf.org). Responsibilities include: Full P&L, invoicing, receivables, and payables; negotiate and manage fabrication, painting and transporation sub-contracts; liaison with the LA County Sanitation District and the General Contractor; initiate and implement project RFIs and Submittals; direct the mill ordering, fabrication and painting schedules, and “JIT” delivery of 14,300 tons of wide flange beam piling to multiple project sites.Procurement Processes & Procedures AnalysisTier 1 / Tier 2 automotive stamping company with $150mn annual sales, purchasing 100k tons of flat rolled steel per year. Conducted a review and analysis of the steel procurement processes and procedures, customer ordering practices, supplier development, business development, and in-house scrap handling and sales. Identified potential cost savings of $2.5mn.

Responsible for business development, marketing and sales of steel plate from Duferco’s European mills to leading original equipment manufacturers and end-users in North America. This was a one year project to determine if Duferco's plate mills could be viable, competitive suppliers to North American OEM and project customers.• Developed the marketing plan for selling plate to ninety companies within twenty major NAICS groups.• Developed and executed sales action plans specific to targeted companie.• Introduced Duferco to C-level steel supply chain executives and managers through personal presentations at their respective corporate or manufacturing locations.• Provided detailed written Customer Profiles and Call Reports to the Duferco management team. • Managed all customer requests for quotation, technical inquiries and commercial responses from Duferco’s plate mills.• Worked with Duferco’s in-house logistics group to develop lowest cost freight options from European ports to customers’ locations.• Represented Duferco Steel at various industry conferences.

Consultant on the steel industry to Trinity's executive team.

Responsible for centralizing the procurement of steel plate for the four primary Business Units of this $3.5b international, multi-industry, multi-plant, heavy manufacturing company.• Negotiated and managed annual plate supply contracts in excess of $500mn per year for Trinity, the largest OEM steel plate consumer in the U.S.• Negotiated long-term, multi-year, price- indexed supply contracts to support the growth of the Structural (wind) Towers group. The negotiated annual savings enabled Trinity to sign a multi-year contract with the largest wind developer in North America, build a new plant, and reopen another to support this contract.• Developed and maintained strategic, high-level executive relationships with the primary steel supply-chain partners.• Consulted with the president and executive staff of Trinity Industries de Mexico on the steel market and supply-chain issues..• Presented weekly global steel market analysis to the Corporate executive staff. • Conducted bi-weekly steel market teleconferences with the Business Units’ presidents, managers, and supply-chain teams, and conducted steel market seminars for the business units' sales groups and technical teams, and for Trinity customers..• Worked with the Engineering staff to update and consolidate internal proprietary steel specifications.

Centralized and directed the purchase of steel products (hot-rolled coil, plate, wire rod and rebar), cement and aggregates for 5 plants in the Western U.S., and for international projects quoted by the Group. Assisted Ameron’s other international Groups and Joint Ventures in their steel sourcing and negotiations. Responsibilities included:• Develop, implement and manage purchasing plans from domestic and international steel suppliers, including vendor sourcing and price negotiations which, dependent upon the number and types of projects, resulted in consistent savings of $1mn to $2mn per year.• Develop and maintain relationships with the senior commercial executives of the major supply-chain partners.• Qualify domestic and international steel mills’ products for use in water infrastructure projects, bridge piling, and structural wind tower projects.• Advise the senior executive staff regarding U.S. Government actions affecting the raw materials purchased by the Group.• Assist Ameron’s senior engineering staff, in conjunction with steel mill technical representatives, in the development of steel specifications to meet project requirements.

Managed the plate and flat rolled products for this independently-owned steel service center. Responsibilities included:• Sourcing, price negotiation, purchasing and inventory control of the flat rolled products inventory.• Established the company’s selling prices for those products.• Training, technical assistance and management support for a sales staff of fifteen.• Negotiated and managed “Just-In-Time” supply agreements for major customers.