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El Paso, Texas, United States

Elevate the project cycle process.

El Paso, Texas, United States

Construction management for expansion and rehab of El Paso's largest wastewater treatment plant.

El Paso, Texas, United States

Managed designed of a headworks expansion for El Paso's largest wastewater treatment plant. Increased its capacity from 80 to 130 MGD with a new influent pump station, with rehab and doubling of bar screenings and grit removal, and with a new electrical building. Completed design for this $100 MM upgrade in collaboration with a Construction Manager at Risk.

El Paso, Texas, United States

Managed Hazen's first large construction project in the Southwest: a new ozone system for El Paso Water's largest water treatment plant. Responsible for all project delivery, training of entry-level new hires, and marketing the services of this 1,000-person firm. Launched the office with 2 junior engineers hired locally and an experience construction.

Rancho Cordova, California, United States

Managed one engineer and one drafter in water and wastewater designs and studies for small utility districts in the greater Sacramento area. Projects include potable water distribution system small mains replacements, intertie feasibility studies, treatment plant electrical switchgear upgrades, treatment plant process chemical systems upgrades, SCADA.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Identified and tested a controls-based (no-construction) means of abating combined sewer overflows upstream of a 110 MGD capacity pump station, thereby postponing a multi-million dollar upgrade.
• Replaced narratives with bullets, before-and-after screenshots, and staff-specific "what this means to you" scenarios in the Concept Report for a real-time project management Dashboard thereby focusing feedback and.
• Brokered tri-department adoption of a template for a new flyer to notify neighbors and stakeholders of street construction. Sold folks on checklists that translate engineering, risk, cost-benefit, and regs into.
• Programmed a database to scrub and trend water utility billing data for hundreds of accounts.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Liaised between financial institutions group (FIG) client account reps and business intelligence programmers to automate and standardize portfolio reports.
• Offshored reports by judging timing, overseas competency, and stability of report composition in order to reserve domestic staff time for complex or dynamic reports.
• Automated report production with macros, INDIRECT, INDEX, and VLOOKUP functions, and pivot tables in order to error-proof and eliminate hundreds of hours of manual reporting monthly.
• Managed migration of report tracking database from MS Access front-end/back-end configuration to Web Database on Microsoft SharePoint Server to cut user wait time by 80%.
• Trained staff on conversion of report production instructions from serial to hierarchical to encourage meaningful use and maintenance by staff of varied experience levels.
• Lead by demonstration consolidation of 4 report-production procedures and routing documents into 1 document in order to centralize updates in a multi-user environment.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Coordinated hardware placement to meet Meaningful Use criteria for an EPIC (electronic medical record) implementation in UW's 3 hospitals.
• Conceived, built, and maintained an MS Access database for inspection teams' inventories of thousands of devices, and linked it to scores of deployment floor plans.

Everett, Washington, United States

• Produced 60% contract documents on time and in budget for fast-pace job by staying one step ahead of client by contracting local experts to predict client preferences.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Expanded scope of $0.4MM study of systemic motor failures 40% by identifying contracting laws, not engineering, as the root cause, and by proposing solutions compatible with immutable policy.
• Enabled parallel use of B&V's Water Utility Financial Model and Rate Design Model by inserting link sheets thereby expediting a 2-month, 3-analyst cost-of-service study and rate case for the Philadelphia Water Dept by.
• Fixed performance metrics for the 12-member PECO/Exelon Smart Grid/Meter Network Operations Command Center by mediating iterative bilateral negotiations, thereby halving the length and attendance of the daily meeting.

Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States

• Selected 512 of 7,000 liquid-bulk customers to lift from cost-plus pricing to competitive pricing by joining databases of contract term, electricity pricing, and competitor delivery distance; promising a 4% rise in.
• Appointed as subject matter expert to assemble business plan for new own/operate service ($200MM/year).

Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya

• Defined role of a 10-person water engineering support team at the outset of a 2-year Program Management contract ($200MM) with Libya. Adapted U.S. design-build contractor selection framework in workshops with Libyan.

New York, New York, United States

• Produced 30% design documents for a $3.77MM design project on time and in budget by contextualizing tasks of 7 staff within their career tracks and/or by nominating staff for awards.
• Presented design. It won client approval and endorsements of independent value engineering panel and cost estimator.
• Launched Metcalf & Eddy's first outsourcing of blueprint digitization to offshore sub-consultant, saving 60% of cost.
• Dissected the City's high-level risk assessment by testing equipment and touring sister sites with client, thereby re-scoping a $60MM construction project and tripling a $1.25MM design contract through a no-bid design.

New York, New York, United States

• Designed all major process piping, supports, and chemical equipment for NYC's first water treatment plant (290 MGD).
• Completed $200MM project by managing 2 engineers and 1 subconsultant and coordinating with 2 remote offices.
• Performed design services during construction (DSDC) for water treatment plant piping and chemical tanks.
• Prioritized a fast-track capital improvement program for Staten Island's major wastewater facilities by inspection.
• Researched and authored index pricing spec for select raw materials to reduce commodity speculation in bids.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Won separate contracts totaling $180K to lead benchmarking study data collection for 3 agencies based on performance and rapport during previous work.
• Correlated clients' financial and maintenance management information systems to common functional areas via a long series of bilateral definition negotiations thus enabling normalization of costs by performance metrics.
• Amassed a Facilities Databook by inspecting City's waterworks; leading to a $26MM construction management contract.

Oakland, California, United States

• Compartmentalized 7 wastewater agencies' treatment plants and administration into universal functional areas.
• Compared costs by correlating agencies' financial and maintenance systems, then normalizing by performance metrics.
• Calculated hydraulics, invented a flow regulator, and edited on-line Standard Operating Procedures.

Bachelor Of Science, Civil Engineering

Mba, Finance, Corporate

Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant: Marketing 282 "Analysis of Markets" Semester Copenhagen Business School Full Scholarship.