Elizabeth Ethridge Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Oversee and coordinate hotel remodel projects.• Manage construction crew leads, installation managers, and purchasers.• Liaise with hotel general managers and ownership during all stages of each project to provide updates and address concerns.• Identify and resolve problems, maintain project timetables, and avoid cost overruns.• Perform on site inspections to evaluate progress and address items accordingly based on findings.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Independently grew Capital Group Account Pilot Program by 73% in one year by widening the scope of work and increasing level of service, earning a long-term contract and achieving budget approval for additional employees.• Build and maintain ongoing relationships with client stakeholders to develop a thorough understanding of the organization's broad view and individual departmental needs and priorities.• Assess current and long term space needs and facilities requirements within the context of overall business requirements, objectives, time lines, and budgets.• Point of contact for immediate facilities emergencies.• Plan and execute short-term and long-term facilities projects (including comprehensive office relocation/migration plans, onboarding, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, new installations, office build-outs, etc.), developing detailed budgets, schedules, and workflow time lines.• Manage in-house resources and coordination of third-party vendors.• Liaise with client and vendors to resolve problems, manage change control, update project timetables, and avoid cost overruns.• Manage Project Assistant, including hiring, training, ongoing tasks, performance reviews, etc.• Develop procedures, process improvement, and best practices, and document lessons learned.

Thousand Oaks, Ca

- Took point as first Occupancy Planner for Cresa Partner’s Amgen Account, which grew into multiple associates assigned to Amgen.- Partner with client to assess current and long-term space needs within the context of overall business requirements, objectives, and budgets.- Managed the large-scale North Campus migration, relocating 1,000 Amgen employees in only six weeks while remaining on schedule and on budget, resulting in substantial reductions in Amgen’s tax liability. - Mediate space-allocation conflicts between multiple client business units and devise effective solutions consistent with each business unit’s needs and objectives.- Evaluate and approve/deny individual move and new-hire placement requests based on criticality to business requirements, management support, compliance with eligibility requirements for occupancy, and the business unit’s long-term strategic plans. - Build and maintain ongoing relationships with client stakeholders to develop a thorough understanding of their individual departmental needs and priorities.- Prepare and present business-case overviews for management approval, including detailed assessments of project timelines; short- and long-term budgetary impact; EH&S (Environmental Health & Safety), legal, and policy implications; and applicability to overall business objectives and capital requirements. - Plan and implement small- and large-scale relocations, onboarding, and space reallocations, including creating comprehensive occupancy scenarios and provisioning requirements for each department and building that reflect current and future staffing projections, product development and release schedules, building acquisition or disposition plans, and other strategic ramifications.- Collaborate with other space planners and management to assess and monitor the impact of each relocation or reallocation in order to promote synergy between the objectives of multiple client business units.