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Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

AT-PD provides best-in-class mission critical project delivery solutions including: owner’s representation, project and/or construction management services, site services and more.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Global infrastructure operations for System Administration, Network, and Database supporting all data roaming and real time intelligence products. Responsible for global ownership, execution, and consolidation of seventy-seven data centers worldwide including facilities construction, operations, and field services. Leading infrastructure services global integration of two recent acquisitions across the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Principal Consultant managing all aspects of data center development including Site Selection, Entitlements, Design Oversight, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, and Site Operations. Primary Data Center Consultant leading a San Jose based $4 billion/yr software company's development of their first Tier III+ LEED Gold data center from site acquisition/selection through commissioning and turn up.Assist in Conceptual and Schematic design decisions and recommendations as well as PUE and sustainability requirements.Drive design innovation and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis supporting business model to move to enterprise data center. Provide industry knowledge and direction during site selection and acquisition.Project manage design consultant from conceptual documents through construction administration and provide review and recommendations to design, equipment, and constructability.Write and manage all project funding requests, budgets, cash flows, schedules, and contracts.Develop and implement all owner requests for proposal from design, peer review, pre-qualification, and general contracting services through commissioning.Coordinate and represent client with local jurisdiction(s) for site selection, development planning, permit, and inspections through final sign off and certificate of occupancy. Introduce project and cost control oversight and standardize a set of performance indices for benefit of client and internal stakeholders.Provide onsite management of general contractor reviewing and verifying all work in place, earned value, change orders, and field direction.Provide value engineering reviews throughout all phases of projects to maximize customer product and stretch client capital.Develop and implement key operational plans and procedures for new and existing data centers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Turned around underperforming organization from over budget, past due projects to consistently delivering projects on time and under budget. Led, mentored, and performance managed a team of Construction Program Managers with full responsibility for budget development, quality, and schedule for over $630MM in data center expansions domestically. Operated Tier III+ mission critical data center with an organization of network technicians, facility engineers and managers through 7x24 operations with N+1 distributed redundant UPS and PDU systems, chillers, and generators supporting over 1000 racks of customer equipment. Responsibility for budget development & execution, maintenance, personnel, inventory, and purchasing. Oversaw all customer delivery operations of major Northern Virginia colocation hub customer delivery including cross connects, new customer installations, remote hands services, cabinets, infrastructure, and capital modifications.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Headed design, development, and construction of telecommunication points of presence (PoPs), meet me rooms (MMRs), and telco hotels in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and El Paso for fast growing telecommunications company.Outside Plant Engineer responsible for management, construction, and quality control of 50 mile fiber inter-nodal connecting San Jose to San Francisco. Conceptualized, piloted, and implemented project planning multi-user ACCESS database application for use by BellSouth operations managers and design engineers to increase productivity and reprioritize aggressive project completions in southern Florida resulting in substantial improvements to project timeliness and a virtual elimination of complaints to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Cost and schedule analyst in South Florida regions reviewing and analyzing over 1000 active projects to ensure cost control and timeliness requiring development and management of program wide deployment of project controls staffing plan. As part of a construction management team for a hockey arena, was responsible for field execution and cost & schedule management of over 2000 field activities, time/performance analysis, and designer metrics. Selected as one of eight from a pool of two hundred fifty college graduates to participate in a fast-tracked leadership program rotating through Project Management, Construction, Marketing, Engineering, and Sales.

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