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Port Of Los Angeles

San Pedro, California, United States

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE• Spearheaded a lessons learned initiative implementing over 200 best practice items improving project design and business performances. • Designed, standardized, and supervised the administrative systems, policies, and procedures to improve project and contract reporting. • Developed a qualitative and quantitative approach to analyze employee survey data for employee engagement and mission statement development.• Developed a sustainable creative multi-layered project management toolbox kit that included 70 project templates and resources for all new projects to build organizational capacity. • Collaborated in the creation of a new cloud-based management system for project to track and monitor project records.

Santa Ana, California, United States

$5,992,025.00, SR-55 Water Crossing Relocation Project for City of Santa Ana• Performed a Post-Award review of contractor’s Bid Proposal for Title 49 DBE Requirements• Improved the City’s Procore workflow procedures for project management to maximize efficiency. • Facilitated and chaired over 40 weekly contractor coordination meetings, set agenda items and generated meeting minutes, coordinated with several stakeholders including Caltrans, OCTA, City of Tustin, City of Santa Ana to limit traffic impacts on SR-55.

Anaheim, California, United States

$13,480,000.00, Metrolink Platform Project for Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA)• Generated monthly construction progress reports documenting the project’s cost and schedule. • Trained staff members on the project’s new project management cloud-base management system. • Provided quality assurance and audits for project documentation and contract compliance.

Torrance, California, United States

$8,076,213 Roadway Improvement Project for City of Torrance• Interpreted and ensured compliance with public contract code, local, state and federal laws and ordinances, local and Caltrans regulations, including NPDES requirements. • Monitored and managed RWBQ, Caltrans, City, LA County permits; generated multiple Change Orders, reviewed, and processed RFIs, Submittals, design revisions, and progress payment applications.• Oversaw 4 inspectors and 2 document control specialists’ work.

Menifee, California, United States

$507,115, Safety Median Improvement Project for City of Menifee• Collaborated with the Resident Engineer in the planning, management, and execution of construction contract from Pre-Construction to Post-Construction with $5,000 under construction budget.• Interpreted and ensured compliance with public contract code, local, state and federal laws and ordinances, particularly on Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) programs.

City Of Industry, California, United States

86,000,000 Road Widening and Grade Separation Project for San Gabriel Valley Council of Government (SGVCOG)• Managed and oversaw 9 consultants with a total budget of over 1.5 million dollars tracking scope of work and monitored financial components. • Collaborated with the Resident Engineer to direct and evaluate work activities of 26 staff members including inspectors, schedulers, interns, and consultants throughout the project. • Analyzed and evaluated multi-million dollars of claim damages and provided claim strategies based on contract, public contract code and state requirements and regulations. • Coordinated and collaborated with inter-departmental agencies and organizations such as Union Pacific Railroad, Caltrans, Los Angeles Sanitation District, Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, third party utilities to support project goals and initiatives. • Oversaw and managed the project controls of over 208,000 files in 18,000 folders in OneDrive and Procore networks and hard file records with zero audit findings.

Rialto, California, United States

$1,000,000 Sewer Lift Station Project for City of Rialto• Enforced and monitored over 4,200 hours of certified payroll records to evaluate compliance of state labor code requirements in California. • Generated a reporting tool to streamlined certified payroll records review and tracking project wide.

Long Beach, California, United States

$43,000,000 Realign Rail Track Project for Port of Long Beach• Generated weekly and monthly project management funding reports for the duration of the project, reporting on the project’s financials, schedule impacts and achievements. • Generated and processed several change management documents including contract change orders, Board memos, and other written communication briefs.• Prepared and delivered a presentation to Port officials on the pilot program I headed to modernize inspection daily reporting practices.

Hawthorne, California, United States

• Led and collaborated in the program re-design to enroll 64 participants and place 51 participants interested in green construction employment. • Cultivated partnerships with different industry associations, trainers, case managers and one-stop centers, vendors, and grant funders to track participant progress and employment. • Researched and analyzed the effectiveness of program success through monthly, quarterly, and yearly monitoring. • Provided program management support on a $45 million National Emergency Grant and case management supervision.

Norwalk, California, United States

• Established 12 leadership teams across California to inspire and engage staff participation and center innovation. • Developed and administered a statewide health and safety survey to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of its maintenance operations for the agency, resulting in a fully written training program for over 3,000 California state employees. • Introduced new health and safety policy and procedures based on field researched.• Established regional electronic newsletter, resulting in a more informed empowered organization.

Anaheim, California, United States

• Reviewed and processed accounts payable invoices for 15 business center accounts • Provided daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial monitoring and reporting. • Chaired employee committee to improve office morale and employee engagement with a managing a multi-thousand budget• Established a recycling program to reduce and deter recyclable waste.

• Coordinated between constituents and case managers provide resources and special events to the community. • Coordinated community outreach events that focused on providing resources to veterans and on foreclosure prevention strategies in the region to support local policies and community engagement. • Generated communication documents for internal and external use.

Colton, California, United States

• Maintained, retrieved, and processed police records.• Provided direction and information to constituents entering police station. • Trained new Police Cadets on the department’s methods and procedures.