Design and Commissioning Project Manager for a very large IPD team project. Responsible for a team of 20+ design engineers in the office and transitioning them into a field checkout and startup team. Work closely with installation project manager and the overall project manager to maintain proper course and messaging to the other partners. Manage course correction where required while continuing a strong collaborative effort and maintaining relationships.As a member of the senior staff at RoviSys, other responsibilities include actively participating in sales and business development, both with existing customers and new opportunities found through industry contacts, forecasting labor needs and project timeframes, developing and maintaining corporate quality standards, ensuring current employees grow and develop, finding new employees, building standards for tasks and project issues, being a mentor for colleagues and junior employees, and supporting senior leadership.Leadership is a three-pronged approach – 1) Provide integrity-based leadership and accountability to properly deliver scope and improve the quality of communication with project stakeholders, while providing leadership, supervision, technical direction, and mentoring to project team to support their success. 2) Demonstrate proper project delivery through accurate scheduling, resource loading, risk reviews while tracking projects quality metrics and financial goals. 3) Build strong relationships across the teams, both vertically and horizontally, to receive feedback and act upon it, demonstrating a team culture and humility while navigating difficult situations.

Director for the White Space Fit Out group and four project managers; responsible for data hall construction after core and shell work conclude. Fit out includes mechanical, electrical, hot aisle containment, whips, rack deployment, fiber tie in, and carrier connections. Interface with key external and internal stakeholders, such as Clients, Sales, Contractors, Engineers, Finance, and Senior Leadership. Typical projects run 2-6 months and jobs span all ADC campuses (Dallas, Phoenix, Ashburn, and Salt Lake City).

Enthusiastic leader with 25 years of Commissioning, Controls, MEP, and Construction industry experience. Commissioning philosophy includes driving the Owner’s vision and reinforcing quality by embedding a hands-on Cx team during the construction phase, developing a successful relationship between the CxA and the project stakeholders, and getting our hands dirty.Managed Client relationship, maintained corporate commissioning standards to align with Client requirements, directed 25 engineers on multiple projects, and performed all scoping and pricing. Responsibilities included project planning, schedule coordination, cost mitigation, supporting contractor recovery plans, driving on-time scope delivery, and continuous schedule evaluation on the Client’s behalf, engaging the key stakeholders to plot a course to the completion date. Supervised over 15 engineers on projects on three continents.Extensive experience with developing and implementing commissioning plans and specifications, designing and performing functional testing for mechanical, electrical, fuel oil, fire alarm, and control systems, as well as control system design, performing reviews of submittals, O&Ms, and training plans, implementing integration plans for tying new systems into live facilities, developing and reviewing contractor checkout/startup documentation, provide HVAC engineering support, and the preparation of final reports.

Ran pharmaceutical projects (fully commissioned and validated), new construction plan/spec projects, and retrofit jobs as a technical Project Manager. Led contract negotiation, estimating and pricing, and supervised design, programming, and database implementation. Scheduled work while leveling engineering resources. Managed cash flow and tracked financials by containing costs and aggressively pursuing change orders.Functioned as the lead field engineer on the most sophisticated systems, ensuring implementation and functionality was per design and that validation/commissioning tasks were successful without rework. Technical work included controlling chiller systems, boiler systems, secondary pumping loops, steam and hot water heat exchangers, variable frequency drives, facility wide cascaded air pressure-controlled rooms and pressure bubbles, large air handling systems, air quality sensing, and integration to other systems such as DeltaV, Pi, Infocenter, Systecon, and Matrikon via OPC, Modbus, and other communication protocols. Control logic used inputs from calibrated instruments, used fuzzy logic and PID algorithms for control of systems at startup, shutdown, steady state, and to properly respond to step functions. Custom design and programming provided operator notification and remediation to reduce or eliminate product loss.

Developed and implemented sales plans to re-enter the Energy Management Systems market in Eastern North Carolina, changing the culture from bidding to qualifying opportunities before spending resources.

Sold DDC Controls through Performance Contracting, plan and spec projects, and service sales. Functioned as the controls retrofit expert during project conceptualization and led the internal and external project implementation teams. Performed sales presentations, budgeting, developed solutions to meet payback requirements, performed estimating, and negotiated proposals and projects with contractors.

Held multiple roles over several years, functioning as a Controls Engineering Specialist, retrofit project manager, service contract manager, programmer, designer, and Specialist supervisor. Recruited, interviewed, and mentored new Engineering Specialists. Clients included Dulles Airport, the World Bank, Reagan National Airport, US DOL, Canadian Embassy, German Embassy, Metropolitan Police, Naval Surface Warfare Center.