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Long Island City, New York, Us

Pre-construction and construction services for a General Contractor specializing in commercial and luxury retail build-outs. Responsible for design review, code compliance, site verification, consultant/trade coordination, custom details and shop drawings, shop drawing review , vendor management, resolving field conditions and quality control.

Providing full architectural services including design, contract documentation, specifications and project management. Combining years of industry experience with modern influences and inspirations to create spaces that are beautiful and functional. Presenting creative, attractive, livable solutions responding to the design needs of the client and project.

New York, New York, Us

As Assistant Vice President of Facilities I oversaw the operation of a 500,000 square foot owner occupied building, managing Engineering and a general Facilities staff. Part of my responsibilities included the relocation and construction of the San Francisco office. I took over the project midway in the design development phase with the preliminary estimates being over budget, I redesigned the plan to value engineer the project to be within it's original budget, simultaneously preventing the delay of the move-in date as the previous office lease was expiring. In the Fall of 2015, Sotheby’s mounted one of the company’s largest single-owner exhibitions with the sale of the Alfred Taubman Collection. My role was to coordinate the exhibition installation working with a team including the Architect, Engineers, Contractors, Audio/Visual, Marketing, Subcontractors and Specialty Departments. It was a very complex project on a tight schedule. The installation was successfully completed in four days. Working with IT, I rolled out a new web-based Help Desk ticket system where end users submitted their requests directly in real-time. The Help Desk receives requests from employees for building related issues. Previously it had been an email/phone based system that required a central dispatch to funnel and track the requests. The new system included a mobile function that dispatched tickets to the Facilities staff and provided metrics that could be tracked and reported.

New York, Ny, Us

I began working for Macy's as a construction manager within the Facilities Department. I was the corporation’s point person, overseeing the build-out of new real estate and the renovation of existing. As the team leader I was responsible for coordinating the consultants, end users, senior management and landlord making sure that all aspects of the projects were addressed from planning to move-in. During my tenure, through growth and brand expansion, I managed the planning and built-out offices and showrooms on new floors comprising of three hundred thousand square feet of space and renovated another three-hundred thousand square feet of space on existing floors.In 2010 I was promoted to Director of Facilities overseeing the entire department and reporting to the CFO. In addition to my construction responsibilities took over meeting services, maintenance and the mail room with a total of thirty-five employees under my wing. As the company took on more real estate and responded to shifts in the industry towards collaborative open plans, I worked closely with the Architect and Furniture vendor to develop modular furniture standards that met the specific needs of our employees and could adapt to the growth or contraction of different brands over time.

New York, New York, Us

I was hired by Calvin Klein Inc as a Construction Manager, Facilities in charge of running their corporate projects for the head office, warehouse and flagship store on Madison Avenue. Within a year I was promoted to the Construction and Maintenance Manager overseeing not only the capital projects but also preventative maintenance and day-to-day operations for all locations. During my time there the company underwent several expansions and contractions. I was responsible for all related construction projects and personnel moves. The Manhattan corporate offices had been spread across three contiguous buildings which were ultimately consolidated down to one. To accomplish that I was charged with the relocation of the vast clothing archive to a newly constructed space within the New Jersey warehouse. During my final two years at the company I was promoted to Director of Facilities in charge of Construction and Maintenance.In addition to my regular responsibilities I was also in charge of special event set ups including the fashion shows and parties, working closely with Marketing, IT and the individual Departments.

New York, Ny, Us

The Stephen B Jacobs Group at the time when I joined was a small office of six Architects. As a result I was responsible for all aspects of the practice from design, project management, expediting, code review and zoning, writing specifications and preparing contract documents. It was a very important experience for my education. Ultimately I was asked to lead the Citibank Model Branch account for the firm. Over a period of four years. working with the Real Estate team from Citibank I designed and managed the renovation of nine model branches in the greater New York area including the then flagship branch on Fifth Avenue. In addition to Citibank and numerous other projects, I successfully completed 80 John Street, a one-hundred and forty-five unit residential conversion in the Financial District. The project won and SARA award. I was also the lead architect for the Library Hotel, a boutique hotel on Madison Avenue and Waterford Towers, a three-hundred unit assisted living facility in Edgewater New Jersey.

Master Of Architecture, Architecture

Ba, Economics