Greg Bird Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Victoria, Vancouver, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Whitehorse

* Operations Manager: for 41 sites totalling over 523,000 sq.ft. of administration and operational buildings for BC Hydro. Managed fixed cost budget of $6.7 million and $1.98 million in projects within 1% variance.* Facility Management Consultant: Kin Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Khobar, Saudi Arabia: Develop Scope of Work for all facility management functions, covering service level requirements for all necessary services to operate new Saudi cultural centre and museum. Assist in development of the RFP for Facility management contract.* Facility Manager: for 6 Federal Crown owned office buildings totalling over 417,000 sq.ft, and 53 government leased buildings on Vancouver Island, and 4 Federal Crown owned buildings totalling over 423,000 sq.ft, and 4 government leased sites in Whitehorse, Yukon. Consistently maintaining operational budgets within a 1% variance for six years.* Business Development: Assisted Business Development team on a number of successful Facility Management proposals, in Canada and abroad. SNC-Lavalin is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world, and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure, and in the provision of operations and maintenance services. The SNC-Lavalin companies have offices across Canada and in over 35 other countries around the world and are currently working in some 100 countries.

Riyadh, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) is a future-oriented research and policy center committed to energy and environmental exploration and analysis. It is located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the energy center of the world. website:www.KAPSARC.org* Developed operating budget for 50,000 SQ.M. Research Center and Residential Community consisting of 200 Villas, 64 Apartments, and 32,000 SQ.M. Community and Recreational Center.* Developed and wrote Operating Procedure Manuals for Facility management operations.* Develop Scope of Work for all facility management functions, covering service level requirements for all necessary services to operate new Saudi cultural centre and museum. * Assisted in the development of the RFP for Facility Management covering the scope of work and service level requirements for all necessary services.

Victoria, Bc

* Facility Manager for 6 federally owned office buildings totalling over 417,000 sq.ft, and 53 government leased buildings.* Successfully managed over $18Million in projects during a 3 year period.* Assisted in successful bid to Facility Management contract of BC Hydro portfolio consisting of 41 buildings* Consistently maintained 1% variance budgets 4 years running.SNC-Lavalin is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world, and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure, and in the provision of operations and maintenance services. The SNC-Lavalin companies have offices across Canada and in over 35 other countries around the world and are currently working in some 100 countries.

* Developed and set up regional internal facilities/maintenance department to service 16 residential apartments (1400 units), and over 180,000 sq. ft. of commercial space.* Reduced third party costs by over 68% by developing strong multi service teams.*Increased overall rent collection rate by 20% and revenues by 15% in first year of operations.

Victoria, Bc

* Managed construction of 132 new retail stores and 23 complete renovations of existing stores throughout Canada and the US during 3 year period; reduced costs by 14.5% and maintained this cost reduction over this period.* Reduced facilities maintenance costs by 22% for 750 retail stores located across Canada and the US. * Responsible for all design, layout for new proto-type retail stores.

Finance & Business Management

Finance & Business Management