Approval Reviews for Pa & NJ Residential Land Development Projects held by a syndication of banks. Implementing the necessary actions to keep entitlements from unraveling on partially completed projects.

A detailed, Realtor-Associate working for the #1 Realtor in our region. Constantly upgrading our skills to specialize in finding and selling homes for people within our local neighborhoods. Market dominance and abundant resources give us unmatched ability to perform for our clients. Rock solid performance for over 100 years. Primarily working out of the Haddonfield Sales Office in South Jersey. (member in NAR, NJAR, BCCAR, SJI). Work Direct: 856-616-7130 ; Cell 609-472-9263Work E-mail: greg.graham@prufoxroach.com

Involved in Commercial & NJDOT infrastructure projects with pricing, material & subcontractor buyout, contract & sub-contract review, engineering submittals, value engineering, material & permit procurement. Monitor & put together project cost extras, billing, asphalt escalation charges, while minimizing back charges. Coordination with clients on billing, extras, and technical issues in order for the project to continue forward. Field coordination with sub-contractors and our own field personnel. Worked on and help package design claims where appropriate. Coordinate sub and field staff to obtain project (CO's) sign off in a timely manner.

Involved in securing and processing all bids entering the company from our various builder clients. Oversaw an estimating staff of 4 and nearly tripled estimate turnout. Involved in project management of awarded projects to ensure staying within expected costs, to maintain project profitability. Worked with clients to handle municipal engineering issues to allow projects to continue uninterrupted. Value engineering of plans to provide alternate solutions for increased project feasibility. Used HCSS Heavy Bid System along with Word and Excel.

Involved in securing all land entitlements for our NJ land (some PA) portfolio of residential and commercial projects. Reported directly to Division Senior Vice-President and Company CEO. Performed due diligence (i.e.: investigations, ordinance reviews, utility availability, yield and feasibility determinations) on over 65 projects. Proceeded with 31 projects in obtaining land use approvals in the South Jersey market place. Secured approvals on over 1425 residential lots (one GDP) and 211,000 sf of Commercial space, including mixed use projects. Responsible for acquisition contract compliance, due diligence, approvals, budgets, resolution of project development and engineering issues with all outside agencies. Negotiated seller extensions, workouts with Federal and State agencies (i.e.: bog turtle issues), and negotiated with township officials (mayors, zoning, and code officials) on local issues (i.e. sewer and water availability etc). Resolved issues surrounding DCA, bank closing documentation, housing fit issues, and hostile townships in finessing solutions on projects. Contracted, scheduled, and coordinated engineering consultants and legal council to implement project strategies in obtaining preliminary, final, and outside approvals for development. Testified in front of numerous township boards, planning boards, and county construction board of appeals for house line issues. Worked with site development staff in bidding and awarding projects. Resolved many bonding and escrow discrepancies along with site development problems with various agencies.

Involved with residential and commercial projects in our local area from the initial site acquisition findings, such as pesticide screenings to township project approvals. Preliminary and final design issues resolved such as grading, storm conflicts etc. Submission of technical data ie., hydrological reports, soil findings, etc. Project costing of improvements for bonding. Construction management of on-going school projects by interfacing with clients, architects, contractors, and township officials.

Involved in takeoffs and estimating of site improvement work for our various builder clients. Clearing, soil erosion, earthwork, sanitary, storm, water main, curb, paving, etc., as well as project administration of contracts such as scheduling, coordination, and notifications of scheduled work. Interfacing with builders and municipal engineers on site-restrictive issues. Over-site of contracted work for quality control issues.

Involved with our in-house acquired projects requiring interfacing with the landowners of whom the tracts are optioned, to our engineers for securing the preliminary and final approvals. Additionally, meeting regulatory requirements as well as satisfying our clients (various builders- such as Ryland, Paparone) expectations through project administration of our site-improvement work. From the initial preliminary environmental testing, clearing, earthwork, pipework, curbing, paving, to final bond release dedication. Assisted our other project managers on contract work with site specific design/permit issues which have actively reduced our outstanding bond liability through systematic reductions and releases. Coordinated closely on a NJDEP soil mitigation workout from the initial MOA submission to the NFA release letters, and placed together our first draft of our company wide safety manual.

Involved in contract administration, municipal code and Municipal Land Use Law compliance for our clients capital and planning board projects. Coverage was over five municipal townships, two of these townships were new accounts, however all require daily scheduling of inspection staff to cover their capital and planning board projects in meeting project specifications and municipal land use compliance. We interface daily with municipal officials, builder/developers, contractors, engineers and the resident taxpayers in coordination and resolution of scheduled work by solving site specific issues such as monitoring schedules, contract compliance, coordination with affected residents, mitigation of disputes, design field changes and bond reductions. We handled conflicts that arose from road/utility reconstruction and land development projects within the township's borders. Also turned around two deteriorating projects with strong supervision and project management skills so uncharacteristic of the passive role of the inspection industry. I have also taken a leadership role in helping evaluate our cost containment options of our health benefits program as well as composing the rough draft of our wellness program.

Involved in coordinating our own subcontractor and field crews between various projects. Interfaced between engineers, inspection agencies and homeowner associations. Also provided over-all scheduling, budgets, contract review, bond reductions and coordination of contracted site improvement work. This involved scheduling of earthwork, road, sanitary and storm sewer construction for our residential subdivisions. Improved bonding capacity through bond releases of many outdated projects. Received a commendation for the hard work in the delivery of two sample openings under difficult site and time constraints. Additionally provided coordination of housing trades while interfacing between township officials, architects and homeowners.

Traveled up and down the east coast involved in site preparation and field coordination with subcontractors and own field crews for our site work contracts with MCI and Sprint. Also responsible for equipment procurement, site layouts and completion of punchlist items on various repeater stations. Promoted to project manager handling numerous small projects all of which required bids, proposals, material takeoffs, procurement, letting of subcontracts, permits, drafting, correspondence, scheduling, billing and contract fulfillment for our site work contracts with MCI and Sprint on their long distance telephone microwave repeater stations.