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New York City Metropolitan Area

• Manage the construction of ground-up luxury condominium development from the SOE phase through Stabilization
• Review and comment of pre-development documents including unit and amenity floor plans, facade massing and design, landscape design, and interiors design
• Develop project budgets and schedules
• Create Scopes of Work and negotiate the bidding and buy-out of all trades
• Manage the coordination of all consultants
• Facilitate regular meetings with field team of superintendents and foremen to ensure adherence to construction documents, project budget, and schedule

New York, NY, US

• Performed Due Diligence on over 4 Million square feet of Commercial Real Estate
• Negotiated the signing of 35 new locations
• Reduced the overall die rate of pipeline opportunities
• Reduced the Due Diligence process timeframe to 15-25 days (from 30+)
• Developed alternate Due Diligence processes for new deal types
• Worked alongside the Real Estate team to project deal pipeline and develop plan to achieve signing goals

New York, NY, US

• Coordinated and reviewed test fit documents, site assessments, and MEP reports.
• Provided recommendations to the Investment Committee with respect to labor requirements, local codes, permitting requirements, existing conditions, design, and the local real estate market.
• Worked closely with internal estimating team to validate high level budget estimates, assisted in refining pricing, and gave recommendations on ways to lower potential project costs to get within budget.
• Helped identify potential risks from a design and construction, cost, and operational perspective to inform team’s decision to move forward with a particular location or not, as well as impact underwriting and lease.
• Managed all phases of due diligence, including coordination of all internal and external resources.
• Oversaw all due diligence communications, including scheduling & logistics of on-site evaluations, working with engineers and architects to issue site reports, soliciting and scoping general contractor pricing.

Amsterdam, NL

• Project Architect for flagship retail through Core & Shell and Tenant Improvements phases
• Performed design assist work including facade studies, vertical circulation, atrium openings, interior detailing
• Approved visual benchmark standards of curtain wall facade panels and attended performance mockup testing
• Oversaw the production of Construction Document sets for permitting (Alt-1 and Alt-2 filing), bidding, Landlord/Client review, Landmarks Preservation Commission, and Department of City Planning
• Managed all aspects of Construction Administration including shop drawing review, on-site coordination, RFI and submittal review and response, and punchlists/project close-out
• Experienced in the process behind filing building permits, CCD-1 and ZRD-1 applications

Amsterdam, NL

Amsterdam, NL

• Completed work on a number of luxury retail stores for multiple clients throughout the United States and South America
• Project Management including the overseeing of production, checking drawings for quality assurance, permitting, bidding
• Construction Administration including shop drawing review, site-coordination, RFI responses
• Design experience in programming, finish selection and specification, retail design development
• Technical problem solving involving detail design and development, 3d visualization and rendering
• Site surveying for the purposes of checking existing conditions, construction meetings, punchlists

Wayne, New Jersey, US

• General project management and construction administration
• Produced complete sets of construction documents for small and large scale retail projects throughout the country
• Worked on details and material specifications for airport retail chains in Los Angeles International Airport, Dallas Love Field Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport
• Completed several site surveys to collect field measurements and produced lease outline drawings

• Operated field surveying equipment to accurately measure properties for architectural and civil engineering drawings
• Input collected data into AutoCAD to produce site plans