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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

MGAC is a global boutique construction consultancy dedicated to managing and representing its clients’ best interests. With ten offices located throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, MGAC’s best-in-class services include Project Management, Cost Management, Program Management, Project Controls, Schedule Management, Technology.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Regional mid-size contract furniture dealer.Guided development of functional work and learning settings for corporate and higher education clients.
• Executed two 4-month fast-track projects from project planning through installation, delivering on-time and with 40% budget reduction.
• Defined and implemented strategic plan for growth of the higher education market, resulting in $4M in new project opportunities.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Formerly OfficeMax. Managed all phases of client projects, including defining project requirements, proposal development, bid process, product selection, specification, order placement, order tracking, installation.
• Delivered 100% on-time and on-budget client occupancy for $2M book of annual business, coordinating with end users, manufacturer’s representatives, contractors, internal and external design teams.
• Coordinated and directed project work for $500K initial furnishings contract, increasing account value to $1.5M within 4 years.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Multi-state contract furniture dealer.Established client base for new line of architectural construction products, including modular walls, modular electric / data, modular casework, raised flooring and sound masking.
• Managed full project construction lifecycle from design scope development, budgeting, resource coordination, change management procedures and project closeout, improving processes for business growth from $500K to $4M+.
• Developed architectural solutions to provide clients with plug-and-play options, scalable and secure environments and custom spaces, reinforcing brands and contributing to efficiency, productivity and workplace morale.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Planned and delivered against performance targets while managing wide variety of economic and urban development, community redevelopment, construction, design and space planning projects.
• Executed economic development loan process resulting in $9M funding award for 8 applicants in 15 months which created/retained 4.5M jobs and re-purposed 10 vacant properties.
• Attained 10% construction cost reduction, improved productivity, efficiency, quality and consistency through development of annual-award RFP for community development corporation property renovations.
• Acted as owner’s rep to facilitate furniture specification, evaluation and purchase for 34,000 square foot state-of-the-art new museum facility, utilizing allocated budget of 1% of total building cost.

Cleveland/Akron And Columbus, Ohio

• One brand in global contract furniture manufacturer HNI’s $2B portfolio.
• Managed multi-dealer network and developed recommendations based on alignment of client budgets/goals in Northeast Ohio to double commercial furniture sales in 4 years to $4.4M.
• Created dealer training manual which resulted in new nationwide process for development of dealer network.

Cleveland/Akron And Columbus, Ohio

• National contract furniture manufacturer; Steelcase-aligned partner.
• Formulated strategy to achieve sales through recurring calls, special events and educational presentations with specifiers and end users.
• Catapulted multi-state territory sales from $324K to $1.3M in just 2 years.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio And Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Directed flooring standards program for large financial institution and secured extension of corporate account contract valued at $3M annually.
• Led effort to engineer a floor leveling material with one-third less weight for use in applications requiring extreme floor leveling.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Managed several million dollars in construction renovations and new-build projects annually, throughout more than 1M square feet of space; delegated activities for two direct reports and more than two dozen.
• Established process to streamline and efficiently manage requests from 10,000 campus-wide staff while concurrently advancing project activities for $25M+ capital improvements.
• Guided the development of patient floor renovation that became the prototype for all patient floors campus-wide.

Cleveland, Ohio

• Start-up interior design / space planning services firm.
• Built 6-person space planning services firm for unserved market niche and managed all activities including client attainment, project planning and design, project management and company operations.
• Aligned space needs with department adjacency requirements and workstation standards to allow divestiture of 508,000 square feet, achieving significant annual cost savings, operational efficiencies and improved.

Masters, Urban Planning, Design & Development

Graduate Certificate in Urban Land Management

Bachelor Of Arts, Interior Design

Activities and Societies: Delta Zeta Sorority

Certificate, Baking And Pastry Arts