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New York, New York, United States

Leading the interiors project management for our Client’s global HQ at 270 Park Ave.

Deutsche Bank

Project Management Lead for Deutsche Bank’s Americas Headquarters at Columbus Circle in New York. Scope includes site review and feasibility, lease review and negotiation, design, pre-construction, procurement, construction execution, operational handover, move management, and decommissioning of previous facility.

New York, New York

The Program Governance Office (PGO) supports the Regional and Global Service Delivery Managers of Projects to ensure project governance and assurance requirements are met. Captures key project data and provides a commercial oversight to projects in terms of cost and document control. Maintains project data in DB systems. Manages the monthly committee.

New York, NY

• Manages the administration of large capital projects and construction-related spending with a focus on department procurement policies and procedures.
• Prepares ad hoc financial reports to executives for support during negotiations and to drive decision making.
• Develops and implements appropriate work-flow processes and controls aimed at streamlining administrative departmental operations including purchase order, change order, invoice, and contract approvals.
• Monitors compliance with University contracting, competitive bidding, invoicing, and risk management.
• Instituted an employee recognition program.

New York, NY

Morningside Campus And Manhattanville Development, New York City

• Reviewed and processed invoices, purchase and change order requests for Manhattanville Development Project – a new 17-acre site (6.8M sqft) just north of Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus.
• Drafted consultant, construction manager, and GC contract agreements and ensured vendor and CU execution.
• Negotiated contract terms and confirmed acceptance with General Counsel and Risk Management departments.
• Lead cross-functional team to brainstorm department process inefficiencies and recommend improvements.
• Created and presented Power Points to standardize procurement and billing with CM’s and GC’s.

-Managed monthly cost reports for over ten projects and four companies -Developed exposure reports in Excel to project potential unidentified costs -Compared experience between consecutive months by running variance reports-Input weekly quantities, and ran weekly cost reports in MS Access -Analyzed weekly reports for atypical production rates

-Processed submittals and RFIs using Prolog-Managed document control and updated as-built drawings-Wrote scopes of work for inclusion in trade contracts-Developed a punch list computer program to improve punch list efficiency for over 200 condominiums-Created and reviewed monthly accounting requisitions-Processed change events and tracked trade scope.

Bs, Civil Engineering - Transportation And Project Management

Activities and Societies: Tau Epsilon Phi, Chi Epsilon, National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Mba, Finance

Activities and Societies: Rutgers MBA Intramural Basketball Team

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Basketball, National Honor Society