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Burleson, Tx, Us

Construction Management, Project Management, & Rollout Management

Dallas, Texas, Us

Orange, California, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Capitalized on the opportunity to drive forward-thinking operations for the company’s new refreshed concept – Uberrito Fresh Mex Restaurants. Directed a top-performng team of architects, engineers and contractors to build 3 new locations based in Texas (2) and Scottsdale, AZ (1). Maximized bottom-line performance via regular visits to restaurants sites to assess business needs, develop growth initiatives, and allocate dollars to exceed core goals.Selected Achievements: Cost-effectively set up facilities maintenance vendor agrements for all 48 restaurant locations. Personally recruited and relocated to manage design and construction of the new concept restaurant. Successfully developed a database of restaurants and noted existed conditions and future budgetary needs.

Cypress, Ca, Us

Directly recruited, as a member of the executive team, to oversee construction, facilities and design of 117 restaurants nationally. Lead high performance Facilities and Construction teams in a highly competitive, fast paced, complex and customer-centric environment. Drive continuous process improvement initiatives to compress time to project completion, cut costs, optimize team competencies and enhance customer satisfaction. Leverage extensive experience in planning and executing end-to-end fully integrated construction projects from the ground-up or remodels in highly diversified locations, including standalone and shopping centers. Consistently utilize a broad skill-set, practical knowledge and extensive experience for each project, including regulatory and compliance requirements, lease agreements, service and maintenance contracts, landlord, property management and vendor relationships. Selected Achievements:• Successfully managed the design and construction rebranding of several key restaurants, including Who Song & Larry's Restaurant in Orange, CA and the Prototype Chevy's Restaurant in Lake Buena Vista, FL• Tactically revamped and set-up a facility department for 117 restaurants nationally, including putting an innovative preventative maintenance program into place.• Effectively managed a $23M combined budget for remodel, Capex, repair & preventative maintenance. • Optimizes organization’s operational readiness and effectiveness by adeptly managing three key assets: the personnel, financial resources, and production capabilities.

Cypress, Ca, Us

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Oversaw full responsibility for managing the facilities and assets for a diverse portfolio of 31 PF Chang Bistro restaurants across 5 states, including preventative and corrective maintenance, on-site inspections and ensuring a total ownership of the assigned locations. Effectively built and maintained cross-functional relationships with the customer group, specifically restaurant managers and their staff, as well as remote corporate management and corporate staff. Directed the landlord and property management relationships to ensure compliance with the lease agreements for restaurant locations within the assigned portfolio. Continuously conducted on-site inspections to ensure clean, professional, well maintained facilities representing the PF Chang’s brand. Actively monitored and ensured cost effective timely completion of routine preventative and corrective maintenance within approval SLA's as well as adherence to all contracts supporting the restaurants, including contracts SLA's, warranty and costs. Selected Achievements:• Collaborated with company engineers and architects and other design resources regarding restaurant space planning needs, project scope definition, overall design and project planning. • Held full financial responsibility for developing and managing annual operating and maintenance budgets, including establishing KPIs and Metrics. • Adeptly developed key relationships with numerous commercial real estate property management companies at leased sites while simultaneously ensuring compliance will all lease agreements. • Recognized for effectively negotiating all service vendor contracts. • Seamlessly ensured all critical aspects of the project related construction, project coordination and completion were addressed promptly and in a professional, cost effective manner with all of the project scope, budget and schedule objectives met.

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Directed project budgeting, site due diligence, landlord negotiations, contractor negotiation and selection, management and scheduling of general contractors and vendors for all new construction and remodel projects nationally. Concisely reviewed design and constructability of projects, including preparation of construction documents, contractor selection, bidding, budgeting, scheduling, invoicing coordination and change order approval and negotiations. Oversaw Project Managers, Architects and Expeditors during construction process to substantial completion, punch list, start-up and turnover to operations.Selected Achievements:• Effectively determined feasibility of proposed new restaurant sites while assisting Real Estate and Operations personnel with preliminary site investigations.• Hired, trained, developed and managed a high performance team of construction project managers.• Directly developed and implemented significant cost saving changes by managing construction specifications and identify.• Successfully secured all necessary permits and variances for new construction and remodels to ensure ongoing compliance with all state and local building and zoning laws and codes. • Adeptly monitored and tracked construction costs to effectively control project costs.

Successfully managed 20 to 35 nationwide projects concurrently while directing project budgeting, contractor selection and negotiation, scheduling, landlord negotiations, entitlement, permit process, construction document process, management of all vendors and general contractors. Continuously communicated with restaurant operations during the construction process to ensure a successful turnover.

Actively managed 15 to 28 Jack in the Box and Quick Stuff projects concurrently while overseeing budgeting, architect selection, contractor selection, contract negotiations, entitlement, permit process, scheduling, management of JIB vendors and general contractors. Member of the Development Business Meeting Planning Team.

Responsible for estimating, budgeting, contractor selection, contract negotiations, scheduling, management of field supervision, and interacting closely with owners and vendors while managing 35+ projects per year including retail tenant improvements, ground-up restaurants and remodels. Key Projects: Outback Steakhouses, Buca di Beppo Restaurants, Mimi's Cafes, Pei Wei Asian Diners, Taco Bells, Wendy's Hamburgers , Carl' s Jr. and KFC Restaurants.