Rick Burtt, Col (Usa, Ret) Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

Greater Denver Area

Deliver value to Army National Guard facilities clients through my deep experience in requirements generation and a decade of experience translating them into executable programs. Use my knowledge as a strategist to create a facilities plan that supports organizational growth and improved efficiency. Assist clients in focusing their data management efforts.

Centennial, CO

Lead the largest directorate in the Colorado Army National Guard, managing nearly 2 million square feet of buildings and associated real property with an annual operating budget of over $15 million and a team of over 70 people. Staff authority for infrastructure input to strategic goals, force management, and environmental compliance. Create and staff.

Colorado

• Primary officer responsible for facilitating the creation of and managing the strategic plan for the Colorado Army National Guard. Synchronize multiple staff functions and major command elements in its development.
• Worked with senior organizational leaders to conceptualize the strategic vision.
• Organized and executed a planning conference with key leaders from throughout the state that translated that vision into specific, achievable goals and objectives.
• Ensured the plan integrated across all components of the organization, including with the Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, whose support will be critical to the plan’s success.
• Reconfigured the management process to include plan execution in the day-to-day activities of the organization rather than as a separate event. This approach has already yielded progress in both awareness of the plan.
• Leveraging human capital and technology to create and execute a strategic communications plan to deploy the strategy to the entire organization.

Centennial, CO

• I am responsible for developing and implementing the long term facilities vision for the Colorado Army National Guard. I work across the organization to build consensus and establish clear priorities congruent with the.
• Identification of organizational core values
• Development of strategic vision, mission, and goals
• Translation of military unit data into functional facility plans
• Understanding and application of Army and Army National Guard facility authorizations
• Use of Department of Defense real property and master planning tools

Fort Carson, CO

• Commander of the premier individual and team training site in the Rocky Mountain region. The Centennial Training Site offers advanced simulations and live action scenario-based training through an experienced and.
• Completely transformed the operating concept of the training site in less than two years. For over a decade considered a holding place for people at the end of their careers, it is now a preferred professional.
• Through deep experience in the Army budget process, created a budget of over $500,000 where none previously existed.
• Closed supply gaps with new equipment that had existed for years.
• Change the hiring process into a competitive selection process, with each person hand-picked by senior leaders in the organization based on specific talents they brought to the team.
• Envisioned and brought to fruition a lodging program, leveraging existing assets to ensure a consistent revenue stream of over $750,000 per year supporting the long term facility maintenance.

Centennial, CO

• Managed individual large projects and the program of small projects, through the entire project life cycle, beginning from programming until beneficial occupancy, warranty completion and handoff to operations and.
• Manage large ($20-50 million) capital construction projects
• Led the single largest construction project in organizational history, bringing it to completion on time, within budget and scope
• Created and executed the annual small project program valued from $5-$10 million aggregate annually
• Balanced execution priorities of dozens of projects against organizational needs
• System development and constant improvement due to customer feedback

Centennial, CO

Managed the master schedule in Primavera P6 for a $130 million design-build heavy/highway construction project in Colorado Springs. Transitioned to project engineer and then project manager for a segment of the project, seeing it through final closeout.The senior scheduler in the Colorado office, created proposal schedules supporting acquisition of future.

Colorado And Kansas

• Army Engineer officer serving in varying positions of increasing responsibility, including direct and indirect responsibility for the training and readiness of the US Army's Operational Reserve force.
• Leader of organizations from 20 to 130 people, responsible at any given time for over $20 million in equipment, and for the training, education, logistics and employment at locations across the globe. Deployments.
• Commanded the company that in 2004 received the Itschner Award from the Army Engineer Regiment as the best engineer company in the entire Army Reserve.
• Trained senior staffs from deploying headquarters in staff and mission command processes. Headquarters included reserve and guard units responsible for thousands of personnel.

Golden, CO

Cost engineer and scheduler for capital construction projects at Coors Brewing Company in Golden, CO and Suncor Energy in Commerce City. Responsible for working with project leadership to translate the project scope into a Work Breakdown Structure and establish the baseline budget, then track execution against the budget. Key responsibilities included.

Mba, Strategic Planning

B.Ae, Architectural Engineering

Activities and Societies: Army ROTC, Student Society of Architectural EngineersFocus on Structural Systems, with coursework in HVAC.