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 to better compete their priorities in a nationwide facilities enterprise.

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 policy with national implications through the National Guard Bureau. Designated engineer officer career mentor.

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, progress, and communication.• 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 and engagement in achieving success.• Leveraging human capital and technology to create and execute a strategic communications plan to deploy the strategy to the entire organization.• Developing a leadership and professional development summit focused on Building Leaders of Character. This summit, focused on leaders at all levels in the organization, will provide professional instruction and facilitated dialog meant to build a diverse and inclusive leadership culture.

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 organizational growth strategy. I lead a team of knowledgeable and experienced professionals that then create planning documents and detail justification for future construction projects in support of those priorities.Key expertise and accomplishments:• 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• Application of engineering concepts to organizational problems• Creation of DD Forms 1390/1391 for Military Construction projects• Created master plans for several sites and established the statewide master plan as a organizational strategic goal• Led a team that brought in over $60 million in new construction• Succeeded in funding several projects that had competed unsuccessfully for years• Certified by the National Guard Bureau as a Construction and Facility Management Officer

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 highly-qualified cadre of instructors.• 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 development stop to gain advanced skills in training and instruction.• 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.• Completed a master plan for the training site to provide a road map for the next 20 years of growth which is already gaining support of partner organizations with aligned goals.

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 maintenance. Developed systems to gather requirements, create an execution strategy of individual projects, manage creation of programming documents, and prioritize them amidst competing priorities.Key expertise and accomplishments:• 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• Part of a nationwide National Guard Military Construction design and project management instructional team• Served as deputy branch chief to provide organizational change inputs

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 contracts across Colorado.

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 include a humanitarian mission to Nicaragua and support to combat operations in Kuwait and Iraq.• 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 forecast trends in cost in order to predict final budget performance and identify potential risk areas for mitigation. Developed a database of hundreds of key control system components to provide predictive analytics to project management.Created and managed the master schedule for the program of small projects to create a cash flow analysis tool for corporate leadership, enabling important capital planning decisions.

Mba, Strategic Planning

B.Ae, Architectural Engineering

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