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Commercial Construction Management Lead for CVS/Aetna Manager. Led $300 million in construction projects, focusing on renovations and dispositions for Aetna’s central United States real estate portfolio. Led development, programming, planning, design, technology modernizations, and construction activities within the central region’s portfolio.

Responsible for the overall management and administration of the Chicago Housing Authorities (CHA) $250 million-dollar capital improvement program for the city of Chicago. Provide strategic direction and oversight of every aspect of capital improvement projects throughout the Authority. Ensure cost-effectiveness and timely completion of construction and modernization activities, housing standards inspections, architectural/engineering design, vacancy reduction programs and special projects. Managed the capital construction summer intern program. Oversaw the physical condition assessment of the entire CHA real estate portfolio. Manage the development of short and long-range capital plans and champion internal funding justifications. Ensured that construction process, procedures, and technologies were on par with industry standards and capable of facilitating innovative construction administration processes.

Sr. Retail Program Management Lead for Walgreens 2012 $100 million-dollar retail Southeast Well Experience construction initiative. Direct, coached, and mentored program managers, construction project managers, construction trades, real estate service coordinators, and merchandisers. Developed a contractor and tradesmen construction training program. Direct, coordinate, and report on the planning, development, entitlement, real estate transactions, design, construction, and quality activities related to the 2012 southeast Walgreen’s Well Experience retail development program.

Managed multiple real estate portfolios (Microsoft, Bank of America, Citibank, Motorola, National City.) with a budgetary responsibility of $150 million. Commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions, entitlement, and construction Program Management Lead for Xerox. 2011 Project Management Lead for Microsoft’s United States and Canadian real estate portfolio. Furniture Team Lead for all project initiatives in North, South, and Central America. 2010 Project Management Team Lead for Bank of America’s US Central commercial real estate portfolio. Provide expertise in the development of strategic real estate capital plans, space planning, restacking, and the execution of commercial interiors development programs. Capital planning and development liaison between Project Management Office’s, Property Management, Real Estate Transactions, Engineering, and Business units. Manage the work progresses of senior and mid-level project managers to ensure that quality planning and development initiatives followed Six Sigma (6σ) DMAIC and PMP principles.