Ryan Mcdonald Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

United States

New Hope, Mn

Project Manager for a manufacturer of shooting range equipment.Manage 38 to 56 discrete projects annually, ranging from $75,000 to $1,000,000 each. Including all plan and spec projects.Developed and implemented margin tracking tools to eliminate margin fade. Reduced margin fade from -2% to +0.02% within 2 months of kickoff. After 14 months, projects averaged a 1.4% margin gain.Developed and implemented strategic vendor payables tracking used for negotiating additional contracts. Enterprise ERP did not have this functionality. Tool was initially expanded to predict enterprise wide cash flow. Tool was additionally expanded to prioritize critical vendors during a cash flow crunch.Leverage construction experience to reduce time to quote by two weeks for large plan and spec projects. Realized a 12% margin increase for these projects through communicating with bidding General Contractors and adding scope.Expanded responsibilities for Project Management group to include all invoicing, payables, shipping and purchasing. Efforts lead to reduction in project delivery time from 16 weeks to 12 weeks.Manage projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Australia. Familiar with customs requirements and US State Department regulations for each region.Bridged relationships with three competitors to develop cooperative strategies to replace longstanding enmity. Expanded SKUs for all four companies.

St. Michael, Mn

Construction Project Manager For a small general contractor ($8M)Commercial construction on private and publicly funded projects.End to end project ownership and management.Perform bidding, negotiate pricing, develop and maintain schedules, transmit submittals, manage laborers, carpenters and sub-contractors, process change requests, update customers, process invoicing, manage receiving, supply pastries, and close out projects.Use Pro Contractor, iSqFt, Bluebeam Revu, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, PlanGrid and Google Chrome.Leverage FBO, MBEX, iSqFt, eCMS as resources for projects to bid.Managed eight direct reports.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Target Corporation ($72.2B) has 39 distribution facilities, located in strategic areas throughout the United States. Role manages 52M square feet of roofing, 62M square feet of asphalt paving, 1,280 rooftop HVAC units, 86 high volume air compressors, and contracts for services; lawn care, plumbing, pest control and snow removal.- Develop maintenance, financial and capital strategies for $773,000,000 in physical assets.- Develop budgets and methodologies for $19,400,000 annual expense budget and $16,200,000 annual capital budget. - Serve as project manager over 35 discrete capital projects annually. Includes project scoping, bidding and requesting funding from Capital Expenditure Committee.- Actively develop best practices to continuously improve operational effectiveness. Topics range from highly technical specifications to vendor management tips and tricks. - Examples: Led a best practice change to track forklift battery life, changing maintenance practices from time based maintenance to performance based. Led to $420,000 annual labor reduction.- Developed a simple best practice and query to provide ranked spending detail by asset for each facility, providing visibility to each site’s top 20 areas of spend and top 20 part spend. Effort stopped a 15% annual increase in spend across the organization. ($137,000 annually)- Lead development of key performance indicators around maintenance. Specifically around maintenance cost per total equipment replacement value as a benchmark with other industries. Benchmarked against similar industries to find two areas, parking lots and air compressors where spend was 2% higher than industry average. Working with strategic sourcing partners to lower spend in 2015.- Lead development of budget methodologies at the department level. Projects span 39 locations with 32 distinct expense centers, varying from general operating supplies to material handling parts and contracted services.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Small ($7.5M) conveyor manufacturing and rebuilding company focused on conveyor systems for FedEx Ground. Developed quotations, drove internal renovations to the manufacturing floor, and assisted the president of the company with day to day management of the organization.- Developed quotations for 80-100 conveyor installation projects specific to package handling industry. - Developed a semi-automated quotation system leveraging AutoCad and Microsoft Excel tools to reduce time to quote from 5 days to 2 days. - Became a licensed contractor in New York and Louisiana.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked as a combination mechanical engineer, drafter, general contractor and onsite supervisor for a large variety of tasks and projects. I eventually was tasked to assist the acquisition team in assessing newly acquired businesses and assimilating into best practices and upgrading equipment as deemed necessary. - Managed all engineering needs at 7-9 regional facilities throughout the United States.- Worked as project manager on 30-40 projects annually, ranging in value from $20,000 to $4,000,000.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Summer InternshipTook samples of sand, aggregate and cement to test for moisture content and gradation.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Maintained a fleet of 5 vehicles. Performed general maintenance, oil changes, brakes, replacing bulbs, etc. Also delivered product throughout MN and WI. During the Summer, would travel with the Service Manager to install and start-up large aggregate processing equipment. Would weld, use pneumatic tools, cutting torches and brute strength to replace bearings/components as required.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Engineering ClubI was dedicated to graduating on-time. Having started at a Community College, I came to MSU.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Pre-Engineering

Activities and Societies: Softball Team - Won the championship series! Engineering ClubPre-Engineering classes. Re-booted my knowledge.