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Austin, Texas, Us

• Oversee planning, pricing, and construction projects ranging from small office improvements to major capital upgrades.• Coordinate a variety range of projects with multidisciplinary departments and personnel, while overseeing third-party vendors and contractors.• Manage the design and implementation of projects by gathering and defining the project requirements• Develop short and long-range plans for future to ongoing projects, including estimating timelines for start-up and completion of projects.• Review, negotiate, and manage contracts and monitor contractors to ensure compliance with contractual obligations, including administering change orders and schedule of values.• Prepare reports and presentations in response to requests for information from Department Directors.• Suggest and implement project solutions to address new or ongoing challenges faced by the organization.• Actively seek out and implement cost and time saving solutions.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Managed manufacturing scopes, schedule alignments and action trackers for project engineers.• Created tooling to define and manage resource allocations for current and future projects.• Tracked and managed the team’s budgets for each project.• Responsible for driving the Material Flow Automation Program correspondence.• Managed reports to internal teams, highlighting project status, risks, and mitigations.• Worked collaboratively with other manufacturing and construction stakeholders to ensure the needs and expectations of teams were met.

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• Successfully oversee over 50 projects concurrently while managing a combined budget of $20+ million. • Review contracts, drawings, and specifications for compliance to confirm estimating accuracy, using technical knowledge of products, industry standards, and building codes.• Monitor project costs and quality to ensure the profitability and technical performance of the project and develop innovative actions to correct change in scope, budget and/or schedule.• Manage vendor relationships and possess knowledge in standard practices to reduce material costs through strategic negotiations with several vendors. • Collaborate with various representatives of general contractors, owners, architects, governing authorities, and regulatory agencies regarding project design and schedule arrangement for equipment installation. • Partner with superintendent, internal sales, field mechanics, and managers to secure successful project finalization while surpassing customer expectations.• Confirm profitability by saving approximately 10% of project cost through closely monitoring project hours, change orders, and additional material costs.• Establish and implement schedules, milestone maps, and deliverable requirements to ensure that contractual obligations are communicated, tracked, managed, and met.• Anticipate, recognize and identify key project issues, conflicts, or problems and establish objectives and priorities in solving them; determine solutions and direct their implementation.

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•Assisted the office in the management of schedules, using Microsoft Outlook, schedule appointments, screen incoming calls and correspondence for the Dean from both internal and external sources and responded independently, when possible.•Maintained, updated and distributed as necessary operating procedures specific to the College.•Assisted students with information regarding school fees, registration and graduation.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Maintained active involvement in the Los Angeles Wastewater Integrated Network System project.• Offered hands-on support to engineers and field technicians with operation-readiness testing of the city's control system of all sanitation facilities.• Demonstrated excellent writing skills in creating detailed proposals for city members to assist with grant applications and provide status updates to concerned teams

•Facilitate students grades K-12 engage in hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.•Encourage students to ask questions and explore the different career paths in STEM.•College Captains actively engage in guiding students through hands-on activities and mini-competitions.

Los Angeles, California, Us

•Inspect parks and recreational facilities and record data relating to Americans with Disabilities Act guidelines.•Determine if parks and recreational facilities meet the accessibility requirements of the ADA and what, if anything needs to be corrected.•Provide a detailed report identifying any issues requiring correction.

•Assess organizational need and capacity for volunteers.•Create volunteer program materials (policies and procedures, applications, volunteer agreements, and schedules).•Train and match volunteers to organizational needs and opportunities.•Manage and track database of volunteer statistics.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Manufacturing Engineering