Coordinate and administer project management and real property acquisition activities for road transportation projects. Advise and assist staff in negotiation for purchase on right-of-way, reconstruction/improvement, streetscape, and tunneling transportation projects. Identify opportunities for new business and maintain good working relations with existing clients. Initiate and maintain local, state and federal agency registrations to do business. Attend bid conferences and forums and respond to requests for bid fee quotes. Assign team members to perform various functions necessary to acquire right-of-way. Inspect awarded/assigned projects. Develop project schedules to meet completion date. Solicit bids to employ appraisers, negotiators, and other trade specialists. Coordinate right of way and construction plans to correct errors or accept special provisions of agreements. Make recommendations on project activities and plan revisions to reduce acquisition costs to client. Negotiate as a final attempt to reach an amicable settlement when the negotiator cannot obtain an acceptable option. Prepare administrative settlement analyses to justify counteroffers, if applicable. Initiate condemnation proceedings, if necessary. Attend and participate in field plan review meetings and client/public hearings. Direct and approve submission of monthly invoices to clients. Advise and counsel all specialists on the Right of Way team. Monitor team members in resolving problems. Meet with appraisers, attorneys, contractors, engineers, and local, state and federal officials. Maintain a State of Georgia Real Estate License. Ensure compliance to all applicable local, federal and state policies, procedures, regulations, codes and laws.

Locate and inspect parcels on projects to estimate cost of acquisition based on comparable sales data. Prepare and submit cost estimates for approval. Search county tax and courthouse records for transfer and recent sales similar to project parcels. Conduct public information hearings and property owner meetings for proposed road construction. Deliver offer presentations to property owners for which right of way, easements or cost to cure are required to improve roadway, negotiate settlements, and prepare closing documents. Calculate relocation moving expenses, identify available housing and prepare relocation packages. Decide settlement proposal or proceed with condemnation of parcel. Request checks for settlement of offers and condemnation proceedings. Prepare appraisals using standards of Professional Practice to determine fair market value of property. Coordinate and/or contract with appraisers, attorneys, contractors, engineers, and local government. Ensure compliance to all applicable federal and state policies, procedures, regulations, codes and laws. Appointed Team's Safety Ambassador.

Managed requests to exchange, lease, and purchase access breaks, easements, parcels and right-of way. Scheduled appointments with clients and their representatives to travel and review right of way plans to clarify areas of interest and discuss the disposal process. Solicited and selected bids from appraisers to provide fair market and lease-fee values. Established fair market and lease-fee values under direction of a mentor. Informed public of bidding procedures, laws, and regulations; prepared bid proposals, scheduled and conducted sealed bid openings, obtained appropriate approval signatures, delivered the deed and collected the funds. Negotiated and contracted offers to purchase land. Developed, monitored, negotiated, and renewed lease agreements. Collected, posted and forwarded lease payments for deposit. Developed correspondence, legal ads, offers to purchase, legal descriptions, and deeds. Located deeds and plats in the courthouse and assisted surveyors with identifying elements on surveys. Interpreted construction, profile, and right-of-way plans/maps. Performed entry and exit inspections and showings for residential properties. Requested checks for payment of vendor services. Prepared condemnation reversion deeds. Coordinated with appraisers, attorneys, engineers, government entities, surveyors, and the public. Adhered to federal laws, Georgia laws & GDOT policies, procedures, rules, regulations, mission and value statements.

Supported Department Head for the State Urban Design Office. Coordinated office workflow, special events, and set office priorities. Processed consultant invoices, travel authorizations and accommodations. Responsible for processing travel expense reports, and Human Resource transactons. Advertised job positions, set up interview schedules, and prepared and submitted job selection packages. Processed timesheets, balanced leave, confirmed payroll transactions and distributed paychecks. Maintained confidentiality of documents and transactions. Researched, compiled and interpreted information, monitored office budget and expenditures. Communicated and interpreted agency policies and procedures. Developed and implemented new filing system for transportation project workfiles and consultant invoices. Charity coordinator. Supervised one employee.

Developed project scope, schedule, budget, training manual, and facilitated group and one-on-one training sessions for Citrix, NIKU Workbench and Connect. Responsible for project documentation, on-going communications, implementing and supporting work plan methodologies, standards, guidelines, quality and change management as member of PMO. User Support for Citrix and NIKU Workbench/Connect user IDs, user rights, software installation and operations support. Responsible for work breakdown structure, assigning and scheduling tasks and resources, setting milestones, leveling & tracking resources, expended time, and setting the baseline using Microsoft Project software. Communicated project performance & data metrics, created custom reports, views, program integration and closed projects. Identified, assigned, tracked, resolved and escalated project issues and risks using Kintana software. Managed time reporting, consultants and vendor contracts.

E911 technical support for service representatives, technicians, and E911 Headquarters to setup and maintain network databases and services. Analyzed, revised and verified E911 data to interface between multiple operating applications. Coordinated and performed county conversions for zip codes and E911 services. Recorded and tracked property annexations in database.

Analyzed, balanced, investigated, reconciled and resolved pricing discrepancies in purchases, shipments and transfers for stocked and surplus material in warehouses. Reviewed and monitored posting of purchase orders terms and agreements for compliance. Created ad hoc DB2 query reports in Excel and Access using TSO/ISPF and FTP. Retrieved and reviewed archived purchase orders in FOCUS. Established and updated average disbursing prices in MARTA, WAIRS and SPAIR databases. Balanced and journalized inventory balances. Coordinated, facilitated and journalized annual inventory & audits. Served as SME for audits. Developed and conducted workgroup DB2 query training. Developed database to create verification reports on requisition authorization numbers assigned to management.

Maintained and updated database for Geographic Location Codes. Performed monthly balancing and recorded depreciation for capital items. Extracted and assigned labor and maintenance cost for work site projects.

Responsible for maintaining Georgia master calling billing records. Maintained and updated customer electronic data records to contain subscriber indicators, calling plans, and other billing criteria. Analyzed customer revenue service record (CRIS) formats and system translation errors (LN&N). Identified cause of statewide directory assistance billing error.

Performed rate verification for domestic and international calls.

Transmitted emergency messages via telecommunications equipment using encryption coding.