Troy Yoder Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Texas

• Function as Campus Architect and conscientious owner’s representative of a ($3.2B) 420-acre university campus and associated buildings.• Integral member of Campus Operations and Facilities Management leadership team.• Manager of 13 direct report staff responsible for campus infrastructure, strategic planning, space planning, campus archives, GIS mapping, consultant management, construction management, campus space utilization, lease agreements and furniture procurement.• Provide critical support to the Office of Research to obtain and maintain UT Arlington’s prestigious Tier 1 research designated status.• Responsible for development and adherence to design and construction standards, furniture and interior standards, RFQ’s/RFP’s, consultant contracts, and design and construction services.• Evaluate and negotiate terms of contractual agreements with consultants and contractors.• Responsible for navigating project funding and maintaining project budgets and schedules.• Function as Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) for campus design and construction activities providing regulatory review and oversight.• Review and approve project related expenses and payments.• Develop relationships and manage customers for all campus departments.• Advise campus administration and legal affairs on facilities management related topics.• Provide resources necessary to execute project related tasks.

Fort Worth Texas

• Architectural group lead in a multi discipline design office.• Project Architect or Project Manager for private and government design and construction projects.• Cultivate customer relationships.• Develop proposals for the General Services Administration and the Army Corps of Engineers.• Designer of record, Integrator and overall document quality control leader for Department of Homeland Security, Office of Border Protection and General Services Administration design and construction projects.• Quality control manager with a focus on risk management in an ISO 9000 certified design office.• Responsible for developing and mentoring architectural interns.

Collect and analyze client's project requirements and develop a comprehensive facility program.Day-to-day project Architect, management role from initial concept through construction, with a focus on achieving the client's and project's objectives.Manage consultants and project meetings.Organize, develop and track inner office project team and deliverables. Responsible for maintaining the project schedule, design and budget requirements.Develop project specific code reviews and ensure compliance with all applicable building, life safety, accessibility and AHJ adopted and amended codes.Monitor the performance of each discipline to produce contractor-friendly construction documents.Support the construction services department through project completion.Overall project quality control to ensure project objectives.

Managed multiple and concurrent projects at various stages of design, production and construction.Serve as primary point-of-contact for clients, manage their expectations, provide advice where required and assist the client in making project related decisions.Assist firm Principals with composing and negotiating Owner / Architect prime contractual agreements. Establish consultant's scope of services, negotiate fees and facilitate contractual agreements. Monitor and quality control of project consultants.Develop and maintain project schedules, and additional services.Review project billing and invoicing.Establish and maintain project files, project directories and contact lists.Schedule, organize and establish agendas for project meetings. Develop and distribute meeting reports.Manage project related inner-office resources including staffing and man-power requirements.Hands-on document development during all project phases and ensuring the use of office standards.Assume all duties of contract / construction administration from ground-breaking through warranty.Developed project related graphics and other marketing related materials as needed to respond to RFQ/RFPs.

• Developed drawings, graphics, renderings, models and animations for all project phases including marketing.• CD drafting of multiple disciplines including architectural, structural, civil and landscape design.• Responsible for converting the entire firm from a hand drafting practice into using computer aided drafting and design. Assembled the first CAD stations and built the first LAN network for the firm.• Developed the firm’s first CAD drafting standards and integrated the AutoCad software layers and line weights with the plotters.• Instructed senior architectural staff how to use AutoCad in lieu of hand drafting.