Chris Vanderweyden Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

• Work cross-functionally with our clients and architectural and engineering design teams to develop and implement sustainability strategies, frameworks, guidelines, and certification action plans through a variety of.
• Develop and manage staffing projections, revenue plans, overall project budgets, and fee forecasts throughout all stages of the project from proposal and RFP phase, throughout the design development, construction.
• Manage business development: proposals, CRM tracking via Salesforce, contract execution, contract setup, RFP responses
• Collaborate with Studio Director on short-term and long-term staffing, A/R, quarterly and annual fiscal planning
• Coordinate with recruiting to identify team growth strategies, immediate and long-term hiring needs, candidate evaluation, and participate in candidate interviews
• Represent Consulting Studio as Design Manager (Project Manager) Leader in New York Office

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• As Associate Director of Account Management, I oversaw the process of maintaining the quality of relationships with our growing existing client base, as well as developing new relationships to meet company growth.
• In addition to account management, I also worked on the project delivery side, managing sustainable building projects focused on achieving a variety of sustainability certifications.

Ontario

Utilizing my 8 years of experience, I created VWS to provide independent sustainability consulting services to clients seeking LEED certification project management, energy benchmarking, and sustainability master planning.

1333 Broadway, New York, NY

• Team Director managing a project team of sustainability project managers and energy engineers completing LEED-EB, LEED-CS, LEED-NC, LEED-CI certifications from project development to certification and ASHRAE Level II.
• Contributed to the continual business growth of the company by maintaining existing client relationships and developing new business opportunities.
• Completed over 20 million square feet of LEED-certified commercial office space throughout the United States, within the LEED-EB: O&M, CI, NC, and CS programs.
• Extensive experience in completing over 100+ LEED Gap analyses, LEED site visits/inspections/audits, 100+ ENERGY STAR energy benchmarks, and consulted on new development projects looking to implement sustainable and.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Assisted the Project Manager and Superintendent in project administration, field work, field audits
• Worked alongside and regularly communicated with owners, architects, contractors and engineers
• Maintained accurate and up-to-date shop drawings, track the status of RFI’s, obtain quotations for notices of change,
• Tracked, maintained and submitted LEED documentation
• Updated and assembled as-built documentation
• Conducted quality control activities, inspection programs and periodic updating of construction progress records