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Crestview, Fl, Us

United States

Acting as the Companies' Representative for mission-critical Data Center construction projects.Managing the Companies' design/engineering, procurement, and construction contractors.Oversee construction activities to ensure adherence to project plans, schedules, and budgets.Track project budget and expenditures, ensuring financial goals are met.Identify and mitigate project risks to ensure successful project delivery.Manage contracts and change orders, ensuring compliance with project requirements.Ensure construction quality and compliance with regulatory standards.Facilitate Companies' meetings and provide regular project updates.Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve project goals.

United States

Plans/manages facility programs or projects to meet specific objectives or goals. Provides leadership for the project team and key interfaces to the project or program. Works on problems/tasks in delivery of a specific facility or location. Identify tasks, determine dependencies, identify and assign specific resources, communicate expectations to team members, obtain task effort and duration estimates from team members, and create/track the project schedule. Assess risk and identify issues. Monitor progress against schedule. Executed on IT/PMO projects bringing the Work Place Strategy and IT together during their ongoing divestiture activities.Taking the Trellix from 27 locations to 17 with 18 closures and 8 new site builds.Managed cross departmental communications and site readiness for post covid site openings globally for 15 sitesLiaised between project sponsors, stakeholders, designers, and construction partners; established strong professional relations with external IT vendors via internally integrated applications.Managed vendor relations, contract negotiations, project budget, and deadlines, and focused on maximum cost savings in tracking project expenditures and costs of materials, labor, and services.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Established a reputation for approaching issues creatively and acting with urgency and professionalism at all times. Oversee the Mid Cap portfolio of construction projects within a Data Center Campus (150MW of IT Space over (5) buildings), inclusive of live environment. Responsible for ICM leadership at the site, project planning, scoping and implementation, creation and maintenance of project schedules, cost control, and contractor change orders negotiations. Foster clear communication lines within the team, with cross-functional partners, consultants, vendors, and contractors to facilitate seamless processes. Liaise with the contractor, designer and Owner Furnished Equipment (OFE) vendors within their portfolio. Identify deficiencies and improvement areas to develop targeted strategies to achieve the desired outcomes. Leverage project management experience to support procurement, scheduling, communication, and coordination. Assist with developing capital project budgets and provide ROM construction cost estimates. Manage monthly CaPEx forecasting for project costs; deliver project status reports (financial, schedule, Q/C).Achievements: Serves as a proactive troubleshooter who can rapidly evaluate project needs, identify operational gaps, formulate strategic plans, initiate change, and implement new processes in fast-moving environments.

Southlake, Texas, United States

Supported the development of capital project budgets and provide ROM construction cost estimates. Supervised tenant improvement or retrofit work in a live data center environment; assist Verizon Wireless Construction Manager on contractor, designer and vendor management. Enforced adherence to all regulatory compliances besides ensuring conformance to quality control policies, SOPs. Productively collaborated with clients to define project requirements – formulated plans to deliver projects within time and budgetary limitations while ensuring compliance with the plans, specifications, network design standards. Interfaced with local jurisdictions and effectively communicated technical information to a non-technical audience. Provided value engineering of the project, reviewed schedules, lowered costs and eliminated delays; diligently monitored the status of MOP's, RFI's and submittals.Achievements: Respected for successfully collaborating with multiple stakeholders, cross-functional teams to resolve complex problems, embracing continuous improvement in delivering long-term positive outcomes.

Irving, Texas

*Separation from work for a Presidentially declared disaster*Responsible for managing and operating OPEX & CAPEX budgets of $1MM - $1.5MM with oversight of all aspects of data center management and operations for 5 globally dispersed sites (N.A., EU, UAE, India). Implemented and managed safety and reliability programs and developed an agile support staff of technicians, managers, and outside contractors to achieve 100% availability.🔹 Maintained excellent financials and surpassed goals with a 5% variance to budgets🔹 Oversaw hiring, onboarding and training for all departments; Directly oversaw a remote team of global technicians🔹 Developed and facilitated trainings on building management systems, DC cable management, and service restoration 🔹 Increased cable tray assemblies and capacity by 25%; Reduced supplies/material expense by 12% for annual savings of $84k🔹 Revamped and automated the “Secure Access Request” system, policy and procedures, reducing manual efforts by 99.9%

Mckinney, Texas

Whaley Products, Incorporated is a leading manufacturer of industrial cooling systems. Responsible for collaborating with sales operations to design unique cooling systems for various clients, including breweries, distilleries, wineries, schools, hospitals, utility companies, and data centers. 🔹 Delivered +$3MM dollars in designs and sales revenues over 6-months🔹 Modernized engineering data management and workflow with a cloud storage solution; increased productivity by 30%

Las Vegas, Nv

Oversaw the design, prioritization, installation, maintenance and operations of 31 technical telecommunications facilities across Las Vegas, Tucson, & Phoenix, emphasizing safety, cost control, quality of workmanship and the security of the facilities. Managed the development and implementation of projects/programs requiring technical experience and/or education (IT/Engineering). Analyzed operational procedures for continuous improvement and led change management and compliance through standardization, improvement, simplification, and discontinuance, etc. Conducted risk assessments and facilitated communication across operational groups and customers.🔹 Designed and implemented the upgrade and installation of 8 Emerson DC power plants; Completed HVAC re-ducts of 14 South West Regional Data STC’s; Allocated and managed project budgets of $1.2MM -$3.5MM 🔹 Design and oversaw the $2.1MM, 3-vendor Installation a 500KW solar array supporting the CESTC in Las Vegas🔹 Led the $120k-$225k 90-day upgrades of 7 data center UPS systems to inverters with zero interruptions to service🔹 Collaboration with Cox Conserves to upgrade all data centers in AZ from steam generation humidifiers to ultrasonic humidifiers resulting in 12%-15% reduction in power consumption, and reducing equipment run-time by 40%🔹 Oversaw the utility design and coordination of the 9-month, $3.8MM construction of a 3000 sq. ft. addition to the SEMTC; Completed a full integration electrical integration using FM200, 6 Battery stacks, 6000 AMP DC plant and a 120KW inverter with 4 BDFB distribution bays🔹 Oversaw the $4.2MM design and construction of the 5000 sq. ft. CESTC data center, feeding the Las Vegas strip and the main Commercial Business network

Las Vegas, Nv

Served as a primary technology leader across the market, communicating and coordinating the implementation of technology strategy with leadership within the Technology, Network Engineering, and Operations organization. Led local Data Engineering team, vendor and equipment selection, testing, validation, and documentation of the technologies required to build, scale, and maintain backbone, market and metro routing, switching, optical network, and data center network infrastructures. 🔹 Led a highly focused team of 15 networking experts providing technologies and designs to support the underlying core $400MM network infrastructure for the market 🔹 Liaised and coordinated development efforts to provide direction on the core networking technologies required to scale and maintain a highly complex infrastructure supporting $1Bn in omni-channel sales 🔹 Developed and trained staff; Mentored and coached 22 operations technicians and engineers and technology

Las Vegas, Nv

Under the general direction of the Director of Customer Operations, managed all aspects of the CBS technical support team including selection, hiring and training of staff; creation and management of department budget of $1.5M; management of daily operations including call statistics and scheduling; interaction with core system personnel and other CBS/HN personnel to facilitate customer and department needs; maintained proactive customer relations and managed customer escalations; created the commercial installation group and took on the installation of all high cap transport circuits.

Graphic Design

Major: Computer Science Minor: Graphic Design

Education record

Hitachichi, Japan - Foreign Exchange Student