William Gross Email & Phone Number

Highland Heights Kentucky

• Coordinates and/or supports the design for the construction and/or remodeling of facilities and oversees the placement and administration of all outside contracts for space planning, architectural, engineering and construction services when assigned as Project Engineer.• Oversees Facility Services for all assigned properties.• Oversees operating services including maintenance, janitorial, security, vehicles, etc.• Generates purchase requisitions for furniture purchases and all other capital expenditures for assigned locations. Maintains monthly and yearly records of expenditures.• Prepares funding requests for assigned facility projects and maintains budgets, cost records, status, and schedules for these projects. Assists other facility managers in CAR FAR preparation and serves as their interface with Laboratory and/or Corporate Management.• Maintains annual operating spend and provides management with operational spend forecasts.• Assists in the coordination, scheduling, budgeting and completion of long-range facility planning, real estate acquisition, and disposal for assigned locations.• Directs space allocation, space standards and usage at all assigned locations. Ensures operating groups are provided with required space.• Generates monthly forecasts of "Capital Needs" expenditures for assigned facilities. Prepares periodic manpower forecasts and space projections.• Supports and/or Directs the coordination, scheduling, budgeting and completion of assigned capital projects.• Oversees office administration services including furniture/equipment needs, office services, shipping and receiving and receptionist.• Directs the implementation of security programs and systems.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Manages operations and maintenance of all facilities operations of multiple buildings within a region. • Leads facilities staff to deliver expected service levels for maintenance, janitorial, security, landscaping, food services, office services, move management, capital improvement, parking and other outsourced needs within the prescribed budget. • Manages the work assignments for building technicians, vendors, and contractors. • Ensures with site leadership team by providing a seamless interface of the client real estate organization and facilities through leadership, responsiveness and creativity that develops and maintains a positive relationship • Recommend capital improvements and prepares operating budget reports. Prepares monthly operating budget & forecasts and completes monthly variance report • Follows the annual IPMP performance plan; accomplishes Key Performance Indicators • Oversee the overall service delivery of the contracted services. Ensure all client and JLL polices in regards to delivery of service, safety and compliance are followed • Manages the JLL – 360 Facility & One View Service Center service ticket program • When required completes all SAR (Situation Analysis Reports) within the specified time frames as directed by the Critical Systems Manager. • Manages Security program and policies which includes all site audit reports • Coaches and develop direct report employees to reach full potential, dealing directly and quickly with performance issues and positioning employees for success within the firm.

Maineville, Ohio

• Consultation and project management services for corporate owned building environments in the greater Cincinnati area.• Working with corporations to identify opportunities in areas of space utilization efficiency, move management, facility maintenance, sustainable initiatives and energy conservation.

Sr. Director of Building Services and Sustainability• Directed facility strategic planning, design, management and maintenance for 400,000 square foot, 44 acre Luxottica North American headquarters with 2000 associates and contractors on site.• Conceptualized, proposed and managed implementation for hundreds of organizational changes ranging from 1000+ associates and dozens of departments to individual office builds outs.• Set up and managed space standards program resulting in 25% increase of usable space.• Project manager for construction of 110,000 square foot building addition. • Directed corporate reconfiguration efforts of over 1400 associates and 40 departments re-landscaping entire corporate headquarters office space.• Due to acquisition, coordinated efforts for transitioning 106 people, files and pertinent assets from Twinsburg Ohio to Mason Headquarters. Directed subsequent 175,000 square foot building decommissioning for Twinsburg facility. • Responsible for all Space Planning efforts for LensCrafters and later Luxottica:Responsibilities included but not limited to. -Keeping up to date floor plans of space utilization. -Data lists compiling used space totals and square footage per person. -Loading capabilities• Generated energy savings strategies and cost savings measures reducing energy consumption by over 31%.• Developed Zero Waste program. Directing team of 90+ ambassadors and a Zero Waste council of 12 to sustain program. At no cost, reduced landfill from 65% to less than 9.5% attaining Zero Waste designation in less than one year.• Organized plan for office consolidation and decommissioning of private office furniture.• Conceived and directed AV maintenance program which included installation of flat screens in lobbies delivering updated business messages, upgrading all conferencing projectors in building and integrating video conferencing equipment in several areas.

• Design Consultant for Luxottica devised office standards, advised senior leadership team in furniture selections, space planning and office design for new Corporate Headquarters. Directed move management of over 750 associates, build out of office spaces, providing rel;ocation service for over 150 suites of private office furniture. • Coordinated decommissioning efforts of former Governors Hill leased space with landlord per terms of lease. Removal of 730 cubicles, 40 private offices and conference rooms, exterior signage and voice/data cabling.• Resulting from Sunglass Hut acquisition, designed and executed a plan to add 115 associates and reusable assets from Miami, Florida to Cincinnati Governors Hill office space.• Developed and managed plan for reconfiguration of over 175,000 square feet of office space with over 100 private offices into an open plan space with only 9 private offices, 650 open plan cubicles and multiple open break areas.• P&G- Bluebook project- providing quarterly space audits for 6 office buildings comprising over 1.5 million square feet and 7500 people.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Design And Architecture

Recipient of IBD furniture Design Award

Bachelor Of Science In Design, Design And Arcitecture

President of ASID