Over 30 years of progressive experience in commercial and heavy civil construction, project management, program management, design and construction management of public design-bid-build civil works and design-build private construction projects.
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
Oakland, California, United States
• Lead execution of significant rail/transit project delivery
• Manage and preparing transportation project teams
• Establish relationships with local agencies and be a visible leader/trusted advisor to clients by promoting AECOM’s values both internally and externally
• Work with external contractors/consultants, intercompany divisions/regions and interact directly with major clients local and globally
• Investigate, negotiate, and resolve project issues
• Support the Rail/Transit Division for the West Region in the execution of rail/transit contracts for program management, design, and construction management.
• Manage staff and tasks associated with rail/transit contracts
• Support various rail professional services pursuits related to major rail capital programs including light rail, heavy rail, or commuter rail
• Manage multidiscipline teams to meet scope, schedule, and budget on multi-million tasks or projects
• Lead meetings with clients and stakeholders
• Mentor junior to mid-level staff
• Develop and maintain project execution plan for assigned projects
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
Los Gatos, California, United States
Part of a full service construction management team playing a major role in strategic growth initiatives for water, wastewater, and water resources. Responsibilities include utilizing exceptional communication, analytical and management skills to perform the following:
• Coordinate various aspects of project delivery and lead the administration of construction projects including planning, design, budget maintenance, scheduling, labor compliance and completing close-out activities
• Schedule, document and track project planning and engineering activities with contractors, field staff and other stakeholders
• Interpret and evaluate architectural and engineering plans and proposals and provide contracting strategies and execution
• Review and respond to RFIs, Change Order Proposals and Change Directives for quality assurance and merit
• Prepare cost estimates and assist in negotiating a fair and reasonable cost for change orders submitted by contractors
• Reviews contractor baseline schedules, including analysis of critical path and recovery schedules
• Perform Constructability Reviews and ensure compliance with District standards, Division of State Architect (DSA) guidelines and building code requirements
• Resolve change order requests and claims
• Lead project close-out activities and acquisition of technical documents, project records, including as-builts, drawings, test records and maintenance of manuals
• Leads efforts in performing tests required to ensure material compliance with plans and specifications
2021 — 2023
Santa Clara, California, United States
Contribute to Colocation Data Center (ie. Colo) construction and commissioning program initiatives, site qualifications, cost control, design reviews, and onsite project management as the Colo Build Program Manager and collaborate with site planning, engineering, procurement, and construction services teams to drive Colo standards, resiliency, cost, and process improvements.
2020 — 2021
Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Meet with client executive managers and stakeholders to oversee construction of global Data Center portfolio
• Assemble data from various stakeholders (e.g. front-end planning team, construction project managers, project controls team, architects, engineers, sub-contractors) to provide guidance, updates and construction overviews to client managers
• Analyze progress, variances, critical path for detailed large-scale construction integrated master schedules to identify risks, resolve conflicts, find efficiencies and quantify the effect of program and process-oriented changes
2017 — 2020
2017 — 2020
Palo Alto, CA
2019 - Present Senior Project Manager/Owner’s Representative @ VMware Palo Alto, CA
• Manage $25M/85,00 sf of TI and $6M of civil and electrical (transformer/switchgear and microgrid) capital and facilities projects from concept (project plan/RFP) to construction execution (design and construction) involving multiple consultants, GCs, subs and vendors
• Manage multiple large, cross-department and cross-functional matrixed project teams and build and maintain key external relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Drive results by tracking project plans, risk and dependencies, key operational metrics, identifying process improvement opportunities and delivering on strategic initiatives
2018-2019 Senior Project Manager/Owner’s Representative @ Apple Sunnyvale, CA
• Managed $150M/400,00 sf of TI and $9M of civil sitework involving dozens of consultants/subs and vendors
• Oversaw Building Information Modeling (BIM) process involving five major subcontractors modeling MEP design
• Managed resolution of over 675 Request for Information (RFI) and 480 change orders totaling $9.5M
Education
Purdue University
Master of Science (M.S.)
Purdue University
Construction Engineering and Management
Nanzan University