Lawrence P Mitchell

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***** ***** *** ******* #***, San Antonio, TX 78258 acpc7x@r.postjobfree.com Tel

214-***-****

Personal Statement

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I am currently a Regional Manager with over 15 years Engineering and

Project Management, Project Engineering and Estimating experience in

positions of increasing responsibility in material handling project based

companies. I am an effective communicator and facilitator; I know how to

get the job finished on time and under budget.

Career Objective

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I am looking to advance my career growth in a Project Management or Project

Estimating Manager position in a material handling based company that will

be provide challenging project opportunities and will promote personal

advancement opportunities and education.

Transferable Work Experience

Regional Manager Texas Division / Sr. Project Manager

(June 2013 - Present)

Ergo Mechanical Industrial, San Antonio, Texas

. Responsible for the Management and Profit and loss for all the

projects in the Texas region. Expected Sales for the Region were

$500,000 in 2014. Actual sales for the region for last half of year

were in excess of $3,000,000 dollars.

. I am the main contact for the customers in our region, Caterpillar,

Toyota, Futaba International Texas, John Deere

. I handle all financial reporting for the projects with monthly (EAC's)

Estimate at completion.

. Track all deliverables for the project with milestone reporting

. Additionally, I participate in the sales and supply of custom material

handling equipment for our company and the installation of the

equipment in the plants.

. To accomplish the installations, I manage a group of (4) Site

Managers, (8) General Foremen, (4) Safety Managers and numerous sub

contract Union Labor.

. Create schedules needed for all the construction sites as needed.

. I perform as General Contractor on work in the area of Earth Moving,

Civil projects for stamping die press pits, and heavy machinery

installation and relocations which require HVAC, Electrical and

Controls, Concrete forming, and Piping installations

. Work with the Site Managers to help with Onsite Supervision of jobs as

necessary to help with overflow work.

. Responsible for creating and implementing the site specific Safety

plans for each individual construction site location

Project Execution Manager / Project Manager Large Projects (Apr

2013 - June 2014)

FlexLink Systems, Richardson, Texas

. I manage multiple complex industrial automation solution conveyor

projects; including planning, execution, control and close-out ranging

from $1,000,000 - $7,000,000 USD.

. Execute highly technical fast turn-around projects on-time, within

budgets while meeting contractual obligations, with a high degree of

focus on customer satisfaction.

. Track all deliverables for the project with milestone reporting

. I handle all financial reporting for the projects with monthly (EAC's)

Estimate at completion.

. I lead cross functional project teams that include internal and

external team members.

. Maintain quality of projects by adhering to the company's internal ISO

processes and standards.

. I manage a group of (3) Designers, (2) Project Engineers and (1)Junior

Project Manager day to day to insure all of the required projects in-

house are on track with the scope and schedule as submitted and agreed

to with the customer.

. During project execution I handle any scope or contractual changes by

proposing, selling and managing the change from start to finish.

. I manage installation crews of varying size during the installation of

a complex system, start-up and I direct any necessary changes needed

while installation is being performed.

. Occasionally, I develop design concepts, which includes costing and

detailed proposals during the bidding stage.

. I review and approve proposals and costing in relation to the Project

Management and technical and or contract feasibility before a proposal

is submitted to the customer.

Program Manager Category X Airports (Contract) (Jan

2012 - Apr 2013)

Boeing / NACC, Inc., Arlington, Texas

. As the Program Manager representing Boeing, I performed work on the

Task Order 19 material handling projects for the Western Region of the

United States, which encompasses more than (150) Airports, ranging in

value from $10,000,000 - $100,000,000 USD. I performed the following

duties during a typical deployment:

. Represented Boeing/NACC during the meetings with the TSA Regional

Deployment Manger meetings.

. Point of contact for Boeing/NACC to the all Air Carriers, TSA

Management and Airport, City and or County Authorities.

. Site survey of the existing checkpoint screening equipment to

determine customer needs

. Perform duties as Site Manager by managing a team of onsite

personnel, including CCTV contractors, IT contractors, Electrical

contractors, Rigging contractors and Security Screening Equipment

installers.

. I Plan, Schedule and track all project deliverables and milestones.

. I handle all reporting requirements to Boeing, TSA and Local Airport

Authorities on a daily and monthly basis.

. Effectively communicate and coordinate with local TSA Management and

Regional TSA Management when issues or concerns arise.

. I am responsible for all as-built documentation, red lines and final

walk through with local stakeholders.

. I chair lessons learned meetings to help improve and document any

issues that happened during the deployment.

Director of Estimating (Jan 2010 - Jan

2012)

Five Start Airport Alliance, Tavares, Florida

. Manage and generate quotes in house by utilizing a team of three

estimators and coordinating Engineering disciplines to accomplish

quality and detailed proposals for the baggage handling conveyor

industry. Proposed projects ranged from $50,000 - $40,000,000 in size.

My team quoted over (200) competitive bid projects with a successful

hit rate of more than 35% of the proposals being sold.

. Review proposal specifications and drawings to determine items that

must be included in the pricing and proposal. Create RFI'S

documentation to get clarification of discrepancies found in the

proposal documentation.

. Travel to Pre-Bid walk-through to determine if there are any special

factors that need to be accounted for in the pricing and proposal

document.

. Generate detailed equipment list to distribute to the other

disciplines on the bidding team, controls, software, and installation.

. Create a component take-off to generate the preliminary pricing.

. Obtain any quotes needed from outside vendors to complete pricing.

. Determine technical risk factors and quantify them in the risk

assessment tool.

. Work with Project Management to mitigate risk impacts to a potential

proposal costs.

. Create a summary of costs for Management review.

. Create comparisons against similarly completed projects and use as

baseline for pricing levels.

. Chair pricing meeting with Upper Management to finalize mark-ups

percentages and pricing.

. Prepare proposal documents that are required by our customers,

schedule of values, price per conveyor etc...

. Archive each proposal as submitted to the customer for use as needed.

. Generate proposal inputs as submitted to the project team and

participate in the Project kickoff.

. Perform change order work on existing project as the need arises.

Sr. Proposal Specialist (May 2007 - Jan

2010)

Siemens, DFW Airport, Texas

. Manage and generate proposals in house by utilizing a team of eight

(8) plus estimators and coordinating with Engineering disciplines to

accomplish quality and detailed proposals for FedEx Ground and UPS

material handling projects. Proposed projects ranged in value from

$1,000,000 - $70,000,000 USD.

. Review proposal specifications and drawings to determine items that

must be included in the pricing and proposal. Create RFI'S

documentation to get clarification of discrepancies found in the

proposal documentation.

. Travel to Pre-Bid walk-through to determine if there are any special

factors that need to be accounted for in the pricing and proposal

document.

. Generate equipment list to distribute to the other disciplines on the

bidding team, controls, software, and installation.

. Create a component take-off to generate the preliminary pricing.

. Obtain any quotes needed from outside vendors to complete pricing.

. Determine technical risk factors and quantify them in the risk tool.

. Work with Project Management to mitigate risk impact to a potential

proposal costs.

. Create a summary of costs for Management review.

. Create comparisons against similarly completed projects and use as

baseline for pricing levels.

. Chair pricing meeting with Upper Management to finalize mark-ups

percentages and pricing.

. Prepare proposal documents that are required by our customers,

schedule of values, price per conveyor etc...

. Archive each proposal as submitted to the customer for use as needed.

. Generate proposal inputs as submitted to the project team and

participate in the Project kickoff.

. Perform change order work on existing project as the need arises.

Lead Project Engineer (Aug 2004 - May

2007)

Glidepath LLC, Grand Prairie, Texas

. Responsible for designing complete baggage handling systems in 3-D

including but not limited to; Conveyor equipment, supports, catwalk,

platforms, integration of baggage scanning devices. Projects range in

size from $50,000 - $5.000,000.

. Travel to project sites and perform the initial site walk through to

determine obstructions and coordinate with other airport disciplines

to remove any found.

. Manage small group of designers to generate project drawings and

documentation required for submittals.

. Review project specifications and review proposal drawings to

determine if more information is needed. Create RFI'S to get

clarifications and document any out of scope items.

. Generate point load analysis and place into conveyor drawings for

submittal to customer, to ensure the existing facilities will not be

over stressed.

. Audit project budgets on a continuous basis to ensure that all

equipment costs are within the budgets specified.

. Create a monthly project report to submit to upper management at the

monthly project reviews.

. Performed dual role as Project Manager and Project Engineer on

projects < $3,000,000 USD.

Project Engineer (Jan 2000 - Aug 2004)

Siemens, DFW Airport, Texas

. Responsible for designing complete baggage handling systems in 3-D

including but not limited to; Conveyor equipment, supports, catwalk,

platforms, integration of baggage scanning devices.

. Travel to project sites and perform the initial site walk through to

determine obstructions and coordinate with other airport disciplines

to remove any found.

. Review project specifications and review proposal drawings to

determine if more information is needed. Create RFI'S to get

clarifications and document any out of scope items.

. Generate point load analysis and place into conveyor drawings for

submittal to customer, to ensure the existing facilities will not be

over stressed.

Cad Designer (Sept 1995 -Jan

2000)

Equipto, Addison, Texas

. Generated installation plans to properly install customer products

. Create proposal drawings of Mezzanines, shelving, and carts, so sales

can better implement their ideas to potential customers.

. Designed piece parts to upgrade existing products.

. Handled all technical support for sales force and their customers.

. Designed Fixture and store layouts for Mikasa

Education and Training[pic]

ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE,

Associate of Applied Science: Computer-Aided Drafting Technology

SAFETY TRAINING,

OSHA 30 Certification

Equipment and Software

Hardware: Lap Top and desktop computers, LaserJet printers,

Plotters, Software: AutoCAD ver. 12 through 2015, Autodesk

Inventor, Office XP products, Microsoft Outlook, Project, Excel,

Word, Power Point, Beam2D Beam analysis software, AS400,

Configura bid software

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