Real Estate Project Manager

Summary of Qualifications

Creative commercial planning professional with over 20 years experience in

corporate real estate planning and design as well as facilities management.

Expertise includes building relationships, decision-making skills as well

as ability to work with complex and ambiguous environments. Subject matter

expert in furniture systems (modular or panel), asset tracking and capital

project management. Owner's representative/liaison for construction

management. Managed budgets in excess of $20M annually as well as managed

third party vendors. Established and maintained corporate drawing

database.

Areas of Expertise

. Managing construction planning and build-outs for various sites

(Corporate Headquarters, Financial Service Centers, Sales Offices, Print

Centers, Document Warehouses, Catalog Logistic Warehouses, Data Centers

and Call Centers.

. Designed layouts for 200 facilities including 100 square foot of

Corporate Headquarters space.

. Coordination of Mergers & Acquisitions/decommissions.

. Managing Corporate Real Estate team.

. Managing major vendor contracts.

. Working as a corporate real estate liaison for internal business units.

. Heading teams of third party real estate agents for site search and

selection of corporate headquarters and other real estate requirements..

Technical Skills

Systems: Windows (98/2000/XP)

Software: MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, MS Outlook, MS Project, Auto

CADD, AssetCenter, MS Visio, Web-based Shared Databases,

High speed plotters

Special skills: Trained design staff on computer use and managed

system, and file storage. Other areas of involvement

include: White noise systems, card key security systems,

audio visual systems and specialty library build-outs for

humidity controlled environments.

Professional Development

. Six Sigma Green Belt training, Chicago Deming Association

. Certified Interior Designer, National Certification for

Interior Design Qualification

. Furniture specification training (Modular systems

furniture), Steelcase and Hayworth

. Computer Assisted Planning Furniture Specifications, CAP

. Computer Assisted Design and Drafting (Auto CADD), Rowley

Schlimgen

Education

. Bachelor of Science in Commercial Studies - University of

Wisconsin (Stevens Point), WI

Major: Interior Design, Minor: Art

Professional Experience

RR Donnelley, Chicago, IL

Project Manager, Corporate Real Estate - 07/97 to 04/09

. Executed and managed corporate real estate and related

projects.

. Functioned as liaison for outsourced project management

staff affiliated with corporate real estate portfolio.

. Conducted biweekly detailed reviews of portfolio with team

to assign staffing and balance work load.

. Provided direction on procedures for site closures and

mergers.

. Closed and relocated locations involving Corporate

Headquarters office closures.

. Resolved furniture disposition and reallocation of modular

systems for majority of projects.

. Ran and managed the relocation of the Corporate

Headquarters of RR Donnelley.

. Consulted with architect and assisted with collection of

programming data for primary objective.

. Communicated project details and dates to all stakeholders

via emails and web link.

. Maintained budget and timelines.

. Reviewed and provided value engineering to all budgets to

accommodate scope requirements.

. Directed and managed the relocation of the corporate rare

book collection and library.

. Assisted with design ideas to incorporate library into new

headquarters space as well as bookcase design and

protection of collection during move.

. Designed executive level suites, provided relocation and

renovation expertise in New York and Chicago.

. Worked on merger of real estate portfolios for each

corporate merger during tenure which included returning

sites to pre-lease conditions.

. Selected and installed Corporate Signage Programs.

Moore Business Forms, Lake Forest, IL

Internal Staff Designer, Corporate Real Estate - 04/91 to 07/97

. Designed space plans for Commercial print company from

beginning to end, including programming, planning,

approvals, furniture design, specification, ordering,

installation of furniture and punch list of same as well

as construction punch list.

. Coordinated in-house I.T. role within build-out package.

. Worked to include with white noise systems in site build

out package.

. Managed corporate specification package, managed vendor

relationships and worked with multiple business units.

. Controlled corporate furniture inventory of panel systems

and maintained deployment Countrywide.

. Acted as facilities manager in corporate re-stacks, fire

drills, relocates etc..

. Traveled to sites approximately 70% time. Worked on

projects outside the US, mostly in Canada.

. Handled multiple projects in field and at corporate.

(Portfolio was over 1 million square feet of space.)

. Hired and managed additional help to complete large work

loads.

. Acted as sole designer on real estate staff and completed

all planning for corporate portfolio.

. Designed and built executive suite for Moore Corporate

Executives in Lake Forest Illinois.

. Created Briefing Center for Moore Marketing group in Lake

Forest Illinois. (included layout,finishes,fixtures all

systems audio visual.)

. Managed, design/ built three plant addition/remodels for

Moore to create central sales hubs.

. Sourced resale furniture and designed team stations for

sales hub teams.

. Worked on Regional Distribution Centers combining cross

functional groups such as warehousing, print centers, sales

offices, and call centers.

. Assisted with running Audio Visual systems at Corporate

Headquarters.

. Preordered carpet and wall covering product for sites per

build out schedules

Marshall Fields Commercial Interiors, Chicago, IL

Staff Designer/Cadd Trainer and system Manager - 02/88 to 04/91

. Worked with sales associates to sell and design Steelcase

panels systems and other commercial furniture and finishes,

including paint, carpet, lighting, light millwork and

artwork.

. Created layouts and floorplans both manually and by using

Auto Cadd.

. Trained designers to use Auto CADD for drafting and Cap

software for furniture specification.

. Presented ideas, designs and proposals to clients.

. Completed inventories, field measurements and site

inspections.

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