Project Manager Real Estate

Location:

New York, NY

Posted:

January 07, 2013

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Resume:

Due Diligence Consulting

Ms. Gell has been personally involved in the details of

thousands of real estate transactions for various client types

Summer Gell and therefore understands the specific needs and scopes of

Principal work required for the different parties involved in the

******@**********.*** transaction. Ms. Gell has served as an environmental

scientist, project manager, or senior author for projects

associated with over 5,000 real estate transactions. Ms.

Gell is familiar with the due diligence requirements of a

varied number of reporting standards, including ASTM

Education E1527-05, EPA s All Appropriate Inquiry (AAI), Fannie

B.S., Environmental Health, Cum Laude Western Carolina Mae DUS, Freddie Mac, HUD, NEPA and Federal

University

Communications Commission (FCC) 47 CFR Part 1. She

also has experience with fulfilling numerous customized

Registrations client scopes of work.

North Carolina-Licensed Asbestos Inspector (No. 11425)

South Carolina-Licensed Asbestos Inspector (No. 22156)

Previously, Ms. Gell was a client manager for a Fortune

AHERA Certified Asbestos Building Inspector

500 company and was responsible for managing due

OSHA 40-hour Hazardous Materials Safety Certification

diligence projects throughout the United States. Ms. Gell

OSHA 8-hour HAZWOPER Annual Refresher

was also responsible for developing report templates to

meet the Phase I ESA requirements of Freddie Mac and

Experience Summary Fannie Mae s small loan program. Her primary clientele

Ms. Gell has over 15 years of experience in the real estate

focus included real estate investors, DUS lenders, CMBS

due diligence field. She has a strong background in

lenders, insurance lenders, and real estate equity funds.

providing environmental due diligence for debt and equity

transactions, as well as the performance of Phase I

Subsurface Assessments and Industrial Hygiene

environmental site assessments, Phase II subsurface

Ms. Gell was also the Geoscience Group Manager for an

investigations, soil and groundwater remediation, National

international engineering firm, where she was responsible

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Reviews and

for business development for due diligence services within

Environmental Assessments, regulatory compliance audits,

North Carolina and South Carolina, staff management, and

asbestos surveys, lead-based paint surveys, mold

QA/QC review of all Phase I ESAs, asbestos surveys, and

assessments, and indoor air quality studies. She also has

Industrial Hygiene-related reports. In addition, Ms. Gell

extensive portfolio management experience throughout the

was the project manager on multiple Phase II assessments

United States.

and remedial investigations with cleanups under various

regulatory programs for former textile mills, drycleaners,

Client Relationship Management

and Brownfields sites located in the southeastern United

Ms. Gell currently serves as a National Client Manager for

States.

Partner Engineering and Science, providing solutions to

clients due diligence and engineering needs. She is

Prior to being promoted to Geoscience Group Manager,

responsible for ensuring consistency, quality, and on-time

Ms. Gell was responsible for managing and completing

delivery of due diligence and engineering services provided

environmental site assessments, and soil and groundwater

by Partner. Current day-to-day responsibilities include

contamination assessments associated with USTs,

project oversight, staff supervision, report review, and

drycleaners, and former industrial properties. She was also

client management.

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responsible for conducting asbestos, lead-based paint, and North Carolina Department of Environment and

mold surveys, and the oversight of subsequent abatement Natural Resources for UST sites owned by various

projects. She also performed regulatory compliance audits industrial and government entities.

and indoor air quality assessments to evaluate potential Completed Tier I, Tier II, and Corrective Action

worker exposure issues. reports for submittal to South Carolina Department of

Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) for UST

For a national geoscience company, Ms. Gell served as a sites owned by various developers and industrial

staff environmental scientist and conducted soil and entities.

groundwater assessments at multiple petroleum retail sites Conducted soil and groundwater assessments at

located throughout Florida. multiple petroleum retail sites located throughout

Florida. Activities included field oversight of

Project Experience groundwater monitoring well installation using mud-

Performed, managed, or reviewed due diligence rotary, air-rotary, and hollow-stem augers; soil and

projects associated with more than 5,000 real estate groundwater sampling; receptor surveys; and elevation

transactions on multi-family properties, agricultural surveys of installed monitoring wells and soil borings.

properties, commercial office buildings, retail shopping Prepared Contamination Assessment Reports (CARs)

centers, gasoline service stations, medical and documenting field assessment activities and evaluation

hospitality properties, dry cleaning plants, auto repair of laboratory analytical results for submittal to the

shops, industrial properties, and various manufacturing Florida Department of Environmental Protection

operations throughout the United States. (FDEP).

Responsible for managing due diligence in support of Field Team Leader for Phase I ESAs and subsequent

the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on Phase II investigations conducted of multiple closed

telecommunications projects throughout Texas, New furniture manufacturing sites located in North Carolina

Mexico, Arizona, South Carolina and Tennessee. and South Carolina as part of a joint venture between

Managed a portfolio of Phase I ESAs for over 200 gas an international engineering firm and a Brownfields

stations located in Texas and Utah. investment company.

Managed and served as a team leader for a Phase I and

Speaking

Phase II assessment of five housing areas associated

with the Marine Corps Air Station and Parris Island Panel speaker at the Environmental Bankers

Recruit Depot in Beaufort, South Carolina. Scope of Association s January 2010 Conference on the subject

Services included asbestos sampling, lead based paint of Fannie Mae DUS engineering and environmental

sampling, mold investigation of housing areas, guidelines in comparison to HUD and Freddie Mac.

geophysical surveys for USTs and possible land fill

Publications

area, and soil and groundwater assessment.

Going through a Phase? All About Fannie Mae and

Managed and performed indoor air monitoring project

Freddie Mac Due Diligence, Scotsman Guide, April

of a former industrial facility located in Orlando,

2009

Florida. Air monitoring parameters consisted of

VOCs, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, carbon

Freddie Mac Due Diligence:

dioxide, environmental bacteria, fungi, radon, and lead. Environmental/Engineering Best Practices,

Provided expert witness testimony for workers GlobeSt.com Blog Network, July 2011