Project Mangager

Merria Norris

*** ***** ****, **** ******, FL ***50

Cell Phone: 863-***-****

Objective:

To provide landscape, architectural, and land planning services to the public and private developers; with a clear understanding of the legislation, codes, and land development regulations to ensure quality projects and due diligence are performed and in compliance.

Career Highlights:

Development Assistance and Review – Assisting the public with drawing plot plans and preparation of the permitting and application processes. Meeting with all society members regarding land development applications, as well as, the municipalities standard review process and its time line of the application review and scheduling of the public hearings for the approval process.

Land Planning - Extensive experience within consulting on commercial development, lot splits, aggregations, subdivision plats with property owners, architects, engineers, developers, and contractors on land use constraint analysis, land use research, permitting on a wide variety of projects ranging from single family subdivisions, mixed use developments, commercial plats and developments of several hundred acres. Also, MDARD - Michigan Right to Farm - State of Michigan.

Municipal Planning – Conducted visioning sessions and survey analysis for updated a master plan. Conducting review for obtaining sustainable communities, as well as community friendly (such as: walkable, public transportation, etc)

GIS (Geographical Information Systems-ESRI)- Providing comprehensive land information, high quality visuals, as well as, specific property information for land owners, real estate professionals, elected officials, engineers, and consulting firms.

Land Scape Architecture – On site inspections of landscape plans on commercial site plan projects ranging from acre to 100 acres for a final approval of certificate of occupancy. All plans must be in correlation with the Land Development Regulations and the Zoning Ordinances for adherence to plant lists, planting details, location, size and type of landscaping materials; these materials must match the adopted regulations and the Commission approved site plan, as well as, all existing vegetation being marked and listing on plans that shall remain and be protected during construction. Projects include: retail, automotive, restaurant commercial/medical plazas, industrial, and houses of worship.

Assistant Project Management – Commercial construction projects such as: Petco, MC Sports, Michaels, New Life Church. Issued change orders, budgeting of project and time line for completion of projects. Employment and termination of contractors and sub-contractors, time management, deadlines, due diligence, final completion and cleaning of stores before the releasing of project to corporations for the opening of the stores.

Computer Skills:

MS Office ( Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), Adobe, MS Access, Quick Books, Final Cut Studio;, Word Perfect, OSX, Maya, GIS, HTE, Windows XP, MS Vista

Professional Certificates/ Education:

Citizen Planner – Michigan State University

Master Citizen Planner – Michigan State University

Zoning Administrator – Michigan State University

Commercial Site Plan Design and Approval – Michigan State University

ESRI

FEMA – Legal Description & Flood Panels (mapping, writing, reading)

FEMA Emergency Management Training

APA/MAP

ASU - B.S Degree (Urban Planning – top 15% of university)

Lake Sumter State College – A.A Degree

Career Experience:

Department Head/Zoning Administrator, Somerset Township, Michigan

•Planning and Zoning Departments

•Application review and department recommendation for all developments, as well as, residential permitting

•Town Board and Planning Commission presentations and teachings

•Site and field inspections for Planning Department and Code Enforcement

•Updated Master Plan and wrote new Zoning Ordinances, as well as, Amendments

•Calculated Storm Water Retention Areas

•Zoning Overlays/Watershed Overlays

Zoning Administrator – Villages of Parma, Michigan

•Issued all violations for Zoning Ordinances and the Code of Ordinances

•Drafted the approved fee schedule for permitting and land development applications

•Implemented adopted regulations that were previously ignored and cleaned up the outstanding properties within the Village limits

•Held presentations for the Boards and Planning Commission that were learning sessions for guidelines of their positions for the State

•Preparation of state grants (Revitalization and development of downtown, inter local agreements, housing programs, land development regulations, sector planning studies)

Planning, Zoning, Growth Management, Town of Lady Lake, Florida

•Department recommendations for land development applications to all Boards and Commission

•Updates to Comprehensive Plan ( Master Plan) for the Town’s state review before DCA(Department of Community Affairs

•Site evaluations for areas of proposed developments and acquisition of County

•Analyzed and reviewed State Legislation for efficiency within local government

•Implemented GIS for layers of current or future infrastructure and updated database

•Due Diligence

•Concurrent Evaluations

•Applied advance mathematical concepts such as: exponents, logarithms, demographic analysis (share of growth method & share shift method), location quotient method (employment - economic base theory and multiplier), quadratic equations, social research methods (qualitative and quantitative approaches for reliability and validity of sampling and its theory), as well as factoring analysis when making recommendations within staff reports, in which are presented to the governing boards

•Staff training for all new employees

•Conducted training classes for professionals and citizens regarding policies and procedure that related to the Township and County’s planning functions

•Assisted with interpretation of regulations and made recommendations regarding land use policies

•Deadline Management

•Drafted stringent criteria’s for Land Development Regulations and the Code of Ordinances

•Commercial Plats

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