Construction Manager Multifamily/Hospitality
Resume:
James W Farmer ********@***.***
* **********, ******, ** ***** 949-***-****
Construction Project Manager
* Multifamily with podiums
* Off-site underground infrastructure evaluation
* NGO construction disaster experience in Haiti
California licensed general contractor (B) since 1986
Owner/General Manager
J W Farmer Construction 2012 - Present
General Contractor/Project Management
Key Contributions:
Currently serving as the qualifying Responsible Managing Officer (RMO) for three start-up general contractors independently serving the San Diego, Orange County, and greater Los Angeles counties of Southern California. The focus encompasses representation with the State of California on behalf of the contractors where legal complaints are filed, and assisting with contract language. Separately J W Farmer Construction has performed as a NGO general contractor on a ground-up school project and construction support for Doctors’ Without Borders, Jacmel, HAITI.
Project/CA
•RMO for residential and commercial remodeling and new construction covering Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County, California.
Projects/NGO/Haiti, Jacmel (2010 – 2012):
•School: Ground-up, 4.5 acre project requiring new power, well water, utilities, outbuildings, roads.
•Temporary Medical Facility: 280 bed treatment medical facility to treat the cholera epidemic patients under the supervision of Doctors Without Borders within the city of Jacmel, Haiti.
Project Manager/Partner
Renaissance Structures, Inc. 2008 – 2010
Key Contributions:
As a partner, provided project management, contract management, and quality controls.
Project:
Single-family unit, 2451 sf, golf course lot.
Construction Manager
Intracorp, Inc. 2007 – 2008
Owner/Builder focused on high-end high density developments apartments and condominiums.
Key Contributions as construction manager on a GMP contract:
Project: 115-unit, 3-level, type V mixed-use over 3-level podium.
Sr Multifamily Project Manager
Cedar Signature Homes, Inc. (Company closed due to sudden loss of owner) 2006 – 2007
Owner/Builder Multifamily residential Los Angeles and Riverside counties.
Key Contributions:
Position required the takeover of three existing projects. Restructured projects under various stages of construction: grading to incomplete existing structures over podiums. Negotiated new subcontractor agreements, rebased new CPM construction schedules, resolved liabilities, and renegotiated additional funding from private investors, and banking resources.
Projects:
• Magnolia Terrace (Riverside County) Phase I & 2: 98-units, 4.3 acre, slab-on-grade, type-V patio homes. Take over as ground up project.
• Monterey Terrace (Hill-side): 12-unit, 2-level, type-V over sublevel podium. Take over at framing phase with incomplete podium. $11M.
• Temple Terrace: 108-unit over 3-level podium, type-V. Take over at excavation/drilling, piling with tie-backs, methane blankets, and ground water issues.
Project Manager
Balian Construction 2004 – 2006
Owner/Builder Multifamily and mixed-use with podiums, Pasadena, CA.
Key Contributions:
Enhanced management structure, and implemented improved project management practices.
Contractual practices and relations over sight, to include bidding process practices, submittal
control of entitlements, pre-construction, building department submittals, and collaboration with environmental consultants, architects, engineers, and midstream modifications as required.
Projects:
•Gardens on Hill: 34-unit, 3-level, type-V mixed-use, 2-level podium.
•Michillinda Terrace: 14-unit, 2-level, type-V mixed-use, single level podium. Entitlements, preconstruction, demolition of existing buildings thru podium top
out.
•De Lacey Place: 30-unit, 6-level, type I mixed-use high-end, midrise over
2-level podium. Entitlements and preconstruction.
• Hudson Terrace: 17-unit, 3-level, type-V over sublevel podium. Entitlements, preconstruction and demolition of existing building.
Superintendent
SIMAC Construction, Inc. 2002 – 2004
Commercial/Retail General Contractor
Key contributions:
Ground-up stand-alone Type-V structures.
Project:
Two ground-up drive through CVS Pharmacies, free-standing, type-V, Alhambra & Hawthorne, CA.
Superintendent
VCC Construction, Inc. (California project completed) 2001 – 2002
Commercial General Contractor
Key contributions:
Under the Project Superintendent, assisted supervising trades, specialty crafts, change orders, RFIs, payment authorizations, inspections, document closeout and commissioning.
Project:
•Fallbrook Center Mall conversion to direct outside entrance from inside mall.
Construction Manager (On-site)
The Transportation Group, Inc. (Cancelled due to real estate market collapse) 1991 – 1993
Design/build Transportation turn-key monorail contractor
Key contributions:
As the on-site CM, assisted with preconstruction requirements for a public transportation system on the Irvine project. Separately, assisted installation of design-build system.
Project: (City of Irvine, CA)
•Provided constructability assistance in the pre-construction design phase for the construction of five-mile loop from and to the airport with future extensions planned as a turnkey $45M projected to complete 1992: John Wayne International Airport and with the City of Irvine, CA
Project: (Tampa International Airport, FL)
•Assisted construction manager with on-site management as a design-build contract for a “people mover” (ground level monorail) system within the newly constructed parking structure connecting the main terminal: Tampa International Airport, FL
Vice President of Construction
Sierra Pacific Development Funds, LLC 1988 – 1991
Commercial Owner/Builder/Developer
Key Contributions:
Responsibilities included shell and tenant improvement construction in Arizona, California, and Texas.
Projects:
•Shell/Core tilt wall buildings
•Tenant Improvements
Construction Manager
Reese-Carr, Inc. 1986 – 1988
Construction management services
Key contribution:
Provided banking and savings and loan client review of budget valuation based upon construction
drawings, design cost issues, initial review of planning and scheduling, progress inspections and
approvals of all Applications for Payment submittals.
Projects: (Residential – Orange County, San Diego and Kern counties, CA):
Single family tract and multifamily projects.
Projects: (Commercial – Orange County, CA):
Strip centers, restaurants, and office, southern California.
Scheduling Manager
Owl Constructors, Inc. 1984 - 1986
General contractor – heavy industrial new and retrofit projects.
Key Contribution:
Provided scheduling and cost reporting.
Projects: Cogeneration system, Cal Portland Company, Colton, CA.
Scheduling Engineer
Ralph M Parsons, Inc.
EPC – Petrochemical industry 1981 – 1983
EPC firm contracting Federal, private, and international industrial contracts.
Key Contributions:
Provided scheduling controls for project design, material purchasing, and construction schedules.
Project: Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, provided design, engineering, and construction schedule updates, material purchasing updates, on-site module progress inspections.
Project: Al Jubayl oil refinery for client, Saudi Arabia, provided design and engineering project scheduling.
Education
Arizona State University, Division of Construction 1980
Bachelor of Science – general contracting management focus
Keller Graduate School of Management 2006
Master Project Management (MPM) – construction project management focus
Activities and Licenses
USGBC: LEED Green Associate
Certification in Zoning, Subdivision and Land Development Law
Veteran, US Army
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jameswfarmer
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