THOR THOMPSON
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Construction PROJECT MANAGER; Facilities Manager
Experience Summary:
*Seven years routinely managing numerous and simultaneous
refurbishments in a multi state area; annually totaling some six
million dollars of value;
*Performing feasibility, design development, value engineering,
vendor identification, bid selection, construction warranty,
insurance remediation, restoration and claims work;
*Four years as Owner's Representative for hospital/clinic
construction projects for two major hospital networks;
*Three years revamping hundreds of service stations into ADA
compliance and brand upgrades for two major oil companies;
*Twenty years hands on experience in the construction trades as
both an owner of a small company and as a supervisor of a
facility maintenance crew.
Skills Summary:
*Course work completed for Masters of Science Construction Project
Management
*Identifying critical tasks and responsive vendors
*Planning pragmatic logistics conforming to owner requirements
*Negotiating project scope
*Monitoring developments
*Motivating, Prioritizing and Coordinating resources, processes
and interactions across trades & jurisdictions
*Achieving efficiency of efforts and seamless delivery of
project elements
*Problem solving via dynamic assessment of contingencies
*Mentoring clients in the construction process
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner and Manager,
THUNDER RENOVATIONS LLC
June 2013 to present.
*Advertising, Contracting, Procurement, Design and Performance of:
Decorative and Conventional Painting, Finish Carpentry, and Project
Management Services to Residential property owners. Certified Lead
Renovator for pre-1978 structures.
Project Manager
WYNDHAM VACATION OWNERSHIP, Inc
September 2005 to May 25, 2012
*Execute simultaneous refurbishment projects in multiple states and Canada:
Identify qualified vendors, Organize Architectural and
Engineering Design Development; Define project scope, Assess
bids, Draft contracts, Monitor progress and review payout
submittals. Dedicated project manager for fifteen resorts with
combined annual responsibility for six million dollars of
construction activity.
*Spokesperson:
Corporate responder in a number of legal depositions.
*Insurance:
Executing the corporate response to emergency facility situations
as they arose at any of 85 resort properties, preventing further property
destruction, arranging for the assessment of damages, managing
remediation, reconstruction and pursuing payments of claim with
insurance underwriters.
*Warranty
Inspecting new construction for owner satisfaction at a dozen
resort locations in the western half of the United States and
Canada.
Project Manager
TRAMMELL CROW COMPANY
2001 to Aug. 2005
*ConocoPhillips Account, California, 2004 - Aug. 2005
Assess field conditions in light of the Dept. of Justice
regulation; Specify needed renovation and Implement Americans
with Disabilities Act improvements to 300 service stations in
Washington, Oregon and California.
*Shell Oil Account, Washington, Oregon & Alaska Market, 2002 -
2004
Administering Six Million dollar budget: re-branding 160 service
stations in two seasons in three states.
Converting each unique site to prescribed retail visual identity
protocols, facilitating continuous client revisions and
substantially completing each $60,000 to $150,000 conversion
site within 2 weeks.
*Group Health Cooperative Account, Puget Sound Washington, 2001
- 2002
Performing Facility Upgrades in four counties: Move Managements including a
churn of 400 office spaces at Group Health downtown HQ,
Preparing budgets, defining project specifications & scoping documents and
directing general and specialty contractors, architects, in house
trades, movers, installers and staff in the timely and accurate
delivery of service of projects ranging to $1,000,000.
Executing dozens of tenant improvement projects simultaneously
over a multi-county area and ensuring ADA, Joint Committee on
Health Care Accreditation, State Department of Health and
Municipal Code compliance.
Regularly using and adding DATA to Facilities Management
software program
Project Coordinator
1998 - 2001
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER 1998 - 2000 & TRAMMEL CROW COMPANY 2000 -
2001
Researching feasibility, negotiated design development, and
administered construction, including asbestos abatement, for 130
clinical and retail renovation projects, each ranging from minor
improvements to $325,000.
Controlling an average of 30 projects simultaneously with
cumulative budgets totaling $3,000,000.
Delivering completed projects on average 15.7% under budget.
Supervisor of Paint Shop
1990 - 1998
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER, SEATTLE, WA
Ensuring compliance with worker right to know, employer
requirements, shop operations, adherence to state safety
standards and safe hazardous materials handling regulations.
Preparing annual personnel evaluations and progressive discipline.
Mentoring journey level crew to outperform out-sourced competing
service providers
EDUCATION
*B.A. Political Science, University of Washington
*B.S. (equivalency) Construction Management, University of Washington
*Interactive Management, Swedish Medical Center
*Certificate in Construction Management, University of
Washington, July 10, 1997
*University of Washington School of Architecture
MS Construction Management Course work completed (no diploma)
*OSHA 10 Hour Course for Construction Safety Standards
*Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, AutoCAD, MS Project, exposure
to: Navisworks BIM
COMMUNITY SERVICE
*Chair, Facilities Subcommittee, appointed by the King County
Council to Metro Citizen's Water Quality Advisory Committee
*Chair, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Environmental Impact
Study Task Force
*Block Chair, Residential Block Watch Program, Seattle
*Leader's List, Ski Mountaineering, Seattle Mountaineers
*Chair, Logistics, Seattle Choral Company
*Water Safety Instructor, Red Cross
*Paint background murals for elementary school stage-
performances;
*Assist in Girl Scout Troop activities
*Volunteer in Camp Kory (handicap) service activities
ACHIEVEMENTS
*Research and Restoration of the exterior of a Victorian era
mansion in Port Townsend, Washington;
*Teaching Algebra at George Washington high-school in Agana,
Guam;
*Assisting in the construction & sea trials of a 76 foot ketch
rigged sail boat in Taipei, Taiwan;
*Advocating and organizing neighborhood acceptance of mentally
handicap residents, Ballard, WA;
*Leading nine back-country skiers through white out and avalanche
to safety at Mt. Rainier National Park;
*Leading conventions of 400 persons through the apportionment
mathematics involved in regular caucus proceedings, Ballard, WA.
*Executing a corridor sized art-mural for the calming of
pediatric patients, Swedish Hospital
*Creating an Accessible (Access) Data Base to facilitate the
owner's budgeting process for ADA upgrades to service stations
*Employee of the Year (2007) Product Enhancement Department,
Wyndham Vacation Ownership