SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM MANAGER
Persuasive communicator forged with ten years of experience, knowledge, and skills to achieve the right projects, the right process, at the right time. An inspirational team player, practical planner, and organizer that thrives in a diverse environment nurturing innovative sustainable solutions. A Project manager that strives for continuous improvements in principle negotiations in a diverse community to create processes to comply within Global, Federal, and State regulatory frameworks.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
●Lead Designer for an 8 Mega Watt (MW) solar design project with the municipalities of Somerset County within one year saving taxpayers energy costs over the next ten years
●Designer for multiple corporate solar accounts, including 60 Wall Street, that coordinated preparation of proposals, cost estimates and negotiation of contract terms and conditions.
●Lead Designer for two $1 million High-Voltage transmission capital projects in Massachusetts and Rhode Island within an accelerated schedule milestone completion date of six month, mitigating risk for the local area sustaining CapEx program cost
●Received DOE security clearance for onsite investigations at Millstone nuclear power plant empowering them to maintain compliance
●Co-created business for dislocated timber workers and youth-at-risk individuals on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington that allowed them to be self-sufficient and make their own business decisions
EDUCATION
●Engineering Management, December 2019 Master of Science Worcester Polytechnic Institute - MA
Master Certification in Project Management, 2018
●Architectural-Mechanical Design Certified Drafter Porter & Chester Institute - CT
●Applied Biometry-Toxicology/ Geology Bachelor of Science Evergreen State College- WA
CERTIFICATIONS
●ADDA International Drafting/Design Certification
●LEED Green Associate
●HAZMAT 40-hour Certification (HAZWOPPER)
●Certified Construction Project Manager (CPM)
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
●Collaborates with technical and financial managers to ensure stakeholder requirements and associated documentation are updated and progressed on an effective cadence using a variety of platforms including ProjectWise, Access, and NavisWorks
●Analyzes the performance of components, assemblies, and systems with internal Engineers and stakeholder requests to gather, review and collate all 30%, 60%, 90% project designs, while able to cultivate job effectiveness and efficiency
●Incorporates a continual improvement model to optimize the Designs, reviews, comments, and collaborates with teams to update records and documentation and efficiently manages meetings to use a and minimize unnecessary work
●Provides oversight and direction to diverse teams by continuously improving working relations to develop Business Continuity Plans to either deprecate or progress the action based on the criticality strategies and continuously tracked changes
●Deliver solutions to upper management to ensure adequate provisions are in place to allow for timely recovery of critical functions which supports a vigorous Change Management process - strengthening of Core Values
●Manages Group Dynamics Training incorporating supervision of work crews in diversified settings to establish developmental teams based on integrity and respect procurement of standard materials and energy supply within infrastructure programs.
●Directs Product Development meetings to ensure all solutions are thoroughly reviewed and presented to safeguard all stakeholders and alternatives represented include critical parties such as site construction, field operations, and regulations
●Fulfill efficiency strategies and better understand sustainability initiatives, theories, practices, and Risk Management moving forward with emerging capital planning, operation plans, and investments.
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KEY EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS
August 2019 to February 2020 Mechanical Designer, Civil & Structural Engineering ZACHRY, Stonington, CT
●Initiated, implemented, prepared, and perpetuated mechanical drawings and records for Nuclear facilities with Custom Design platform MicroStation and ProjectWise.
●Reviewed mechanical engineering plans to ensure compliance with applicable electrical codes and ANSI standards to configure components, layouts, code conventions, Bill of Materials, and schedules
●Assigned actions to relevant stakeholders to deliver Detailed Designs, 3D Models, Bill of Materials, and Engineering Plans for each project of water supply, drainage, Hydraulics, power generation, and HVAC systems
●Established Mechanical drawings including redundant systems, clean systems, electrical circuits, and wiring schematics
●Generated isometric layouts that included specifications of mechanical components with welds
●Involved in a range of digital scanning projects using innovative technology
July 2015 to April 2019 Senior Electric Designer, Transmission Engineering NATIONAL GRID, Waltham, MA
●Reviewed electrical engineering plans to ensure compliance with applicable electrical codes and ANSI standards to configure components, layouts, code conventions, Calculated design specifications, resource estimates, and prepared project schedules and budgets, Bill of Materials, and schedules for high-voltage configurations (above 69kv)
●Assigned actions to relevant stakeholders to deliver Detailed Design, BIM Models, Bill of Materials, and Quality Assurance Plans, status reports and compliance verification Documentation for all 30%, 60%, 90% project designs, and Finance and Pricing orders and tracking through SAP software
●Reviewed database, grid specifications, documenting engineering schematics, installed equipment, and installation and blueprint updates for Design Models, Civic zoning, subdivisions, Article VII and Article X permitting in New York, environmental regulation plans, and Commissioning maintenance of transmission lines, substations, and switch stations
●Provided a framework of surveys and structural design details with assembly specifications for transmission and substation assets and topographic site incorporating construction plans for Engineering services utilizing AutoCAD and MicroStation in Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island, including the New Gardenville Substation, a 230/115/34.5kV substation which transforms and supplies power to (7) 34.5kV lines and (2) 115kV lines.
●Supported company goals and vision by developing a vigorous Change Management process and Business Continuity Plan to ensure Industry and Safety Compliance Regulations, industry Installation, Configuration, Operations, and Maintenance Standards, and stakeholder requirements are updated with effective cadence to cater to the strengthening of Core Values through adequate provisions in place to allow for timely recovery of critical functions
●Directed Product Development meetings to ensure all solutions are thoroughly reviewed and presented to safeguard all stakeholders and alternatives represented include critical parties such as site construction, field operations, and regulations
●Pushed for a new process to implement a program to address legacy issues resulting in optimizing the Design and maximizing safety in-line with project needs set through a high level of safety and efficiency while providing resolutions to operational problems and corrective actions
November 2014-July 2015 Maps & Records Technician NATIONAL GRID, Providence, RI
●Streamlined and perpetuated standard electric distribution maps and records of electrical facilities and their correlation to the physical power supply network. Developed and monitored Quality Audits of data sets and reviewed database, grid specifications, and blueprint updates
●Created and maintained Design and construction plans for Engineering services for distribution and substation assets, and topographic site surveys incorporating Electrical distribution data, roads, and drainage/catch basins utilizing AutoCAD
●Utilized the knowledge of staff Engineers and Electricians to analyze Smallworld-GIS File Manager Model changes, Feeder Configurations, and Feeder Map changes using GIS mapping tools
●Mentored all the drafters within our group and enabled them to succeed
June 2010-May 2012 Solar System Designer VANGUARD ENERGY PARTNERS, Branchburg, NJ
●Fostered field-based surveys and bid meetings associated with assessing properties
●Worked with technical and financial project managers to update and progress documentation to ensure stakeholder requirements are met in an effective cadence and collate all 30%, 60%, 90% project designs
●Orchestrated the development of photovoltaic systems design, permits, schematic drawings, and estimating plans using AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, and Revit, including the installation of over 8 MW of solar power in Somerset, NJ
●Strengthening of Core Values was enhanced through a vigorous Change Management process to for calculating and comparing benefits and costs for each project and transitioned through our fiscal agents to our staff Licensed Engineers, Electricians, and our in-house cost analysis team
November 2008 to May 2010 Quality Manager- METRO North Concrete Contractor AD-TECH, LTD., New York, NY
December 2007 to September 2008 Front Desk – Hotel Auditor HILTON GARDEN INN, Glastonbury, CT
August 2004 to December 2007 Quality Control Foreman OSMOSE UTILITIES, Buffalo, NY