Darren E. Graves

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Qualification Summary: Director of Development, Regional Chief Engineer Branson Region, DOE at Christmas Mountain Village, Chief Engineer at the Waikiki Edition, LAX Marriott and leadership positions in the US Navy managing teams to affect maintenance and repair on a broad spectrum of equipment. Vast preventative maintenance experience. Exceptional management, organizational, time management and communication skills. Exceptional ability to analyze activities and information involving some original data manipulation or interpretation to arrive at logical conclusions.

Areas Of Expertise:

Leadership Client Relations Project Management

Train/ Coach Contract Negotiations Drawings, Blueprints Crew Management Order Logistics Scheduling, Estimating PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director of Development Orlando, Fl Mar’17 to present

- Commercial, Industrial, Retail, new builds.

- Establish client relationships, track and document all projects through negotiations to contracts signing.

- Review all drawings, establish accurate bids.

- Provides direction to contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, during all phases of the projects.

- Regularly visit work sites ensuring proper safety, policies and procedures are being followed.

Regional Chief Engineer Branson, Mo Aug’15 to Feb’17

- Four resort properties, hospitality, timeshare.

- Interview, select, train, schedule, coach and support associates, ensuring they perform in accordance with established brand or resort standards and consistent with core values.

- Assist Resort Managers with the annual property level staffing and budgeting to ensure proper maintenance of hotel assets.

- Assist with the interviewing and selection Chief Engineers and Property Level Engineers, ensuring they meet the requirements with established brand or hotel standards and consistent with core values.

- Assist with the training of Chief Engineers and Property Level Engineers in order to carry out duties effectively.

- Educate and train property level Engineers on current safety issues to ensure compliance with all federal, state and local laws and safety regulations.

- Monitor the execution and achievement of the hotel’s preventative maintenance program goals.

- Provide guidelines and assistance on reduction in energy usage through training and focusing on best practice directives.

- Assist in setting procedures to ensure the security of inventory and assets such as tools, basic supplies, TV’s, and standard FF&E within hotels.

- Establish guidelines for the replenishment of necessary basic engineering supplies in an efficient manner.

- Promote and enforce organized paperwork management by property engineering staff. Ensure all PM logs are kept current.

- Follow up on all QA and LP Audits to track that they are kept current with proper documentation readily available.

Christmas Mountain Village, Wisconsin Dells, WI

- Director of Engineering May’12 to Aug’15

- Resort Hospitality, time share.

- Managed a 2300 acre resort maintenance and technical staff to effectively maintain all resort facilities/equipment/property for timeshares

- Accountable for the safe and efficient preventative maintenance of the resort through effective management of maintenance and technical service staff.

- Solving complex maintenance problems, and maintaining the day to day operations with rapid decision making.

- Implementation of maintenance plans with consideration to operational and budgetary constraints. Creating and coordinating Gantt charts for projects.

- Led team to achieve high passing QA and Safety Audit scores over the last two years

- Project Management, to include CAPEX, Association projects to include Board Meetings

- Managing a hard renovation of all 387 units, landscaping and 11 bodies of water for recreation

Arbor First to Work, Honolulu, HI Nov’10-Apr’11

VR Counselor

- Scheduled, coordinated and conducted all orientations for new clients.

- Maintained clients files to ensure they are compliant with state policies and procedures.

Waikiki Edition, Honolulu, HI Jun‘10–Dec’10

- Chief Engineer

- Hospitality, hotel.

- Responsible for kitchen equipment, boilers, pumps, piping, chiller units, HVAC and water softener system.

- Managed and coordinated associates training, qualifications and scheduling to ensure maximum efficiency.

Los Angeles Airport Marriott, Los Angeles, CA Jun’07-Dec’09

- Chief Engineer

- Hospitality, hotel.

- Responsible for kitchen equipment, boilers, pumps, piping, chiller units, HVAC and water softener system.

- Managed and coordinated associates training, qualifications and scheduling to ensure maximum efficiency.

- Project Management, specifically CAPEX projects.

- Creating and coordinating Gant charts for projects.

- Led team to achieve QA scores of 95% and 96% over the last two years.

- Sustained utility savings which resulted in an Energy Star Award. United States Navy Jun’87-Jun’07

- Gas Turbine Mechanic First Class

- Responsible for leading teams in the maintenance of a variety of equipment including: Allison K-17, K-34 Gas Turbine Generators, LM2500 Gas Turbine Engines, high and low pressure air compressors, fuel pumps, oil pumps and related systems, valve maintenance and repair.

- Experienced in reading blueprints/diagrams for engine room equipment and in complete supply maintenance for all areas.

- Qualified (EOOW) Engineering Officer of the watch recognized as person in charge of all engineering spaces and operations while at sea. Duties include emergency response, shifting equipment, monitoring plant systems, crew management, and troubleshooting of engineering power plant.

- EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

- Currently enrolled at UOPX - Bachelor of Science Business Management with Undergraduate Project Management

- Change Management, Resolving Conflict, Performance Mgmt, Certified H-3 trainer, CPO, Motivating Teams, Hotsos Administrator

- Marriott – LOCV 11, Genuine Care Excellence, Serve Safe, Foundations of Leadership

- US Navy- Leadership Development 11, Fuel/Oil water testing, Facilitator, Oil/Water testing 11, Leadership development, Rolls-Royce Allison Training Course, Leadership development 1, Gas Turbine “C” school, Leadership development A, Gas Turbine “A” school.

- Qualified Journeymen’s license as a Power Plant Operator.

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