Donald E. Dobbins

**** ********* **. **** ******, NC 27857 704-***-**** adye14@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

Decisive, action-oriented and results-focused professional, as an industry veteran with years ‘of experience across multiple market sectors with hands-on construction development and management of all phases of multimillion-dollar construction projects from ground-up, start to finish. An excellent track record for successful completion of multi-million-dollar projects. Achieved this success by developing strategic partnerships, coordinating trades and building constructive relationships with architects, engineers, contractors, clients, attorneys, investors, and county officials. I have held multiple field and operation roles giving me the unique ability to provide lessons learned and best practices across all aspects of construction. I continually focus on quality, cost, schedule and safety throughout the duration of the project and exceeding client expectations at hand. My goal is to deliver the highest quality project, on-time, and at the best value while ensuring the safety of everyone involved.

Key Skills:

: Pre-Construction Planning and Management : Budget / Schedule Management : PCO’s, Change Order Management

: Blueprint Reading & Take-offs : Scope and Bidding Processes : Pre & Post Construction documentation

: Vendor, Subcontractor, and Client Relations : AIA Documents & Sub & Vender Pay Apps : Po’s / RFI & Cost coding management : Contract Negotiations / Sub Selections & Buyouts : Troubleshooting / Problem Solving : Meeting Coordination / Public speaking

Education & Certifications:

Mercer University (Atlanta, Ga.) - Associate of Business Administration, 1976

UNC Asheville (Asheville, NC.) - Construction Project Management, 1978

Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte, NC.) - Blueprint Reading and Estimation, 2004

Computer Skills:

MS Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Project, P-6, BlueBeam, ProCore, CMIC, Plan Grid, Timberline, Textarea.

Experience:

Elford Inc. (Cary, NC) - Sr. Project Manager / PX (9/01/2021 – Present)

Focus Design Builders (Wake Forest)- Director of Operations (2/09/2020 – 9/01/2021)

Alliance Construction (Charlotte, NC) - Senior Project Manager (6/23/2018 - 2/06/2020)

GCI Construction (Charlotte, NC) – Project Manager (3/07/2010 – 6/06/2018)

Edwards Construction (Charlotte, NC ) – Project Manager (3/01/2004 – 2/29/2010)

A wide mix of projects, Commercial and Residential before 2004, having general contractor experience in new build and renovations from ground up.

Project Management:

Proactively identifying and managing project risks & dependency and raises awareness around projects across the portfolio.

Accountable for the development and completion of project processes to ensure turnover readiness at project completion deadline.

Responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and clear communication is provided to all team members, venders, and our customers, to create a smooth working environment.

Financial Management:

Responsible for helping develop, refining, and monitoring the project budgets throughout the project life cycles.

Manages budgets to actual hours and dollar allocations to the approved amounts in accordance with financial processes.

Proactively manages the change request process for project-level scope, schedule and budget changes throughout the project life cycle.

Delivery Implementation

Accountable for monitoring and effectively representing the project as well as working with the project team to develop mitigation strategies for any risks and dependencies across the portfolio.

Coordination of project team and vendor training to ensure accuracy on scope requirements.

Stakeholder Management:

Accountable for stakeholder identification and engagement throughout the project life cycle to ensure business readiness and proactive identification of risks and dependencies.

Represents projects in executive level presentations in various project governance and inter-departmental forums.

Accountable for ensuring all business readiness including any necessary training and updates to business processes.

Vendor Management:

Accountable for driving project deliverables and compliance through the vendor contracting process for multiple vendors at a time.

Manages the execution of contracted work to ensure contract compliance as well as the timely receipt of deliverables and funds.

Frequently participates in the process of new vendor/product selection.

Works closely with vendors to drive multiple parallel timelines.

PROJECTS:

During the past years of my construction career, I’ve built custom residential single-family homes, Townhomes, student housing, multi-family Apartments to consist of garden style, podium, and wraps. I have also constructed Fire stations, industrial Tilt-wall buildings, commercial mixed-use buildings, Churches, Law Office renovations, Hospital and Doctor office renovations, Banks renovations, Commercial up-fits, and numerous other construction projects start to finish.

Project List.

Elford Inc. – Sr. Project Manager / project Executive

(Twin Lakes Apartments)

The Twin Lakes Apartments is a 230 unit, two building, six-acre multifamily project in Cary, NC. With a budget of $47M and a build time of 22 months for SunCap Property.

Focus Design Builders - Director of Operations

(Pullen Arts Center)

The Pullen Arts Center project was for the City of Raleigh, Parks and Recreation, it was a remodel and new addition simultaneous, with a budget of $6M.

(Triangle Church of Christ)

The Triangle Church of Christ project was a new build with a budget of $9.5M

(The Block)

The Block project was a three-story brick, core and shell building. $8,5M

(E.M. Johnson Waste treatment plant) $500K

(North Wake Senior Center) $1M

(Rolesville Baptist Church) 7.6M

(Franklin Christoph Office Building) $3.3

(Strike & Barrel Expansion Skating Ring) $6K

(White Street Warehouse Loading Dock) $1.2M

(Moffat Sunbelt General Tools) $4.6K

(Cleveland ABC Store) $1.5M

(Greenview Partners / Landscaping Office & Maintenance Buildings) $500K

Alliance Construction - Senior Project Manager

(Morehead Apartments)

The Morehead apartment project is a podium mid-rise 292-unit apartment complex in downtown Charlotte. The project has a basement parking garage, a podium, a mezzanine and six stories of wood framing. This site had an old gas station and textile plant that had to be demoed prior to construction with fuel tank removal soil removal and all the EPA standards. This project was budgeted for $62 million.

(My role on this project is as a senior project manager overseeing all aspects of the project, and overseeing other projects at the same time)

(Bryant Park apartments)

The Bryant Park project is 4 buildings with five stories on the front four stories on the back that makes up 364 units with a stand-alone clubhouse and amenity area. This project was constructed on a brown-fill construction site on the outskirts of uptown Charlotte. It was budgeted for $42 million, after construction it was sold for $54 million with a $12 million profit.

(My role on this project is as a senior project manager overseeing all aspects of the project, and overseeing other projects at the same time)

GCI Construction - Project Manager

(Legacy - 521 multifamily apartments)

The legacy 521 Apartments was a 254-unit Garden style wood framed apartment complex. They were a 3-4 split walk- up units with post tension slabs and segmental walls. This project had a stand-alone pool and pool house and amenity area with half basketball court, with rooftop entertainment area. This project was budgeted for 32 million.

(My role on this project was as an on-site project manager)

(Loft- 34th & Davidson Office complex)

The loft 34th and Davison was a mix use office complex with 12 apartments over 24 storefront units below with a parking deck in back.

(My role on this project was as a project manager)

(Legacy Fort Mill, Multifamily apartments)

The legacy of Fort Mill Apartments was 214-unit garden style walk up wood framed, with a budget of $26 million.

(My role on this project was as an on-site project manager)

(Legacy of Ballantyne, multifamily apartments.)

The legacy of Ballantyne was a 320-unit Garden style wood framed, with a stand-alone clubhouse budgeted for $36 million.

(My role on this project was as an on-site project manager)

(The Bayleaf/Wake County Fire Department)

The Bayleaf fire community had a volunteer fire department, Wake County purchased the land to build the community a new fire station. I was tasked with being the project manager and superintendent at the same time, creating temporary facilities for both staff and equipment. After moving everything into temporary facilities on site we demoted the existing fire station, cleaned up existing site and re-constructed the new wake county headquarters fire station. The new fire station was a two-story firehouse, housing 18 firemen, fire chief and office staff full time. The fire station had a fully functional commercial kitchen, with elevator and brass slide fire pole, The main building was constructed out of masonry steel I-beams and lightweight concrete with brick veneer.

(My role in this project was to function as the on-site project manager for the owner and the superintendent)

(Wells Fargo Bank upfits)

The Wells Fargo bank upfit projects were at a time when Wachovia Bank was merging with Wells Fargo. We did the transformation of 64 banks in the Raleigh area. I was assigned to take the keys and responsibilities from the bank president on a Friday at closing, do the up-fits and renovations to the bank and have it ready to present to the bank president on Monday morning as a new Wells Fargo.

(My role on the bank projects was as an on-site project manager overseeing everything.)

(Millennium one student housing)

The millennium one project was a three-story townhome style student housing project 2 miles away from UNCC, Type-5 wood framed ground up start to finish with clubhouse pool and 850 beds, budgeted for $31 million.

(My role in this project was to assist on the project management side while working as an on-site supervisor)

(Piedmont Behavioral Health Center)

The piedmont behavioral health center was A medical facility renovation.

Replacement of the acoustic ceiling, reworked all the exam rooms and reception area, rebuilt the restrooms, repaired all drywall and repainted all wall surfaces.

(My role in this project was an on-site construction manager, coordinating scheduling and overseeing the day-to-day activities)

(Johnson, Allison, Hord law firm)

The Johnson, Allison and Hord law firm was a third-floor renovation of the law office building.

Went in and did a total renovation of the third floor of the law firm, constructing all new office space, building a all-new war room and library. The construction consists of new wall framing out of steel studs, electrical wiring and plumbing, new drywall and paint, new acoustic ceiling, doors, case work, trim and floor covering.

(My role in this project was a on-site construction manager, coordinating scheduling and overseeing the day-to-day activities)

(Haven 49 student housing)

The haven 49 project was a student housing wrap Directly across from UNCC, it wrapped around a six-story parking garage with 332 different units ranging from 1 to 5 bedrooms per unit with a clubhouse and pool. This project is wood framed with elevators a generator trash compactor ‘s. This project was budgeted for $95.3 million.

(My role on this project was as a project manager)

Edwards construction - Project Manager

(Reams Creak Apartments)

I met the company’s owner when I first moved to Charlotte from Asheville, NC. I was in the process of transitioning when the owner asked if I would be interested in looking at a project coming up that would be in Asheville, NC., being from Asheville I knew the area very well. They had a project called Reams Creek Apartments. It was a carriage style walk-up, Type-5 Wood framed apartment complex with 280 units in it. The budget was $31 million, at this time they handed over to me a big book that they had put together with vendors that they were caring when they had gone to contract on this project. At that time, it was my responsibility as a project manager to do all the buyouts, to create the submittals packet for approval, to get answers for all RFI ‘s, to create a monthly owners report, to monitor the budget for change orders, and to oversee the day-to-day operation of the project timeline and schedule.

(More Lake Office Park)

The More lake office park project was a brick and wood framed mix use two story commercial building, with elevators, there were three buildings with 14 units 28,000sf in each building. Storefront units on the lower half, and office units on the upper half. The budget was 9.5 million.

(Davidson office park)

The Davidson office park project was four commercial buildings with red Iron steel structure metal pan decking, lightweight concrete slabs, steel stud exterior and interior wall Framing, bar truss, rigid insulation and TPO roofing, with Brick veneered, core and shell buildings.

(Anniston subdivision)

The Anniston subdivision project was a residential subdivision new build, with 18 new homes starting from 500K to 1.6 M.

(My role in this project was a twofold, both as superintendent and project manager)

(Pebble Bay subdivision)

The Pebble Bay project was a residential subdivision new build, with 11 new homes ranging from 500K to 900,000.

(My role in this project was a twofold, both as superintendent and project manager)

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