Senior Project Manager Data Centers & Construction

Daniel Velasquez

Houston, Texas 214-***-**** ************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/DanielVelasquez86 Project Management Data Centers Communications specialist Dynamic and results-driven senior project manager with extensive experience within the data center and commercial construction. projects from inception to completion. Adept at driving operational efficiency, optimizing resources, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Critical Project Services/Integra Project Manager April 2023 – April 2025

Oversee international projects, clients facing schedule, budget and tracking of lifecycle of the project. Manage Contractors/Subcontractors operations to ensure quality of the project.

Employed advanced project management tools to monitor progress, track key performance indicators such as schedules, and adjust strategies as necessary, leading to a 20% boost in project success rates.

Handle General contractors/subcontractors mitigating needs and strategize over processes with General contractors/subcontractors, internally and externally to ensue approval and documentation from all relevant stakeholders.

Orchestrated the successful implementation of new processes resulting in a 30% reduction in operational cost and 28% increase in process efficiency.

Utilized Strong analytical skills to identify potential project risks and proactively developed mitigation strategies, resulting, in a 30% reduction in project-related issues.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement data center expansions and infrastructure upgrades. Angie’s List Sr Project Manager June 2022 – Jan 2023 Manage project pipeline of 55-70 residential projects planning, scoping, the lifecycle to completion ensuring revenue of 400k- 500k. Increasing revenue from 68% to 91% revenue in my pipeline from a monthly basis.

Project planning, directing, and monitoring work efforts daily, identifying resource needs, performing quality review, and escalating functionality, quality, timeline issues appropriately.

Mitigate project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performance. Experience delivering technology and business application solutions in a systems environment through developing lifecycle. Extensive experience in successfully managing complex projects, including contract management, within a matrixed organization.

Manage internal and external stakeholders to generate project estimates, scope or budget as necessary, and manage purchase orders, approvals, invoices and tracking in relation to projects produced through Vendor Management. Cross- departmental communications with Marketing, Brand, Operations, and senior management. Dickey’s BBQ (Corporate) Project Manager February 2021 – June 2022 Project/solution driven to results with a system in a large scalability, implementation, system tracking, cost estimate. Implement standard project management industry practices. Understands the PMI framework as well as how to establish a project organization and methodology.

Manage partnership with the client experience, strategy, technology, and creative teams leading initiatives and projects driving implementation. Accountable for managing project delivery commitments (including program status, forecast management, project planning, deliverables, scope, time, and budget management).

Developing and executing activities related to end-to-end project management, including project plans and estimates, delivery, and deployment.

Collaborating with team members reviewing customer data, application usage, marketing objectives / initiatives and making recommendations aligned to best practices. Interact in ongoing initiatives with Customers, Product Management, Sales, Marketing and Client Services Management.

Northland Development Construction Project Manager August 2019 – 2021 January Managed developing relationships with stakeholders, third party vendors/trades such as plumbing, electrical, HVAC. Coordinate all vendor management activities to ensure optimal client delivery and project health.

Achieve 15% cost reduction by meticulously negotiating vendor selection, pricing, contractual terms, and material selection to meet and exceed required standards and thresholds of quality. Proactively communicate with project partners and vendor liaisons to ensure accurate and timely critical points are discussed and executed accordingly.

Interact with vendors via person, phone, and email to ensure all aspects of contractual obligations are properly routed and scheduled in a timely manner. Perform industry research, as needed, for each new client with precision for proper budgeting and project development.

Critical thinking experience in making best decisions to optimize process in all trades as project was on a timeline. Provide detailed weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reporting and analytics for project health and transparency. City of Dallas water utilities Project Coordinator March 2018 – August 2019 Multi-faceted team member responsible to support developers and contractors to identify and correct inefficiencies and implement course corrective measures.

Managed and strategized all negotiation plans and strategies to establish team expectations and playbooks to maintain program standardization and structure. Provided detailed contract review and analysis to ensure quality, compliance, and risk determination.

Facilitated developer move projects through the City’s various development review process and determined optimal alternatives to complex and multi layered development issues.

Reporting to management daily documents related to land purchase of levee, deeds, and permits that could impact any current projects within the organization. Maintained a successful working environment with the community via regular scheduled meetings with contractors.

NEXIUS Telecom Project Coordinator, Vendor Management December 2016 – March 2018 Technical management facing support and customer centric service for all vendor activities related to costs projections and tracking. Managed time sensitive City permits and drawings for regular engineering and draft team review and audit.

Allocated new projects to vendors while evaluating output quality and budget balance.

Coordinate service providers and any other services that interface with the Site Acquisition group.

Monitor activities of the Service Providers and ensure that contract requirements, specifications and milestones for Site Acquisition are met. Coordinate activities and ensure that all disciplines directly involved in the project are in line with the Project goals and objectives.

Education

El Centro College – 2018; associate in business administration Hillcrest High School – 2005; High School Diploma. Technical Skills Key Skills

• Vendor Management

• MS Project

• MS office suite

• project tracker

• AutoCAD

• OSHA #510 & OSHA 3

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