Project Engineer

Summary

A highly motivated and effective engineering professional with over 14 years of experience in management and creating innovative solutions. Specialize in team management, marketing, technical application and design, and client relationships. Proven strengths include delivering completed projects on time and under budget, driving results, and forward thinking. Consistent record of increased responsibilities, through promotions and outside recognition, from the design level through corporate executive.

Professional Profile

ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE OPPORTUNITIES AND CAPITALIZE ON THEM: Identified growing development markets in varying geographic areas across the Southwestern United States in the early and mid 2000’s. Promoted the creation of satellite offices to serve multiple regions locally. Managed an office opening, conducted daily operations, and expanded staffing levels to a self sustaining level.

ABILITY TO GROW AND MANAGE TEAMS: Directly managed a civil engineering design team composed of 8 people, including project managers, design engineers, and drafters. Coordinated workflow across corporate and satellite offices. Played a key role in starting 3 satellite offices and expanding the company’s scope of services to include the niche markets in environmental compliance and dry utility coordination.

ABILITY TO MARKET FOR AND SECURE NEW CLIENTS: Responsible for marketing and capturing national retailer’s and various regional retail/commercial developer’s as valued and reoccurring relationships. Secured contracts and invoiced billings expanded from $250,000 per year to over $1,800,000 per year for project team.

ABILITY TO WORK AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL: Negotiated and executed contracts in excess of $500,000 for retail power centers and land development projects. Head meetings at the corporate level for executive teams to make critical decisions involving multi-million dollar development projects with high profile tenants.

SCOPE OF TRAINING EXPERIENCE: Managed job fair recruiting and hiring efforts leading to the addition of over 15% of the company workforce. Supervised corporate training initiatives and mentoring programs that produced over one quarter of the internal promotions to management positions. Automated process for document and information management to increase efficiency internally and reduced reprographic costs by over 25% annually.

SCOPE OF TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE: Developed unique utilizations of existing technologies to in field situations that advanced previously unfeasible projects through to completed construction.

Professional Experience

Vice President, DRC Engineering, Inc., Anaheim, CA, February - 2001 to February - 2012

Land development civil engineering firm serving the retail, commercial, industrial, and residential industries.

Direct the day to day operations of a successful engineering team. Facilitate the professional growth of staff. Interaction and negotiation with clients, municipalities, and other governing agencies. Management, Design, Production, and Construction Management of large scale retail, commercial and residential developments, as well as small to large commercial/retail development projects. Market company services to potential new clients, further develop existing relationships, maintain knowledge of current regulations and design requirements, providing guidance regarding corporate strategies to other principals and project managers of the company.

• Coordinated multi-disciplinary project teams

• Developed project specific storm water management solutions for ground up and infill projects

• Creek re-location, HEC-RAS, CLOMR, LOMR Studies, Regional watershed analysis

• Entitlements, Construction Documents, Bidding, Construction Coordination and Administration

• Hydrology & Hydraulic Studies, Fire Flow Studies, Sewer Area Studies, Value Engineering

• LEED project experience in design and processing

Specialist, Apple, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA, 2010 to 2011

Innovator of technology. Apple Store, South Coast Plaza

Drive business leads and sales. Work with Business Team to develop successful strategies to implement towards continued growth of Business, within the Apple Retail Store. Knowledge of the complete Apple product line. Provide customers with the very best experience possible in The Apple Store. Engage and interact with customers to better understand their desires and concerns. Provide complete solutions for the customer. Dynamic environment. Quick thinking. Customer service and sales. Provide leadership on the floor as well as be a resource for other associates to turn to for advice and answers.

• Create Business Creative position within store

• Develop internal tracking spreadsheet for leads and revenue

• Lead evening and weekend Business Teams

• Technical knowledge resource for red zone team members

• Conceptualize and propose ideas to grow business segment at Apple Retail

Project Engineer, Chagrin Valley Engineering., Cleveland, OH, 1997 to 2001

Civil Engineering Firm serving the Municipal and Private sectors

Production of commercial and residential development projects. Other projects include municipal improvement projects. Responsibilities include contract preparation, plan design and preparation, and contract management.

Education / Certifications

Bachelor of Civil Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Graduation, 1997.

Registered Professional Engineer, States of California and Ohio

Completed Arctic Engineering Qualifications for State of Alaska Professional Engineer’s License

Associate Member, The American Society of Civil Engineers

Skills

AutoCAD, Land Development Desktop, Various Hydrology/Hydraulic Modeling Software Packages, Microsoft Office Suite, Project Management, Database Management, Application of Technology, Mac OS, iOS, iWork, Aperture, iMovie.

Notable Projects

Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility, Santa Clarita, California. Provided site civil engineering design services to include grading, utility design, pavement design, natural gas refueling station, storm water management for the first LEED Gold Certified project in California.

http://www.fypower.org/pdf/SantaClarita_Facility.pdf

http://www.santaclaritatransit.com/Index.aspx?page=48

Chapman University Leatherby Library and Oliphant Music Hall Expansion Projects, Orange, California. Provided services for the preliminary layout through final design documents for on-site campus improvements including the expansion of multiple buildings, layout of outdoor student areas, and associates wet utility coordination.

http://www.chapman.edu/academics/libraries.asp

http://www.chapman.edu/music/facilities.asp

The Plaza at Golden Valley, Santa Clarita, California. 650,000 square foot retail shopping center. Provided civil engineering services. Project required California Department of Transportation coordination for hillside development, as well as extension of new master planned facilities for the Los Angeles County Sanitation District and City of Santa Clarita Water District and Fire Departments. Anchor Tenants include Target, Lowe’s, and Kohl’s.

http://www.terramarcenters.com/development.php?property=goldenvalley&order=alpha

Palmdale Gateway, Palmdale, California. 523,000 square foot retail power center. Project required analysis of the City of Palmdale Master Plan of Drainage and design/installation of 90” master facility. Project also required the widening of Caltrans roadways and a City of Palmdale major arterial. Major tenants include Super Target and Home Depot.

http://www.cbre.com/usa/us/ca/el+segundo/property/palmdalegateway

http://www.palmdalegateway.com/

La Alameda, Los Angeles, California. Provided civil engineering services for City of Los Angeles Redevelopment Agency project. Project required coordination with the Long Beach Port Authority for construction adjacent to the Alameda Corridor railroad, water district water main relocation, neighboring properties for street vacation and property dedications.

http://www.primestor.com/leasing.php?page=la_alameda

http://molina.lacounty.gov/pages/Press/2008%20Press/07%2012%202008%20La%20Alameda.pdf

Other notable projects completed and/or in progress:

4S Town Center, Rancho Bernardo, California

Tustin and Irvine Marketplace Rehabilitation, Irvine & Tustin, California

Home Depot, Lake Elsinore, California

Target, Brea, California

Madera Town Center, Madera, California

Starbucks, Irvine California

Irvine Office Building, Irvine, California

Santa Clarita Medical Building, Santa Clarita, California

Walgreens

In-N-Out

Additional projects available upon request.

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