ProfileA E Business Operations leader with two decades of design, project and practice management experience with large multi-disciplinary design firms. Areas of ExpertiseProject Program ManagementOperations ManagementChange ManagementRisk ManagementStrategic Business Planning BudgetingBusiness DevelopmentTalent DevelopmentTeam Building Professional ExperienceManaging Principal VP,10 2017toCurrentHDR Architecture City,STATE,Responsible for strategic vision, leadership, inspiration, quality assurance, sustainable growth and business operations of the Architecture BG in Southern California, Hawaii, Guam and South Korea employing over 100 staff.Met Exceeded Annual NFE, NFB and Profit targets for each year effectively doubling the size of operating profit in three years with the current annual totals second only to Area Transportation BG. (currently at 8M vs 4M prior to 2017).Demonstrated Excellence in project delivery management, qualitatively with a consistent recognition of excellence ratings on all client report cards and quantitatively with project losses at under 0.5 of earnings for last two years.Project Excellence initiatives introduced in early 2018 resulted in material decrease in annual project losses. (80 reduction from 12 of NFE in 2017 to 2.5 in 2018 and further improvement in 2019 and 2020 maintained at 0.5 of NFE, one of the lowest in Architecture BG and HDR.Net staff growth of over 30 with strategic and key leadership hires and talent development.Influenced culture of the LA office through structure and behavior change with significant increase in staff engagement as evident from results of HDR s engagement survey (11 basis point increase in 2018 from 2016)Implemented a robust training program enhancing technical, Project Management and leadership competencies of staff. Twenty-five emerging leaders in the practice have completed a leadership development program between 2018 and 2020 to prepare them for current and future project and team leadership roles.Achieved Significant Progress in establishing a unified HDR brand to strategic clients in Los Angeles e.g. LADWP, OCSD and LA County and leveraging opportunities that intersect all HDR BGs.Performance as PIC for multiple projects for strategic clients including Huntington Hospital and Cedars Sinai Health, resulted in re-alignment of client relationships. Spearheaded collection of over 8M in outstanding receivables and securing 3M in net bookings tied to aging add service requests within first nine months of transition to MP role.Led the initiative across all market sectors to grow HDR s alternative delivery DB market share from zero to over 20M in 3 years, while successfully negotiating favorable terms and conditions for HDR with standing partnering agreements with major contracting partners including Clark, McCarthy, R S and Kajima Corp.No new claims brought against HDR for projects managed and delivered from the LA office.Sponsor Mentor for HDR CareerBoost Class of 2019 and ABG Boost Class of 2019.Associate Managing Principal AVP,08 2014to09 2017HDR Architecture City,STATE,Project Delivery, Operations and P L responsibility for one of the largest design offices in Architecture BG. Accountable for implementation of office strategic plan, administration and management of business operations, resource management, project performance monitoring and compliance with HDR s policies.Met exceeded Annual Earnings Profit Targets for each year.Delivery Excellence initiatives resulted in material decrease in project losses. (68 reduction between 2015 and 2016 from 16 of NFE and maintained at 5 of NFE for 2016 and 2017)Net staff growth of over 25 from 2015 to 2017 with key hires and talent development.Successfully Navigated office relocation and consolidation from Alexandria and Bethesda to Arlington.MEP Engineering Lead Project Manager,02 2010to07 2014HDR Architecture City,STATE,Led the A E (SMEP) practice in the Arlington Office with focus on strategic planning, execution and operations with average annualized billings approaching 10M. Principal Engineer for over 3 Million SF of Health-Care facilities.Lead Electrical Engineer Project Manager,12 2001to02 2010Multiple A E Firms ,STATE,Project Engineer with design and project management roles for healthcare and mission critical built environments. EducationExecutive Education Leading Professional Service Firms,Expected in2021toHarvard Business School (HBS)-,GPA Admitted to the coveted and highly selective executive education program by Harvard Business School.Master of Engineering Mechanical Engineering,Expected in2013toUniversity of Maryland - College Park, MD-,GPA Additional Graduate coursework in Civil Engineering and Operations ResearchBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering,Expected in2002toIowa State University - Ames, IA-,GPA SkillsData Analytics MS Power BI MS Project Primavera P6 MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)  SEP  Reality Labs at Meta is building products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most, enjoy top-notch, wire-free VR, and push the future of computing platforms. We are a team of world-class experts developing and shipping products at the intersection of hardware, software and content.As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Reality Labs team at Meta, you can help build new, innovative hardware and software that radically redefine the way people work, play and connect. What we build today could one day be the norm. So to be here today is to truly be at the heart of change and the frontier of what s to come. We re the people helping to define the metaverse. We may not have all the answers. But together, we re getting closer. Software Engineer, Machine Learning - Reality Labs Responsibilities Play a critical role in setting the direction and goals for a sizable team, in terms of project impact, ML system design, and ML excellenceAdapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g., distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)Re-evaluate the trade-offs of already shipped featuresML systems, and you are able to drive large efforts across multiple teams to reduce technical debt, designing from first principles when appropriateLeading a team from a technical perspective to develop ML best practices and influence engineering cultureBe a go-to person to escalate the most complex onlineproduction performance and evaluation issues, that require an in-depth knowledge of how the machine learning system interacts with systems around itDevelop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules based modelsSuggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create effective feature roadmapCode deliverables in tandem with the engineering team Minimum Qualifications 6 years of experience in software engineering, or a relevant field or 4 years of experience if you have a PhD2 years of experience in one or more of the following areas machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining, artificial intelligence, or related technical fieldExperience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impactKnowledge developing and debugging in CC and Java, or experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, PHP, andor shell scriptsExperience demonstrating technical leadership working with teams, owning projects, defining and setting technical direction for projectsBachelor s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 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