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  Skills - Cucumber BDD Selenium UI Automation Experience Excellent knowledge and experience in testing Financial Domain applications. Hands-on experience in Test Plan, Test Case, and Test Scenario development. Experience in creating data requests based on test cases and data mining.

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