EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR BUILDERS

HRE Project Management Consulting

Hunt Construction Group
2013

Hunt Construction Group, a major US construction company, is the prime design-build contractor for reconfiguration and renovation of the 2.8-million-sf, 41-gate passenger terminal at San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU), in San Juan, PR, under contract to Aerostar who is operating the airport under a public-private partnership. When the project began in 2013, Hunt hired me to assist with startup activities, including developing the scope of design services, preparation of a design work plan and schedule, and coordinating design and construction contracts and Div. 01 general requirements. As the project moved forward, I managed the design team in the initial phase of design.

Las Vega Sand Corporation
2007 – 2009

In 2007 the Las Vegas Sands Corporation (Sands), a leading global operator and developer of destination casinos and resorts, had its own internal development group with teams directly managing construction of the Palazzo in Las Vegas, the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the Sands Bethlehem Casino and Resort, a 1,000,000-sf casino, retail and hotel complex with a 4,400-space multi-level parking structure built on 56 acres of the former Bethlehem Steel Works. Sands directly held all construction trade and vendor contracts, and the Bethlehem development team hired me initially to assist with tailoring the standard Sands Nevada construction and vendor contracts to the unique requirements of Pennsylvania and the Bethlehem project, and to prepare a design-build contract for the parking structure. After that, I coordinated design and construction contracts for the other components of the development, coordinated the Div. 01 general requirements with the design and construction contracts, assisted with preparation of a project labor agreement, and tailored the LVSC project management procedures to suit the Bethlehem project. As the project moved forward, I assisted with procurement of multiple trade contractors and vendors, and negotiated and managed those contracts. In addition, I provided task-based design and construction project management services, such as design and schedule reviews and claims resolution.

Other Experience

Whereas the above is my only experience working directly for a construction firm or organization, I have worked with builders throughout my career. As an owner’s representative, I procured construction services, negotiated construction contracts, and managed construction projects on behalf of Alaska Airlines and USAir. As a design project director and manager, the builder was involved early in the design process on many of my projects; highlights include super fast-track data center projects in San Francisco and Los Angeles, working for SOM, and renovation and modernization of Terminal A at Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport (DFW), working for Jacobs. Most recently, as a member of the HOK/Parsons Brinckerhoff design joint venture under contract to the Skanska/Walsh design-build joint venture for the LaGuardia Airport (LGA) Central Terminal Building Replacement Project, I worked directly with Skanska Walsh project managers.

Construction on data center projects essentially began while the projects were still in the conceptual design phase—the delivery process was dubbed “build-design.” In part due to my experience working on those projects I was assigned to an SOM firm-wide task force to improve delivery of construction support services.

For the DFW Terminal A project, an initial enabling construction phase and then three phases of primary terminal construction were required to ensure that two-thirds of the terminal to remained operational at all times, requiring extensive interaction with the construction team during the design process for packaging of construction documents and sequencing and scheduling of construction activities.

For the LGA Central Terminal Building project, I managed design activities associated directly with construction enabling and phasing.