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SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
Authoring construction work plans for major operations and operations that are considered community sensitive.. Developing relationships with subcontractors and providing the information flow necessary to start work.. Project engineering for jet grouting, marine work, and bulkhead grouting.. Managing field engineers and interns.
PROJECT MANAGER
Rebutted the Owner’s positions and communicated the tri-venture’s position on schedule impacts in detailed narratives after investigating each issue.. Built in-depth issue files and solicited consultants to prepare a compensable time extension request.
CORPORATE CONTRACTS MANAGER
Assisting multiple Projects nationwide with affirmative and defensive claims, arbitration, and litigation.. Performing detailed analyses to support the recovery of costs, and interacting with lawyers, experts, and executives to achieve the best possible outcome.
CONTRACTS MANAGER
Deep dive through project documentation to assess impacts and determine responsibility.. Prepared merit analyses and narratives for requests for equitable adjustment for owner-directed extra work.. Collected documents and sent to expert scheduler to prepare time impact analyses.. Monthly payment requisition process, including obtaining full and proper backup documentation.. Facilitate the administration of $65M electrical subcontract.. Pulled project records and presented them to the Co-Sureties and participated in detailed discussions with the Co-Sureties to assist with their investigation into the MBTA's wrongful termination of the LMH-Lane Joint Venture.
SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
Bought out subcontractors and vendors.. Participated in design.. Wrote notices, including Force Majeure and Changed Work.. Managed permitting process.. Performed monthly schedule updates.. Prepared scope, quantities, and pricing for lump sum change order proposals, including prose statements.. Supported field operations.
SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER
Bought out subcontractors and vendors.. Processed monthly pay requisitions and subcontractor pay requisitions.. Managed monthly schedule updates.. Terminated masonry subcontractor for convenience.. Performed weekly quantity updates and cost projections for review by senior management.. Supported field operations.
PROJECT ENGINEER
Proposed alternate designs of flood protection devices for approval as equal to the contract-specified devices.. Field measured for metal fabrications.. Bought out vendors and subcontractors.. Performed weekly cost updates and cost projections for review by senior management.. Processed monthly pay requisitions and subcontractor pay requisitions.. Compared existing conditions to those anticipated by the contract documents and prepared RFIs, notices, and change order proposals, as necessary.
CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR/PROPOSAL WRITER
Contract Administrator/Proposal Writer for two-stage heavy civil infrastructure, and mass transit pursuits.. Composed technical narratives.. Developed Primavera P6 bid schedules.. Performed intense review of project specifications, drawings, articles and clauses to determine project scope and assess risk.. Prepared statements of qualifications and technical proposals in strict compliance with the Bid Documents.
PROJECT ENGINEER
Implemented and managed concrete trial batch process to achieve a concrete mix for the shaft lining that gained sufficient strength in 12 hours to allow stripping of the forms while minimizing heat and shrinkage.. Liaised between owner’s professional engineer, concrete supplier, and concrete testing lab to meet all project-specific requirements and gain approval on the mix as an “Or-Equal.”
PROPOSAL WRITER/CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR
Composed technical narratives, management plans and construction approaches for large, Design-Build heavy civil infrastructure pursuits.. Performed thorough reviews of all contract and reference documents to determine the scope of work and assess risk.. Assisted in the dispute review process by presenting factual and legal bases for claims, preparing notices, position papers, rebuttals, and cost summaries.. Prepared notices of change and differing site conditions, and contributed to the claims process until resolution.
SUPERINTENDENT
Supervised 2nd shift work crews and subcontractors during excavation, jet grout installation, and underpinning operations.. Prepared shift reports, quality reports, and timesheets.. Conducted toolbox talks and corrected safety issues.. Assisted project team with submittals, permits, and quantities’ tracking.. Prepared T&M sheets and requisition packages for extra work.
FIELD ENGINEER
Designed the permanent tie-down anchors for the foundation of a new water distribution chamber.. Prepared T&M packages for change order requisitions.. Composed subcontractor bid packages, solicited, and held meetings with potential subcontractors, and wrote the resulting subcontracts.
ESTIMATOR
Performed take-offs, construction staging and planning for bids on several New York City Department of Environmental Protection and New York City Transit contracts.
FIELD ENGINEER
Assisted in a $45 million concrete operation for water tunnel lining.. Managed reinforcing steel installation for several intersections of shafts/adits with the tunnel.