Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area
PROJECT MANAGEMENT Project Management Strategy expert with over 29 years of management experience in retail, hospitality, and commercial. Highly skilled at communicating and building influential relationships with clients and teams at all levels. A solution-oriented strategist with a focus on long-term goals and cross-functional collaboration, having a strong ability to successfully launch, manage, and implement while driving company initiatives and increasing profitability.
• Estimating material, equipment, and installation labor cost for csi Division 10 and Division 12 bid packages for commercial/residential/hospitality. • Product sales specialist in roller shades (Mecho, Hunter Douglas, Bandalux, Rollease, Somfy, Draper). • Perform plan takeoff in Bluebeam Revu. • Develop project plans to meet budgetary needs. • Negotiate pricing with vendors. • Prepare proposal for General Contractor (GC). • Attend scope review and host product presentation. • Initiate kick-off meeting for project scope review. • Key contributor to submittal preparation. • Manage project deadlines, plan, and lead weekly status meetings with team. • Prepare and submit AIA and SOV for billing. • Coordinate with other sub-contractors to keep project on schedule. • Close out project.
• Manage furniture fixtures and equipment (FFE) through project life cycle. • Review project specifications, pricing, and schedule. Plan project schedule to meet timelines and milestone. • Review CAD drawings and provide markups to furniture manufacturer. • Track material status and provide weekly updates to client. • Coordinate delivery of material to destination. • Coordinate and manage furniture punch list. • Coordinate project billing. • Close out project.
• Manage 30+ Division 12 window treatment projects, providing solar shade and drapery solutions for hospitality with brands Somfy, Rollesse, Lutron QMotion. • Manage tasks in PMS through project life cycle. • Perform Project Estimating and Pre-sales. • Purchase materials from local state and international vendors. • Coordinate field measures and product installation. • Perform model room install. • Close out projects.
• Oversee companywide quality assurance program. • Train and manage QC technicians on testing equipment operation. • Perform factory quality audit’s statewide locations. • Develop and manage factory quality and social compliance programs for JCPenney, Wal Mart and Ikea. • Monitor North America and Asia factory overall quality levels and implement improvements driving down defect rates. • Key contributor in launch of proprietary bedding products for Kohl’s, Bed Bath & Beyond.