Experience

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  Jones Edmunds

  • Winter Haven, Florida Area

  • Senior Project Manager

    • Feb 2021 - Present
    • Winter Haven, Florida Area

    Design, bid and construction administration of water/wastewater projects in Florida. Create client engagement strategies and pursuit plans for multiple water/wastewater infrastructure & resource clients. Coordinate with Sr. Regional and Corporate Leadership to grow market share across targeted clients. Identify opportunities to expand Jones Edmunds involvement in strategic service offerings, including planning, construction, implementation, and alternative delivery. Develop & manage proposal efforts, business strategies, presentations and taking the lead in contract negotiations. Work with project managers, key engineering disciplines, and the marketing team to deliver quality projects to our clients. Lead select projects within the water and wastewater sector. Active in professional societies

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  Baskerville Donovan, Inc

  • Melbourne, Florida Area

  • Regional Manager

    • Nov 2012 - Nov 2023
    • Melbourne, Florida Area

    Regional Manager for water & wastewater services.Client Service Manager across Central Florida from Tampa to Melbourne, developed new work, resolved issues,managed design and construction projects up to $25 million, mentored junior engineering & CAD staff, generated technical reports, managed budgets, cost estimates, and schedules. Clients include cities of Deltona, Cocoa, Dade City, Tarpon Springs, Zephyrhills & DeSoto County

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  US Army Corps of Engineers

  • Afghanistan

  • Project Manager/ Contracting Officer's Representative

    • Mar 2010 - Nov 2012
    • Afghanistan

    Managed team of 7 engineers in design of dozens of military bases in Afghanistan including power plants, water/wastewater treatment facilities, security, barracks, roads. medical facilities. Senior technical expert for water and wastewater treatment projects across northern Afghanistan. Project manager and contracting officer's representative (COR) for the construction of Special Forces Base, 6 MW power plant and wastewater treatment plant. Coorduiation work with Afghan National Army and German military.

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  ARCADIS

  • Orlando

  • Assoc. Vice President/ Department Manager

    • Feb 2008 - Nov 2009
    • Orlando

    Associate Vice President and Department Manager for water and wastewater resources in Central Florida. Manage office of 7 professionals. Supervise technical input on water and wastewater projects across Central FL. Participate in establishing a corporate Quality Control program. Project manager for design of 1.5 mgd activated sludge WWTP expansion with 2-stage digester, and injection well, design of 1.0 mgd biological treatment module (package plant) to expand to 3.5 mgd, construction of 2.3 mgd SBR WWTP and 5.0 mgd deep injection well in the FL Keys, and construction of a 4 mile, 20-in wastewater transmission force main, 5,200 gpm pump station and WWTP decommissioning.

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  CH2M HILL

  • Orlando, Florida

  • Senior Project Manager

    • Feb 2005 - Feb 2008
    • Orlando, Florida

    Senior Project Manager for design, permitting and public involvement services onlandmark $50 million, 10-mgd (planned expansion to 75 mgd) reclaimed water treatment facility for Seminole County. Manage 110 design professionals in 4 states, provided extensive permitting and public involvement services, in addition to quality control and project cost estimates, bid phase services, and contract bid review. Coordinated with opposition local, state and national environmental groups to secure the permit.Project Manager for Utility Master Plan of water and wastewater utility with 26,000 residentsand Facilities Plan of St. Johns County waste water system including treatment plants, lift stations, collection mains.

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  Boyle Engineering

  • Orlando, Florida Area

  • Senior Project Manager

    • Sep 2001 - Feb 2005
    • Orlando, Florida Area

    Senior project manager for the design and construction of 3 mgd, 4 mgd and 10 mgd groundwater treatment facilities using forced draft aeration, one 40,000 gpd microfiltration WTP for the US Military in Ecuador, 3 (three) Sandia Lab RAM-W certified Vulnerability Assessments (VA) at WTPs in Florida and one VA for the US Naval WTP on Guam, one Utility Valuation of 100,000 gpd water and wastewater utility, 2 (two) Expert Witness testimonies: one for WTP security and one for a utility condemnation.

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  Black & Veatch

  • Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida

  • Project Manager

    • Jul 1998 - Sep 2001
    • Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida

    Senior project manager for the design and construction of 3 mgd, 4 mgd and 10 mgd groundwater treatment facilities using forced draft aeration, one 40,000 gpd microfiltration WTP for the US Military in Ecuador, 3 (three) Sandia Lab RAM-W certified Vulnerability Assessments (VA) at WTPs in Florida and one VA for the US Naval WTP on Guam, one Utility Valuation of 100,000 gpd water and wastewater utility, 2 (two) Expert Witness testimonies: one for WTP security and one for a utility condemnation.

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  Black & Veatch International

  • Germany, United Kingdom

  • Business Develoment Manager

    • Dec 1991 - Jul 1998
    • Germany, United Kingdom

    Business Development Manager developing environmental business and power generating business in Central and Eastern Europe. Established an office in Leipzig, East Germany shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall then developed business across Eastern Germany. Participate in the acquisition of both PROWA GmbH in Germany and Binnie and Partners in the UK. Serve as Marketing Director for PROWA managing the marketing staff and developing environmental and power generation projects across Eastern Europe and parts of the Middle East, securing work in East Germany, Estonia, Poland and Turkey and establishing a joint venture in Hungary. Project managed investigation into ash stabilization technology for East German mine.

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  Black & Veatch

  • Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ

  • Project Manager

    • Jul 1985 - Dec 1991
    • Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ

    Project manager and project engineer on various wastewater treatment plant projects at the Hyperion WWTP in Los Angeles, CA and at Rio de Flag WWTP in Flagstaff, AZ. This included design-build of an 70,000 scfm odor control facility, and design of an 800 mgd intermediate lift station, 450 mgd headworks facility, 800 ton per day liquid oxygen cryogenic air separation facility, modeling 6,000 miles of trunk line sewer and construction administration of 4 mgd water reclamation facility in AZ. Work for B&V was interrupted for 12 months while attending graduate school in Phoenix.

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  G.W. Wright Construction Company

  • Carpentry and Masonry Apprentice

    • Jun 1979 - Aug 1980

    General contractor performing masonry and carpentry services on commercial and residential structures.

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  United States Marine Corps

  • North Carolina, Cuba, Germany

  • Sergeant

    • Sep 1973 - Sep 1977
    • North Carolina, Cuba, Germany

    Sergeant in communications Intelligence specializing in Top Secret electronic warfare and cryptographic non-communications analysis at bases in NC, SC, FL, MA, Cuba and Germany.