Richard Chase, P.E.
Redmond, WA 98052
PROFESSIONAL OVERVIEW
Director of Facilities / Construction / Engineering
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Over 30 years experience, 15 years senior management
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Managing complex budgets and schedules
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Directing management strategies to facilitate seamless
growth and ensure consistent, repeatable, and demonstrable results
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Managing expectations from stakeholders
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Assuring compliance with company, local, state, and
federal requirements
Led the development, execution and management of
multi-site construction, facilities, and engineering management for large
clients like Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Department of Defense, IBM, and Microsoft. My innovative approach to
long-range planning drove facility and plant design, construction, renovations
and maintenance, allowing Fortune 100 companies to remain competitive and
profitable and the US Government to achieve best value.
Core knowledge and strengths include:
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Facilities / Construction / Engineering Management.
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Process Development and Improvement.
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Skilled Proposal Development.
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Strong Customer Focus and Service Orientation.
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Extensive Experience in People Development.
Senior
Director, Construction Project Services
Director,
Facilities Infrastructure
2/2007
– 8/2010
Construction, Real Estate, Facilities Management,
Capital Budgeting and Planning, Data Center Management, Asset Management, Engineering.
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Brought in 2007 as Director of Infrastructure Services
to set up a new business unit. By earning the trust of the owner and providing
near-flawless execution and expectation management, we grew from $18M and 13 employees
to present levels, in effect tripling the business in 1-1/2 years, at which
point I accepted my new position as Senior Director.
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Responsible for more than 300 construction projects at
$70M+ yearly for the world’s largest corporate campus, comprising 200 buildings
and 17 million SF of office and hardware/software lab space, set in a suburban
environment in Redmond, Washington.
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Sole provider of construction services for MAC,
facilities capital renewal, 26 cafeterias, over 1,100 conference rooms, and all
construction work other than large-scale S&C/major TI work. My role was to
manage the team as owner’s rep, subcontracting to selected general contractors
and major trades, serving at the fulcrum between a large, active constituency
and the work. The projects were classified into software/hardware labs (435
labs @ 500k SF), general MAC/migration (non-lab occupant requests and
migration), and capital renewal projects. Energy conservation measures were
also included in the renewal budget, as were major MEP efforts such as chiller
plant upgrades.
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Managed a staff of 35, with an operating budget of
$4M.
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Helped position owner strategically to move to a more
mature campus master planning paradigm, by driving capital building renewals
from an annual plan to a multi-year program, with linkage to the campus master
plan. This effort will help drive costs down as long-range corporate goals are
meshed with building life expectancy.
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In 2009, delivered the Redmond Ridge 1 managed server
lab building, a $100m effort to consolidate the software labs into a single,
modular, managed lab core. This building is 57,000 SF and can accommodate
35,000 servers. The project involved extensive negotiations with the landlord,
local municipalities and regulatory agencies, and the utilities company, and
was brought in under budget and within schedule
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Facilities management and construction activities for
the 430+ hardware and software labs (mini-data centers) in the Puget Sound
campus of Microsoft.
Responsibilities include:
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General Management of Construction Project Services
and Facilities Infrastructure business units for Management Services division,
with annual revenue of $1.2M in FY09.
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Reported to the Account Executive / Executive Managing
Director.
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Management of over 35 employees, including project
managers, senior project managers, engineers, and support staff.
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Assignment of division managers, controlling of
project performance and monthly project reviews.
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Coaching and mentoring of division managers.
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Process responsibility for all project management and
execution processes, including continuous improvement
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Resource management and career development of staff.
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Client relationship manager for the business unit.
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Proposal development and management of programs.
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Safety and quality management.
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Resource management and career development of project
managers.
Site
Engineer / Senior Facility Manager (Acting)
3/2003
– 2/2007
Construction, Real Estate, Facilities Management,
Capital Budgeting and Planning, Plant Management, Asset Management,
Engineering.
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Was designated key facilitator in legal discussions
between IBM and the University of Arizona, particularly in roles as expert
witness and subject matter expert for plant operations.
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Reduced costs by an average of 4% per year, primarily
through aggressive bidding of service contracts.
Responsibilities include:
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Facilities management for the University of Arizona
Science and Technology Park, a high-tech manufacturing, laboratory, office, and
school campus with over 2M SF spread throughout 18 buildings.
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Construction management of all facilities and civil
work, including complete replacement of roadways and parking lots.
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Responsible for a staff of 21, overseeing the
operations and facilities management of this high-end R&D complex. Unique
challenges included an extensive and comprehensive central plant, with
utilities including chilled water, heating hot water, steam, city water, deionized water, nitrogen gas, industrial waste processing,
sewer plant and potable water plant. There was also a 3M gal chilled water
storage system to maintain.
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Property management responsibilities included lease
administration of the over 30 tenants, rent management, and utilities metering
and collection.
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Reporting to the IBM Account Executive.
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Continuous improvement of project operation processes.
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Proposal development and cost efficient execution
concepts for engineering solutions.
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Quality management and development of personnel.
CEI,
Pasig City, Philippines
Principal
/ Program Manager
11/2001
– 3/2003
Heavy Civil Construction, Program Management, Recruitment, Proposal
Development.
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Consulting engineering and contracting. Engaged in
design/build of a US$56M US Navy construction package, "Reconstruct North
Apron Sections NPA/002 and TWC/002" on the island of Diego Garcia.
Responsibilities include:
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Full P/L responsibility.
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Proposal development, including estimating, partner
engagement, and client relationship.
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Management of over 75 employees.
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Process responsibility for all project management and
execution processes.
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Resource management.
DG21,
LLC, Diego Garcia
Public
Works Director
10/1992
– 11/2001
Department of Defense (US Navy) Contracting, International Logistics, Facilities
Management, Plant Management, Public Works, Transportation, Medical, Food
Service.
Responsibilities include:
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Responsible for 600 workers, including housing, food,
and transportation.
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Full P/L responsibility for $20M budget.
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Maintenance, repair, and capital construction of over
90 facilities totaling 3.6M square feet, including retail, cafeteria,
waterfront, petro, transportation, and medical facilities.
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400 vehicles including construction support equipment.
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50 miles of roads.
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16MW of power production and distribution.
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2,000 acres of grounds maintenance.
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200 tons solid waste per year into 100 acres of
landfill.
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200M gallons per year city water.
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Pest control.
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Wastewater systems.
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Steam systems.
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Shore erosion control.
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Engineering and maintenance control.
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All engineering and development processes.
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Coaching & mentoring of 13 direct reports.
Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Senior
Mechanical Engineer / Project Manager
10/1983
– 10/1992
Facilities Management, Plant Management, Construction,
Engineering
Facilities maintenance as well as new projects. Supervised staff of eight engineers and designers. As
project manager, was tasked to shepherd projects from concept to A&E and
construction contracts. Key projects included light/heavy isotope separation
process support including work with tritium and fissionable metals, in addition
to support for NOVA, world's largest laser.
BSME
Northrop University, Inglewood,CA
Licensed
mechanical professional engineer (PE), CA 24861