Managing Principal / VP Resume Example

Responsible for strategic vision, leadership, inspiration, quality assurance, sustainable growth and business operations of the Architecture BG in Southern California, Hawaii, Guam and South Korea employing over 100+ staff.

• Met/Exceeded Annual NFE, NFB and Profit targets for each year effectively doubling the size of operating profit in three years with the current annual totals second only to Area Transportation BG. (currently at $8M vs $4M prior to 2017).
  
• Demonstrated Excellence in project delivery & management, qualitatively with a consistent recognition of excellence ratings on all client report cards and quantitatively with project losses at/under 0.5% of earnings for last two years.
• Project Excellence initiatives introduced in early 2018 resulted in material decrease in annual project losses. (80% reduction from 12% of NFE in 2017 to 2.5% in 2018 and further improvement in 2019 and 2020 maintained at 0.5% of NFE, one of the lowest in Architecture BG and HDR.
• Net staff growth of over 30% with strategic and key leadership hires and talent development.
• Influenced culture of the LA office through structure and behavior change with significant increase in staff engagement as evident from results of HDR's engagement survey (11 basis point increase in 2018 from 2016)
• Implemented a robust training program enhancing technical, Project Management and leadership competencies of staff. Twenty-five emerging leaders in the practice have completed a leadership development program between 2018 and 2020 to prepare them for current and future project and team leadership roles.
• Achieved Significant Progress in establishing a unified HDR brand to strategic clients in Los Angeles e.g. LADWP, OCSD and LA County and leveraging opportunities that intersect all HDR BGs.
• Performance as PIC for multiple projects for strategic clients including Huntington Hospital and Cedars Sinai Health, resulted in re-alignment of client relationships. Spearheaded collection of over $8M in outstanding receivables and securing $3M in net bookings tied to aging add service requests within first nine months of transition to MP role.
• Led the initiative across all market sectors to grow HDR's alternative delivery/DB market share from zero to over $20M in 3 years, while successfully negotiating favorable terms and conditions for HDR with standing partnering agreements with major contracting partners including Clark, McCarthy, R&S and Kajima Corp.
• No new claims brought against HDR for projects managed and delivered from the LA office.
• Sponsor/Mentor for HDR CareerBoost Class of 2019 and ABG Boost Class of 2019.