Mark Schaefer
Mount Airy
Summary
Program & Project Management: Develop schedules, budgets, and quality standards for development and construction programs. Control work and costs against established budgets and expectations. Construction Management: Manage and direct project design, value engineering, and viability. Estimate and bid prime contracts and subcontracts. Establish project and contract controls. Excellent in contract administration and claims negotiations. Project Development: Locate, evaluate, and permit real estate properties including demographic and market analysis; title search, environmental assessment, zoning variances and exceptions approval; and negotiating permits. Environmental Management: Coordinate and performed testing of hazardous process material (liquids and toxic gas) delivery systems. Negotiate and execute RCRA/CERCLA environmental remedial action plans concurrent with overall program objectives. Manage legal, assessment, and remediation aspects of regulated clean ups.
Overview
43
43
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal
SCHAEFER CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, INC
01.1998 - Current
- Principal of a full service construction management and general contracting business providing professional construction management services in the commercial, industrial and residential development and construction markets
Operations Manager-Eastern Region
ROLF JENSEN ASSOCIATES
01.1996 - 01.1998
- Completed construction management services contracts for multi-million dollar commercial, industrial, and high-tech projects
- Completed $3 million in architectural, mechanical, electrical and life safety system upgrades in commercial renovations
- Managed contractors, and owner’s staff, during commissioning of life safety systems in a new $600 million semiconductor fabrication plant
- Secured new business revenue
- Managed technical and financial aspects of client contracts
- Achieved financial goals for 1996, 1997 and 1998
- Wrote and implementing the five (5) year business plan to start and expand Fire Protection Management, Inc., projecting revenue, expenses, gross margin and personnel requirements
- Developed company estimating procedures, code of accounts, document control system, cost reports, change order control program, safety program, position descriptions, and standard forms
- Evaluated, selected, and implemented project management, accounting, and scheduling hardware and software
Senior Program Manager
BDM FEDERAL, INC
01.1992 - 01.1996
- Provided construction management and technical consulting services to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management, Office of Waste Projects
- DOE projects are complex industrial/chemical processing projects ranging from $2 to $150 million
- Established project milestones and budgets for the total project cycle from conceptual design through start up and testing
- Certified conceptual, design, and construction cost estimates and cost trends through activity based cost estimating
- Conducted cost/benefit analysis to determine justification for each project and value engineering studies during design and early construction
- Monitored and ensured progress via monthly construction reports and quarterly on site construction progress review meetings
- Developed and implemented a marketing strategy selling BDM’s Laser-Automated De-coating System (LADS) to Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S
- Navy as both a waste minimization and decontamination technology
- Demonstrate BDM capabilities in environmental compliance, management information systems, system design, environmental restoration, safety and health, and quality assurance to clients and potential joint venture partners
Principal
TRUE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC
01.1990 - 01.1992
- Organized, operated, and managed a commercial development and construction business with $300,000 in annual revenue
- Specific services included property investigation and acquisition, market and demographic studies/appraisal, zoning/permitting approval, construction management, and general contracting
- Completed and presented eight (8) site investigations, demographic studies, market appraisals in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA for a national retailer
- Completed a storm water management project; a 325 car parking facility; and a 117-slip marina on National Park Service property in Washington, D.C
Development & Construction Manager
PUBLIC STORAGE, INC
01.1987 - 01.1990
- Managed and directed 25 employees in the southeast regional office for a national real estate developer
- Completed 11 ($57 million total) commercial office and storage projects
- Responsible for conceptual estimates, project approval, zoning and permitting, value engineering, construction budgets, project schedules, construction management, contract administration, financial information reporting, claims negotiations, and personnel administration
- Project Manager - Fully responsible for all aspects of commercial development and construction projects from conceptual estimates through project close-out and bond release
- Completed and earned bonuses on 14 projects in 2½ years
- Managed seven (7) superintendents and administered 20 subcontracts per project
- Projects included new construction and multi-story renovations; local and out-of-state
- Experienced in zoning and variance exceptions; conceptual, design, and final construction budgets; construction drawing review; bidding and subcontract award; contract administration; site supervision; scheduling; and claims negotiations and litigation
- Successfully managed and completed two (2) Environmental Protection Agency RCRA/CERCLA-regulated, hazardous waste clean-up programs on site and concurrent with project construction
Field Engineer/Contracts Administrator
BECHTEL POWER CORPORATION, INC
01.1982 - 01.1987
- Plan, layout, supervise reinforced concrete and structural steel construction
- Managed and completed $5 million in mechanical and civil contracts, constructing electrostatic precipitators, off-gas scrubbers, and concrete caissons
- Construction Engineer - Developed, programmed, and maintained all labor, material, and equipment cost; cash flow; and schedule controls via Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Project for a $192 million lump sum fossil energy project
- Tracked weekly productivity rates, material costs and actual monthly cash flow
- Projected productivity trends, construction costs, and cash flow position
- Assistant Civil Superintendent - Planned, scheduled, and coordinated and supervised decontamination, defueling, and restoration activities within the damaged Unit II Reactor at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station
- Construction Estimator - Completed and defended the $130 million cost estimate for the indirect materials required over the five (5) year schedule to complete Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station Unit II construction
Education
Master of Science - Civil Engineering/Construction Management
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
01.1984
Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering, With Distinction
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
01.1982
Associate of Arts - Engineering
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE
01.1979
Skills
- Employee performance evaluations
- Staff management
- Verbal and written communication
- Training and mentoring
Accomplishments
- Graduated With Distinction, Pennsylvania State University
- Gold Key National Honor Society
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
- Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
- Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society
- National Dean's List
Training And Skills
- Bechtel Contract Management Training
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910, 120
- Conduct of Operations Training & Assessment
- P3/Primavera
- Richardson Rapid System Estimating
- R. S. Means Estimating
Distinctions And Awards
- Preferred CMAA Instructor – CM Standards of Practice, 3-Day Professional Course, 01/01/03 to Present
- Certified Construction Manager – Construction Management Association of America, 01/01/96
- Registered Professional Engineer – Civil/Structural, Pennsylvania, #PE-036297-E, 01/01/87
- Bechtel Graduate Fellowship – Pennsylvania State University, 01/01/82 to 01/01/84
- BDM “Excellence” Award – for business development & marketing, Not Provided
- BDM “Star” Award – for providing superior program management consulting services, Not Provided
- Bechtel Technical Excellence Award – for developing PC based project cost control programs, Not Provided
Publications
- Implementing An Initial Health and Safety Plan, Presented at the 1998 National Construction Management Conference, Construction Management Association of America, 10/06/98
- Matsushita Selects FPM CM Services, RJA Horizon, 04/01/98
Qualifications Summary
Develop schedules, budgets, and quality standards for development and construction programs. Control work and costs against established budgets and expectations., Manage and direct project design, value engineering, and viability. Estimate and bid prime contracts and subcontracts. Establish project and contract controls. Excellent in contract administration and claims negotiations., Locate, evaluate, and permit real estate properties including demographic and market analysis; title search, environmental assessment, zoning variances and exceptions approval; and negotiating permits., Coordinate and performed testing of hazardous process material (liquids and toxic gas) delivery systems. Negotiate and execute RCRA/CERCLA environmental remedial action plans concurrent with overall program objectives. Manage legal, assessment, and remediation aspects of regulated clean ups.
Timeline
Principal
SCHAEFER CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, INC
01.1998 - Current
Operations Manager-Eastern Region
ROLF JENSEN ASSOCIATES
01.1996 - 01.1998
Senior Program Manager
BDM FEDERAL, INC
01.1992 - 01.1996
Principal
TRUE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC
01.1990 - 01.1992
Development & Construction Manager
PUBLIC STORAGE, INC
01.1987 - 01.1990
Field Engineer/Contracts Administrator
BECHTEL POWER CORPORATION, INC
01.1982 - 01.1987
Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering, With Distinction
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Associate of Arts - Engineering
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE
Master of Science - Civil Engineering/Construction Management
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
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