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Cherie Ruiz

Santa Clara,CA

Summary

Attentive Project Manager and Estimator offering over 15 years of experience working with clients and teammates to create and manage projects. Accountable in understanding client expectations by engaging collective project team to deliver intentioned results.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Certified Substitute Teaching Staff

Santa Clara Unified School District
Santa Clara, CA
04.2015 - Current
  • Provide grade level instruction and classroom management on daily rotations.
  • Completed long term assignments teaching Culinary Arts to 5 periods of eighth grade kitchen teams.
  • Conducted cooking demonstrations for each class period, secured supplies for food labs, supported and inspected student cooking.
  • Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Aeries, and School Loop.

Property Manager

R&R Communities L.L.C.
Santa Clara, CA
12.2006 - 09.2019
  • Oversaw operations for personally-owned 7 acre/66 lot manufactured housing community in PA.
  • Processed accounts receivables, payables, and monthly financial reconciliations.
  • Responsible for forecasting annual budgets, all aspects of community maintenance, and capital expenditures.
  • Quick Books and Rent Manager.

Project Engineer - Project Manager

Webcor Builders Interior Construction Group
San Francisco, CA
01.2000 - 12.2003
  • Held job site Project Manager role with progressive responsibilities, including estimating, subcontractor management, permitting, billing, budget control, and job reporting.
  • Prolog, Microsoft Project, and Outlook.

Projects

  • CSU Monterey Bay North Quad Housing Design Build, $32mil. - 189,000 sf
  • InterMune, $2.5mil. - 50,000 sf TI with laboratory
  • 3Comm, Symantec, and Portal Software. Misc. Tenant improvements $3mil. - 5,000 sf - 50,000 sf

Estimator

Blossom Valley Landscape & Collishaw Corporation
San Jose, CA
01.1997 - 12.1999
  • Conducted definitive estimating for park, commercial, and phased tract housing landscaping projects.
  • Complied estimates with material and labor quantities, subcontractor scopes, overhead, and profit.
  • Interfaced with field supervisors and clients to monitor labor allocations, review change orders, perform quality control through substitution requests, and issue progress billing.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Landscape Architecture

California Polytechnic University
1996

Skills

  • Team building
  • Value engineering
  • Business development
  • Permitting & Inspections
  • Project budgeting
  • Plan takeoff
  • Schedule coordination
  • Quality assurance and improvement

Timeline

Certified Substitute Teaching Staff

Santa Clara Unified School District
04.2015 - Current

Property Manager

R&R Communities L.L.C.
12.2006 - 09.2019

Project Engineer - Project Manager

Webcor Builders Interior Construction Group
01.2000 - 12.2003

Estimator

Blossom Valley Landscape & Collishaw Corporation
01.1997 - 12.1999

Bachelor of Science - Landscape Architecture

California Polytechnic University