Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
Generic

Daniel B. Fitzgerald

Kingston,RI

Summary

· Experienced Manager and supervisor of staff of 16 or more employees annually

· Manage and development of employees through various training programs and evaluations

· Ability to direct and manage employees to meet organizations' timelines and goals

· Ability to handle high volume of work with excellent accuracy and process adherence

· Detail oriented with reports, documentation and compliance with organizational policies/specifications

· Strong written, oral communication, and interpersonal skills

· Team oriented, self-motivated, energetic, driven, and adapt well to change within high-paced environments

· Passion for knowledge; actively pursue new learning experiences

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

MDOT – State Highway Administration
10.2023 - 09.2025
  • Serves as Project Manager and directly supervises a staff of inspectors, consultant inspectors, and SHA contractor personnel. Within the contract area, it ensures that all applicable contract documents, standard operating procedures and safety regulations are adhered to by all SHA and contractor personnel.
  • Provides technical support for the staff, field operation structure, contract administration techniques, and solutions to construction/engineering problems. Constantly evaluates employees' work for accuracy and monitors employee performance.
  • Supervises maintenance shop procurements within Washington/Metro Region. Provides oversight to all districtwide turf grass maintenance/tractor, hand mowing contracts, two and five person litter removal contracts, tree and brush contracts, herbicide application.
  • Supervises contracts such as miscellaneous bridge structures repairs, drainage improvements, mechanical sweeping, traffic barrier repair/replacement, maintenance of traffic, street lighting repair/replacement, inlet cleaning and retention pond maintenance at the district level.
  • Monitors contractor performance in the district and reports the status of all District 3 Maintenance projects on a regular basis to District Operations Engineer, Assistant District Engineers and District Engineer.
  • Generates small procurement contracts for district office and maintenance shops based on maintenance operational needs within highway corridors, drafts contract specifications, item quantities, and provides initial approval of all contractor invoices.
  • Manages Customer Care Management System (CCMS) for the district office that focuses primarily on maintenance issues, reassigns tickets to appropriate divisions, investigates customers issues or field observations and performs initial/final outreach with all customers.
  • Works independently with four district maintenance shops to advise, provide technical support and assist Resident and Assistant Resident Maintenance Engineers, Highway Tech Managers, Transportation Engineer Technicians and consultants. Provides training, contract support and technical assistance to district office and shop inspection staff daily.
  • Serves as primary lead for the District 3 Emergency Slope Repair Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Continually monitors task order progress, permitting process, other emergency issues such as slope failures bridge deck punctures, project logistics, develop lane closure permits, site mobilization, other MOU assignments and approve all monthly invoices.
  • Provides contract administration training, licenses and certification requirements, initial pesticide certification training for maintenance shop personnel and eMCMS (eConstruction) training for shop TETs, project engineers and field inspectors.
  • Serves as snow supervisor for winter operations at Laurel Maintenance Shop. Responsible for managing the ice removal/winter plan developed for the contractors to include all levels of snow and ice storms/events, manpower, equipment, and contract resource allocations. Operate F-250 pickup with a plow and supervises up to 20 contractors operating triaxles.
  • Monitors district office and maintenance shop monthly spending, reviews monthly invoices, and makes fiscal projection adjustments to ensure district 3 maintenance is in line with accomplishing our short- and long-term goals.

Workgroup Leader

MDOT – State Highway Administration
11.2015 - 10.2023
  • Served as Workgroup Leader/Project Manager and directly supervises the Landscape Programs Division Workgroup inspection staff members in District 3 for the Office of Environmental Design.
  • Supervised staff that administered varying levels of SHA ROW green asset management contracts that have a concentration in Turf Establishment/Landscape Maintenance and Construction, Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management, Pollinator Program, TMDL Installation and Establishment within Prince George's and Montgomery Counties.
  • Applied horticultural and transportation engineering knowledge to successfully oversee the administration of contracts in coordination with MDTA, MDE, DNR and other entities related to MDOT SHA right-of-way.
  • Supported very large, highly complex road and bridge construction projects for District 3 Construction. Provides contract support to the District 3 Construction Area Engineers and Project Engineers for the landscape portions of these projects and provides on-site technical assistance.
  • Maintained overall safe work environment with employee training programs and enforcement of safety procedures.
  • Generated annual performance evaluations for staff and contractors, updated contract budget projections on a weekly basis to ensure contract milestones are being achieved.
  • Developed project advertisements, developed plans and specifications for formal and small procurement contracts for Landscape/Turf Maintenance/Construction, Roadside Vegetation Management, TMDL and other special assignments as needed.
  • Managed the Customer Care Management System (CCMS), Communicated with MDOT internal customers and other OED Divisions to either assist or take the lead on providing prompt responses to external customer's needs.
  • Communicated directly with Landscape Programs Management Team on a daily/weekly basis to report contract status, accomplishments, contract issues and provided solutions to contract deficiencies.
  • Managed District Landscape Program Division contract advertisements and development of plans and specifications for landscape contracts such as small procurement, Landscape/Turf Maintenance/Construction, Roadside Vegetation Management and other special assignments as needed.
  • Overcame challenging deadlines and resource limitations by reallocating personnel and focusing on priority tasks.
  • Served as Area Engineer for an Areawide Stormwater Management Facilities Remediation project. Project focus was to remediate critical, high priority and non-priority Highway Hydraulic stormwater pond structures.
  • Identified team weak points and implemented corrective actions to resolve concerns.

Project Engineer – Consultant

Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani, Towson, Maryland
06.2011 - 11.2015
  • Directly supervised and administered Office of Environmental Design (OED) contracts that have a concentration in Turf/Landscape Installation, Roadside Vegetation Management and Turf/Landscape Maintenance.
  • Supervises employees engaged in the management of Landscape Operations and Roadside Vegetation Management. Supervises all aspects of contracts such as applying SHA Specifications and Landscape Operations Division (LOD) policies throughout the execution of all contractual work.
  • Performs sod/nursery stock inspections, on-site field project management, supervision of employees performing specified contractual tasks and continually executing and improving policies or procedures.
  • Oversees and coordinates the general operations of all OED contracts. Administrative responsibilities include progress meetings/agenda, drafting contract correspondence, generating contract milestones and providing solutions to contract deficiencies.
  • Generates monthly estimate payments based on contractor productivity and execution of contract requirements.
  • Communicates directly with LOD management on contract accomplishments, current issues and provide solutions to contract deficiencies. Generates annual performance evaluations and updates contract projections monthly to ensure contract milestones are being achieved.
  • Assists Workgroup and Team Leaders generating contracts such as small procurement, Landscape/Turf Maintenance on special assignments, Roadside Vegetation Management and other special assignments.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Sports Science, Sport Management, Business Administration

Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH
05-1990

Skills

  • Team collaboration
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Contract management
  • Compliance monitoring
  • Procedure development
  • Customer relations

Certification

  • Pesticide Certification Categories 3A, 3C, 5, 6
  • Temporary Traffic Control Managers Certification
  • Erosion and Sediment Control Yellow Card Certification
  • Responsible Person Certification ‘E & S Green Card'
  • OSHA 10 – Construction
  • OSHA 30 – Construction
  • DNR Roadside Tree Care Expert Certification


Timeline

Project Manager

MDOT – State Highway Administration
10.2023 - 09.2025

Workgroup Leader

MDOT – State Highway Administration
11.2015 - 10.2023

Project Engineer – Consultant

Whitney, Bailey, Cox & Magnani, Towson, Maryland
06.2011 - 11.2015

Bachelor of Science - Sports Science, Sport Management, Business Administration

Colby-Sawyer College

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE