Derrick Amisi
Rockford,IL
Summary
Technically-proficient in construction and engineering practices. Coordinates project preparation, including estimations, drawing review and contract preparation. Diligent, attentive and hardworking team leader. Seeking offers that can provide professional advancement and challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Project Management
Up Work
01.2023 - Current
- Review pay application with the guidance of supervision
- Manage and organize current workflow with project files
- Accommodate with daily email interaction with the vendors or clients
- Review project guidelines and improve any conflicts or deficiencies
- Attend meetings and document any action items to confirm follow up performance
- Provide project analysis from drawings to ensure constructability and achievable goals.
Project Engineer
United Dwelling Construction
04.2021 - 10.2022
- Prepared work contracts and work orders upon supervision approval
- Reviewed construction schedule conflicts with team to alternate solutions
- Reviewed construction progress against budget with team lead to gage deficiency
- Took part in weekly status meeting to ensure financial and construction phases remained within budget
- Provided administrative support to non-construction team to provide project visibility
- Managed daily direct cost and commitments required to establish project contracts
- Assisted the accounting team with various procurement to expedite vendor's payment material purchases
- Provided support to the field team with logistic plan and contracts feasibility
- Provided support for field related management on existing site conditions and quality readiness of the project
- Developed a great relationship with vendors to ensure continued support through all phases of the project.
Project Engineer
Up Work
05.2020 - 04.2021
- Provided short term contract construction-related services with supervision to complete blueprint reading estimates, and submittals
- Offered evaluation on construction planning and architectural designs
- Took project schedule responsibility and review conflicts with lead PM
- Utilized AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, and project management software to complete contracted projects within agreed duration
- Project BID consultation and review with lead PM or client
- Monitored project phase with team lead guidance.
- Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
Assistant Project Manager
Corporate Concepts
10.2019 - 04.2020
- Reviewed COI, Contract requirement and CD sets per pre-construction phase
- Collected and distributed updated drawings sets/RFI/ Change order from General Contractors/Sub-Trades to better assist team members
- Took ownership of communicating with the design team to address all shop drawings prior to material ordering
- Managed subcontractor relationships effectively to ensure quality workmanship within deadlines and budgets.
- Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
- Provided resources to on-site workers during all construction phases to clarify the scope of work or changes in work, including materials and methods of construction
- Coordinated with all contractors, vendors, and suppliers to ensure all phase of the project are being communicated properly
- Created project timelines and weekly reports documenting current status
- Reviewed and created submittals to ensure all communication
- Managed a small crew of installers during construction to ensure communications and project scopes are being met
- Reviewed and issued project closeout documents along with project punch list reviews
- Gathered all updated information to create a lesson learned with the team.
- Supported timely project delivery by proactively identifying risks and developing mitigation plans.
- Minimized disruptions during construction projects by closely coordinating site logistics such as materials delivery, equipment storage, and personnel access.
Project Engineer
Up Work
06.2019 - 10.2019
- Project Assistant & AutoCAD Designer (Commercial Construction) (Contract)
- Provided assistant to the project manager with various construction related services which include: Prepared reports, opinions, and recommendations from the approval of the Project Manager concerning the direction of the project
- Reviewed RFI's returned for approval/submittals
- Reviewed and edited construction and design documents per the request of the managing firm
- Converted AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, and 2D AutoCAD documents were completed per request
- Served as the interface between the engineers and designs team to ensure all redlines are efficiently met.
Project Engineer (Research Based)
Cord Construction
05.2017 - 12.2018
- Utilized project management software to track assignments and progress through to completion
- Collected research data from numerous trades and evaluated what factors could contribute to improving the performance metric
- Derived market insights, customer, and competitor and product intelligence to inform and provide critical metrics around trends, business opportunities, and business questions
- Over 350 logs from over 40 hours of observations on-site provided essential data metrics to assess each contributing factor of work performance
- Performed variable calculation with nationwide construction standards during each data collection
- Found ways to increase productivity by evaluating each performance metric against construction standards
- Established a workable schedule with all of the data collected to identify a better further knowledge of improvement
- Reviewed progress controls for project quality assurance.
- Transformed research findings into actionable insights and communicated recommendations across multiple partner teams to drive strategic decision making and add depth to mid- to long-range business planning.
- Conducted research to identify and evaluate new technologies and concepts.
Education
M.S. - Construction Management
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ12.2018
B.S. - Architecture
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL05.2015
Skills
- Technical understanding
- Creative Thinking
- Productivity Improvement
- Conflict Resolution
- Team Collaboration
- Scope Management
- Document Management
- Critical design review
- Data Analysis
- Schedule Management
- Detail Oriented
- Blueprint Interpretation
Certification
ArcGIS Spatial Analysis:# UC - 8JJC7NF2
Languages
English
French
Timeline
Project Management
Up Work
01.2023 - Current
Project Engineer
United Dwelling Construction
04.2021 - 10.2022
Project Engineer
Up Work
05.2020 - 04.2021
Assistant Project Manager
Corporate Concepts
10.2019 - 04.2020
Project Engineer
Up Work
06.2019 - 10.2019
Project Engineer (Research Based)
Cord Construction
05.2017 - 12.2018
M.S. - Construction Management
Arizona State University
B.S. - Architecture
Southern Illinois University
Additional Work Experiences
- Hagney Architects, Rockford, IL, Architecture Design Intern, 08/2015, 12/2015
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, School of Architecture Library Assistant, 2014, 2015
- Marshalls, Customer Service Representative, 2005, 2008
- Virgin Mobile, Technician, 2008, 2009
- Sprint, Tech Support, 2009, 2010
- Citi Bank Credit Card Services, Customer Services, 2009, 2011
Volunteer Experience
- Autism Society of America, Carbondale, Illinois, 01/2015, 05/2015, My goal as a volunteer was to get each child involved in the game and to ensure that everyone was having a great time. Even taking place in the game to show that participation was essential to having fun. We had an excellent success rate in everyone involvements and great feedback from parent or guardian present at the games.
- Food for Orphans, Carbondale, Illinois, 08/2013, 05/2015, As a member of the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor society we took it upon our self to establish a long-term relationship with the organization to organize the food packing event at Southern Illinois University and also raising funds necessary to accomplish our their mission statement.
Additional Work Experiences
- Hagney Architects, Rockford, IL, Architecture Design Intern, 08/2015, 12/2015
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, School of Architecture Library Assistant, 2014, 2015
- Marshalls, Customer Service Representative, 2005, 2008
- Virgin Mobile, Technician, 2008, 2009
- Sprint, Tech Support, 2009, 2010
- Citi Bank Credit Card Services, Customer Services, 2009, 2011
Volunteer Experience
- Autism Society of America, Carbondale, Illinois, 01/2015, 05/2015, My goal as a volunteer was to get each child involved in the game and to ensure that everyone was having a great time. Even taking place in the game to show that participation was essential to having fun. We had an excellent success rate in everyone involvements and great feedback from parent or guardian present at the games.
- Food for Orphans, Carbondale, Illinois, 08/2013, 05/2015, As a member of the Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor society we took it upon our self to establish a long-term relationship with the organization to organize the food packing event at Southern Illinois University and also raising funds necessary to accomplish our their mission statement.
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