Donnie Royal
Sacramento,Ca
Summary
Visionary and dynamic leader with a proven track record in steering organizations toward success through strategic planning and effective CAPEX and OPEX management. Expert in building cohesive teams, driving innovation, and enhancing operational efficiency to achieve business objectives. Demonstrated ability to transform challenges into opportunities, resulting in significant impact on company growth and profitability. Champion of vendor negotiation and team leadership, achieving a 15% budget reduction while enhancing global facilities engineering and environmental health and safety standards.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Director Engineering, Facilities & EH&S
Revance Therapeutics
Newark, Ca.
10.2022 - 01.2025
- Global Head of Facilities, Engineering and EH&S operations of a state-of-the-art cGMP biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
- Executive leader having ownership of company buildings and all its facilities and processes supporting manufacturing and G&A across states supporting a multi-million dollar budget over $65MM.
- Managed a team of Design, Automation, and Calibration Engineers, and EH&S Managers & Specialists dedicated to the functions of the facilities and engineering groups responsible for planned, preventative and corrective maintenance, installation and modification of equipment, machinery, and buildings systems, utilizing both internal and contract resources across multiple sites.
- Championed all capital projects and equipment installs to support corporate and GMP locations and lead compliance activities for the Facilities Engineering Organization.
- Owned Capex and Opex budgets and lead all facilities operations, expansion and ongoing construction.
- Planned, directed and coordinated installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of GMP and back of house equipment and utility systems.
- Frontline orchestrator of engagement for compliance initiatives with the CDC, FBI, EPA, Homeland Security, FDA.
- Support & coordinate facility validation in partnership with Quality and Validation functions.
- Responsible for vendor management including vendor procurement, contract negotiation/execution, and management for services and other activities.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures for department operations.
- Create and maintain organizational procedures and controls in providing effective and timely services such as preventive and routine maintenance, equipment repair, calibration, management of building maintenance systems (BMS), and emergency repair.
- Oversee the Engineering department and all associated policies and procedures.
- Manage and schedule retrofit and replacement of GMP systems.
- Global Head of Facilities, Engineering and EH&S operations of a state-of-the-art cGMP biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility.
Associate Director Facilities Engineering & Operations
Lyell Immunopharma
South San Francisco, Ca.
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Head of site facilities engineering & operations.
- Managed a broad array of activities related to the day-to-day operations at the Lyell Immunopharma site in South San Francisco, California, ensuring that facilities and equipment for all functional areas operate with the highest level of safety and operational efficiency on the campus within Lyell's R&D division.
- Recipient of Lyell Immunopharma’s 2021 Great Performer Award for outstanding performance and achievement.
- Go to Leader and subject matter expert for all capital construction projects, responsible for the completed buildout of Lyell’s new state-of-the-art multi-Million-dollar biotech facility in excess of $64MM.
- New building construction consisted of stories over 117K SF, including 32 labs, full suite vivarium, back of house facilities and G&A/Office space.
- Multi-faceted director managing the robust operation of all site functional areas including EH&S, laboratory operations, vivarium facilities, office and meeting space, food services and shipping & receiving.
- Driver of operational efficiency in managing organizational budget for multiple cross-functional entities.
- Responsible for company and property owner contractual agreements and building management agreements, Vendor/Contractor RFP’s, selection, and contracts.
- Trusted point of contact for all local city, county, and state agencies as EH&S leader.
- In support of the ongoing research and development conducted at this site, I oversee several crucial components of building operations, including, but not limited to property owner engagement and process creation & negotiations, building maintenance & repairs, back of house monitoring systems, compliance, planning & forecasting, and full-scale security operations.
Senior Manager Facilities Engineering & Operations
AbbVie Stemcentrx
South San Francisco, Ca.
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Head of site facilities engineering & operations and organizational leader, responsible for team management, strategic planning, and project/program management.
- Champion of laboratory & office construction projects while overseeing the daily operation of building systems including HVAC, gases, electrical and IT infrastructure.
- Provide overall leadership to a team of facilities professionals, successful in providing solutions and best business practices in vendor management & procurement, site closure initiatives, office management, shipping & receiving, site security, EH&S, food services and building cleaning & maintenance.
- Work in lock step with Sr. Leadership, AbbVie Site Controller, General Contracting Superintendents, Project Managers and Subcontractors to manage building operations, local exchange carriers and construction crews for successful projects totaling more than $3 Million while coming under budget and on time saving the company over $380k.
- Recognized and Designated Sr. Leader selected by Executive Management to manage a diverse facilities team and their activities across the business function to include Campus Security, Office Management, Shipping & Receiving and EH&S.
- Managed and maintained clean rooms for GMP, GXP, QC & QA protocols, responsible for the operation of supporting building systems, lab modifications, demo’s and rebuilds to quality standards.
- Project managed the full construction of AbbVie freezer farms from conceptual design to physical buildout to include power build and distribution supporting an assortment of over 40 freezers.
- Implemented design and construction projects for new and existing buildings as Leader of internal and external subject matter experts.
- Approver of As-Builts providing direction to contracted Architect & Design firm for timely changes to scope and communicator to general contractor, subcontractors, and facilities team.
- Prime leader in IT build out expansion, responsible for the effective coordination of a full-blown network migration as well as successful laboratory moves and enhancements to merge the independent company network to the conglomerate business enterprise infrastructure.
- Orchestrator of multiple projects ran simultaneously to achieve productive benchmarks for the year, including VoIP services migration, LAN/WAN & Wireless network audio/visual and global conference calling, copper & fiber design and runs.
- Champion of budget and schedule development and monitoring, contractor/vendor selection and coordination, project permitting, internal and external communications, and project reporting for a broad range of facility types including labs, offices, and diverse manufacturing environments.
- Managed contractor selection and performance of infrastructure related projects and services with the successful install of brand new IDF/MDF to support IP backbone to include fiber optics, high voltage power distribution, and wireless network.
NOC Supervisor
Synovus Bank – TEKsystems
Columbus, Ga.
01.2016 - 10.2016
- Supervised the Network Operations team, ensuring effective monitoring and recovery of applications, servers, and network connectivity.
- Executed Incident Management strategies, enhancing network health through proactive triage and monitoring initiatives.
- Led command center operations for outage notifications, facilitating war-room sessions and accountable postmortem reviews.
- Developed and maintained KPI reports, collaborating with senior leadership on network performance metrics and statistical analysis.
- Organized NOC staff meetings while participating in executive IT meetings to drive immediate initiatives.
- Implemented training programs and mentorship for all employees within Synovus IT NOC to enhance operational proficiency.
- Coordinated flexible staff scheduling to ensure coverage across all shifts within a 24/7 NOC environment.
- Managed IT NOC for a leading bank with $27B in assets, delivering services throughout Southeast United States.
Executive Director
Building2Empower, Inc.
Sacramento, Ca.
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Ensured ongoing local programmatic excellence, creation of rigorous program evaluation, management and employee training and consistent quality of finance and administration to include fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals.
- Deepened and refined all aspects of communications—from public speaking, news and media outlets, community outreach, literary branding, web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand and functioned as lead company spokesperson in delivering vital information to the general public, government and civil officials, constituents, and private donors.
- Construction PM for For-Profit side of the house D AND B Painting Co, responsible for overall project, on-site coordination, Procurement, implementation per drawings, estimating, RFP’s, Contract Negotiations, Audits, Interface with GC’s & Vendors, Created new business.
- Served as Business Development entity of projects from 400k-3 million & Fundraising, Research and Development, Core Curriculum Creation, Client Management, Quality Assurance and Program Release.
- Organization dedicated to the rebuilding of our community with focus on procurement for small businesses, effective mentorship and overall development of at-risk youth and re-entry for previously incarcerated adults through the education of the construction trades.
Sr. Manager Implementation Project Program Mgr. III
Sprint
Sacramento, Ca.
01.1999 - 01.2013
- Regional Sr. Implementation Manager led multiple regional Implementation Network teams responsible for implementing the company’s restructure of their legacy platform to a new modern technology for cellular network enhancements; Network Vision; company successfully met network improvement and overall customer satisfaction goals year over year within region.
- Experienced in Project Management Methodologies.
- Delivered both Wireless & Wireline solutions to include consultation on circuit & wireline design, infrastructure, testing, delivery and turn up, Overall Account Management & Audit.
- Achieved multi-million-dollar monthly revenue by providing detailed network presentations to key stakeholders and Executives in both proactive business development and save churn efforts.
- Managed & evaluated primarily exempt employees including responsibility for their selection, training, and performance evaluations supporting 20+ employees, respectively.
- Managed the resolution of all internal and external customer and interacted with RF Engineering Managers, Network Managers, General Managers, Sales Managers, Customer Care Managers, Directors, Fulfillment, as well as Area and Regional Vice Presidents.
- Developed and implemented policies, procedures, controls, and services necessary to support sound financial, operational, and competitive position of the company.
Director of Facilities & Lab Management
Vicinitas Therapeutics
South San Francisco, Ca.
01.2022 - 06.2022
- As the Head of Facilities & Lab Operations, I serve as a focused and effective leader bringing over 25 years of diversified experience in a wide array of operational functions.
- I own the responsibility of onsite facilities and laboratory new builds & management.
- Additionally, I champion the management of Vicinitas's IT Infrastructure, Network Operations, Capital Construction & Expansion projects, Project/Program Management, EH&S, Site Operations, Security Operations and Building Systems Performance and Design.
Education
Communications
Alabama State University
Montgomery, AlCommunications
Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill, CaFilm & Television
Solano Community College
Fairfield, Ca9900 - Enlisted
United States Marine Corps
San Diego, CaSkills
- Organizational leadership
- Facilities management
- Budget management
- Vendor negotiation
- Project management
- Operational efficiency
- Team leadership
- Strategic planning
- Operational excellence
- Global facilities engineering
- Site services and cultural innovation
- Manufacturing and cGMP
- CAPEX and OPEX management
- Vendor management
- Environmental health and safety
- IT infrastructure implementation
- CRM integration
- CMMS expertise
- BMS knowledge
- Incident management
- Service assurance
- Employee hiring and management
- Training and corrective action
- Risk assessment
- Effective communication
- Decision making
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem solving
- Program management
- Negotiation
- Operations management
- Team leadership, training, and development
Accomplishments
Recipient of Lyell Immunopharma’s 2021 Great Performer Award for outstanding performance and achievement.
Timeline
Executive Director Engineering, Facilities & EH&S
Revance Therapeutics
10.2022 - 01.2025
Director of Facilities & Lab Management
Vicinitas Therapeutics
01.2022 - 06.2022
Associate Director Facilities Engineering & Operations
Lyell Immunopharma
01.2019 - 01.2022
Senior Manager Facilities Engineering & Operations
AbbVie Stemcentrx
01.2016 - 01.2019
NOC Supervisor
Synovus Bank – TEKsystems
01.2016 - 10.2016
Executive Director
Building2Empower, Inc.
01.2014 - 01.2015
Sr. Manager Implementation Project Program Mgr. III
Sprint
01.1999 - 01.2013
Communications
Alabama State University
Communications
Diablo Valley College
Film & Television
Solano Community College
9900 - Enlisted
United States Marine Corps