GRIFFIN R. ADAMS
Weaver,AL
Summary
Active Secret Security Clearance and a proven leader, able to plan and execute multi-tasked missions, projects, and programs placing the right personnel and resources as needed to meet internal and external requirements. Possess a comprehensive background in operations management, training/development, cross-divisional leadership, healthcare operations, and supervision/management of large-scale facilities derived from conducting domestic and global operations. Managed risk upon multiple lines to protect assets, property, and equipment valued over $1.5M while meeting the expectations of senior leadership. Skillful professional with expertise in physical security, strategic planning, project management, financial management, stakeholder management and training/development.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Michels
05.2024 - Current
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
- Delivered exceptional customer satisfaction by proactively addressing client concerns and meeting or exceeding expectations throughout the engagement process.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
- Managed projects from procurement to commission.
- Effectively managed scope creep by establishing clear boundaries on requested changes while keeping projects aligned with original objectives and budgets.
- Reduced project costs, negotiating contracts with suppliers and optimizing resource allocation.
- Project budget allocated ranges from $50,000 USD to $1.1 million USD
- Project cost forecast completed on a monthly basis to effectively benchmark cost performance and issues regarding contingencies to the projects.
- Implementation of Earned Value Management or statistical correlated forecasting to further track work completion in contrast to the monetary value of the budget.
Commercial Diving Skills and Experience
JDC/Mpire Diving Services
06.2021 - 05.2024
- Lead tender consisting of routine shop operations of equipment maintenance and cost tracking, routine project review, loadout management, and fabrication.
- Heavy equipment experience for installing grating on hydroelectric dam, pile removal, earth moving for leveling (mobile crane, skid steer, excavator, industrial forklift)
- Hydroelectric dam retrofit and replacement of gratings in trash racks, structural repairs of truss work and integral main support beams. 4 month duration.
- Underwater burning, hydraulic grinding, SDS hammer drilling
- Offshore spar buoy launch and installation at 92 FSW
- UWILD inspections for dry dock services consisting of a full report on weld seams, corrosion, grating degradation, anode depletion, and marine growth monitoring.
- UWILD inspections accordance to ABS authority
- Pile clamp fabrication and fitment for LGA engineering, consisting of building and installing a clamp jacket to reinforce a structural pile for a public pier.
- Public dock demo and removal of 30 foot piles using heavy equipment and Flexi-floats
- Erosion mat installation for a shipping port consisting on airlifting and dredging operations to excavate for proper installation.
Medical Personnel Assistant Manager
United States Navy
01.2015 - Current
- Responsible for the supervision, health, welfare, and counseling of 13 personnel in a worldwide deployable unit, while managing patients and the upkeep and readiness of 13 vehicles and medical equipment valued over $10M.
- Enforced compliance to Aid Station safety regulations and standard operating procedures that resulted in zero injuries of assigned personnel and patients
- Applied knowledge of Healthcare and Logistics Management; analyzed, planned, and adjusted work operations to meet program requirements and objectives with available resources
- Coordinated with representatives of other organizations concerning sensitive and/or complex issues and their relationships to military requirements
Healthcare Specialist
Navy Corpsman
- Performed a variety of nursing care duties concerned with personal care, diagnostic procedures, patient treatment and education, and clinical operations. Provided emergency medical treatment, limited primary care, force health protection, and evacuation in a variety of operational and clinical settings from point of injury or illness through the continuum of military health care.
- Collected patient information including vital signs and measurements including blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature, height, and weight per protocol
- Assessed changes in patient medical status, recognizing implications of both major and minor changes; collaborated with physicians and nurses to respond to status changes
- Assessed nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures; performed emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures
- Performed general office duties such as answering telephones, booking appointments, calling patients, sending emails, and faxing; greeted and checked arriving patients into the clinic; recognized for establishing close client relationships
- Advanced Trauma response and combat care, training including blunt force trauma, extreme hemorrhaging, fluid retention and replenishment, antibiotic education and administration.
Commercial Diving Student
The Ocean Corporation
- Completed ADCI accredited dive school obtaining multiple industry certifications. Understanding principles of dive physics, medical and physiology, rope rigging, SurD O2 decompression efficiency, underwater welding/cutting/burning, incorporating teamwork to allow for smooth transitions from dive phases.
- Completed course requirements of The Ocean Corporation with a 92% GPA.
- Instructed medically on diving emergency situations maintaining EMT level training to administer help in first response/ with aspirations of translating corpsman experience to dive medical technician.
- Hyperbaric chamber operations and decompression of 42 dive simulations.
- Qualified and certified in underwater welding, cutting, and burning.
- Basic and advanced dive physics concepts finished at a 93% GPA.
- Underwater welding certification
- Rigging qualification per API RP2D standards and code
Education
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Project management
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach, FL07.2025
Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) - Certification
International Sports Science Association
02.2018
ADCI Commercial diving basic diving and tending - Certification
The Ocean Corporation
UT/MT NDT - Certification
The Ocean Corporation
09.2021
No Degree - Construction Quality Management
NAVFAC/USACE
Buffalo, New York06-2024
No Degree - Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals
CBA
Remote06-2024
Skills
- Software Microsoft Office Suite, 365
- Microsoft Project 2024
- Primavera P6
- COINS cost allocation database
- Microsoft Excel 2024
- Microsoft Powerpoint 2024
- Monday Work flow
- Bid-2-Win cost tracking and allocation database
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Adobe Acrobat Professional
- AutoCAD 2019
- Renvue BlueBeam
- Operating Systems Mac / Microsoft Windows 10
- Magnetic Particle Testing level I & II
- Ultrasonic Testing Level I & II
- Aircraft maintenance and quality assurance
- GMAW
- SMAW
- GTAW
- MIG
- Oxy-acetylene cutting
- HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATIONS
- CONSTRUCTION RIGGING
- ROOF INSTALLATION Asphalt shingle, repair, TPO, Ventilation
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT CPM
- EMT/NURSING
Accomplishments
- Successful completion of a $1.1 million USD subcontracted project for the installation of a cofferdam on a native Hydroelectric plant for a private consumer company.
- Successful negotiation strategies for project(s) experience contingencies and or unforeseen risk factors. This was met with a massive input to stakeholder management/engagement to allow for the stakeholder to negotiate their needs while maintaining the company parents initiative, resulting in a win-win-win environment upon invoicing.
- Collaborated with team of 23 in the development of Nipsco Cofferdam installation, from conception to completion.
- Successful relationship created with the USACE Buffalo district from our contributions on vermillion sheet-pile installation
- Supervised team of 9 staff members.
- Achieved successful cost tracking by introducing MS Project EVM for Baseline analysis and cost(s) benchmark performance tasks.
- Documented numerous lesson(s) learned which led to overall improvement in efficiency of a 3 year startup dive division.
Certification
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) | Project management | Embry-Riddle aeronautical university | (In Pursuit)
- Project Management Professional in Project Management (PMP) | Certification | PMI | (In Pursuit)
- Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) | Certification | International Sports Science Association
- ADCI Commercial diving basic diving and tending | certification | The Ocean Corporation
- UT/MT NDT | certification | The Ocean Corporation
Academic Achievement Dean's List
Provided numerous times throughout my time as a student at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. The variables that led to this achievement were aiming to keep above a 3.5 GPA to seamlessly transition into higher post-graduate education.
Timeline
Project Manager
Michels
05.2024 - Current
Commercial Diving Skills and Experience
JDC/Mpire Diving Services
06.2021 - 05.2024
Medical Personnel Assistant Manager
United States Navy
01.2015 - Current
Healthcare Specialist
Navy Corpsman
Commercial Diving Student
The Ocean Corporation
ADCI Commercial diving basic diving and tending - Certification
The Ocean Corporation
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Project management
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) - Certification
International Sports Science Association
UT/MT NDT - Certification
The Ocean Corporation
No Degree - Construction Quality Management
NAVFAC/USACE
No Degree - Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals
CBA
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