Ida McDonough

$34,000,000 Inn at Bellefield, Hyde Park, NY: Complete ground up construction of new five-story 106,000-square-foot, 137 room extended stay hotel. The scope included all site work within the hotel pad, parking lots, storm drainage, site lighting, landscaping, EV charging stations and site utilities.

$32,000,000 The Metro, Kingston, NY: A 75,000-square-foot revitalization to a century-old manufacturing warehouse to provide supportive spaces for the community. The facility includes a 15,000-square-foot fabrication center with 3D printing, tools for woodwork, metal work and textiles; offices; multipurpose rooms and community gathering and assembly spaces; and a training and catering kitchen and cafe`. The project features sustainable building practices including 32 geothermal wells for heating and cooling, a 400kQ solar rooftop, a hydronic snow melt system, a rainwater harvesting system and a fully integrated building management system.

Serves as a key liaison in the field between design, engineering, project controls and the trades, with a clear focus on collaboration, details and structure.

• Involved in all phases of the projects from pre-construction, bidding, construction, close-out.
• Ensure adherence to safety protocols and regulations, resulting in a safe work environment with minimal incidents throughout project duration.
• Calculate risks during project development and manage risks throughout projects.
• Successful negotiations with vendors and subcontractors to secure more favorable terms.
• Assist in managing project schedules
• Responsible for project documentation, forecasting, change order management.
• Review, monitor and expedite submittals and RFIs in accordance with the submittal log and project requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers to develop their skills, resulting in a more knowledgeable and versatile workforce.
• Deliver high-impact presentations for key stakeholders, showcasing project progress and highlighting achievements at critical milestones.
• Improved project efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing time-saving strategies.
• Implement LEAN techniques, leading to improved overall operational performance.

Managing five fixed facilities handling bulk material and other material from construction sites

• Drove team success through shared vision and recognition of quality performance.
• Developed and initiated improvement projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
• Provided management for internal personnel and subcontractors
• Fostered relationships with customers, sub-contractors and other stakeholders to promote positive working relationships.
• Initiated and executed better and more efficient financial structure and follow-up routines for our recycling units, which helped us identify profitable and less profitable activities.
• Performed average profit margin of 40% on facilities.

Site Manager, Quarries/Fixed facilities

• Supervised contractor work processes and adherence to project schedule.
• Created weekly and monthly reports and presentations for management team.
• Kept sites compliant with federal, state and local safety regulations to prevent unnecessary incidents and delays.
• Complied with safe operating practices and assessed operational procedures against best practices.
• Developed and implemented cost controls and other expense reduction measures and reduced costs.
• Completed and submitted monthly and yearly reports to support executive decision making.
• Revitalized operational structures and procedures to successfully control turnover and waste, enhance output and boost overall quality.
• Initiated, planned and executed creative, safer and successful logistic plans for several facilities.

• Developed, closed out and deployed initiatives of new corporate, regional and project initiatives
• Engaging in cross USA audit process and assisting in further consolidation of unified USA Civil and USA Building EH&S program
• Analyzing leading and lagging indicator programs and program engagement levels on all Northeast projects
• Completed OSHA 30

Skanska Stretch is a global leadership program for Skanska’s future leaders. Through extensive training in global business operations, business development, finances, Environmental, Health and Safety, my leadership skills, as well as knowledge and competence increased in order for me to continue building my career.

• Overseeing daily construction tasks while providing safe working conditions, staying on budget and meeting project deadlines.
• Monitored metrics during project execution to maintain compliance with planned costs, schedules and goals.
• Analyzed blueprints and delivered concise instructions to technical team to maintain quality control.
• Liaised with company executives and project managers to acquire resources to move projects forward.

Leading a 2-year process and organizational development project for a €625.000.000 business unit effecting approximately 1500 employees. Part of the development and implementation of an industrialized management model.

• First phase (2012) established the strategy and concept of specialization and industrialization creating a common ground of a functional organization focusing on communication, culture and change
• Second phase (2013) established a common solution of organization structure, management control measures and management system

Executed business improvement, process optimization and system improvement, focused on financial and logistic processes in the industrial and construction sector

• Performing process analysis, process design, integration solutions, implementation and training
• Managing several stakeholders such as system suppliers, steering group, customers etc