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Justin Vangelista

Carpentersville,IL

Summary

Experienced public works professional, well-versed in fostering team motivation, creating and delivering training, developing processes, and delivering desired business results. Dedicated and hardworking team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Prepared to bring 18 years of experience in public works to a leadership position in a local community.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Product Lead - Utility System Controls

Xylem Inc.
Columbia, MD
08.2021 - Current
  • Developed training programs for field staff including online, shop, classroom, and field training.
  • Developed SOPs to ensure nationwide work was held to a consistent standard.
  • Served as the hub of collaboration between engineering, business dev, operations, accounting, and directors.
  • Built business case to illustrate that shifting 2 hours per week per truck from production to preventative maintenance can eliminate up to $200k in Total Cost of Failure lost per truck per year.
  • Developed the KPIs to measure teams' compliance with fleet and equipment maintenance directives.

Equipment Manager

Xylem Inc.
Columbia, Maryland
09.2016 - 08.2021
  • Researched, evaluated, and implemented a fleet and equipment management system that has digitized these operations, created accountability, allows for the team to share their collective knowledge, serves as a document library, and allows for the scheduling and alerts of maintenance tasks, documentation of issues and resolutions, and provided custom built inspections for each machine.
  • Served as the primary source for repair and troubleshooting guidance for over 80 crews nationwide.
  • Rebuilt 15 TM7s, ERVs, and Vacuums at a savings of $19k average per machine compared to buying new.
  • Spec'd and administered the orders and upfitting of 45 service vehicles over 4 years. All but 5 were full service vehicles with $150k worth of field service equipment. The upfitting for the first 10 was physically performed by myself and two coworkers over the first 1.5 years.

Information Analyst; Asst PM; PM

Wachs Water Services
Buffalo Grove, IL
07.2011 - 08.2021


  • Managed tethered pipeline inspections across the country for clients such as San Diego (CA), Knoxville (TN), Trinity River Authority (TX). Scope involved video and acoustic internal inspections of "live" transmission mains.
  • Assistant Managed Wastewater work around the nation including smoke testing, acoustic testing, cctv, and zoom camera inspections of Wastewater networks for clients including Hamilton (NJ), Harrisburg (PA), Hackensack, (NJ), Killeen (TX). Have held collection systems license and MACP, PACP, and LACP certifications.
  • Analyzed Information from the field. Data was collected in the field on trimbles and submitted using terrasync .ssf files. I post-processed the spatial data, performed quality control on the attribute data, converted the file to geodatabase, analyzed it, and created maps and reports as deliverables for the client to review in understanding where their system needed attention.

Education

Master Of Applied Science - Learning Design & Technology

University of San Diego
San Diego, CA

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Geography

Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL
07.2005

Skills

  • Process Improvement Initiatives
  • Project Management
  • Pipeline Knowledge
  • Valve and Hydrant Knowledge
  • Pump, Plant, and Station Knowledge
  • Staff Management
  • Training Development, Implementation, Evaluation
  • Improvement Plans
  • Fleet and Asset Management
  • Motivating Teams
  • Safety Guidelines
  • Interpretation of Findings

Timeline

Technical Product Lead - Utility System Controls

Xylem Inc.
08.2021 - Current

Equipment Manager

Xylem Inc.
09.2016 - 08.2021

Information Analyst; Asst PM; PM

Wachs Water Services
07.2011 - 08.2021

Master Of Applied Science - Learning Design & Technology

University of San Diego

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Geography

Northern Illinois University

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