Innovative workplace manager with over 30 years of expertise in facilities interior design. Client-focused team player, intrigued by further studying the evolution of the agile workplace. Enthusiastically engages in each project, leveraging extensive experience and design expertise
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Workplace Strategy Manager
CBRE / Whirlpool account
Benton Harbor, MI
04.2019 - Current
Support Whirlpool’s Global Real Estate team by providing interior design expertise, overseeing space planning, specifying project finishes, and implementing furniture solutions, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery of design work and occupancy management.
Facilitated introduction of activity-based work for Global Real Estate team, enabling launch of Whirlpool’s agile work environment.
Ensure design projects foster collaboration and focused work through diverse workspace types.
Continually develop flexible workplace solutions to enhance facility resilience.
Collaborate closely with the change management team to onboard occupants of agile facilities.
Manage project budgets and forecasts, identifying costs and benefits for scenario planning across daily and strategic projects.
Verify accuracy of Whirlpool's CAFM system, ensuring Serraview maintains a 95% accuracy rate.
Communicate the CAFM dashboard analytics to the Global Real Estate team, facilitating informed decision-making.
Senior Occupancy Planner
JLL / Whirlpool account
Benton Harbor, MI
08.2006 - 04.2019
Acted as the OP Lead for the Whirlpool account from December of 2017. Provided a support structure to ensure high quality and consistent delivery of OP services.
Utilized best practices and innovation alignment to the short and long term goals of the Global Real Estate team.
Identified training needs in developing a high-performing on-account team while supporting potential OP opportunities.
Delivered monthly financial project forecasts and approved all invoices related to occupancy management.
Provided all OP data for JLL’s Health of the Account survey;Transformation Pyramid; Occupancy Trend data analysis and monthly metrics reporting; benchmark reporting and performed performance reviews.
Supported Global Real Estate with full interior design expertise. Responsible for planning, specifying and implementing the project finishes and furniture solutions,
Accountable for all project budgets; identifying costs and benefits associated with scenario planning for multiple projects.
Implemented Whirlpool’s Winning Workplace environments throughout the US and globally.
Corporate Facilities Interior Designer
Upjohn / Pharmacia & Upjohn / Pfizer
Kalamazoo, MI
11.1989 - 04.2004
Responsibilities included managing the furniture, finishes, ergonomic, space and facility needs of approximately 2500 employees. A career highlight was completing the 700,000 square foot office/ lab building that opened in downtown Kalamazoo in 1991.
Designed and specified all furniture and finishes since its inception of Building 300.
Managed multiple interior projects each year including new construction as well as renovations for manufacturing, fine chemical and office buildings throughout Kalamazoo and Portage, Michigan.
Renovated the Upjohn Company’s sales offices in Portland, Oregon and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Managed new construction projects including the high end sales office suites for Upjohn in Portland,Oregon and Chicago, Illinois.