Stephen E. A. Johnson
Annapolis,MD
Summary
Results-driven Project Director with extensive experience in fostering robust stakeholder relationships and enhancing collaboration. Demonstrates exceptional problem-solving and conflict management skills, coupled with a strategic approach to project planning. Proven track record of delivering successful outcomes in complex environments, poised to contribute expertise to a growing organization.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Director
Veolia Water Technologies Solution
Richmond, VA
10.2022 - Current
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring timely completion of deliverables to stakeholders.
- Provided oversight of technical staff assigned to projects and monitored progress against established milestones.
- Monitored costs, timescales and resources used to achieve key performance metrics.
- Determined project schedules and maintained timeline with proactive adjustments to workflow.
- Established processes for successful cross-functional communication between teams.
- Facilitated resolution of conflicts among members of cross-functional teams.
- Prepared briefs on projects and strategies for internal and external parties.
- Participated in professional development opportunities to stay current with industry trends and technologies.
- Submitted project deliverables to clients, consistently adhering to quality standards.
- Guided team members in grasping contract management concepts and honing project skills.
Design Manager
Lane Construction
Richmond, VA
06.2022 - 10.2022
- Oversaw Design Build Team schedules and delivery timelines to align with project milestones.
- Maintained expenditure control for adherence to project timelines.
- Provided regular updates on design progress to project stakeholders.
- Coordinated project designs with state stakeholders including Virginia Department of Transportation and Maryland Department of Transportation.
- Developed and maintained a design strategy that aligned with the company's overall construction goals.
Project Manager / Superintendent
Lane Construction
Knoxville, Tennessee
12.2021 - 06.2022
- Enhanced project structure to optimize staff efficiency.
- Developed reporting processes for visibility into project costs, budgets, and client changes.
- Enhanced safety protocols to elevate staff awareness during project execution.
- Conduct weekly discussions with project team to vet and manage issues promptly.
- Facilitate weekly cost meetings to maintain budget adherence as per the recovery schedule.
- Coordinated plant startup aligning with client specifications.
- Established procedure to streamline transfer of spare parts, startup/commissioning documentation and chain of custody records.
Assistant Project Manager / Superintendent
Lane Construction
Knoxville, Tennessee
10.2021 - 12.2021
- Provided and implemented a field organizational structure that emphasize teamwork and transparency
- Developed project recovery schedule in agreement with client accepted dates
- Led field team in construction production to meet project recovery schedule mile stones
- Conducted weekly client coordination meetings that provided project updates and status to the client
- Coordinated all trades sequence of activities with project staff sequence of activities to ensure no conflict with work performed
Assistant Project Manager / Lead Project Engineer
Lane Construction
Knoxville, Tennessee
07.2021 - 10.2021
- Managed electrical subcontractor scope of work and schedule
- This allowed the subcontractor to speedup on project delivery allowing the team to meet targeted deadlines
- Provided engineering design, reviews and support for subcontractor submittals to client
- Negotiated and approved scope changes with electrical subcontractor to facilitate project delivery progress
Lead Project Engineer
Lane Construction
Knoxville, Tennessee
02.2021 - 07.2021
- Managed project procurement process for material and equipment to be used and installed
- Coordinated product delivery and installation in conjunction with project schedule and needs
- Conducted submittal reviews and approval with client's engineers to ensure timely review
- Reviewed and approved subcontractor pay requests for work installed
- Submit RFIs to client to resolve field conflicts
Station Design Lead
Lane Construction
Sterling, Virginia
11.2020 - 02.2021
- Provided station design oversight and review in support of compiling an accurate bid for the Miami North Corridor proposal with an estimated cost of 5 billion US dollars
- Provided code and standard reviews relevant to the proposed project location
- Provided direction in the development of the BOQ format for the architectural and structural aspect of a passenger rail station to assist with overall estimating cost to build the required stations and facilities
Assistant Design Build Coordination Manager
Lane Construction
College Park, MD
03.2018 - 11.2020
- Manage various aspects of design and provide construction oversight across multidisciplinary delivery team for the Purple Line Transit Project estimated to cost over 3 billion US dollars
- Manage third party stakeholder coordination between client, federal agencies and other entities
- Manage third party betterments and support claim resolution and disputes
- Coordinate interface resolution between existing facility owners and project construction and design interfaces
- Manage major subcontractor for construction and outfitting of the complex stations in the alignment
- Manage coordination of state fire marshal reviews and inspections
- Coordinated submittal of architectural, structural and MEP design packages issued for construction (IFC) and resolution of 90% of open comments (CRS)
Standards, Specifications & BIM Manager
Bechtel Riyadh Metro (BACS Consortium)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
09.2014 - 03.2018
- Facilitated design and code analysis reviews for multi-disciplinary design team across various design centers to ensure compliance to employer requirements and applicable codes and standards including NFPA, ASTM, EN, ISO, SBC
- Provided code and standards interpretation and references to various disciplines within the design management team including project designers
- Prepared several project specifications and managed the standardization of project specifications in accordance with client requirements for a $18.2-billion-dollar transit infrastructure scope of work
Project Architect
Sheladia Associates Inc.
Rockville, MD
05.2014 - 09.2014
- Reviewed and conducted code analysis for several office design projects including various projects for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
- Managed interdisciplinary design coordination between all relevant disciplines to ensure completion and coordination of deliverables prior to submittal to various clients
- Supported marketing team in preparation of project proposals for several commercial, educational, transit and local government business projects
- Provided relevant fire, life, safety analysis for each design project; including, egressing calculations and assumptions relevant to the calculations
Architect/Design Lead/Responsible Engineer
Sheladia Associates Inc. (Dulles Transit Partners)
Vienna, VA
07.2009 - 05.2014
- Conducted building code analysis to determine building construction type and occupancy requirements; and coordinated analysis results with local municipality building requirements for a $1.3 billion USD metro project
- Developed fire, life and safety requirements in accordance with contractual requirements and applicable national standards such as NFPA, UL, IBC, ASTM, ASME
- Established egressing and evacuation strategies for Dulles Metro based on fire, life, safety requirements
- Assisted supervisor during client presentation to clarify all questions asked based on the strategies proposed
- Ensured design complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and conducted inspections during construction to ensure compliance to design and standard
- Developed UL firestop penetration details to meet employer and NFPA requirements
- Fire-stopping penetrations that had no applicable UL detail, engineering judgement documentation were developed and provided to a third-party fire engineering firm to provide the final engineering judgement for client's review and acceptance
- Designed, developed and coordinated structural, architectural, electrical and communication systems to provide a clear design intent and to ensure a consistent project approach to design and construction significantly reducing construction delays and project product lead times while increasing coordination efficiencies
- Produced several project drawings, specifications and subcontract compliance documents for inclusion in subcontract pre-bid and bid packages
- Served as a subcontract technical liaison between the construction, subcontract and procurement teams as well as to the client's management team
- Performed construction administration tasks using project design documents, project specifications, supplier shop drawings and the relevant contract documents to ensure design and subcontract conformity
- Managed subcontractor design coordination process to facilitate constructability and consistent interpretation of design intent with the contract documents
- Worked closely with the design and construction teams to help minimize site design coordination issues
- Conducted client-based meetings (OTS - Over the Shoulder) to coordinate and approve submitted project architectural elements and resolve relevant construction issues
- Performed site inspections of work performed by relevant subcontractors to ensure correct product use and installation procedures
- Evaluated subcontractors' RFIs, change notices, supplier deviations requests and field change documents for merit and design compliance
Architect/CADD Coordinator
PSA Dewberry (Dulles Transit Partners)
Vienna, VA
01.2009 - 07.2009
- Instituted product supplier and brown bag workshops geared towards standard work practices and processes; and conducted periodic developmental tutorial workshops to build architectural team's knowledge base
- Worked alongside project automation team to develop project drawing templates and standards for use in streamlining project deliverables across project disciplines, subcontractors and self-perform teams
- Developed 3D models of project designs and complex geometry to facilitate inter-discipline, sub-contract and construction team coordination and to promote greater understanding of various project aspects between the client and the design team
Junior Architect
PSA Dewberry
Fairfax, VA
09.2006 - 12.2008
- Designed and coordinated all services and discipline interfaces for the north and south parking facilities of the Fort Belvoir Hospital Campus including parking facilities and ancillary and administration buildings
- Conducted yearly facility inspections for the Dulles Toll Road facilities to ensure facilities were properly maintained and free from defects
- Created graphical spatial plan options for General Services Administration (GSA) to determine the best adaptive reuse options for the Frear Federal Office Building
- Developed construction documents, coordinated all disciplines and construction trade efforts for the Falls Church Court House east wing renovation and extension including performing building code, fire, life and safety analysis to ensure the proposed renovations met all requirements
- Produced schematic and design development packages for the Montgomery County 3rd and 6th district police facilities
- Managed and designed all phases of the Frederick County Knoxville Odor Control Facility adaptive reuse project including building code, fire, life and safety analysis
Urban Planner
Duaney Plater-Zyberk
Miami, FL
01.2005 - 01.2006
- Supported charrette team for the 'Rose Town Re-development project' (Jamaica) in producing design concepts for the Prince of Wales foundation to assist low income families in redeveloping their neighborhoods without significant cost
- Katrina redevelopment project charrette team member developing several housing typologies for the municipality of New Orleans municipality for the revitalization of neighborhoods destroyed by hurricane Katrina
Education
Masters of Architecture -
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida01.2005
Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering
Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland01.2002
Skills
- Project Management
- Subcontract Formation
- Code Analysis
- Construction Management
- Cross-Functional Team Supervision
- Project Scheduling/Schedule Management
- Change Management
- Building Information Modelling
- Urban Planning
- Interface Management
- Subcontractor Management
- Policy and procedure development
- Scope development
- Progress tracking
- Stakeholder management
- Regulatory compliance
- Strategic planning
- Architectural Design
- AutoCAD Architecture
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe InDesign
- BIM360
- 3DStudio Max
- SketchUp
- Autodesk Revit
- Bentley Microstation
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
Websites
Timeline
Project Director
Veolia Water Technologies Solution
10.2022 - Current
Design Manager
Lane Construction
06.2022 - 10.2022
Project Manager / Superintendent
Lane Construction
12.2021 - 06.2022
Assistant Project Manager / Superintendent
Lane Construction
10.2021 - 12.2021
Assistant Project Manager / Lead Project Engineer
Lane Construction
07.2021 - 10.2021
Lead Project Engineer
Lane Construction
02.2021 - 07.2021
Station Design Lead
Lane Construction
11.2020 - 02.2021
Assistant Design Build Coordination Manager
Lane Construction
03.2018 - 11.2020
Standards, Specifications & BIM Manager
Bechtel Riyadh Metro (BACS Consortium)
09.2014 - 03.2018
Project Architect
Sheladia Associates Inc.
05.2014 - 09.2014
Architect/Design Lead/Responsible Engineer
Sheladia Associates Inc. (Dulles Transit Partners)
07.2009 - 05.2014
Architect/CADD Coordinator
PSA Dewberry (Dulles Transit Partners)
01.2009 - 07.2009
Junior Architect
PSA Dewberry
09.2006 - 12.2008
Urban Planner
Duaney Plater-Zyberk
01.2005 - 01.2006
Masters of Architecture -
University of Miami
Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering
Morgan State University
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