Sydney Greene

Senior Project Manager leading mission-critical projects and complex construction programs with full accountability for project administration, financial forecasting, subcontractor performance, risk mitigation, and team leadership.

• Administer full project lifecycle, including contracting, purchase orders, risk management, quality standards, and team progress against established schedules.
• Produce thorough Cost-to-Complete forecasts drilled down to line-item exposures; coordinate financial tools and systems to identify and manage risk drivers.
• Lead project teams to track field directives, back-charges, and cost impacts for accurate forecasting and reporting.
• Coordinate and enforce standardized financial forecasting processes, ensuring timely budget updates and alignment with executive expectations.
• Oversee change order management and contract compliance, requiring full utilization of workflow systems (e.g., Expedition/Oracle) to track proposed and owner change activities.
• Drive rigorous monthly schedule and financial reporting processes to project stakeholders and clients, preserving transparency and minimizing exposure.
• Build and maintain respectful, professional relationships with subcontractors, utilizing “firm but fair” leadership and conflict resolution.
• Primary owner’s representative interface, managing executive-level communication, approvals, risk alignment, and decision-making across scope, budget, and schedule.

Program-level Project Manager overseeing the end-to-end delivery of mission-critical data center construction programs, reporting directly to the Vice President of Construction & Development.

• Administer multi-project construction programs including brownfield, live facility, and hyperscale greenfield developments up to 60MW / $500M+.
• Develop and manage capital budgets, long-range forecasts, and cash flow projections to support executive funding approvals.
• Lead cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, procurement, operations, finance, security, EHS, and sustainability.
• Direct all design phases ensuring compliance with internal standards, AHJ requirements, and constructability best practices.
• Oversee estimating, RFPs, vendor selection, buyout, forecasting, and change management.
• Produce executive-level program reporting including dashboards, variance analysis, and risk registers.
• Lead project closeout and operational turnover including as-builts, commissioning reports, and O&M; documentation.
• Remote

Senior Project Manager with a specialization in MEP data center construction. Program Manager on commission at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Data Center Design Engineer department. Senior Program Manager within the Global Estimating team for Google within their international Data Center Program.

• Supported global hyperscale data center programs for AWS and Google.
• Managed estimating services for confidential campuses valued at $800M–$2B.
• Developed capital plans, Class 3 estimates, and supported GMP negotiations.
• Reviewed and negotiated change orders ranging from $100K to $150M achieving 3–30% reductions.

Core responsibilities were to provide MEP oversight, implement commissioning schedules, perform quality control and assurance, and execute cost management and budget analysis.

• Directed the development and implementation of the startup and commissioning schedule, quality program, and turnover package.
• Conducted MEP constructability reviews at key project milestones to optimize quality, schedule, and budget alignment.
• Achieved an average reduction in change orders ranging from 3% to 10%.
• Chaired project team staff meetings reviewing all budget, scope, schedule, and risk-related topics associated with the project.
• Directed owner-furnished major equipment from purchase order execution through commissioning and closeout.
• Based on analysis of current industry procurement trends, created sequencing options to mitigate short-term and long-term delays.
• Facilitated regular meetings with the project client to deliver project updates and performance metrics, encompassing safety, schedule, cost, and risk aspects.

An early member of company expansion involved in facilitating the establishment of the company’s office in a new market, providing essential support and assistance throughout the process.

• Assumed full accountability for office operational processes for enhanced efficiency and coordination at the project management level.
• Coordinated and supervised the successful installation of electrical equipment, meeting strict quality and safety standards. Held responsibility for ensuring successful outcomes in cases of deficient equipment installations, actively addressing and resolving any issues that may arise.
• Coordinated with other teams to develop and implement best practices and quality control measures, ensuring project success and exceeding client satisfaction.
• Demonstrated adept oversight in budgeting, forecasting, and conducting financial analysis on projects. Aligned the team on project budget, making strategic decisions based on the forecasting and financial analysis.

Project Engineer on multiple data center facilities and campuses, including Greenfield projects and Live Data Center Retrofits. Directly responsible for quality management and project turnover package based on the criteria set by the facility manager and operations team.

• Supervised quality issue resolution and construction defect corrections in 16 data halls and eight electrical rooms.
• Diligently oversaw the document control process, ensuring seamless management of RFIs, submittals, and bulletins for project teams.
• Proactively organized the procurement of critical materials and equipment to support project timelines. Provided regular procurement updates to the project scheduling team to ensure the project schedule reflected current information.
• Effectively led and facilitated various onsite meetings, including OAC (Owner-Architect-Contractor), Safety, BIM (Building Information Modeling), Subcontractor Kick-off, and Logistics meetings.
• Ensured that all general contractor requirements to achieve LEED Gold were met.