TYLER GRAFF
Atlanta
Summary
Professional contract management expert with significant experience in negotiating, drafting, and overseeing Owner Agreements, Subcontracts, and Purchase Orders. Strong focus on fostering collaboration within teams and driving risk adverse results in dynamic environments. Skilled in risk assessment, compliance, and stakeholder communication. Known for adaptability, reliability, and results-oriented approach.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Contract Manager
Archer Western Construction, LLC
04.2024 - Current
- Negotiates Owner Agreements, Subcontracts, Purchase Orders, and Change Orders ensuring compliance through extensive legal and risk analysis.
- Negotiated over 300 Purchase Orders and Subcontracts valuing over $250M since date of hire, ranging from $5,000 in value to $25M in value.
- Leads all negotiations with subcontractors and vendors in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, fostering strong relationships to support project success and build healthy business relationships for future work.
- Maintains contract and buy out logs, as well as compliance reports across multiple states and 14 projects since hire date.
- Collaborated with project teams to align contract terms with Owner goals, project milestones, budgets, and risk.
- Streamlines contract review processes that reduces turnaround time for approvals significantly by implementing contract summaries for stakeholders and executives prior to contract execution.
- Conducts risk assessment that identifies potential issues and implements mitigation strategies for insurance compliance, financial compliance, and funding compliance.
- Enhances communication and collaboration between internal stakeholders, ensuring contract requirements are clearly understood and met.
- Improves awareness of contractual obligations throughout the entire contract lifecycle among project managers minimizing disputes, liabilities, and compliance issues.
- Manages contract administration processes, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in documentation.
- Developed training materials for team members on contract management best practices.
- Oversees compliance audits, ensuring adherence to contractual obligations across projects.
Project Controller
Bridge Brothers Inc
09.2021 - Current
- Negotiates contracts for all projects at the time of sale, this includes confirmation of the scope of work, payment terms, completion dates, insurance requirements, and exclusions.
- Negotiated over 260 contracts valuing over $55,000,000.
- Negotiates with state DOT officials, state municipalities, school systems, military bases, national and state park systems, the railroad, subcontractors, material vendors, insurance companies, and transport vendors.
- Review of specifications and proposals provided by Sales to ensure the accuracy of quotes.
- Files all certificates of insurance, ensuring that COIs are compliant with contract requirements.
- Review all project budgets and completion dates with the engineering, purchasing, fabrication, and installation departments at the start of each project.
- Sets up each sold project and associated customer in Viewpoint Spectrum, including Schedule of Values, Project Budgets, Estimated Dates, and Payment Terms.
- Runs point for third-party systems such as Procore, GCPay, Textura, Sage 3000, and CMiC.
- Submits billing for each project based on project milestones, manages AR Specialists invoicing by reviewing for accuracy and timeliness, and approves each invoice.
- Review all purchase orders from vendors to confirm accuracy upon a weekly purchasing review.
- Review costs versus budgets for material escalation Change Orders.
- Works directly with customers throughout the project life cycle to ensure the accuracy of engineered drawings, material certifications, labor details, customer site work details, and delivery timelines.
- Provides strategic analysis of project completion to the engineering, purchasing, fabrication, and installation departments based on customer requests, incurred costs, and deliverables.
- Has traveled to job sites to assist in bridge installation, Change Order negotiations, and project reviews.
- Generates cost analysis reports to ensure accuracy of material purchasing, labor hours, freight costs, and customer payments.
- Participates in financial close on a monthly and a yearly basis including but not limited to work-in-progress accrual accounting, work-in-progress cashing accounting, under and over billing, general and administrative expense review, invoicing and cost forecasting, financial closeouts per each project and labor close-out reporting per each project.
- Ensures that project closeouts are met by maintaining a line of communication with customers on payment, rework, warranty, and required closeout documents.
- Negotiates any legal issues that arise, this includes but is not limited to short payments, back charges, contract termination, warranty claims, and insurance claims.
Law Clerk
Coleman and Chambers
08.2020 - 05.2021
- Assessed cases for probable outcomes by researching black letter law and other legal authority, comparing fact patterns to those of precedential cases.
- Created and prepared legal drafts by organizing and assembling information.
- Assisted attorneys with case organization and administrative tasks.
- Managed court sessions and maintained attendant records for court proceedings.
- Attended court sessions to take notes of critical information.
- Assembles case materials by organizing, summarizing, and collecting documents, information, and evidence.
- Maintained calendars for the team by updating and entering critical dates for meetings, and document submittal.
- Investigated facts and laws to determine strategies for case preparation.
- Met with clients to discuss upcoming depositions, arbitrations, mediations, and litigation.
- Met with clients to gather case information.
- Supported legal team by conducting research, drafting briefs, gathering information, and interpreting legal documents.
- Drove quality control efforts by maximizing efficiency to increase productivity and revenue.
- Updated the firm’s database with new information for client records and financial documents.
Education
Juris Doctor (J.D.) -
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, GeorgiaBachelor of Science (B.S.) - undefined
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GeorgiaSkills
- Contract Management
- Contract Drafting
- Contract Negotiation
- Legal Compliance
- Company Representation
- Dispute Resolution
- Records and Database Management
- Decision-Making
Timeline
Contract Manager
Archer Western Construction, LLC
04.2024 - Current
Project Controller
Bridge Brothers Inc
09.2021 - Current
Law Clerk
Coleman and Chambers
08.2020 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - undefined
Georgia Institute of Technology
Juris Doctor (J.D.) -
Georgia State University College of Law