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I have a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in mathematics and a Master of Science in Business Information Systems. I have experience in managing scope, schedule, cost and risk. I am very comfortable working remotely and managing a remote team in multiple time zones and countries. I have used Microsoft Project to create Project Plans and track progress on timelines and deliverables. Since joining Upwork I have provided my project management skills using MS Project to many clients in a very wide range of businesses including: Boat Manufacturing, Cancer Testing, Civil Engineering, Commercial Real Estate, Electrical Contracting (Transformer and Sub Station Installation), Event Planning (New Year’s Eve Fireworks Display), Hospital Systems (Departmental Education and Meeting Scheduling), Interior Design, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Residential and Commercial Construction (Major Airport Remodeling), Solar Engineering, Veterinary Sciences and Web Development, among dozens of other projects. I have experience with Integrated Master Projects, Resource Pools, Earned Value, Critical Paths and Sub Projects as well. I have taught MS Project to clients at all levels of expertise as well as mentoring more junior project managers. I will bring to you PMI Certified Project Manager experience in Application Development as well as Engineering and Construction. I am available immediately.

I help founders, executives, nonprofits, and growing businesses streamline operations, manage projects, improve processes, and leverage AI to work more efficiently. With 20+ years supporting C-suite executives at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, and McKinsey Global Institute, I combine executive-level strategic thinking with hands-on execution. Whether you need an Executive Assistant, Operations Manager, Project Manager, or strategic business partner, I can quickly step in to organize priorities, solve problems, and keep your business moving forward. Services include: • Executive & Virtual Assistance • Project Management • Business Operations • Process Improvement & SOP Development • AI Workflow Automation (ChatGPT, Claude & AI productivity tools) • Marketing Operations • Executive Communications • Research & Strategic Planning • Board & Nonprofit Administration • CRM & Business Systems Highlights • 20+ years supporting C-suite executives and leadership teams • Experience with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations • Managed complex international projects across multiple stakeholders • Reduced operating costs by 50% through operational improvements • Trusted by executives to handle confidential, high-priority work with professionalism and discretion If you're looking for someone who can think strategically while delivering reliable execution, I'd love to discuss your project.

Who I am: I am a Construction Project Manager and Consultant with over a decade of experience in construction, multifamily rehabs, residential renovations, and commercial projects. My background combines hands-on construction knowledge with strategic project management expertise, giving me a unique ability to manage projects from both the field and the office perspective. Also, I am a real estate agent licensed in the state of Illinois. I help find, evaluate,properties for clients looking to buy or sell. My role is simple, is to ensure every project I oversee is delivered on time, within budget, and in full compliance with codes and regulations. I act as the bridge between owners, investors, and contractors, bringing clarity, structure, and accountability to every stage of the process. Why Clients Hire Me: I save investors, homeowners, contractors and stakeholders money by catching potential delays and errors before they become costly. I provide a peace of mind through transparent communication and reliable reporting. I bring real world construction expertise most project managers do not have. I adapt to both onsite and remote project oversight, making me flexible for local and out of state investors. What I Do Best: 1. Project Oversight & Scheduling: Developing and managing detailed project timelines to keep all stakeholders aligned. 2. Budgeting & Cost Control: Tracking expenses, preventing overruns, and ensuring resources used efficiently. 3. Contractor & Subcontractor Management: Coordinating teams, resolving conflicts, and ensuring quality of workmanship. 4. Permitting & Code Compliance: Reviewing plans, ensuring adherence to local codes and streamlining the approval process. 5. Blue print & Schematic Review: Identifying issues early to prevent costly mistakes during construction. 6. Risk Assessment & Quality Control: Anticipating challenges, implementing solutions, and maintaining safety and compliance standards. Tools & Software Expertise: 1. Project Management: Microsoft project, smartsheet, Asana, Trello and Monday.com 2. Construction: Procore, Bluebeam, AutoCAD, Excel (advanced cost tracking). 3. Remote Oversight: Photo/Video progress, Tracking, Virtual reporting, Virtual property walk-throughs, Assigning and managing contractors out of state.

I am a Construction Project Manager with nearly 30 years of experience. I have worked on all types of projects including residential, commercial, and industrial. I have completed projects from a $50k renovation, to a $200M high rise condominium. I am proficient in many types of software including Procore, Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office. My experience includes every phase of the construction process from pre-construction to closeout.

MY EXPERIENCE, IN A NUTSHELL I am an Urban Planner + Designer with an Architecture background, with 25+ years of experience. Over the years, I have managed, planned and led project deliveries for world-renowned firms (including SOM, WSP, Perkins+Will, HOK, SmithGroup…) leading client meetings and presentations, while coordinating interdisciplinary teams, balancing ideas from, clients, community, stakeholders and consultants through the typically fluid and iterative planning and design process. Some of my duties included developing project scopes and schedules and devising and producing reports and presentations, while also actively contributing to project content with zoning, site, context and building feasibility analyses, plan visioning, inspiration and precedents curation, site layout, design and development, and developing innovative design principles and vision strategies along with concept, illustrative and framework plans. My efforts typically culminated in attractive written and graphic presentations and reports, such as Site Development Plans, Master Plans, Small Area Plans, and Comprehensive Plans. My work has included both unabridged reports where I wrote urban design framework narratives and guidelines preceding official policy and zoning code, as well as eye-catching PowerPoint presentations distilling complex information into something the public can easily and enthusiastically grasp. I’m also very comfortable presenting to all types of clients and leading community engagement sessions in English and Spanish (one of which made the local TV news). WHY FREELANCE NOW...? After couple of decades of an exciting and very demanding career, I find myself looking for a work arrangement that better suits my present lifestyle, while just choosing the projects I love to do and I know I'm good at. MY PRODUCTION & SOFTWARE SKILLS: I’m an expert in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, in which I integrate AutoCAD drawings, ArcGIS data layers and PowerPoint graphics to produce planning documents, drawings, reports, pitch books and presentations that are eye-catching and easy to grasp. I’m also an expert in Excel, which I use to clearly track and display space allocations, and easily calculate development data, gross floor area, and acreage tabulations, among other things. PLUS, AS A HOBBY... At a smaller scale, one of my favorite things to do is residential design: space planning, from site layouts to floor plans is my expertise – I find space where no one sees it, resulting in more practical, better (and happier!) places to live at. Just to point out a few jobs: • a friend of a friend commissioned me to remodel her kitchen, resulting in a total reinvention, a kitchen-dining-living addition with a window-filled "great room" commended for “bringing the backyard in" and ideal for family gatherings; • my sister needed to add an office in her 2nd floor townhouse, and I also added a master bathroom that she never imagined to have; • a friend commissioned me to split her (feisty) teenage daughters’ bedroom, and I gave them two private bedrooms each with a door – they said they never imagined it could look so good and feel so spacious in such a small area; • my other sister wanted an open kitchen but didn’t want to lose her pantry, so I relocated it to unused (and unseen!) space ideal for shelving in the adjacent laundry room, revealing an inviting central space for a kitchen island, frequently used by her young adult children gatherings

Mᴏꜱᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴɪᴇꜱ ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴛᴏᴏʟꜱ - ᴛʜᴇʏ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴡᴏʀᴋꜰʟᴏᴡꜱ, ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘʀᴏᴊᴇᴄᴛ ᴇxᴇᴄᴜᴛɪᴏɴ. I ʜᴇʟᴘ ʙᴜꜱɪɴᴇꜱꜱᴇꜱ ɪᴍᴘʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ᴏᴘᴛɪᴍɪᴢᴇ PM ᴀɴᴅ ERP ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴛʀᴇᴀᴍʟɪɴᴇ ᴏᴘᴇʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ, ɪᴍᴘʀᴏᴠᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟᴀʙᴏʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀ ᴘʀᴏᴊᴇᴄᴛꜱ ᴏɴ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜɪɴ ʙᴜᴅɢᴇᴛ. 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 As a PMP-certified Project Manager with over 7 years of experience, I specialize in helping businesses optimize operations, implement scalable systems, and successfully deliver complex projects through a combination of Project Management, workflow automation, CRM implementation, and process improvement. I have worked with startups, SMBs, and growing organizations leading cross-functional teams and implementing modern systems that improve efficiency, collaboration, and visibility across departments. My experience includes Agile and Waterfall project delivery, CRM and ERP implementations, workflow optimization, stakeholder management, and business process automation. I specialize in configuring and optimizing platforms such as Monday, Jira, Asana, ClickUp, Smartsheet, HubSpot, Zoho, NetSuite, Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics, Power BI, and other business management tools to help organizations work smarter, automate repetitive tasks, and improve operational performance. I bring a hands-on, proactive approach to every project, ensuring transparency, strong communication, and alignment between technical teams, leadership, and stakeholders throughout the entire project lifecycle. My excellent communication skills, along with my analytical and problem-solving abilities, ensure that your project is handled with extreme attention to detail. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗜 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 Project Management & PMO Support Monday Setup & Optimization CRM & ERP Implementation Workflow Automation & Process Improvement Agile Project Delivery (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall) Tool Migration & System Integration Cross-Functional Team Coordination Dashboarding & Reporting Stakeholder Communication & Documentation Sales Pipeline & CRM Optimization 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 & 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 ✅ Monday Work Management & CRM ✅ Jira & Trello ✅ Microsoft Project, Microsoft Planner ✅ Asana ✅ ClickUp ✅ Smartsheet ✅ HubSpot ✅ Zoho CRM ✅ NetSuite ✅ Acumatica ✅ Microsoft Dynamics ✅ Google Sheets & MS Excel (Advanced) ✅ Power BI ✅ Slack, MS Teams & Google Workspace 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 🏅 PMP Certified Project Manager 🏅 Monday Product Badge 🏅 Monday CRM Badge 🏅 Monday Expert & Certified Partner 🏅 ClickUp Certified Partner 🏅 Atlassian Certified Partner 🏅 Agile expert 🏅 Scrum master 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 🚀 Led the implementation of Monday for a mid-sized business, integrating HubSpot and MS Teams, resulting in a 25-30% boost in project completion rates. 🚀 Coordinated tool migrations, streamlining client communication, sales pipelines, and improving cross-department collaboration for a smoother workflow. 𝙇𝙚𝙩’𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮. 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙩’𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙!