Assaf Newmark, PSP

Professional Summary:

·   Seasoned construction scheduler providing scheduling and project control services to general contractors and owners.

·   Extensive project portfolio includes commercial and public sector projects comprising high-rise hotels and condominiums, mid-rise mixed-use apartment communities, airports CIPs, hospital CIPs, power utilities, school systems, courthouses, and transportation systems.

·   Designated Planning and Scheduling Professional with AACE International.

·   Certified in Oracle Primavera P6 courses 102 – Project Management and 106 – Advanced Project Management.

·   High proficiency in P3, P6, Phoenix Project Manager, Schedule Analyzer and Visio.

·   Communicate and collaborate effectively with a wide variety of project stakeholders ranging in title and function for the benefit of the project.

·   LEAN pull/push practitioner utilizing project data and analysis to challenge project subs as necessary, problems solve, obtain buy-in and completion commitments and drive accountability as necessary.

·   Experienced manager able to train and supervise others.

 

 

Routine Services and Technical Functions:

General Contractor Schedule Development

·   Review plans and specifications to create summary and detailed proposed baselines for review and acceptance.

·   Vet overall project schedule’s network diagram graphically prior to engineering in scheduling software.

·   Review contract technical scheduling specification to conform technical schedule integrity to suit.

·   Develop summary level milestone dashboards to highlight KPIs and track change management.

·   Develop meaningful activity ID coding and project codes for maintenance utility.

·   Resource load and cost load database schedules as required.

 

General Contractor Schedule Maintenance

·   Document project progress at bi-weekly/monthly jobsite visits.

·   Status the schedule and discuss schedule actions items with the project team at Job Coordination Meetings (JCMs).

·   Work closely with the project team’s PMs and General Superintendents to track progress, chronicle delay and to engineer recovery schedules.

·   Produce What-If P6 scenarios to assess acceleration options through multiple calendars and shifts.

·   Produce miscellaneous schedule reports and bi-weekly/monthly progress reports including narratives and forecasted trend analysis.

·   Produce change order fragnet views and time impact analysis views to illustrate change management.

·   Maintain schedule cost management.

·   Produce proposed re-baseline schedules.

·   Produce as-built schedules.

·   Devise and manipulate layouts and filters to generate desired views and to problem solve.

·   Conduct live Go-to-Meetings for remote schedule status updates as needed.

 

Owner’s Rep Schedule Review Analysis & Reporting

·   Review GC baseline schedule for sufficiency and logic sequencing errors and against scheduling specification when applicable.

·   Review GC schedule variance between two or more schedules and provide comprehensive reporting on project progress, schedule sufficiency and schedule management integrity.

·   Illustrate forensic analysis graphically.

 

 

 

Current Project Portfolio

Draper & Associates, March 2015 – Present

Hyatt Place Boca Raton – Twelve Story Hotel – Boca Raton, FL

·   Document project progress for owner at jobsite visits.

·   Maintain both P6 and graphical format schedules.

·   Produce P6 reports, biweekly progress reports and trend charts.

Tampa International Airport - Main Terminal and Airport Concession Redevelopment Program – Tampa, FL

·   Work with project team to rebaseline the P6 schedule for owner acceptance.

·   Maintain cost loaded P6 schedule and produce monthly reports and narratives.

Grove at Grand Bay – Two Luxury Towers Condos & Podium, Coconut Grove, FL

·   Document project progress for owner at jobsite visits.

·   Analyze GC P6 schedule submissions for progress, sufficiency, variance between current vs. prior/baseline and schedule maintenance integrity.

Embassy Suites High-Rise - 60 West 37th Street, New York, NY

Marriott Courtyard High Rise Hotel -133 Greenwich, New York, NY

Overture at Crabtree North Apartments - Raleigh, NC

Mount Saini Hospital Enabling Projects - Miami, FL

Moxy Chelsea Hotel West 28^th Street New York, NY

909 Flats Apartments – Nashville, TN

·   P6 baseline development and select updates as requested by client.

TC Dock Navy Claim SC

·   Review client claim and project documentation.

·   Analyze P6 files and collateral documentations for delay dates, cause of delay and impacts to the project.

·   Produce analysis deliverables and opinion

 

Past Project Portfolio

TransCore Intelligent Transportation Solutions (ITS), May 2014 - November 2014

Texas Department of Transportation – ITS Multiple Metro Houston Corridors – Houston, TX:

·   Routine schedule maintenance of program master schedule and multiple projects for numerous tolling construction corridor and ramp segments for a total of five distinct project schedules.

Harris County Toll Authority (HCTRA) – ITS for Multiple Corridors within County - Houston, TX:

·   Routine schedule maintenance for tolling construction of multiple corridors and ramps.

Portland International Airport – Automated Vehicle Identification – Portland, OR:

·   Routine schedule maintenance for construction/installation of AVI stations at multiple airport tolling locations.

 

URS Corporation, Project Specific Experience: December 2008- April 2011 (See gap 2011-2014 below)

Savannah-Chatham County Public School System ESPLOST K-12 Program - Savannah, GA

·   Development and maintenance of PM/CM master schedule for the demolition, construction and renovation of thirteen public schools.

Baton Rouge International Airport Capital Improvement Program - Baton Rouge, LA

·   Routine schedule maintenance for thirty-five airport projects including road constructions, parking garage, runways, and cargo spaces.

Tulsa International Airport - Tulsa, Oklahoma 

·   Routine schedule maintenance for two terminal concourse renovations and installation of the in-bound baggage system.  

Richmond International Airport - Richmond, VA

·   Review GC schedule for the construction of the North parking garage and roadway connector.

Tennessee Valley Authority – Chattanooga, TN

·   Routine schedule maintenance for the conversion of wet coal combustion byproduct to dry cold combustion including design and construction of existing and proposed new management facilities, dry landfills and chemical ponds.

New Bern Courthouse – New Bern, NC

·   Review GC schedule submissions for GSA for the renovation of a 1935 courthouse listed in the national register of historic places in the New Bern Historic District.  

 

Scenteffects Inc., April 2011- May 2014

·   Assist small family business through transitional period with miscellaneous duties including operations, financial management and sales.

 

Education

Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA

·   Master’s of Science, Construction Management, GPA 4.0

Yeshiva University, New York, NY

·   Bachelor of Arts, Communications, Business Minor, GPA 3.2

 

Leadership

Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEI)

·               AACE Metro Atlanta Section Vice President 2015-2016

·               AACE Atlanta Section Regional Director; 2009-2010

·               Lead initiative to coordinate between student chapter members and Atlanta chapter professional members to create mission and agenda to enhance students’ understanding and of estimating and its importance to the construction industry; 2007-2008

·               Chapter co-founder and first elected SPSU AACEI chapter president; 2007-2008 

Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)

·               University Outreach Chair for CMAA South Atlantic Chapter; 2009-2010

·               CMAA certified Construction Manager in Training (CMIT) for CMAA Capstone Assessment; 2009

·               Founding Member and President of CMAA SPSU Chapter; 2008-2009

 

Awards

·               CMAA national excellence in student focus – SAC University Outreach Chair; 2009 

·               Who’s Who Among American Universities & Colleges; listing 2009

·               Inducted into Sigma Lambda Chi National Honor Society for Construction Students; 2009

·               Inducted into the Alpha Chi National Honor Society top 10% academic performance; 2008

·               Scholarship Winner of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, selected by The Georgia Engineering Foundation; 2008

·               Scholarship Winner of the Marietta Rotary Club’s Larry & Jane Carithers Free Enterprise; 2008