Operations Specialist Resume Profile

Driven Project Manager

Provide excellent customer service through superior project management

Effective facility analyst with experience in Research industry. Known for establishing lasting relationships and gaining trust of customers and stakeholders. Highly organized team player with excellent project completion skills, delivering product on-schedule and under-budget. Recognized as loyal, dependable, and trustworthy. Strong understanding of preventative maintenance for buildings and structures.

With expertise in:

Operational Support Budgeting Safety Space Planning

Capital Project Management Equipment Maintenance

Professional Experience

Confidential

Managed Wilmington facility operations for Pioneer and Crop Genetics researchers. Provided day-to-day and strategic facility services and operation support. Served as liaison between researchers and construction, maintenance and operations teams. Planned space needs and fulfilled office furniture requirements for new and existing employees. Oversaw general and preventative maintenance for building systems and structures.
Managed and maintained annual facility budget of 12M, including forecasting future energy surcharges, rental / headcount cost fluctuations and audit cost center reports, ensuring budget was not exceeded.
Fulfilled research requests for laboratory / equipment repair and maintenance, responding to requests within required timeframe and minimizing down-time.
Ensured space requirements and budgets were met for consumable needs by managing on-site research supply stockrooms and auditing inventory levels monthly.
Realized annual savings of 400K in rental costs for department by managing cost on non-capital projects and demolishing specialized / obsolete equipment.
Identified, created and filled role of Coordinator of Repair and Maintenance for sub-zero freezers, monitoring sub-zero freezers containing business critical research material and ensuring main security control center alarm procedures were up-to-date, resulting in no failures.
Hosted and coordinated informative tours of facility for key customers and potential company collaborators, supporting development of new field accounts and collaborations.
Active member of Pioneer PMO office as the Leader of Training.

Operations Specialist / Project Manager

Developed, executed and managed capital improvement projects at research facility, covering all disciplines. Worked closely with construction managers, engineers and architects on project deliverables. Offered guidance and support to researchers on capital and cost equipment installations. Provided assistance to site Safety Manager and served as back-up resource. Assisted with monthly laboratory inspections, project audits and incident investigations.

Confidential

Accommodated growing research groups by coordinating office and laboratory renovations, ensuring space met requirements and time / budget goals.
Managed new building generator installation project, resulting in back-up electrical service for business critical growing conditions.
Provided new growing space for expanding research by installing growth chambers, ensuring all parameters were met and availability of appropriate growing space when needed.
Completed capital projects on-time and under-budget, managing all initiatives under 5M budgets independently.

Research Associate / Senior Research Associate

Provided genomic DNA library screening service and supervised library services for Crop Genetics Research community. Supervised activities pertaining to custom sequencing including customer interaction, sample processing and data analysis. Managed consumable and laboratory supply orders and prepared quarterly expense reports for High Throughput Sequencing Group.
Instituted 96 well plate bacterial archival storage into 1536 well plates, creating recovery protocol and allowing retrieval of previously archived clones.
Fulfilled recovery and delivery of viable clone requests from archival stocks, using Genetix Qbot colony picking system and polymerase chain reaction amplification, meeting quality and time requirements.
Supervised Research Associate, provided training, guidance and leadership, supporting associate's achievement of personal career goals.

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