Doug McDaniel

27741 Daisyfield Drive
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
949/231-7066
doug[at]mcdanielconstruction.com

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROFILE

Construction Manager / Project Manager / Corporate Real Estate

Solid construction manager with strong project management, design and real estate experience with a 28 year career in projects up to $50 mil. Proven record of quality and integrity in for hire construction and as client/owner representative. Vast breadth of experience in office, retail, healthcare and industrial projects.

Key strengths:

Unrelenting problem solver
In-depth Architectural competence
Outstanding negotiator
Creative analyst
Innovative design ability
All business software
CPM scheduling
Troubled projects
All commercial projects
Dynamic quick learner, hard worker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal, General Building Contractor
2001 to 2009 McDaniel Construction, Inc., Aliso Viejo, California
General Contractor specialty projects, focus on medical/dental offices.
Built business to peak level of 20 projects annually with staff of 15 employees.
4 dozen medical and dental offices range of $75,000 to $1,000,000+
Design-built several innovative and unique projects appearing in industry periodicals.
Developed a successful track record of design-assist and design build projects.

Construction Manager
1995 to 2000 Lowe Enterprises, Inc., Los Angeles, California
Reference, Jamie Daugherty 310/571-4317
Worked with development team on dozens of acquisition and development projects in LA, Orange County, San Diego, Denver and Phoenix markets.
Assigned to four stabilized mid/high rise office projects executing hold period capital improvements and tenant improvements.
Completed 90,000 SF corporate headquarters and distribution center for Metagenics in San Clemente, CA.
Team member for development of two campus office projects in Orange County; Fluor Daniel Corporate Headquarters and Verizon (Air Touch) Regional Headquarters, each project approximately 450,000 SF mid rise office.

Project Manager (not an officer)
1985 to 1994 - McDaniel Builders, Inc., Costa Mesa, California
Reference, Robert L. McDaniel, retired
Responsible for construction management of 60% to 100% of companys projects.
Exclusively ran construction of 26 Ground-up and 60 TI and other projects. Typically ran three to five projects concurrently.
Increased gross margin on projects approximately 3% to 10% through buyout savings, negotiation and eliminating overlapping work in subcontract scope.
Developed (for 92 software) cost tracking program used to forecast cost, profit and savings to incorporate contract, owner changes, commitments and expected costs.

Sales Engineer
1982 to 1985 - White Cube Corporation, Buena Park, California
Reference, Jon Gow, Pacific Environmental Tech. Inc. 951/582-9306
Producing technical proposals, directing design concept cost estimate and proposal drawings and text for custom clean room projects world wide.

Spec Writer
1981 & 1982 - Parker Market Research, Irvine, California
Start to finish coordination of market research projects in data-processing stage. Wrote programming and operated HP 3000 main-frame computer producing tabular information for use by clients and executives derived from field survey data.

Attributes as an Associate:
Hard worker, honest, loyal and personable.
Dependable and exercises good judgment.
Presents facts in a concise manner.
Computer "fluent" all current business software
Ability to learn anything rapidly.
Able to set useful standards and procedures.
Outstanding negotiator.
Excellent communication skills.
Always considered an outstanding team member.

Personal Information:
Excellent health, Non-smoker
Outside interests include Scuba, Skiing, Backpacking, Travel

Personal references and compensation history available on request