Peter H. Kim
305 South Lomita Street, Burbank, California 91506



SUMMARY

Result oriented development manager with strong analytical and communication skills having over 13 years of experience. Managed residential, commercial, and multifamily projects in Southern California. Lead teams in acquisition, entitlement, land development, and construction aspects of development.

EXPERIENCE

PARDEE HOMES A Weyerhaeuser Subsidiary, CA (01/31/2005 01/18/2009)
Development Manager
Development Team Leader for master planned development projects in the Inland Empire, LA County and Ventura County regions. Successfully managed forward planning, purchasing, and construction processes.
Lead project work-outs in public agency requirements, project designs, and construction methods to save approximately $7,000,000 in costs to particular projects.
Developed relationships with Planning and Engineering Directors of various public agencies to negotiate project objectives that would be most favorable and profitable for the company.
Created and analyzed strategies to best navigate through various agency requirements for all projects with the Regional Presidents of LA/Ventura and the Inland Empire.
Performed due diligence and generated acquisition proforma estimates for new potential projects.
Developed the most favorable project site layouts and product designs through coordination with architectural, landscape, sales, and marketing teams.
Produced budgets and schedules for projects outlining the most efficient and cost effective methods to develop the project from acquisition to construction.
Supervised grading operations of projects consisting of 2 million CYS to 10 million CYS. Reengineered various projects to reduce grading quantities saving $500,000 to $4 million.
Developed cost saving programs related to construction practices and procedures that minimized project expenses ranging from $500,000 - $1,000,000 / year per project.
Value engineered projects through redesign of key infrastructures and successful negotiations with governing agencies to modify project requirements to reduce project costs by approximately $10 million over various projects per year.
Developed and opened major roadways including all major infrasturtures for residential and commercial projects through various city, county, and state agencies including Caltrans and Edison.
Negotiated for the exoneration of over $40 million in bonds over the past 2 years over various agencies. Some of these bonds were over 15 years old and needed renotiations of conditions of approval to release the bonds.

HUNSAKER & ASSOCIATES, Irvine, CA (1998 2005)
Project Manager
Managed and trained an internal staff of eight engineers, the coordination of external consultants, processing of plans & permits, and a rolling average of 5 10 projects consisting of low-high density master planned and mixed use development project.
Supervised the design of engineering plans from tentative tract maps, site plans, grading plans to final engineering plans of street, storm drain, sewer, water improvement plans, precise grading.
Designed master planned communities on hillside and flat land terrain for projects ranging from 68 lots on 32 acres to 464 lots on 204 acres.
Managed the entitlement, design and construction support of complex residential and commercial projects in various agencies in Orange County and Riverside County.

ADAMS-STREETER, Irvine , CA (1997 1998)
Design Engineer
Designed engineering plans for various mixed use and master planned communities.
Developed a system of AutoCAD procedures to improve efficiency of designing improvement plans using a system of standardized blocks.

BUTIER ENGINEERING, L.A., CA (1996 1997)
Field Engineer
Inspected construction progress and field operations of a $14 million waiste water treatment facility.
Coordinated construction operation procedures of flocculation basins, chlorination basins, reverse osmosis facility, and microfiltration facility.
Created project schedule for construction sequence.

EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering 1996

HONORS & CERTIFICATION

Registered Professional Engineer
Weyerhaeusers Executive Management and Leadership Program comprehensive training program only offered to executives and future leaders of Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeusers Finance and Accounting Program for Home Building - comprehensive training program only offered to executives and future leaders of Weyerhaeuser offered at Washington University
Management for Excellence Program emphasizing the needs of the customer and team collaboration
Six Sigma Green Belt Trained
Weyerhaeusers Ethics Training Program Certified
Environmental Compliance Certified
South Coast Air Quality Management Certified
Employee of the Month Hunsaker & Associates employee with the most contribution
First Aid / CPR Certified

PERSONAL

Active community volunteer, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA), Asian Professional Exchange (APEX)
Golf, Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Bowling, Taekwondo, Hiking, Rollerblading, Bungee Jumping