Robert Nichols Real Estate Construction OPM

Rob Nichols 27-15 Ditmars Blvd. Astoria, NY 11103 413-685-5025 [email protected]

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Senior Project Director, 30 years in construction, real estate, and facilities industries, leading

projects from inception and permitting, to closeout, and move-in with efficient operations

with +$5B in construction experience. A builder, rooted in precon and estimating with diverse

owners project management experience, looking to add value to teams and project savings.

In the past two decades, have lead preconstruction/estimating efforts in mixed-use, mission

critical, hospitality, healthcare and life science, with emphasis on team building, mentoring

and working collaboratively with architects, engineers, consultants and owners. From the

contracting side and owner’s project management side; always with business development

and client satisfaction as a focus and priority. Specialties are critical systems, life safety, IT,

security, and redundancy; and “smarter design and construction”.

Senior Project Executive / Director Qualifications

Independent project reviews and tracking

Litigation and claims support

Workflow and process engineering

Project financing and funding strategies

Project Development & Partnering

Risk assessment and management

Staffing analysis, recruitment and training

Conceptual Design Review with Architects

Project systems and controls

Quality & Safety & Systems

Budgeting & Estimating

Project Controls Scheduling, Trending,

Budget Management

Contracts & Procurement

Facility operations and maintenance

Business Development

Education:

Bachelor’s Science Degree Psychology, Bachelor’s Arts Degree Philosophy, Minor

Communications and Civil Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

BU/BU Alumni- Scarlet Key Award, BA/BS

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners School, NYC, NY, all programs

Taught Construction Management at NYU Graduate School for Real Estate and Construction

Construction Industry & Other Technology Skills

Primavera, Timberline, Revit, OSTO, Prolog, ebuilder, Oracle, P6, MC2, Expert at all

spreadsheets and word processing.

Certificates Past licensed NYC Site Safety Director, LEED GA, Member of USGBC, PgMP, and PMP in

process. Currently license Massachusetts Asbestos Supervisor, OSHA 40 hour, Massachusetts

First Responder, and Red Cross CPR and First Aid. Certificate courses in Agile and LEAN.

Key Employer List

Beezley Management, Principal/Managing Director, January 2014-present

Suffolk Construction, Preconstruction/Estimating Executive/Project Executive, February

2012-January 2014

Berkshire Consulting, Director/Executive Vice President, February 2009-February 2012

John Moriarty & Associates, Preconstruction Exec/Senior Project Executive, Westwood

Station, $1.5B Mixed Use New England Development, December 2007-February 2009

N+3/Nplus3 Consulting, President and Managing Director, December 1999-December 2007

Quartarro and Associates, (became JLL Project Management), Director, March 1997-

December 1999

Structuretone, Superintendent, February 1995-March 1997 Morse Diesel, Superintendent/Estimator/Project Manager/General Superintendent, September

1981-June 1990



REPRESENTATIVE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT & EXECUTION EXPERIENCE

Lakeside Technology Center, Chicago, IL $300M+ Director Project Management

Marriott Marquis, Times Square, NYC Construction and Garage, Retail and Theater, +100M

Steward Healthcare, Massachusetts, all 11 campus’s $300M+ Precon Executive and Project Executive

Global Center Global Crossing, Multiple locations across the USA, $300M+ Executive in Charge

Ernst and Young World Headquarters, NYC Executive in Charge for Project Management, $300M+

Reuters Headquarters NYC/USA, Executive in Charge, Data Center and Broadcast $400M+

Principal/Director of East Coast Operations/Project Executive- January 2014-Present

Beezley Management LLC, Calabasas, CA. National and International OPM/OPM/CM firm with 30+

project managers working nationally. Brought in to the firms ENERNOC, NBC News, NBCUniversal,

JP Morgan Chase, Telemundo, Univision, as national clients. Directly managing 12 project managers,

and responsible for project management operations, and national business development, and marketing

literature and all sales for new clients, and east coast operations.

Project Executive/Director of Preconstruction/Senior Business Development Manager New

England/New York Tri State Regions- February 2012-January 2014

Suffolk Constrcution Company, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts. The largest construction management

firm in the Northeast US, and managed 3 Algeria based projects totaling over +$400M. Two 1,000+

bed hospitals, and one Petroleum Facility and club for Sonatrach. Directly managed a team of over 80,

and lead in all purchasing, and operations, and closeout. Business development in healthcare, life

science, and mission critical.

Steward Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts- currently the healthcare preconstruction project

executive for all Steward Healthcare projects. Preconstruction and construction projects

responsibility include Saint Elizabeth’s Oncology fit-out, and the new ICU multi-floor addition, in

Brighton, MA. The new Nursing Towner upgrade and Lobby at Norwood Hospital, Norwood,

MA. The new Lobby, OB Unit, Surgical Center and complete campus façade. Holy Family

Hospital, Lawrence, MA, Nursing Floor Renovation. Carney Hospital, Dorchester, MA,

emergency department expansion, MOB. Total projects $380M.CM GMP/LS

Principal/Director/EVP- February 2009-February 2012

Berkshire Consulting, New York, New York, and Owner’s Representative Green consulting firm and

Construction Manager, with a small construction division in the tri-state area; and precon consultants

New York Hospital Group, New York City-define project parameters and assemble entire

design and construction team for a multiple level surgical complex in New York City. Also,

multiple small AAAHC and DOH renovations and certifications .GC/CM for $48M project,

registered LEED gold. Pathology labs, oncology labs, hazardous waste facility

New York Hospital Group, New York City, precon a LAB21 wet pathology lab and research

facility. Initial budgets are $44M.

Elysee Hotel, New York City, interior and exterior renovation, while occupied, $26M.

RevdupPi, New York City-managed all TI work for a new national healthy LEED platinum

restaurant chain, including design team and contracting.

Senior Project Executive/Precon Executive-December 2007 to February 2009

John Moriarty and Associates, Winchester, Massachusetts, Pre-construction/Construction Manager,

mixed use, multiple component city scale project, executive in charge. Healthcare to life safety.

Westwood Station, Westwood, MA-Responsible for project management from pre-construction

through subcontractor buyout and construction. Responsible for establishing initial project budget,

schedule and logistics plan, overseeing the initial implementation of the construction plan; and



facilitating communications among the construction team, design team and owner. 60 Person team

and point person for the initial GMP, Phase I $480M.

Westwood Station, Westwood, MA-Construction of mixed use development on 140 acres. Phase

I consists of roadway and infrastructure work-$100MM .Project is set as 4.5 million square feet,

and a total of $1.5B, mixed use project. Residential, life safety, retail, infra-structure, commercial,

and office towers, hospitality, municipal buildings and structured parking. New substation and 4

new 13.8kv ckts, new overhead 25kv lines, all infrastructure, all storm water.

Senior Managing Partner/President November 1999 to December 2007

Nplus3 Consulting Ltd., NYC, Project Management, October 1999- December 2007

Executive VP of a leading professional project management/telecom/construction firm, directly

managing 6 full time senior project managers who in turn manage dozens of projects and data centers

for Level 3, NYL, Global Center, Exodus, IST. Initiating all new business development. Florida,

Virginia, Dallas Fort Worth, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Jose, Georgia and New York City.

PARKMED, NYC- a 132,000 s.f. healthcare facility. This is a premier facility in the United

States. This project in Manhattan was evolving on a daily basis. Pre-construction was specifically

outlined to ensure purchasing and schedule. All construction and project management for all trades

and all medical equipment and suppliers. New service and circuit transformer and 3,200 Amp

risers. Budget $44M

Rockstar Games, NYC-A 50,000 s.f. corporate facility for the world’s number one video game

producer, Rockstar Games. Complete gut renovation while we re-stacked, 4 full floors. All

services were performed as CM/PM directly with subcontractors, high end finishes, all furnishing

and art; and 2 redundant data-centers, all future requirements. Budget $33M

Take-Two Interactive, NYC-A Corporate build-out on three floors at their international

headquarters. This is to be T2’s headquarters in the United States. This project was expanded to

include MDF’s, IDF’s, data center, new circuit transformers and all new risers, new infrastructure.

Budget $21M.

Healthfirst, NYC-A 350,000 SF. restack Office/Corporate project for the nation’s 8th largest

health care provider. Managed two full time project managers who in turn provided daily

meetings, client meeting, client approvals, margins, staff management, all construction, AIA

requisitions, RFI’s, RFE’s, estimates, all cash flow, executive snapshots and all schedules and

phase completion projections. Budget $60M.

New York Life, Alpharetta, GA-A 180,000 s.f. alternative LEED data center, in an industrial

center located in Forsythe County, Georgia. This N+2 faculty features full 24/7 operations and

monitoring and full health center and kitchen. This project required real estate negotiation,

purchase agreements, state and federal grants and rebates, site surveys across the country. $48M

Global Center Global Crossing; New York City HQ, 600,000SF DCD project, $118M Head of

design team, and construction team and all commissioning.

Director, Quartarro and Associates, which was bought by Jones Lang LaSalle-April 1997-

October 1999 directly managed 12 project managers serving as agents.

Ernst & Young World Tower, 5 Times Square, New York City -a 38 story office corporate

building direct project management of all daily duties and all design team members, managed by

the on-site full time project manager. 1.1M SF, Budget $430M.

Reuters International, 3 Times Square, New York City - a 32 story office corporate building

with the direct project and construction management of all daily duties and all design team

members. Included multiple tenant build-outs which were occurring simultaneously with the

vertical construction. 855,000SF, Budget $560M.

The Carlyle Group, DC- Atlantic Telcom-6000, 000 SF. commercial developments in Brooklyn,

new facade, interiors, infrastructure, and devised entire new master planned building use. $60M.



Superintendent/Client point of Contact Structuretone, New York City Full time on-site field

super/manager. All Fast Track and purchased directly as expedited. Duties ended only with client sign-

off and final move-in, and NYFD and NYC certificates of completion.

ABOVENET.COM, New York City - This project was the construction a 120,000 s.f. co-

location site. Redundant risers telecom and electrical, six rotary 2meg generators, high security

protocols. Long lead item purchase and daily site supervision. Budget $88M.

DEUTSCH INC., New York City- America’s number one ad firm’s new world headquarters.

Media rooms, teleconferencing, computer tape storage, and TV production studios. TV studios

and fast-track schedule, direct contact with clients daily.

100,000 s.f. interior renovation-$22M.

NATIONS BANC MONTGOMERY/Bank of America, New York City- Sixteen floors of

9w57st, were renovated in four floor phases, each in a span of five months, including trading

floors, media conference rooms, asbestos abatements, data-centers and security rooms. 300,000

s.f. interior renovation, 2 year project-$70M.

LIZ CLAIBORNE – New York City - this project was the management of a 300,000 s.f.

infrastructure rehab at 1441 Broadway. Interior boutique showrooms and 40,000 s.f. data center,

new additional Con Edison service and multiple retail ground level stores. Hazardous waste

removals and all new MEPSP risers. Budget $38M.

Project Manager, Miller Builders, Springfield, MA

Most projects were spent traveling throughout the Northeast. All projects handled by Miller Builders

were managed full time though travel, meetings, conference calls and on site walk throughs and

weekly on-site inspections and punch lists.

Wachovia Banks, through-out the Northeast, - This multiple location rollout of newly branded

banks, were at the time First Union branches. Budget $36M.

CVS, through-out the east coast-New York City - The project was the on-site construction

management. The total of 17 stores consisted of renovation of new retail vanilla box to suit the

new designs. Budget $7M. Northampton Hotel-complete interior renovation $3.7M.

Multiple Beer Gardens, Steak and Brews, Red Lobsters, Houlihans -The coordination of all these

locations and build-outs were my responsibility. Budgets for all totaling $5M.

Project Manager, Morse-Diesel, (now known as AMEC) New York City May 1981to June 1990

Training began as a “tools on: working superintendent, working up to project manager. Worked on TI

projects for Marriot Hotels, Regency Hotels, Elysee Hotel, and TI multiple projects for Related,

Deutsche Bank HQ, NYC-53 story tower new construction, duties expanded to all interior trades and

the re-branding of the build to a new concept. This 900,000s,f, building was completed to the new

spec within 2 years, conference rooms, auditoriums, theaters, trading floors, IT center, generators,

health offices and maintenance offices and full service areas. $96M.

Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Experimental Eye Research Wing, New York Campus.

Expanded all examination offices, administration offices, all hot and cold labs, all new operating

rooms, new lead lined x-ray rooms, slit lamp rooms, radial keratometry booths, and the entire eyeglass

store and eye clinic Devised swing staging of operations to allow the full wing to remain operational.

$34M.

New York University Hospital, First Avenue Complex Experimental Sleep Deprivation labs: all

dorms, all facilities, all wet labs, all x-ray rooms, all computer rooms, all refrigeration rooms, all

equipment and machine installation; liquid scintillation vials, spectrum photometers, all finishes, all

ADA, all signage and intercom system, including nurse call systems. $55M

Infectious Disease Labs for the Pathology Department, Rear wing of Complex.1984

New construction built behind the existing structure and on top of the rear occupied patient wing. Hot

Rooms, Cold Rooms, Transfer Rooms, Morgue area, waiting rooms, recovery rooms, OR’s. $100M

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