Professional Background
Owner, Entrepreneur 1995 to Present
Flynn Stone Company Lakewood, PA
Entrepeneure award winning multi-million
dollar family enterprise to become internationally based and nationally recognized as one of the top stone design and fabrication companies. Over 20 years of leading divisions and teams in collaborating and performing day-to-day activities in the promotion of high quality production of goods.
• In 2004, became the only company in the United States that specializes in precision engineered natural cleft stone products for Architectural and Engineering Firms.
• In 2004, the company expanded internationally in buying and selling of stone products and services and led to opening a design office outside Moscow, Russia and Puebla, Mexico.
• Strong foothold to Architectural and Engineering Firms across the nation and worldwide by providing experience and knowledge in the basis of masonry design, fabrication, installation, and construction.
Partner, Director of Construction—2013 to 2017 Greenwich, CT.
National Resources—As acting partner and director, main responsibilities include oversight of entire design and construction operations.
• NRE is a specialist real estate development and investment firm that focuses on the redevelopment of corporate and industrial sites. NRE has been built on a solid foundation of acquisitions, leasing, and redevelopment but with the unique value added dimension of sustainability. NRE has been a pioneer, and continues to be a leader to this day in
the redevelopment of some of America's largest industrial sites.
• NRE has redeveloped over $1 billion of projects with some of the world’s largest capital partners.
• NRE is one of the largest private owners of Hudson River waterfront with almost one mile of waterfront in the New York Metro area.
• Under the iPark brand, NRE has transformed these properties into vibrant economic engines creating some 20,000 jobs in formerly vacant space.
Project Manager—2007 to 2013
Balfour Beatty with Clark and Smoot Joint Ventures Washington, DC
Balfour Beatty is a worldclass infrastructure services business specializing in construction, engineering, military housing, rail and investment services. It is one of the largest construction companies in the UK, and the 15th largest in the world. Directly manage and lead teams within Balfour Beatty, Clark, and Smoot Construction to design and build high profile construction projects. Perform high-end scheduling, in-depth estimating, logistics and safety plans, value engineering solutions, and bid and work packages. Projects directly involved with and led:
• 700 Sixth Street, NW: 12 story, 303,000 SF, $55.9 million "trophy-class" office building with extensive exterior and interior stone work. This project was the second office building in Washington, DC, to achieve LEED Platinum.
• Walter Reed National Military Medical Center: Design-build services for 725,000 SF of new construction and 375,000 SF of renovation on a $614 million project that is the nation’s second largest design-build hospital. This project was designed and built to LEED Silver specifications, and it involves full finish and fit-out, extensive use of building information modeling (BIM) and work on an active federal campus. This is an award-winning project.
• National Gallery of Art: $59.2 million high profile venture with Smoot Construction to restore the aesthetic appearance and to remove, modify and reset 17,000 plus exterior marble panels on the historic National Gallery of Art East Building in Washington, D.C. designed by the ’master of modern architecture’ I.M. Pei.
• Awarded 3 ’Above and Beyond’ Awards for Superior Performance within U.S. North Division of Balfour Beatty.
• 2010 Excellence for Green Design and 2013 WBC Star Craftsmanship Award for 700 Sixth Street and NGA Projects.
• Awarded 2010 Honorary Metal for Leading 2 Million Man Hours Without Injury at Walter Reed Medical Hospital.
Education
Master and Bachelor of Architectural Engineering 2007
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• The Architectural Engineering Department at The Pennsylvania State University is recognized as one of the top AE programs in the country and has established a long tradition of excellence and educational innovation. Founded in 1910, it is the oldest and most continuously accredited AE research program in the United States.
• *Honored and bestowed the 2006 Turner Construction - Hettema Leadership Award; 2007 PACE Group - Outstanding Record of Study in CM; 2007 Senior Thesis Merit Award; 2005 Engineering and Architectural Engineering Honor Society inductee member; and 2006 ASC Region 1 DBIA Competition Winner.
• **Received an ABET accredited Bachelor and Master of Architectural Engineering with honors from the Schreyer Honors College, having completed the Engineering Examination as an Professional Engineer, obtained status of LEED Green Associate, and #1 ranked 2007 CM class graduate with a cumulative GPA of 3.83.
• SHC is recognized as one of the best and most comprehensive undergraduate honors programs in the United States. SHC mission is to innovatively achieve academic excellence, build a global perspective, and create opportunities for leadership and civic engagement.
M.B.A., Real Estate and Infrastructure
2014 The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland
• The Carey Business School is quickly emerging as a leader in business education. Forbes named the MBA
program one of the 10 most innovative business school programs in the world, while online Graduate Programs Guide ranks the school as a Top 20 business school. Business alumni are as diverse as they are as they are successful - from former President Woodrow Wilson and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.