Jonathan Gibson

Experience

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  Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

  May 1987 - Sept 1995

  Associate Director

  Started as technical designer and coordinator of the railway station work at Liverpool Street Station as part of the Broadgate project. Progressed to Manage large multi-disciplinary design teams on a number of major projects including the Conrad Hotel Cairo, the Etiler development Istanbul, and County Hall London. Tasks included budgeting and financial/operational control of design work, contract and fee negotiation, Client and contractor liaison, scheduling and coordination and appointment of staff and specialist consultants. Show less

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  KPF

  Sept 1995 - Jun 1996

  Senior Associate

  Senior Technical Architect for the SD and DD stages of a 42 storey commercial tower to be constructed in Bangkok, Thailand, and then transition between CD and construction stages of Thames Court, a low-rise commercial development in the City of London.

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  Bechtel Corporation

  Jun 1996 - Jun 1998

  Assistant Project Manager

  Recruited in the hotels division as on site project / construction manager for a $150M high rise 5 star hotel on which I had previously managed the design team for SOM through all preconstruction stages. After basic construction of that project was complete, the job developed into Client PM for the design and construction of several major projects, mostly hotels and resorts, in Cairo and on Egypt's Red Sea coast.

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  DeStefano and Partners

  Jun 1998 - Nov 2000

  Senior Associate

  Recruited to manage the company's relationship with a major client (a Chicago-based REIT) including a super-tall tower in Chicago and the design stages of Dearborn Center (now Citadel Center) - a 36 story commercial building on Dearborn/State/Adams in the Chicago Loop.

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  URS Corporation

  Nov 2000 - Jun 2004

  Project Manager

  Seconded as PM consultant to the Chicago Transit Authority, Capital Improvement Program Management. Managed a number of station reconstruction projects for the CTA. Main role was Client PM for the entire preconstruction stages of .four stations on the Brown Line Reconstruction project, Diversey, Wellington, Southport and Paulina. Tasked with scope development, identification of real estate requirements, budget management, managing all consultant work, value management, constructability review and construction planning. Show less

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  Lucien Lagrange Architects

  Dec 2004 - May 2005

  Senior Project Manager

  Senior technical architect for design of 60 story residential tower on Michigan Avenue Chicago, and design of residential and hotel development in Bal Harbour, Florida. Both projects abandoned at design stage.

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  Busby Perkins + Will

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  Senior Project Manager

  Recruited as Project Manager for design stages of a major redevelopment of Paddington Canal Basin in London called the 'Merchant Square' project. Also spent 4 months in Dubai as Senior Field Architect for construction completion of the American Hospital Dubai Phase II.

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  RW Armstrong

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2007

  Senior Project Manager

  Recruited to manage design stages of a residential high rise project to be built on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi. Project abandoned at an early stage.

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  Woods Bagot

  May 2007 - Mar 2008

  Project Director

  Recruited to manage the design team for the Nakheel Tall Tower, a $1.8bn multi-use super-high rise hotel, residential and commercial building to be constructed in Dubai. Tasks included budgeting and financial / operational control of design work, Client interface, consultant management and contract and fee negotiation. Resigned after successful conclusion of Design Development.

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  Mace Group

  May 2008 - Mar 2011

  Managed design completion of Passenger Rail Station Box, and preconstruction stages of the high-tech Duty-Free Warehouse and Fire Training Facility at the New Doha International Airport. Afterwards managed design and value engineering of new mega-resort project under construction in the Bahamas. Managed design completion, trade contractor shop drawing process and shell and core construction of $900M Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport.

  • Design Manager

    Jun 2009 - Mar 2011

  • Senior Construction Manager

    May 2008 - Jun 2009
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  Fender Katsalidis

  Mar 2011 - Feb 2013

  Design Manager / Technical Design Team Leader

  Senior Technical architect on design of tower element of a super-high rise building (118 floors) utilizing advanced BIM software to be constructed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tasks included defining required documentation, managing its production, and managing consultant work necessary for design progress. FKA work completed, construction documentation under way in Malaysia

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  Giant's Causeway Consulting

  Apr 2013 - Nov 2014

  Principal

  Project Management / Design Management consultant on a series of Hospitality and Transportation projects, and management of major MEP upgrade projects at UIC (the University of Illinois at Chicago) and the CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) for Ameresco, an energy savings company.

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  HOK

  Jun 2013 - Sept 2013

  Vice President

  Short term assignment managing consultant establishment and Client interface for the Schematic Design phase of a major redevelopment of Salt Lake City airport, including a new terminal and reconfiguration of most existing landside and airside facilities. Severe fee constraints early in the process eliminated role.

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  ADPI - Member company of AEROPORTS DE PARIS GROUP

  Dec 2014 - Feb 2016

  Resident Engineer

  Resident Engineer / Client Project Manager for $340M design-build expansion of Bole International Airport. Job grew out of a Giantconsult project to identify suitable PM firms to manage the construction work to double the size of the International Terminal 2.

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  PACE (Pan Arabian Consulting Engineers)

  Sept 2016 - Dec 2016

  Senior Architect / Project Manager

  Project Manager for KITC (Kuwait International Tennis Centre) project, currently under construction to provide a retail mall extension, a hotel, and a new arena & tennis stadium.

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  Hopkins Architects

  Feb 2017 - Sept 2017

  Assistant Project Director / Resident Manager - Expo 2020 Project

  Resigned on good terms to return home to the USA. After some time dealing with family issues, now searching for new challenge.

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  Balfour Beatty US

  Sept 2018 - Feb 2019

  Change Manager

  Recruited to manage the change control process by Design-Build contractor for the $675M Electrification of the 57 mile ‘Caltrain’ railway line from San Francisco to San Jose. Project in construction and undergoing many changes – employer change strategy revised, role disappeared.

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  Milhouse Engineering & Construction, Inc.

  May 2019 - Apr 2021

  Senior Project Manager

  Assigned to the Parsons PM team as Resident Engineer for a series of stations on each phase of the 3 year Washington DC Transit Authority (WMATA) ‘Platform Reconstruction Project’ reconstructing 45 year-old transit stations. Also worked on the O’Hare Airport T1 HVAC Systems Upgrade project, but recalled to Washington DC at the request of the Client for the second year of the WMATA Platform Reconstruction Project.