Michael Bartel

Experience

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  Hobby Lobby

  Jun 1995 - Sept 2022

  *Managed architectural design teams for production of final construction documents. This entailedsignificant coordination with architectural and engineering teams to ensure plans met Hobby Lobbystandards, accounting for site specific variances each project provided.*Hired new architectural firms and trained them in Hobby Lobby's method of drawing development.*Managed permitting team to achieve building permits in each projects jurisdiction. This includedworking through city, county, and state processes with a significant variance of requirements toreconcile.*Hired site survey companies to perform pre-design surveys. Trained contracted companies to meetcompany standards.*Performed site survey building evaluations when survey company was unable to meet our schedule.*Managed in-house CAD design team including setting schedules and deadlines and ensuring on timedelivery of work.*Interviewed new employee candidates and made final hiring decisions.*Advised real estate department providing valuable feedback for design and construction ramificationsto ensure the lease could better protect the interests of the company. Coordinated with RE and landlord’s accordingly.*Performed work letter reviews to ensure projects complied with both the landlord's and the company’sexpected scope of work.*Review, redline and coordinate with landlords on tenant improvement projects including demising and building shell finish out through all construction disciplines.*Schedule and present project to construction team for conceptual estimate meetings and formalizing final conceptual estimate report to Real Estate partners.*Worked with construction field operations to resolve RFI's and issues that arose during the construction process.*Interdepartmental coordination to ensure the needs of all stakeholders were implemented into drawings. These departments included real estate, store operations, fixturing, loss prevention, construction, manufacturing and the signage department. Show less *Performed ground-up coordination with landlord, engineers and internal real estate team. This work was heavy in development and review and redline of civil drawings. I was responsible for ensuring critical design information was provided by landlord such as the civil drawings, utility placement and sizing, environmental reports, geotechnical reports and shopping center or city exterior design standards. Significant communication was required between project stakeholders all while balancing contrasting personalities and philosophies to achieve a successful end product that all parties were proud to take part in.*Developed and maintained our in-house prototype set and details to ensure latest updates and construction philosophies stayed current. These sets were used to update the architectural, structural and MEP teams of current standards. We also utilized these sets to assist landlord’s with preliminary bidding to establish project economics.*Worked closely with store layout department, store managers, and district managers to implement new store layouts and associated remodels and electrical changes. This was part of our relay process that took place each year to update our merchandising strategy.*Redlined and reviewed all work produced by designers as part of internal quality control process.*Performed interviews with prospective designer candidates to evaluate their fit with our team.*Continued responsibilities of CAD Trainer role. Show less *Quality control of the CAD department’s drawings as part of the team QC process.*Training of all new designers including company CAD and design standards and holding designer accountable for working within the design standards.*Maintained design standard book for use in training of new employees.*Redlined all work produced by new employees until quality was at a level to handoff to supervisor. Reviewed redlines with designers to ensure understanding of the redlines and the reasoning behindthem.*Continued responsibilities of CAD Designer role. Show less

  • Design & Development Manager

    Jan 2013 - Sept 2022

  • CAD Supervisor and Ground Up Coordinator

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2013

  • CAD Trainer

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  • Designer

    Jun 1995 - Jan 1997
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  Five Below

  Nov 2022 - Oct 2024

  Architectural Project Manager

  *Coordination with the real estate team to evaluate new projects and identify potential issues and createmark ups of layout and elevation to allow negotiations to continue prior to full drawings beingperformed.*Performed calls with landlord team to ensure proper coordination of company required standards,necessary scope of work, resolve disagreements necessary to proceed with drawing development andany other coordination discussions required for the site specific conditions.*Coordinated with Store Planner to develop drawings required for the Real Estate Committee meetingto achieve project approval for real estate counterparts.*Responsible for the full design phase of project from initial evaluation through permit issuance. Thisincludes hiring architects, scheduling site surveys, development of plans to present to Design ReviewCommittee, coordinating development of construction drawings and achieving final permit issuancefor construction team.*Coordinate with the construction team to resolve any issues that arose from the construction process ina timely manner to ensure construction timelines stayed on schedule.*Managed sign development process including building, pylon and monument signs as well astemporary promotional banners to message our openings to future customers.*Coordinate and review interior graphics for each store location. Work with vendors to ensure graphicswere correct and sent to store in a timely manner for final installation.*Quickly implemented company desired design modifications to layouts to ensure stores could openwith the required changes. This included making changes to plans, coordinating with field constructionteams as well as securing sign off with the city in a timeframe not to delay construction timelines. Show less

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  Life Time Inc.

  Feb 2025 - now

  Project Manager II - Architecture