Candidate for
Councilmember; City of Mountain View

EXPERIENCE

Sidney Consulting, Inc., Mountain View, CA (1990 - Present)

Asset Management Services

Received Letters of Commendation and Bonuses for acquisition and litigation assignments.

• Provide testimony, financial analysis, and project management services for corporate facilities.

• Structure and implement auctions, complex leasing, and marketing strategies for divesting over $60 million in assets.

• Resolve conflicting environmental, financial, operational, and organizational objectives in siting analyses.

• Implement project management, scheduling, and financial modeling software and procedures.

• Oversee and prepare operational research, life cycle costing, economic feasibility, and programming studies.

• Lead for performing needs assessment and data collection for CAFM implementation covering over 6 million sq. ft.

• Develop Industrial Siting Program for assisting manufacturers to retain and locate operations in Northern and Central California by identifying sites that balance environmental and economic considerations.

• Manage development of Industrial Site Database and Brokerage Network.

• Represent PG&E and California Trade and Commerce Agency at IDRC, NACORE, NAIOP, and SIOR.

• Negotiate over $50 million in business opportunity and facility acquisitions.
• Serve as expert witness for inverse condemnation lawsuit.

Received 1987 & 1988 Performance Recognition Awards for financial and operational analysis.

Auditor - Engineering, Construction, & Electric Supply.

• Perform contract administration, information systems, lease analysis, and project management audits for operating divisions, and multimillion-dollar projects and joint venture developments.

• Objectively evaluate financial and operational controls as well as business plans for senior management.

• Prepare 1988 Treasurer's Financial Risk Assessment Testimony for the Public Utilities Commission.

• Analyze S&P Debt Rating for assuming third party's $15 million dollar contingent construction liability.

• Promote understanding of PG&E's earnings dynamics to investment community.

• Perform general business consulting and profit center implementation for Divisions with over 800 employees.

• Prepare activity analysis for restructuring 43 departments, comprising 4,000+ employees, into Business Units.

Software Engineer / Production Planner - Mechanical Department.

• Develop FORTRAN applications for automating project management reporting for reconstruction and maintenance of over 3,000 locomotives throughout ten facilities across the United States.

• Develop computer based statistical planning models in support of engineering and forecasting projects.

• Experience in concrete construction practices, superintending, and estimating.

• Provide asset management - including overseeing environmental remediation.

• Prepare strategies and evidence for court testimony and arbitration.

University of California, Berkeley, MBA (Finance), 1985

Stanford University, BS Industrial Engineering (Production Planning/IT/Chemistry), 1981

CERTIFICATIONS

• Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CIREI), Certified Commercial Investment Member, CCIM (No. 5650)

• Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI), Facility Management and Real Property Administrator, FMA/RPA

• International Development Research Council (IDRC), Board Certified in Corporate Real Estate, BCCR (No. 1032)

• International Facility Management Association (IFMA), Certified Facility Manager, CFM

• Real Estate Cyberspace Society, Real Estate Cyberspace Specialist, RECS

• Toastmasters International, Certified Toast Master, CTM
• Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Project Management Program

• Appraisal Institute, Capitalization Theory/Techniques and Marshall & Swift Cost Valuation

• ABAG, OES & FEMA, Seismic Retrofit Training For Building Contractors and Inspectors

• Proficient in PC applications Microsoft Office Suite, QuickBooks Pro, PlanEASe, etc.

• Environmental Planning Commissioner, City of Mountain View, 2000 - 2004

• Board of Directors & Former Chief Financial Officer, Stanford Bay Area Charities, 2000

• Board of Directors & Technology Chair, Northern California Chapter One CIREI, 1999

• San Francisco Events Chair, Stanford Bay Area Charities, 1995 - 1996

• St. Joseph's International Festival

• Stanford Medical School Blood Center Donor

• The Commonwealth Club of California

• Former member of the World Affairs Council of Northern California