Sonam Reddy
Horotiu,WKO
Summary
Highly skilled Project Manager with over 7 years of experience in construction and facilities management, specializing in both commercial and residential projects. Proven expertise in project scoping, financial oversight, quoting, tendering, and risk management. Demonstrates robust leadership and stakeholder management skills, having successfully collaborated with councils, iwi, local authorities, and development partners to deliver optimal project outcomes
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
Cushman & Wakefield
05.2022 - Current
- Managed and delivered multiple commercial and residential projects under the Facilities Management Contract for Waikeria Prison, Ministry of Justice, Waikato District Council, and Hamilton City Council, ensuring seamless end-to-end execution. Responsibilities included financial management, compliance, contractor oversight, and risk mitigation to meet project objectives
- Ensure delivery of day-to-day delivery of client projects including financial management, contractor management, compliance, and risk management
- Collaborated across councils, iwi, local authorities, and diverse stakeholders to ensure projects were aligned with community goals and delivered optimal outcomes. Applied innovative approaches to contractor management, fostering teamwork and efficiency
- Meeting with delivery team validating an awarded contract to ensure details are correctly presented to the client
- Established and maintained robust relationships across all levels of the business, acting as a key commercial interface between clients, delivery teams, and subcontractor networks. Successfully reconciled project updates with stakeholder expectations to ensure satisfaction
- Led the detailed design and construction aspects of projects, demonstrating a sound understanding of NZS3910/3916 conditions within the civil engineering industry to ensure compliance and quality delivery
- Quotation development, project reconciliation updates and management
- Collaborate and engage across Council’s, Iwi and local authorities, and a variety of stakeholders and development partners ensuring that projects are managed effectively and deliver optimal outcomes
- Take total ownership of the client relationship and actively grow sustainable revenue streams, control costs, and deliver required gross margin
Project Manager / Quantity Surveyor
Access Partners In Property
01.2021 - 04.2022
- Company Overview: (Waikato & BOP)
- Responds to all inquiries and request for bid in a timely manner
- Effective commercial management and margin maximisation of all projects
- Monitoring and updating project budgets and programmes
- Ensure that the financial position of every project is accurately reported and controlled effectively
- Prepare project estimates based on labour hours, material quantities, equipment and other associated costs needed to meet customer requirements and company profit margins
- Advising and leading Site Engineers, onsite delivery teams as well as sub-contractors
- Meeting with delivery team validating an awarded contract to ensure details are correctly presented to the client
- Establish and maintain strong relationships across all levels of the business
- Act as a key commercial interface between the client, delivery teams and the procurement/subcontractor base
- (Waikato & BOP)
Project Manager / Quantity Surveyor
Ventia NZ Ltd
03.2019 - 01.2021
- Prepare estimates, formal quote and detailed project plan for all phases of the project
- Minimise Venita’s exposure and risk across projects through risk mitigation and scope management processes and practices
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
- Obtain relevant financial sign-off of work before submission
- Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery
- Assist in the development of individual project plans complete with budgetary information and resource needs
- Continually seek and capitalise upon opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen the relationship with Auckland Council
- Measure and evaluate works to ensure that they comply with the contractual entitlement
- Easily recognise areas for internal improvement and develops plans for implementation
- Effectively communicate relevant project/practice information to superiors and peers in other practices
- Confronts issues openly and quickly
- Support external audits and actively work to close out any non-conformances raised by the audit
- Comply with all Ventia SHEQ policies and procedures
- Taking personal accountability for own safety and at all times being aware of the impact of actions on the safety of others
- Participate and contribute to the effectiveness of Ventia safety activities
- Self-motivated, decisive with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
- Experienced in drafting and submitting budget proposals
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to achieve outcomes against firm timelines
- Attribute writing and detailed bid submission including initial construction Programme and sequencing of activities
- Complete the governance procedures and contract reviews during tender stage
Project Manager
Gopalan Constructions
01.2016 - 12.2017
- Company Overview: Residential & Commercial Building Contractor
- Successfully delivered residential projects worth $ 3.5m and a commercial projects worth $ 10m
- Managing and coordinating the construction process
- Taking responsibility for project results, timely delivery, management of scope, schedule, budget and stakeholder satisfaction
- Management of construction issues and design queries, enabling projects to stay on track
- Interpret architectural, engineering and building service drawings and specifications
- Ensuring the quality standards are met on all works
- Monitoring contract documentation and maintain document management systems
- Managing health and safety standards in the site by conducting tool-box meeting
- Residential & Commercial Building Contractor
Education
Master of Construction Management - Academic research project on ‘Barriers in implementing Deconstruction in New Zealand’
Auckland University of Technology
11.2018
Bachelor of Civil Engineering -
VTU University
01.2011
Skills
- Project management
- Project planning
- Project planning and development
- Project scheduling
- Schedule management
- Client relations
- Stakeholder communications
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Risk management
- Project estimation and bidding
References
References on request
Summaryprofile
- Experienced in project managing, quoting and tendering multiple commercial and residential projects.
- Develop short, mid and long term strategic commercial plan including innovative revenue streams, brand/marketing plans and communication plans which are aligned to the Company’s vision.
- Possession of management qualifications and/or proven expertise in project delivery, scoping, and costing.
- Successfully managed projects directly within a client's organization.
- Experienced in working closely with the Senior Management team to ensure each minor capital projects works under the Full Facilities Contract is delivered on time, within budget and scope.
- Robust skills in managing suppliers and subcontractors, coupled with effective negotiation abilities.
- Expertise in tender documentation and submission for construction contracts and thorough knowledge of NZS3910.
- Advanced skills with Excel, CostX, MS Office, MS Outlook & Project, AutoCAD, 3Ds MAX, MS Word.
- Demonstrated strengths in communication, collaboration, teamwork, and leadership.
- Experience working in item-rate and cost-plus contracts for large-scale construction projects.
Timeline
Project Manager
Cushman & Wakefield
05.2022 - Current
Project Manager / Quantity Surveyor
Access Partners In Property
01.2021 - 04.2022
Project Manager / Quantity Surveyor
Ventia NZ Ltd
03.2019 - 01.2021
Project Manager
Gopalan Constructions
01.2016 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Civil Engineering -
VTU University
Master of Construction Management - Academic research project on ‘Barriers in implementing Deconstruction in New Zealand’
Auckland University of Technology
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