As the Executive Officer, Steve led the major expansion of his former company’s Western Region including the Northern California and Pacific Northwest division achieving 10x growth and increasing margins by over 40% through a committed focus on selective work acquisition and a more comprehensive preconstruction process. Some of the notable projects completed under Steve’s leadership include the: Golden State Warriors Arena and Development, Salesforce Tower, Facebook’s San Francisco Park Tower, Seattle Convention Center Expansion, Manchester Grand Hyatt, LA County Museum of Art Expansion and the LA Live Development among many others.
Steve’s wealth of experience in structuring projects for success provided him with insight into some of the major gaps during this preconstruction planning phase. Even on the largest projects, Steve found preconstruction to be quite an archaic process. A period that can average anywhere from 3-36 months, preconstruction is a crucial part of a project’s success and despite lots of technological advancements in the past decade, preconstruction is still a highly manual and fractured collection of processes. Essential information is kept in scattered Excel spreadsheets and Word documents which limits understanding and does not make it easy to have a clear view of the full picture of a project. Steve decided that there had to be a better way.