Paul Ellis

Objective:
Seeking a Project management position with an global real estate company, utilizing over ten
years experience as a Project manager, and my life long passion to deliver and inspire the highest
standard of workmanship, for the mutual benefit of my client and myself.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Able to negotiate contractor plans and building schedules to achieve delivery forecasts.
• Skilled at educating and informing clients on all aspects of the construction process.
• Known for enforcement of contractor terms and conditions.
• Administered contracts and awarded projects to contractors.
• Maintained and released monies for monthly progress draws.
• Optimizes quality of workmanship and ensures highest standard of service.
• Possesses strong organizational, communication and detail skills.
• Reviewed and negotiated change orders.
• Certified plumber and gas installer in Canada and in the UK.
• Youngest member of the British Institute of Mechanical inspectors.
• Computer literate in AutoCAD and MS Office applications.

Career History:
Sterling Cooper & Associates: Project Manager/Inspector, Vancouver, BC. 2005 - 2007

Shangri-la hotel: mixed use hotel, restaurant, Spa, and residential project.
• Managed client and contractual expectations by giving realistic forecasts on expenditures
and time frames for issuing addendums to construction drawings.
• Quantified and negotiated change orders arising from site instructions.
• Enforced contractual drawings and quality of workmanship by completing bi-weekly site
inspections.
• Recommended a list of potential contractors which had the labour and financial resources
to undertake a project of this size.
• Provided value added service to the client when a last minute interior design changes to
the restaurant and spar meant the addition of plumbing risers to the base building
drawings. I coordinated the new locations with the contractor on same day as the slab was
being poured and saved the client an additional fee to core new hole.
• Expedited a contentious design and build issues by liaising with architects to gain more
space in the boiler rooms for plant equipment.
• Maintained excel and word documents for site meetings and site reviews.

Fairmont medical building: Multi phased medical labs and Doctors suites.
• Prepared drawings and specifications based on the clients needs and budget.
• Vetted contractors to ensure they had the resources and manpower to complete the
project in accordance with the client’s time frame and budget.
• Reviewed existing HVAC and plumbing systems to create a set of base building plans
and specifications to issue to the City of Vancouver for review.
• Issued tender documents to selected contractors
• Liaised between the client and contractor on the logistics of site deliveries and out of
hours work.
• Maintained a hold back of monies until all deficiencies were completed.
• Released letters of assurance on project completion.

L’Hermitage: Mixed use Hotel, Social housing, Grocery and Retail store.
 • Attended design meetings with clients of Marketplace IGA and Home sense to flush out
the parameters for HVAC and plumbing design.
• Prepared signed and sealed tenant improvement drawings for Marketplace IGA and
Home sense to be submitted to the City of Vancouver for review.
• Attended bi-weekly site meeting and addressed HVAC and plumbing design questions.
• Negotiated change orders with the representatives from Millennium properties and the
mechanical contractor.
• Maintained site attendances sheets and billing logs for clients.
• Provided technical assistance to the client on specifying an economical commercial range
hood for the hotel restaurant based on NFPA standards.
• Ensured pressurization to below grade stairs and measure N vestibules upon activated of
the fire alarm and emergency power.
• Releasing letters of assurance on completion of project.

Other projects: Shore club restaurant and fitness centre, Blanche Macdonald centre, Taco Del
mar, Starbucks coffee, EA Games, Pitney Bowes and various other Commercial Retail Units.

Doncaster Municipality: Project coordinator/Inspector, Doncaster, UK. 2002 - 2004

Doncaster housing offices: Renovation and new building extension.

• Carried out engineering studies of the existing building services and talked to the client
and building manager to update the current HVAC and plumbing systems.
• Advised and drafted documentation on how to improve building maintenance and reduce
energy requirements.
• Enforced quality of service and workmanship by carrying out regular site inspections.
• Proposed cost saving initiatives by reducing piping runs and moving the location of
radiant panels.

Warmsworth social housing project: Renovated tenanted social housing stock.

• Maintained an annual budget for renovating plumbing and heating systems within the
social housing sector.
• Issued a scope of work and locations of houses to be renovated to contractors.
• Reviewed estimates and awarded contracts to the winning bidder.
• Mediated between contractors and tenants on potential litigation issues.
• Resolved conceptual and installation issues with the contractor.
• Scheduled and directed site meeting with contractors and clients.
• Ensured technical support and assistance.

Kelham Building Services: Site Supervisor, Doncaster, UK. 1996 -2002

David Lloyd tennis and leisure centre: Mixed use tennis, health and fitness centre
• Liaised with the building and electrical contractors to alleviate contentious issues brought
about by design issues.
• Organized and maintained project schedules in accordance with the general contractor.
• Interpreted construction drawings and adapted installation to on site conditions.
• Mobilized equipment and resources to areas of the project which needed rapid progress.
• Ordered large plant equipment and arranged crane time to install prior to completion of
the roof structure.
• Maintained adequate labour and materials dependant on the progress of the building.
• Delegated sectors of the project to lead plumbers and gas fitters.
• Maintained on site stores, times sheets, requisition forms, delivery notes, commissioning
and chlorination documents.

Other projects: Sheffield children’s hospital offices, Wakefield police department, Campanile
hotels.
Education:
• Pacific Vocational College. Burnaby, BC.
o Construction Certifications.
• Leeds College, Leeds, UK.
o City & Guilds Training and Certifications.

Other interests:
Avid outdoor enthusiast:
o Mountaineering, rock climbing, boxing and snowboarding.
o Climbed Kilimanjaro in 2008 with future plans to climb Denali in 2010.
o Holder of Wilderness First Aid Certificate with St. John's Ambulance.
Volunteer work:
o Worked as a mentor for Big brothers of Vancouver.
o Fundraiser for the Lung Association of British Columbia.