PMA has served Miami-Dade County, the largest county in Florida, since 1999. The office is located on Brickell Avenue in Downtown Miami in a neighborhood lined with popular restaurants, shopping, high-end condos, and entertainment venues. PMA multilingual professionals take pride in providing schedule and cost risk assessments, owner’s representation, and project controls expertise to government agencies, K-12 and higher education, water and wastewater, transportation, pharmaceutical/biotech, and hospitality industries. Additionally, PMA expertise in providing value engineering services to highway authorities stretches from northern to southern Florida. Projects led from this regional office extend into the Caribbean and to Central and South America.
- Practical Planning and Scheduling for Capital Project Delivery in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Energy Saving Processes for Chilled Water Plant
- The Importance of Doing a Risk Assessment in Every Project, Early and Often
- Calibration Assessments: Validation of Subjective Probabilities and Impact Ranges in Risk Analysis
- Prioritizing Risks During Schedule Risk Analysis
- How Value Engineering Improves Construction Project Value
- Portfolio Scheduling – How to Achieve Success and What Does Success Look Like?
- Best Practices in Project Controls
- Core Traits of a Reliable Schedule
- Delivering a Reliable Project Schedule
- Guide to the Forensic Scheduling Body of Knowledge
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•Noel Alvarez
Noel Alvarez
PMP, LEED AP
Managing Director, Orlando
As Managing Director, Noel oversees operations of the PMA Orlando office, as well as the company’s pharmaceutical and biotechnology program/project management practice. He has over two decades of experience in program and project management, construction management, operational unit leadership, cost estimating, schedule integration, schedule development and management, budget, cost and change management, risk management, and project engineering and inspections. Noel has led the design, implementation, and maintenance of many enterprise-wide project controls guidelines and processes, including cost estimating, program scheduling, budget monitoring and control, and online performance reporting. Noel has primarily focused on the pharmaceutical, mixed-use building construction, power plant, and aviation industries in providing guidance and support from front-end loading through design, procurement, construction, technology transfers, commissioning, testing, and startup. He has successfully served as the senior program controls manager on more than 25 complex projects totaling more than $750 million.
Education
BA, Architecture, Cornell UniversityAffiliations
- Construction Management Association of America
- International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers
•Eduardo A. Nazario
Eduardo A. Nazario
EIT
Managing Director, Miami
As Managing Director of PMA’s global pharmaceutical practice, Eduardo brings extensive experience in project controls to large pharmaceutical, private mixed-used buildings, transportation, and infrastructure projects. He is proficient in multiple services roles that include field engineering, project management, risk analysis/assessments, and scheduling. His responsibilities include managing all reporting on project schedule, cost, and progress.
Education
BS, Construction Management, Purdue UniversityAffiliations
- AACE International
- Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineers
- International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers
- Project Management Institute
•Richard L. Johnson
Richard L. Johnson
PE, BCEE, CVS-Life
Managing Director, Orlando
Rick has extensive experience in civil and environmental engineering and leads the national value engineering practice for PMA. Rick is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina; a certified general contractor; a certified underground utility contractor; and a certified value specialist. Rick has an extensive and diverse background in civil and environmental engineering that includes vertical and horizontal construction projects for highways, railroad, and multimodal transportation systems; airports; institutional construction; utilities; community parks; and roadways. He has managed numerous projects for many municipalities and private enterprises, providing construction management, project controls, and cost estimating services.
Education
MS & BS, Civil Engineering, University of Central FloridaAffiliations
- American Academy of Environmental Engineers
- American Water Works Association
- National Society of Professional Engineers
- SAVE International
•Francisco Cruz
Francisco Cruz
PE, PMP, RMP, SP, VDC, VMA
Chief Knowledge Officer, Miami
As the Chief Knowledge Officer for PMA, Francisco has been instrumental in helping PMA strategically leverage the knowledge we create. Francisco has impressive experience in cost control, estimating, scheduling, risk management, 3D-4D BIM, and project inspection. His project experience includes water/wastewater, transportation, pharmaceutical, mixed-use, corporate office buildings, and municipal projects. He has performed cost and schedule risk analyses on over 40 infrastructure and pharmaceutical projects, including tunnels, airports, bridges, roads, and ports totaling more than $1.9 billion. He was part of the internal team that launched and implemented the risk management practice within the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (PANYNJ). He also helped write and implement the project risk management section of PANYNJ’s Project Management Manual of Standards and Procedures.
Education
MS, Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico; BS, Civil Engineering, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.Affiliations
- AACE International
- Florida Engineering Society
- Project Management Institute