Michelle Ray

Founder/CEO

Absolute Facility Solutions LLC

Oct 2015 - Current (10 years 9 months)

Ms. Ray is responsible for providing and communicating strategic leadership by establishing long-range goals, strategies, plans and policies. This direction is clearly communicated to all shareholders, stakeholders, employees, and business partners in order to assure that the company is moving forward in the right direction. She currently manages the day-to-day operations of the company including achieving the right balance of company resources, managing vendors, overseeing finances, personnel, and corporate compliance. Ms. Ray is responsible for building AFS’ business culture and values, in part by overseeing the hiring, firing and management of personnel. She coordinates with her staff and Board to ensure that the right call is made to

Project Controls Manager

FMP Inc

Sep 2013 - Sep 2015 (2 years 1 month)

Responsible for planning and oversight of operations for FMP; report directly to ownership. As Project Controls Manager the expectation is to lead/direct active work within the organization through the other Managers, as well as providing oversight for Sales. Work is reviewed weekly with each Account Manager, PM and Sales Manager on a direct report basis for all project and opportunity related details (proposal status and probability, status of cost, contract, WBS, schedule, resources, scope, etc.) and account future growth. I am also responsible for oversight of the more critical aspects of projects such as change management, risk mitigation, resource allocation, and cost control. All changes outside of scope or issues that arise on a pr

Regional Manager

ISM Services Inc

Jul 2011 - Aug 2013 (2 years 2 months)

Responsible for the day-to-day activities and overall operations of all ISM business in the Southwest Region. Responsibilities include business planning, regional budgeting, regional business development, customer relationship management, development of marketing material, growth of the Regional office, and achieving all regional goals. I will be involved in interviewing potential job candidates and have oversight for all employees in this region. Business Development responsibilities include: networking, attending trade shows, responding to solicitations (RFP, RFQ), product demonstrations, and teaming with other businesses. Additional responsibilities include: documentation of internal processes and procedures, design of new ISM graphi

Facilities IS Manager

Hamilton County Ohio

Jul 2006 - Jun 2011 (5 years)

Responsible for Administering the Archibus database (currently used by 15 dept/agencies, over 900 users, and has over 20 modules), programming in the Archibus System, managing the vendors (currently 5), and any contracts in place for their services. I am also responsible for the Facilities department’s Computers, software (this includes managing our Help Desk employee, projects performed by the Courts vendor, inventory of computer assets, inventory of software, and purchasing efforts). I also write procedures for IT and Archibus, provide training and training material, and work to sell Shared Services in Archibus to other departments and agencies within the County (including development and mgmt of Service Agreements w/the various agencie

CAFM Project Manager

GBBN Architects

Nov 1999 - Jul 2006 (6 years 9 months)

General responsibilities include: developing standards for inner departmental use, setting up and maintaining relational databases, drafting floor plans in CAD, developing Visual Basic and XML scripts to run in Archibus, interacting with clients in order to meet their needs, developing training manuals for clients and performing training sessions, training new CAFM employees, and responsible for the division’s technical setup and maintenance. Work directly with a Cold Fusion web developer to maintain and develop new modules in the Archibus software. Project Management responsibilities include: building and maintaining relationship with clients, designing and developing the software to better meet the client’s needs, estimating projects, sch

Drafter/CAD Technician/Systems Support

Sabo Design Associates

Jan 1999

Responsibilities include: creating construction drawings from sketches and minimal design alterations in plan, residential work only. Also responsible for running and maintaining the computer network system.

Part-time and Full-time Student Assistant

University of Cincinnati

Jan 1995 - Jan 1999 (4 years 1 month)

The Office of the University Architect was comprised of 3 main groups, Campus Planning and Design, Construction Management, and Renovations. My responsibilities included: designing layout of, implementing and managing plan room of over 20,000 drawings, maintaining a DOS based relational database of drawing information for archiving and research purposes, training and managing all student employees and co-ops, restructuring division archive files to correspond with legal requirements for storage and disposal, establishing procedure for maintenance of files, working with designers on ADA and other design projects, working on space management projects for use in temporary relocation of classrooms during construction, redesigning interior spac

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