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Dansong Wang

Glencoe,IL

Summary

Dansong Wang has more than 16 years of professional program management, project management, and engineering experience, specializing in program controls and project management. She holds a LEED AP BD+C certification through the US Green Building Council and has a special interest in enabling sustainable design and construction through her work. Using wide-ranging technical expertise, Ms. Wang has provided program management and project management for public and campus programs, corporate projects, and private developments. Ms. Wang’s unique experience gives her a deep understanding of broad management issues affecting program and project delivery processes, which she utilizes on each assignment.

Experienced with specialized task execution and strategic implementation. Utilizes effective problem-solving techniques to enhance operational processes. Track record of fostering team collaboration and ensuring project success.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Engineer

Chevron Texaco Offices
01.2025 - 05.2025
  • Ms. Wang provided project management services for this $5.9 million, 47,000-square-foot tenant improvement project. She developed the construction budget, bids, and contract documents, managed construction, and prepared closeout documents.

Bank of America, Fairfield Branch
  • Ms. Wang provided project management services for this $2.1 million, 13,200-square-foot tenant improvement project. She developed the construction budget, bids, and contract documents, managed construction, and prepared closeout documents.

Migration Project, Union Bank of California
  • Ms. Wang provided project management services to this $6.3 million, 60,300-square-foot migration, which involved the renovation of 5 floors of the 23-floor high rise. She prepared, expedited, and monitored logs for tracking shop drawings, contract documents, submittals, requests for information, change orders and material delivery logs.

Smartsheet Specialist

10xViz
07.2022 - Current
  • As a Smartsheet Certified Solution Architect (the highest level of technical certification currently available to Smartsheet Aligned Partners), Dansong has designed, built, and implemented Smartsheet solutions for project and program management offices nationally and internationally. Key Projects Include:
  • Finite Engineering PMO Solution: Developed a customized project management toolkit and portfolio management dashboards to create prioritized visibility of project performance to the right audience (e.g., project manager, team, leadership), and to enable efficiencies in project tracking across the Finite Engineering team.
  • SK Life Science Portfolio Management Solution: Developed a solution based on a unique architecture of the company that includes the templates to enable the information and data to roll up from the lowest level to the other levels. The Smartsheet assets were customized-built to help the global drug development company to track, manage, and visualize the fields from the drug IND phase to the FDA final approval phase, including the financial, schedule, and team resource management.
  • NEA various solutions: Developed a variety of the solutions for the organization, including the Office of the Chief Financial Officer’s Budget / Actuals & Year-End Projection, the Strategy Department’s 2-Year Strategic Planning Process, a solution to plan, manage, and monitor the New Business Item process, solutions for the Center for Racial and Social Justice to track Grant Information and to track the outcomes of the tasks for NEA strategic planning activities and connect to Strategy Department’s reporting system, etc.
  • Henry County Schools’ Solution: Developed Smartsheet tools and apps for implementation, execution, management, and monitoring of Henry County Schools’ 5-year Strategic Plan.
  • Lumin8 PMO Toolkit Solution: Developed a project management toolkit to enable efficiencies in project tracking, managing and closing-out across theLumin8 team.

Project Manager

ESTOA, LLC
07.2021 - 07.2022
  • In her role as Project Manager, Dansong performs functions required to deliver projects and programs on time, on budget, and with high quality. Her responsibilities include budget & cost control, schedule control, change order management, contract administration, reporting, business process improvement, implementation of tools and systems, as well as project management coordination and collaboration. Key Projects Include:
  • Carolina Panthers Headquarters and Training Facility Program: $800M Facility a 240-acre site, 3.9M sf building designed with offices, an indoor practice facility, outdoor practice fields, a scalable small stadium, and a premier orthopedic sports medicine facility.
  • Bank of America Stadium Renovations: $50M Transformation of the existing stadium toaccommodate the new home of the Charlotte FC (Major League Soccer) including significant enhancements to the East Gate, an upgraded main concourse, and supporters’ bar just inside the gate, soccer-specific locker rooms, a central player tunnel, and a newpremium club space and field-level seating.

Project Manager

Arcadis US, Inc.
02.2007 - 01.2015
  • Public Building Commission of Chicago| Chicago, IL
  • In her role as Cost and Budget Manager for the Public Building Commission (PBC) of Chicago’s $2.4 billion Capital Construction Program, Ms. Wang’s responsibilities included budgeting, estimating, cost controls, and developing cash flow projections (using P6 - Primavera Project Management) and relevant reports. In addition, she was involved in improving business processes and updating program controls procedures, provided maintenance services on Primavera Contract Management (web-based program management software), and supervised the software consultant.
  • Chicago Housing Authority, Plan for Transformation | Chicago, IL
  • As Cost and Budget Manager for the Chicago Housing Authority’s (CHA) $1.6 billion Plan for Transformation, Ms. Wang’s responsibilities included budgeting, cost controls, and developing cash flow projections and relevant reports. Ms. Wang provided annual capital budget in compliance with strict federal requirements, coordinated budget and cost issues with CHA’s departments, and trained new financial staff. Ms. Wang used Prolog (program management software) and Lawson (financial services software) in her role.
  • Department of Water Management of Chicago, Capital Improvement Program | Chicago, IL
  • As Program Controls Specialist for the Department of Water Management’s (DWM) $950 million 5-year Capital Improvement Program, Ms. Wang’s responsibilities included reviewing and comparing design drawings and as-built drawings, analyzing estimates and actual costs, and providing training on Primavera P6 timesheet system. In addition, Ms. Wang maintained financial data within the customed Budget and Cost Control System.
  • Facilities Master Plan, College of DuPage | Glen Ellyn, IL
  • In her role as Project Manager for one project in the program of the implementation of the $335 million, multi-year, multi-phase College of DuPage Facilities Master Plan, which established a link between the east and west campuses, creating one continuous campus. Ms. Wang provided project management services for the project that involved the reconstruction of 1,100 parking spaces and the widening of College Road. In addition, she conducted schedule analyses and oversaw the schedule evaluation of the Technology Education Center and the Health and Sciences Center.

Senior Project Engineer

Swinerton Inc
09.2004 - 02.2007
  • Technical Training Center, Union Bank of California |San Francisco, CA
  • Ms. Wang provided project management services for the renovation of this $2.2 million, 12,000-square-foot 2nd floor of a 23-floor high-rise. She developed construction budget, bids and contract documents, managed construction, and prepared closeout documents.

Lead Structural Engineer

Tsinghua University Design Institute
03.1993 - 08.1998
  • In her role as lead structural engineer, Ms. Wang designed and consulted on structures and structural details and supervised construction to ensure compliance with plans and specifications. Projects included:
  • Friendship Tower, Fu Zhou, Fu Jian Province: 331-foot high frame-shear wall tower on a 592,015 square-foot area
  • Seaside Vacation Center, Da Lian, Liao Ning Province: 800,530 square-foot vacation center with 108 villas and 8 buildings
  • Hua Ye Mansion, Beijing: 274,480 square-foot shear wall structure with 16 above-ground and 2 underground levels

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Northwestern University

Master of Science - Civil Engineering

Tsinghua University

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Tsinghua University

Skills

  • Cost Control
  • Schedule Control
  • Change Management
  • Document Control
  • Custom Report Development
  • Project Management Information Systems

Certification

  • Registered Professional Engineer, State of California
  • LEED Accredited Professional, Building Design and Construction

Timeline

Project Engineer

Chevron Texaco Offices
01.2025 - 05.2025

Smartsheet Specialist

10xViz
07.2022 - Current

Project Manager

ESTOA, LLC
07.2021 - 07.2022

Project Manager

Arcadis US, Inc.
02.2007 - 01.2015

Senior Project Engineer

Swinerton Inc
09.2004 - 02.2007

Lead Structural Engineer

Tsinghua University Design Institute
03.1993 - 08.1998

Bank of America, Fairfield Branch

Migration Project, Union Bank of California

Master of Science - Civil Engineering

Tsinghua University

Bachelor of Science - Civil Engineering

Tsinghua University

Doctor of Philosophy - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Northwestern University

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