Construction
Scott spent 18 years in construction, including project management, coordination and estimating. That work shapes how Jarvis Strategies approaches AI: start from the real workflow, the estimate, the proposal, the change order, the closeout package, and keep the person who owns the number in charge of it.
Capital projects and facility operations
Scott previously served as Executive Director of the York University Student Centre Corporation. His work there covered two separate areas.
- A new building. He helped advance a capital development project with a $75 million total project budget, including approximately $46 million in construction costs. He participated in securing project budget approval and was involved in building programming, design, the constructor RFP process and constructor selection. His involvement in the new building ended at design and procurement.
- The existing building. He oversaw operations, maintenance and capital upgrades of the existing Student Centre, including a major renovation, with direct oversight of budgets and contractors.
What that means for clients
Clients work with someone who has seen projects from the construction side and from the owner’s side: estimates and coordination on one hand, budget approval, procurement and running a facility on the other. That matters for construction and manufacturing businesses, and for larger organizations where an AI project has to pass the same scrutiny as any other capital decision.
Jarvis Strategies is based in Vernon, British Columbia, and serves construction, trades and manufacturing businesses across Canada and the United States.
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