216.297.4175
cvanarnam@parks-cc.com
Chad J. Van Arnam has 22 years of construction management, general contracting, and owners representative services experience, working collaboratively to deliver well-coordinated and complex projects in commercial and healthcare markets. As Director for Parks Construction Consultants, Chad works with clients to execute construction project management and risk management procedures and tackle complex project issues and challenges head-on across all construction segments and disciplines.
He provides operational guidance and consultation in the oversight of projects from the pre-planning phase of budgeting, bidding, and resource planning through the construction and turnover phase. Chad works seamlessly with clients in developing, updating, and managing detailed project requirements and control documents, including schedules, budgets, change orders, project meeting agendas and minutes, essential tracking logs, and presentation material.
216.274.2498
lchristensen@parks-cc.com
Lori K. Christensen brings over two decades of experience in firm management and support in various capacities to Parks Construction Consultants. She began her career in finance as a member of the executive staff of a Cleveland based financial institution before taking on management positions at several prominent Northeast Ohio companies where she was responsible for virtually all aspects of office operations.
Lori joined the Cleveland office of Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP in 2008 where she quickly rose through the ranks to National Manager of the Construction and Real Estate Practice Groups; the firm’s two largest practice groups. As Practice Group Manager, Lori managed over 40 construction professionals across 5 offices from New York to San Diego. At Parks, she is responsible for the facilitation and approval of client intake, conflict review and evaluation, client development, coordination of industry associations and events, client and industry-based training, and financial management.
216.274.2447
delsey@parks-cc.com
David A. Elsey brings 17 years of construction operational excellence to Parks Construction Consultants. Dave has worked collaboratively over his career to effectively deliver projects in public and private commercial markets including healthcare, higher education, K-12, institutional, hospitality, retail, office space, multi-family, and more. As Executive Manager, Dave partners with clients to execute construction project management and risk mitigation procedures.
Dave has extensive experience overseeing projects from the pre-planning phase of budgeting, bidding, and resource planning, all the way through the construction and turnover phases. He has developed and implemented processes related to project management & project engineering in all stages of construction projects from project estimating, bidding, buyout, scheduling, site logistics, project planning & documentation, job costing & reporting, labor productivity & tracking, and project punchlist & closeout.
Renata T. Panzica brings over a decade of construction management experience to Parks Construction Consultants. Rena has worked on a number of complex commercial and healthcare projects from the preconstruction phase through project execution. She has helped to coordinate detailed project planning, scheduling, and budgeting controls for implementing best practices in project management.
Rena works closely with the Park’s Team to provide client consultation with strategies and tools to execute project management requirements. She also provides critical analysis of project documentation such as schedules, job costing reports, meeting minutes, and tracking logs to help determine process implementation for risk mitigation.