A Bilingual Certified Project Management Professional — Who Writes!
Welcome to the portfolio of Project Manager and writer, David Southgate. Inside you'll find more than a decade of internationally published articles on a variety of topics including:
- Project management articles that advance the profession
- Career advice for technology executives, hiring companies and recruiters
- Case studies on technology integrations
- And travel articles, especially about South Puerto Rico and Porta Caribe
Weekly business journals and trade publications such as CIOUpdate, Internet.com, Datamation and CNET have frequently commissioned me to write on a variety of topics.
But my mainstay is Project Management for economic development projects and Brownfields. Along with my PM and financial management skills, I have a strong track record for bridging language barriers with international teams.
My entrepreneurial background led me to manage an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Area-wide Brownfields Planning Pilot for Desarrollo Integral del Sur (DISUR), a socio-economic development agency covering 15 municipalities along the Caribbean coast of Puerto Rico.
The EPA Planning Project, PR#127-Guayanilla-Peñuelas, is planning the revitalization of a 3,500-acre former petrochemical zone in two rural Puerto Rico towns. There, I am responsible for overall project success, planning and scheduling, scope management, recruitment, supervision, community and collaborator engagement, media relations, federal compliance management enforcement, and grant writing, as well as communication between EPA, the grant recipient, C-Level Stakeholders and local and state government.
Leverages from inkind contributions and additional grants from the American Architectural Foundation's Sustainable Communities Design Academy, and a partnership with Worchester Polytechnic Institute and Syracuse University's Environmental Finance Center, have increased the total project value to $450,000. More is sure to come as we begin implementing the Area-wide plan.
If you're hear to read browse an exhaustive collection of my published writings in my archive. If you like what you see, I'm always for hire for special and interesting projects. Let's talk.
David Southgate & Social Media
