Sheena Smith

Successful leader as Senior Capital Project Manager and Building Services Manager with more than 14 years’ experience leading and supporting complex infrastructure projects in healthcare, post -secondary sectors, and in recent years, housing units. A combined 33-year experience in planning and development. As Building Service Manager, currently developing operational infrastructure for standardization and centralization of five regional site offices in the Northern District, while overseeing Capital Project delivery to the value $10M. In the role of Project Executive, acted as strategic advisor to the Minister on the management of a multi school project portfolio for the Province of Nova Scotia, developing strategies to efficiently deliver projects within a $200M capital budget. Provided leadership for professional teams to ensure successful project delivery; led in development of budgets, processes for school building development across the province. Successfully led the delivery of multiple healthcare and post secondary capital project developments. As Graduate Architect, owned and operated architectural design firm for 11 years, Bermuda.

Highly motivated Graduate Architect with 34 years of project management experience. Consistently drives results by building and leading high-performance teams. Excellent communication skills with proven history of effectively collaborating across all organizational levels.

Dedicated management professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

• Organizational Infrastructure Development: Successfully initiated capital project management infrastructure for implementation across the Nova Scotia Provincial Housing Agency to manage and track over $50M in capital projects.
• Communication Strategy for Four District Office Collaboration: Developed regular communication platforms for collaboration between NSPHA’s four District Offices with aim toward shared resources; defining efficiencies and identification of best practices across the Agency for full implementation.
• Strategic Planning: Developed visions, and implementation plans for Capital Planning Departments; identified objectives and implemented goals in alignment with strategic plan of the public organization.
• Finance: Developed $30M infrastructure budget; allocated funding across Nova Scotia school regions for infrastructure upgrades. Regular review, planning and forecasting of capital and operational budgets for efficient budget allocation and spending.
• Leadership and Management: Transformed challenged Capital Departments into high performing delivery teams, Improved business processes; Led Stakeholder Engagements and Relations, and Led Project Teams to complete healthcare projects on schedule and within budget.
• Successful Construction Management: Successfully collaborated with, and managed, consultant teams from project planning to project closeout; and contractors during construction, to ensure or healthcare, post secondary and senior housing project objectives were met and delivered on time and on budget.