Austin C. Mattson II is an experienced project management executive with over 30 years of experience in industries such as real estate, manufacturing, construction, and higher education. He has extensive experience leading projects, programs, and operations on an international scale. Currently, he serves as the COO of a family-run real estate investment and property management company in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1. AUSTIN C. MATTSON II, MSCPM, PMP
Las Vegas, NV, 89141
702.202.3460 acmattsonii@gmail.com
REALTY, INVESTMENTS AND PROPERTY MANGEMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS
Performance-driven executive leader, strategic thinker and planner, extremely effective at driving tactical initiatives to
winning outcomes. Extensive and progressive global experience in operations and project management. Highly
recognized for expertise in:
 Delivering Projects and Programs - NPD, R & D, Construction
 Creating & Implementing Project Management Systems
 Developing Proposals and Handling Negotiations
 Leading Difficult Change Management Initiatives
 Operations Building, Optimization and Turn-around
 Optimizing Diverse Group Synergies to Achieve Goals
 Developing Corporate Business and Marketing Strategies
 Project and Program Portfolio Management
 Building Strategic Alliance Partnerships
 Developing Business Plans
 Profit and Loss Management, budgeting
 Cost Containment & Asset Maximization
 Establishing Effective Performance Metrics
 Project / Program Risk Management
 Rescuing Troubled Projects
EDUCATION
PhD ABT, Specialized Curriculum: Strategy, Program and Project Management, Lille Graduate School of
Management, ESC – Lille, “École Supérieure de Commerce de Lille”, Lille, France
MS, Project Management, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
BA, Sociology, Honor Student, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ORANGE REALTY GROUP, LLC., Las Vegas, NV April 2015 – Present
COO, Broker and Property Management
Responsible for operations of family run Real Estate, Investment and Property Management Company.
ALPLA, INC., McDonough, GA January 2011 – January 2015
Director of Program and Project Management,
Responsible for initiating, establishing and implementing plans, strategies and departmental initiatives to achieve Alpla
North American Program, Project Management and Plant Engineering objectives.
 Partnered with Sales organization to create and manage business cases for the North American Regional Strategic
Project Portfolio, driving revenue growth in excess of 15% per year, four years running.
 Developed and implemented the Alpla Project Delivery System for Large Scale Projects, adopted globally by Alpla.
 Established the N.A. Project Delivery Review Board for Strategic program, project and portfolio decision making.
 Developed unique NPD Cross-Functional Stage Gate Process tied to Team Performance, and adopted globally.
 2011 – 2014 Oversaw the Successful delivery of over 25 major Large Scale capital projects; including 8 new
factories, averaging 14% under budget, with 91% on-time project completions.
DELSAER INTERNATIONAL, Pittsburgh, PA July 2009 – December 2010
Executive Project Management Consultant and COO, Delsaer, Montreal QC, Canada
Specifically recruited to assist with negotiations between Fortune 150 steel manufacturing company and two engineering,
procurement, construction and management firms to form an Alliance Partnership for delivering projects; and providing
general project management client consulting.
 Co-created outgrowth firm of Delsaer based in US, and serving international markets, to provide complete project
management services to organizations to improve their project performance and capital effectiveness.
 Represented Owner’s team in complex three-way Alliance Partnership Agreement for capital projects.
 Authored a Scalable Alliance Project Delivery System and Process Manual for Alliance Partnership.
 Co-authored the Penn State University Project Delivery Guidebook, and consulted in its implementation.

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EDMC, Pittsburgh, PA 2009
Director of New Course Development
Responsible for new course development of Graduate, Masters and Undergraduate Level Degree Programs for three
Universities. Responsibilities included training executive management and program development managers in project
management principles applied to new course development processes resulting in improved efficiencies.
 Designed and applied unique project management methodology to higher education new course development.
 Established new performance metrics, providing a first-time visibility into new course development effectiveness.
ALCOA 1998 – 2009
Project Controls Technical Consultant (Major Projects), Alcoa Corporate Center, Pittsburgh, PA 2006 – 2009
Selected as principal executive level project management technical expert to provide strategic and technical leadership in
project controls for major capital construction projects (primarily - Bauxite Mines, Refineries, Power Plants and
Aluminum Smelters) across the organization. Maintained responsibility for project governance of all capital growth
projects and sustaining capital projects greater than $50 million.
 Developed and led global implementation of the Alcoa Project Controls System, providing enterprise-wide project
management methodology praised by senior management for its comprehensiveness and effectiveness.
 Implemented well-received Project Lessons Learned and Project Peer Review Programs that enabled project teams
to learn from past project mistakes and successes improving overall capital effectiveness.
 Led Mega-Project (> $1 Billion) Peer Reviews and analyzed success parameters.
 Appointed Secretary of Project Decision Review Board (PDRB), delivering project selection decisions on the
capital projects portfolio and recommendations for project Board of Directors authorization.
 Successfully led project rescue team to turn around troubled strategic project > $500 million by conducting a
performance gap analysis and guiding the project through stage gated process.
Senior Program Manager, Alcoa Design & Analysis Div., Technology Lab., Alcoa Center, PA 2004 – 2006
Recruited to develop and deploy a research and development project management program. Directed and managed
projects and programs to ensure consistency with corporate strategy and consistency of processes across projects, while
maintaining high customer satisfaction levels.
 Instituted the Project Management Methodology after successfully piloting it with sixteen projects, including
defense, aerospace and automotive projects to provide the organization with a standardized methodology to improve
management process of projects and overall project performance.
 Authored three internal project management guidebooks adopted by the organization.
 Established a voluntary global project management best practices community organization with an interactive
intranet website that served as a knowledge resource library and was widely used throughout the enterprise.
 Developed well-received project management training program, including constructing courses and teaching both
internal and external project management practitioners.
Project Manager/Senior Project Manager (NPD), Alcoa CSI Inc., Crawfordsville, IN 1998 – 2004
Provided leadership on strategic projects in research & development, process improvement, new material development
and new product development.
 Guided multiple successful projects from conception to market introductions, including:
- A new product; representing 18% of the total company market sector sales volume.
- An improved technology platform, doubling product manufacturing throughput.
- A new sealing technology for closures under extreme heat conditions.
- A new blended material, saving approximately $ 4.5 million in material costs per year.
 International experience leading process transfer to European Research and Design organization in Germany, while
also leading two new product development project teams across Europe.
 Appointed to the product development task force, which devised new processes, tools and techniques that reduced
product development time from over 2 years to less than 8 months.
 Selected as the only project manager to serve in Sales as co-program owner of 2 product market sectors.
 Developed strategic organizational competencies plan; adopted corporate-wide for project management capability.
NYPRO OREGON INC., Corvallis, OR 1996 – 1998
Operations Manager
Held total responsibility for manufacturing operations of an ISO 9002 certified custom injection molding plastics plant.

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 Developed business strategy to convert tooling shop into a profit center by adding mold building capabilities and
marketing and selling new prototype and rapid mold build services.
 Conceived and executed machine process controls strategy improving production efficiency from 72% to 85%, and
improved product yields from 90% to 98%.
 Staffed logistics team and chartered procedures to improve inventory accuracy from 67% to 100%.
LETICA OF NEVADA, Jean, NV 1994 – 1996
Plant Manager, Plant II, Thinwall Division
Recruited for a second time to return to Letica to turn around, and re-engineer a failing injection molding facility.
 Enhanced delivery reliability from 60% backorder to 100% on time by rebuilding plant management and customer
service teams, improving inventory control system, and fully-integrating workflow procedures.
 Improved overall plant efficiency from 50% to 75%, while reducing plant scrap rate from 8% to 4.3%.
THE TIMBERLAND MFG. CO., Mountain City, TN & Boone, NC 1993 – 1994
General Manager
Maintained complete responsibility for U.S. operations, of multiple manufacturing locations and warehouses with 1200
plus personnel, and an annual operating budget of $27.5 million.
 Increased average monthly production of outdoor footwear products 108%, and reduced the cost per pair by 21.6%.
 Increased output by almost 50% by re-organizing production lines according to modular manufacturing concepts.
 Improved inventory turns from 9 to 19, which reduced raw materials inventory from $9.6 million to $6.5 million.
 Initiated the idea of, and then established, a highly profitable retail outlet store within the factory.
BARRY’S OF SAN ANGELO, San Angelo, TX 1988 – 1993
Plant Manager - Converted cutting and sewing facility into an injection molding facility.
LETICA OF DELAWARE, Middletown, DE 1985 – 1987
Plant Manager - Lead operations of an injection molding and decorating plant.
ALLEN BRADLEY COMPANY, Greensboro, NC 1984 – 1985
Production/Maintenance General Supervisor - Managed 5 production lines in a high speed electronics plant.
UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, Asheboro, NC 1980 – 1984
Maintenance Supervisor - Responsible for 25 skilled trades workers involved in the production of battery products.
U.S. MARINE CORPS, Camp Lejeune, NC 1977 – 1980
Captain - Platoon Commander and Special Staff Officer, in Motor Transport, Communications and Intelligence.
CERTIFICATIONS
Advanced Project Management Certificate (APMC) and Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)
Successful Megaprojects, Certificate of Training, IPA Institute, May 2006
AFFILIATIONS
 Member, The Project Management Institute (PMI),1999 – Present
 On-Site Evaluation Team Leader, Global Accreditation Center (GAC), PMI, 2008 – Present
 Member, Advisory Panel , The Project Management Institute (PMI), 2005 – Present
 Member, Construction Industry Institute (CII), 2006 – 2009
 Member, Board of Advisors, Construction Industry Institute (CII), 2008 – 2009
 Member, Board, Independent Project Analysis (IPA), 2008 – 2009
 PMI Chapter Member, Indianapolis (1999 – 2009), Pittsburgh (2004 – 2011), Atlanta (2011 – present); and Risk SIG
(2005 – 2011)
 Member, Research Team 241 (Optimizing Construction Input), Construction Industry Institute (CII), 2006 – 2008
 Member, Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACE), 2006 – 2009
 Member, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), 1988 – 1997; Senior Member, 1997 – 2005