Primary Job Title Project Consultant Primary Organization 
Draper & Associates
Location Atlanta, Georgia, United States Regions Greater Atlanta Area, East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Gaines Redd is a Project Consultant at Draper & Associates (Draper). He joined Draper in April 2001 and has been providing construction management and contract administration services for clients in the public and private sectors for almost seven years.
Mr. Redd has a strong construction project management background and brings excellent
planning, budgeting, communication, and contract administration skills, which make him extremely effective as an owner's representative overseeing third party vendors delivering property management, maintenance, capital improvement, and other specialized services.
EXPERIENCE
Mr. Redd has been on assignment at the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA) since February 2004. He provides public housing operations oversight, including performance tracking, feedback, and technical assistance for issue resolution, to one of AHA's third-party vendors responsible for property management services for approximately one third of the 6,300+ units in the AHA Affordable Housing portfolio. He oversees the vendor's execution of capital improvement projects, including the monitoring of vendor procurement, administering construction contracts, performing quality assurance inspections of work completed, and reviewing / approving pay applications. He also administers the AHA elevator consulting service contract, providing oversight of a third-party vendor responsible for conducting annual physical inspections of the elevators in the AHA high-rise communities and AHA headquarters, developing recommendations for elevator modernization and maintenance and inspecting the elevator upgrade / maintenance work completed by all AHA private management companies.
Mr. Redd came to the AHA assignment with prior public housing authority experience, having worked for sixteen months at the Memphis Housing Authority (MHA) as a member of the Draper team that facilitated the procurement and execution of more than 45 design and construction projects, worth over $24 million. That team introduced rigorous procurement and contract administration procedures as well as disciplined project management practices into the Memphis Operation. These efforts eliminated the MHA's backlog of capital improvement projects, corrected all HUD findings against the MHA Modernization Program, and contributed significantly to the decision by HUD to remove the MHA from its list of “troubled” authorities.
