Yehudi Soto
Boston
Summary
Resourceful Senior Facilities Manager known for productivity and efficient task completion. Specialize in operational planning, building management, energy management, Lab operation's and safety compliance. Excel in leadership, problem-solving, and communication, ensuring smooth facility operations and team cohesion.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Senior Facilities Manager
Flagship Pioneering
Cambridge
05.2023 - Current
- Overseeing daily building operations, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing and mechanical needs.
- Managed 370,000 sq ft campus with 27 tenants, overseeing their facilities and lab operations.
- Managing preventative maintenance contracts, setting up Service Contracts while working with service vendors to maintain high capital equipment.
- Operating BMS(building management system) tracking temperature, humidity, and equipment statuses.
- Monitoring alarm statuses, optimizing energy efficiencies, while reducing cost for the building.
- Providing performance trends and trend analysis.
- Managing facilities team to complete ongoing task, and work orders to maintain upkeep of the building.
- Using cloud based software(MRI Angus) to keep metrics and records of previous jobs.
- Improving infrastructure upgrades modernizing building systems to provide best efficiencies and safe work practices.
- Managing fire systems, pre actions systems, emergency planning along with evacuation routes.
- Integrated security software system, and overseeing access control with badges. While pulling reports and metrics for tenants.
- Develops and enhances metrics / key performance indicators for department performance and ensures continuous improvement.
- Renewing permits for pressurized vessels and working with MWRA for water treatment and yearly renewals.
- Setting up bulk tank systems for Co2, Air generation, and Vacuum systems for building use for lab users, while maintaining scheduled maintenance.
- Coordinating new projects with new labs and office spaces, which includes expansion projects.
- Working with architects, General Construction companies, Engineers and Contractors.
- Moving multiple new Co’s and growth Co’s to new spaces depending on their needs for new space, working with move managers to ensure their equipment layouts are complete and beneficial to their layouts.
- Overseeing building designs and infrastructure to accommodate office and lab needs.
Senior Facilities Associate & Lab Tech
Rheos Medicines
10.2018 - 07.2022
- Manage all lab equipment service contracts and preventive maintenance contracts ensuring equipment is running smoothly and up to date.
- Maintain and repair lab equipment directly and by coordinating with service vendors.
- Perform preventive maintenance and calibration on instruments such as Incubators, BSC certification, Water baths, fridges and freezers.
- Manage orders of capital equipment and work with vendors/facilities to install and train.
- Isolating PBMC(peripheral Blood mononuclear cells) for lab staff to run experiments on.
- Managing Pipette calibration ensuring there is a scheduled calibration, RAININ, Gilson, integra, Eppendorf, etc, every 6 months.
- Conducting weekly meetings with Lab staff to follow up on objectives for the week.
- Keep the laboratory clean and stocked with supplies, such as disposable and reusable glassware and plasticware, media and buffer stocks, lab coats and miscellaneous materials.
- Monitor and maintain CO2 gas tanks, liquid nitrogen tanks, lab coats services and dry ice deliveries.
- Wash and autoclave reusable glassware.
- Responsible for all shipping and receiving.
- Part of after-hours emergency call team for lab and facilities.
- Communicate frequently and effectively with any and all lab stakeholders.
- Manage shipping for domestic and international shipments of lab materials, including the preparation of material for shipment and receiving from external vendors.
- Manage storage and inventory of internally made materials and stocks.
- Order, receive, and distribute general lab supplies and track stock level.
- Manages supplies throughout the lab space with weekly ordering to replenish supplies.
- Ordering supplies from vendors, VWR, Thermo fisher, and global supplies centers.
- Order reagents, chemicals, buffers, compounds, solvents, life tech supplies, and daily scientific tools to fulfill research objectives.
- IATA certified able to ship category B substances for international and domestic shipping.
- Trained in shipping and receiving hazardous material.
- Worked with multiple couriers such as World Courier, BioCair, Mercury, FedEx, for international shipments.
- Keep track of shipment manifest, and created invoice for way bill.
- Familiar with some industrial machinery, fork lift, and pallet jack, etc.
- Manages the shipment and invoices of all products, materials, and supplies.
- Store and unpack any perishable/temperature sensitive items in proper conditions such as -80,-20, or cold room.
- Establish communications with employees when packages arrive with exact location.
Education
High School Diploma -
City On A Hill Charter School
Boston, MA03-2017
Skills
- Building management
- Preventive maintenance
- HVAC systems
- Project management
- Energy optimization
- Vendor management
- Security management
- Lab ops
- Multitasking capacity
- Problem solving
Certification
Eco structure Building Operations
Languages
Spanish
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Senior Facilities Manager
Flagship Pioneering
05.2023 - Current
Senior Facilities Associate & Lab Tech
Rheos Medicines
10.2018 - 07.2022
High School Diploma -
City On A Hill Charter School