Mike Pierle

About Mike Pierle

Energetic, passionate, personable and motivated business executive with expertise and a 30+ year track record of success in the mission critical, healthcare, education and public facility construction industry. I began my career as a Project Engineer with an international construction company specializing in project controls management advancing through the roles of Project Executive and Executive Vice President to Chief Operations Officer. Personal core values are teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability and discipline. Developed a proven approach to leading large teams, concurrently on multiple projects to produce safe environment and predictable profitable results, while believing that persevering people properly positioned will produce predictable profits. Brings an intuitive approach to people and business creating opportunities for individual and organizational growth and achievement. Cultivating long-term customer relationships through trust development is fundamental to delivering lasting, predictable results. Excellent analytical ability facilitates creative and effective solutions. Ability to foster environment that creates employee loyalty and growth in an entrepreneurial team environment.Outstanding organizational and planning skills. Confident, poised and effective under pressure while maintaining flexibility and versatility. Inspiring, yet pragmatic, focused and builder of performance excellence. Embraces and thrives with technology, a tool to aid communication. Excellent written and oral communication skills with diplomacy and tact at all levels. Resilient and determined to innovate a “better solution”. Thoughtful, purposeful and strategic with situation assessments and decision making. Humble, creative knowledge seeker and sharer.

Experience

1. Chief Operating Officer, Construction

   Clayco

   Jan 2025 — Present

Education

• Columbia Business School

  Executive Education

  2003 — 2004

• Furman University

  Executive Development Program

  2007 — 2007

• Purdue University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Building Construction Management

  1985 — 1990

Skills

• Procurement
• Project Control
• Leed Ap
• Cpm Scheduling
• Bim
• Pre-Construction
• Budgets
• Ms Project
• Leed
• Design-Build
• Construction
• Earned Value Management
• Negotiation
• Program Management
• Process Scheduler
• Constructability
• Project Estimation
• Microsoft Project
• Facilities Management
• Primavera P6
• Renovation
• Contractors
• Value Engineering
• Change Orders
• Civil Engineering
• Estimates
• Strategic Planning
• Team Building
• Management
• Contract Management
• Project Management
• Contract Negotiation
• Concrete
• New Business Development
• Cost Management
• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Leed)
• Cost Engineering
• Submittals
• Construction Safety
• Cost Control