Owner's Agent · Mission-Critical Infrastructure · Program Leadership
Professional Engineer, PMP, and U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps veteran with 20+ years leading the planning, delivery, and integration of complex mission-critical infrastructure — including owner-side delivery of hyperscale data center campuses for Meta and Switch.
Meta · Switch · NAVFAC · U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps
I provide independent owner's agent representation services to projects of any size or scope for any duration as deemed necessary by the client.
Supported owner-side delivery of campus-scale hyperscale infrastructure involving major power systems, utilities, contractors, and mission-critical construction programs.
Supported hyperscale campus delivery through coordination of contractors, commissioning teams, operations groups, designers, engineers, and executive stakeholders.
Managed technically complex military construction and infrastructure programs.
I provide independent owner's agent representation services to projects of any size or scope for any duration as deemed necessary by the client.
Retained directly by the owner, I work only the owner's interest — not a contractor's, not a design firm's, not a program manager's already carrying a delivery incentive. The engagement is shaped by your project and your risk, whether that is one review, one phase, or standing representation from planning through commissioning and turnover.
Independent, owner-aligned representation at the table: scope and constructability review, contractor and consultant accountability, technical decision support, and a single accountable voice reporting to you.
Capital program structure, phasing, and controls — budget and GMP review, contractor selection support, schedule governance, change management, and reporting an executive can act on.
Utility and substation coordination, medium-voltage distribution, service agreements, and the long-lead power path that decides whether a campus energizes on schedule.
Commissioning readiness, integrated systems testing, and the operational turnover discipline that gets a facility to Day-1 ready — and keeps it there.
Independent assessment of a distressed or drifting program: root-cause schedule review, recovery planning, mitigation, and honest reporting to ownership and lenders.
Alignment across ownership, operations, design, contractors, utilities, and authorities — with clear escalation and decision paths instead of unresolved risk.
Practical notes on owner-side delivery, data center construction, commissioning readiness, and what independent owner's agent representation actually looks like on a live program.
What independent representation means, the five points where an owner most often loses money without it, and how to size an engagement that fits the project instead of the other way around.
Read the note →Why a data center either opens on Day-1 or drifts: the decisions made in the first weeks of a program, and the operating discipline that carries them through turnover.
Read the note →Hiring for a construction leadership role, or considering independent owner's agent representation on a program? Reach me directly — I respond quickly.
ResumeDownload PDFHendrik Schoeman · PE · PMP · Fort Lauderdale, FL
