News: Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: May 14, 2015
Professional Profile: Danielle Lee Skilling 2015
Name: Danielle Lee Skilling
Title: Community Affairs Specialist
Company: Gilbane Building Company
Location: Boston, MA
Place of birth: Boston, MA
Family: Two children and a granddaughter
College: B.S., Construction Management from Wentworth Institute of Technology
M.B.A. Benedictine University
First job unrelated to your current field: Dunkin Donuts
First job in real estate or allied field: Certification Specialist, SOMWBA (now SDO)
What your firm does now and its plans for the future? Gilbane is a construction management firm with a commitment to the people and communities where we build. Gilbane Cares is more than just words. My job is an example of that. I work to create and provide opportunities for MBE/WBE/VBEs in the A/E/C community as well as for women, minorities and veterans looking to enter the construction workforce.
Hobbies: Reading, family time at the beach
Favorite book: Dante's Inferno
Favorite movie: Out of Africa
Key to success: Be your biggest advocate! Never give up!
Person(s) you admire (outside of family): I have great admiration for anyone who has ever experienced adversity and continues to work hard to improve their own life as well as the lives of others.
If you were forced to choose another vocation what would it be? Novelist
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