Joe Donarumo serves as Senior Vice President, Client Development for Skiles Group. He is a construction leader with more than 19 years of experience helping owners, architects, and project teams deliver complex work with greater clarity, reliability, and trust. His background in operations shapes how he approaches growth—focused on alignment, predictability, and long-term partnerships rather than transactional pursuits. At Skiles Group, he focuses on growing the right relationships in healthcare, education, and other technically complex markets. His role is centered on working with organizations that value Lean thinking, collaborative delivery, and a builder who understands both the strategy and the realities of execution. He previously served as a Vice President, Field Operations, where he developed and led high-performing field teams in the healthcare market group for another construction management firm. He also served as Director of Lean Application, ensuring that Lean processes were continuously improved and consistently practiced, and as Senior Superintendent before that. Joe has a unique passion for Lean implementation, continuous improvement, and a ruthless pursuit of waste elimination within his projects, teams, and overall organization. Joe is also a principal and co-author of The Lean Builder, a business fable written for field leaders and last planners to help them begin their Lean journey through Lean implementation at the field level.