Nabwic TALKS With Mercedes Young About Her Vivid Vision

Mercedes Young CEO - Vivid Consulting Group LLC

Young has extensive experience with work in Florida on projects for FDOT / County / City in Civil Engineering and all aspects of PD&E and Design of Urban and Rural Highways and general Infrastructure Projects. Our areas of expertise include, Roadway Geometry, Drainage, R/W Usage/Determination/Acquisition, Permitting, Construction Plan preparation, Spec Pkg preparation, Signal Design and Traffic Engineering Studies, QA/QC and Public?Involvement; with responsibilities of complete scope preparation, task definition, budget management, project management, quality assurance, quality control, estimating, and construction assistance and supervision. Work on projects for FDOT in Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and the Turnpike.

At the present time, Vivid is assisting the Contractor as a Specialty Consultant at the new DDI (Diverted Diamond Interchange) in Sarasota/Manatee Counties in the areas of Drainage, MOT and Shop Drawing revie

EOR in the Design-Built arena for the first FDOT Design- Built project that included R/W acquisition in District 3 (The I-10 Rests Areas in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Counties) and EOR of the project that won the recognition of the State as the most innovative project in 2004.

In the PD&E arena Vivid was a part of the team that produced the first study to expand the Selmon Expressway to the east that studied 5 major routes, 20+ sub-alternates and included a very intense public participation program.

Abundant experience working with Design-Build Teams

Disadvantaged Minority Woman Owned

50 years of combined experience in the areas of civil engineering and business development