Professional info

 

Jeff Cely is the president of Cely Consulting, Inc, Over the past 13 years, Mr. Cely has been providing program management and financial oversight for projects with funding sources from both public and private sectors. Jeff is an industry leader managing delivery and funding uses while maintaining related compliance standards. Mr Cely's services include program/project management oversight, financial and funding analysis, auditing and development of project controls. He has conducted performance evaluations, outlined areas of risks, and developed processes for project management and project controls for multi-million dollar programs in the United States and the Caribbean. Mr. Cely’s experience ranges from residential to commercial, providing project management services from single family homes to water treatment plants.



Currently, under Mr. Cely’s leadership, CCI is managing the development of Savannah Trails and Orleans Place. A $100M mixed income, mixed use development in Ocean Springs, MS funded by private and public funds. Financial oversight is one of the most critical aspects of the work specifically with the complexity of funding sources such as: CDBG, USDA, and Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. At completion, the development will include more than 500 single and multi-family units and more than 200,000 SF of retail spaces including a 100-children daycare. CCI is also providing technical assistance and fiscal monitoring to the City of New Orleans – Office of Community Development (OCD) $410M CDBG grant.

​

 

Mr. Cely is also experienced in value engineering studies; he served as team member in the value engineering study for state projects such as: the Florida
I-4/SR-408 interchange, SR-528 westbound bridge replacement. He provided cost engineering support for the SR-50 widening from SR-25 (US- 27) to Pine Hills road.