Sarah F. A. M. Rodovalho

Selected work

Case studies across hyperscale infrastructure, manufacturing, and the built environment.

Six selected programs from a 16+ year delivery career in the U.S. and Brazil. Each entry pairs scope numbers with the role I held and the project's delivery context. The full chronology — including earlier roles in architecture practice and public-sector work — is on LinkedIn ; broader role overview lives on the experience page .

  1. 01
    Data center · hyperscale Current engagement

    Multi-building hyperscale campus

    Integrated Design Manager · Aligned Data Centers

    Oct 2025 — present · Virginia & Maryland, U.S.

    Leading design-management on a multi-building, ~264 MW data center campus in the Washington DC – Baltimore corridor. Scope includes long-lead procurement, Owner-Furnished Equipment (OFE) strategy, and design-construction governance across concurrent buildings — coordinating owner, general contractor, and specialty vendor teams.

  2. 02
    Data center · hyperscale

    Hyperscale construction-contracts program

    Data Center Construction Contracts — Project Manager focus · Microsoft (CO+I)

    Jul 2024 — Aug 2025 · Virginia · North Carolina · Brazil

    Directed change-order management across 8 concurrent hyperscale data center builds totaling 1.1M+ sq ft and 182.5 MW. Implemented a change-order management framework that was later adopted program-wide across Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation. Recognized with the CO+I FY25 Q3 Team Award.

  3. 03
    Industrial · manufacturing

    Industrial & R&D facilities portfolio

    Technical Project Manager — Industrial & Workplace Projects · Tesla

    May 2023 — Aug 2024 · Fremont & Lathrop, CA · Nevada

    Managed 20+ infrastructure, workplace, and R&D facility projects across ~2.25M sq ft in Fremont, Lathrop, and Nevada — supporting manufacturing and cell-development programs. Drove ~20% reduction in design fees on the Megapack expansion through scope discipline and vendor consolidation.

  4. 04
    Retail · large-scale

    Passeio das Águas Shopping

    Design & Construction Manager · Aliansce Sonae Shopping Centers

    Sep 2012 — May 2021 · Goiânia, Brazil

    Managed and delivered one of Brazil's largest shopping centers, from ground-up construction through commissioning and ongoing tenant-improvement operations. Total area of 1.94M sq ft on a 4.9M sq ft site, $232M investment; opened on the original target date of 30 October 2013. Implemented a tenant-improvement operational framework later adopted across Aliansce Sonae's national portfolio.

  5. Project team on a recently paved Goiânia BRT corridor — about thirteen people, mixing construction crew in orange high-visibility vests with project-management staff wearing IDs and civilian clothing, gathered on the new busway between sloped concrete barrier walls. Goiânia's commercial skyline (ÉPOCA storefront, residential towers) is visible in the background. Sarah Rodovalho is among the project-management staff in the group.
    On the newly-paved BRT corridor with the project team — during the 2019–2021 design-management engagement.
    05
    Public transit

    Goiânia Bus Rapid Transit network

    Project Design Manager · Goiânia Bus Rapid Transit network

    Nov 2019 — Jul 2021 · Goiânia, Brazil

    Design management for Goiânia's Bus Rapid Transit network — a R$246M public infrastructure program spanning a 15-mile corridor with 7 terminals and 36 stations, and ~419K sq ft of ground-up build. Bypassed eminent-domain constraints through targeted design revisions and realized R$1.5M in design-change savings during a two-month critical-criteria window.

  6. 06
    Healthcare

    Healthcare clinical planning & design

    Architectural Designer (Clinical Planning & Healthcare Design) · Array Architects

    May 2022 — Dec 2022 · Philadelphia, PA

    Clinical-planning and healthcare-architecture work at a firm focused exclusively on the healthcare built environment. Contributed to bed-tower and renovation packages where program adjacencies, infection-control, patient experience, and operational continuity drive every plan decision.