OBJECTIVE: To obtain a leadership position in an Asphalt/Aggregate Materials Supply company that will benefit from my 17 years of experience in operations and quality management.

Solid experience in hands-on management of asphalt operations, equipment, quarries, quality control, and customer relations.
Mobile equipment skills: front end loaders, dozers, backhoes, forklifts, manlifts, skid steer, drill truck, portable screening/crushing.
Plant Technical expertise: Asphalt plant batch and drum, drier flighting, silo and slat maintenance, plant set-up, RAP systems, screen decks and media, baghouses and filter media, HSI crushers, cone and jaw crushers, classifiers, feeders, dredges, plant air flow, fuel economy, etc.
Strong business acumen helps focus employees toward company goals.
Work well with all levels of management personnel.
Thorough knowledge of business accounting and payroll functions, jobs billing, inventory management, and OSHA/MSHA safety regulations and safe practices.
Strong troubleshooting and problem solving abilities that facilitate rational management decisions.
Adept at preparing and delivering presentations to all levels of the organization.
Skilled at identifying inefficiencies, tracking, and eliminating them.
Skilled at negotiating, learning new concepts quickly, working well under pressure, and communicating ideas clearly and effectively.
Ability to read, visualize, and interpret construction plans and diagrams.
Active member of Stratford HOA Board of Directors for 450+ home neighborhood, chair the Long Range Planning committee, manage tennis courts

EXPERIENCE:

2003 to Present: Meybohm Realtors (local market leader, 362 licensed agents)
ASSOCIATE BROKER. Focused on building and sustaining relationships by providing superior technical detail and advice, and hands-on service. Skilled at preparing and delivering individual and group sales/marketing presentations highlighting individual and company services, technical support, and customer focused goals. Passed Broker exam in 2007.

1999 to 2003:Rinker Materials/Reeves Construction
QUARRY/SAND PLANT MANAGER (2001 to 2003). Hands-on manager responsible for a 1.5MM TPY granite quarry and a 280,000 TPY sand operations (dredge and wet screen) including production, maintenance of mobile and fixed assets, safety, capital projects, and preparing operating and capital budgets. Raised efficiency in tertiary crushing plant 50% via manganese profile changes. Improved quality of dry run #8 stone via simple screen media changes. Troubleshoot all problems involving production, quality, and efficiency. Also, supervised a rock plant to screen the 5-10% rock that was dredged. Supervised 32 at the quarry and 3 at the sand plant.
REGIONAL EQUIPMENT MANAGER (1999 to 2001). Hands-on manager responsible for managing 300+ pieces of mobile equipment including 2 division maintenance shops. Duties included tracking equipment utilization, revenue versus expense, preparation of region capital budgets, and managing all fixed asset capital projects. Responsible for 6 asphalt plants (1.4MM TPY). Moved, repaired and erected a 1982 Cedarapids parallel flow drum plant; and moved and erected a stationary RAP processing unit. Troubleshoot all problems involving production, laydown, quality, and efficiency.
ASPHALT OPERATIONS MANAGER (1999). Responsible for production through laydown. Advised plants on cost controls and how to repair major problems. Changed mixes to get better cost advantage. Re-flighted drier to improve drying cost and production efficiency.

1986 to 1999: APAC Virginia, Inc.
Held positions of increasing and overlapping responsibility.
ASPHALT PLANTS MANAGER (1993 to 1999). Hands-on manager responsible for maintaining and operating five plants including cost analysis and P&L. Production: 700,000 TPY. Supervise 19. Designed and built 3 stationary recirculatory RAP crushing plants. Dismantled, moved and erected an Astec double barrel plant. Dismantled a Barber Greene batch plant and converted to an Esstee post drum mixer with drum controls. Added storage silos to two plants. Assist in developing operating budgets with division president. Responsible for scheduling the most cost-effective and quality-wise means of production while serving outside customers and intra-company sales. Purchased all natural gas for plants; managed pipeline use/inventory. Manage all material inventories at plants. Work with EHS Director to ensure compliance with local, state and federal agencies. Work with sales representative to address customer's service and product needs, and the company's goals concerning F.O.B. and intra-company sales.
QUARRY MANAGER (1993 to 1995). Hands-on manager responsible for production and maintenance in a 500,000 TPY granite quarry. Managed all costs associated with operation, and assisted in developing the operating budget. Responsible for controlling material inventory, development and improvement of all products. Work with EHS Director to ensure compliance with local, state and federal agencies. Tailor made aggregates for use in airport and other asphalt mixes. Quarry was sold March, 1995.





QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER (1988 to 1999). Design all DOT and FAA asphalt and base stone mixes as well as open graded products for the division. Designed and supervised production of a NAPA Quality in Construction Award winning SMA mix. Liaison between DOT Materials Division and the company. Work directly with DOT to solve any quality problems. Work with stone suppliers to tailor make stone products for use in asphalt mixes. Served on industry/DOT task force dealing with specifications, quality, laydown, and production issues.
MATERIALS TECHNICIAN (1986 to 1988). Responsible for designing and testing asphalt and stone mixes, and for making adjustments to plants to maintain quality products. Wrote FORTRAN program to handle blending of multiple aggregates and store data for mix designs; later converted to computer spreadsheet. Work with stone suppliers to reach solutions to quality problems concerning materials. Operated nuclear density gauge on field placed asphalt pavements. Responsible for supervising drilling crew during exploration of potential quarry sites in Virginia. Assisted sister company operating in North Carolina in preliminary evaluation of job-specific quarry sites.

EDUCATION:

BS Geology, James Madison University, 1985
Management Development Course with honors, GA Crushed Stone Association
Certifications: GADOT Levels I, II and III Superpave Asphalt Design Technician; VADOT Superpave Mix Design and Superpave Aggregate; Virginia DMME Surface Mine Foreman; Basic First Aid; DOT Design Laboratory; VADOT Bituminous Concrete Technician - Plant and Road; VADOT Central Mix Aggregate Technician; VADOT Nuclear Density Technician (Troxler); NICET Level II Construction Materials Testing; and FAA Competent for Designing and Testing FAA Asphalt Mixes. Strong background in Math and Computers.

COMPUTER:
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Publisher. JD Edwards and SAP accounting software experience. FORTRAN and C programming languages.



References and transcripts available upon request.