Background Summary:

I began my career as a pipe layer/form setter/equipment operator, moved up to foreman, and thereafter to superintendent for a large North American company. For the past seven years I have managed my own civil development corporation.

My experience is broad and my expertise includes areas such as
Heavy Civil construction management
Land development
General contracting
Project & budget management
Experience working with governmental agencies
Project estimating


Experience:

11/2001 1/2009
Construction Site Management, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO
Project Manager, Construction Manager
Project Manager for land development
Civil construction management
Project feasibility studies
Work with the Engineers to build Value in projects for the owners
Getting approvals and coordinating with governmental agencies
Creating and enforcing bid specification, letting the different trades out for bid, hiring sub-contractors and facilitating contracts
Billing and budget management
Coordinate time lines, logistics and work plans with contractors
Coordinate subs safety plans


1994-10/2001
PCL Civil Contractors, Denver, CO
Superintendent Dirt and Wet/ Dry Utilities
Superintendent on the Denver RTD Light Rail Projects
Supervised up to 45 employees
Supervised subcontractors
Coordinated our work with the different governmental agencies
Coordinated the work in the field with team leads
Responsible for creating time lines, logistics plans (personal, equipment,materials), work plans, safety plans and training, mentor management, train union trades personal and review time cards.
Supervised dirt work and wet/dry utilities for multiple CDOT projects while supervising Light Rail
Managed yearly combined budgets of 10 million to 20 million dollars on these multiple sites


Training
Stormwater BMP /SWWP
Budget Management coding, man-hours per unit, advance planning, task training
Project Scheduling
Communication courses
40 HR. OSHA Training
Let my 80HR OSHA, CPR, Lead, Asbestos and Nuclear Certificates expire


Highlights:

There are many highlights in my career which I would be happy to describe in detail, but some that I regard particularly highly include:

1.The budget for a single family housing project called Cross Creek (a 618 lot project for four owners each with a different percentage of ownership rights per filing).was established two years before the project started. We took two years to do ninety five percent of the civil development and although the city doubled and quadrupled their fees in this period, we still managed to hold to the budget while raising the standard of quality for housing projects in that area.
I personally put all the subs together and worked with engineers using value engineering to design for efficiency. This project became a top seller, with good profitability for the two national builders involved. For another it top ten of their projects in the United States, and it was an extremely good project for a local builder.

2.Every project or budget that I have been involved with from the start of budgeting/bidding or start of construction has been met or beaten along with the schedule for the project. This has been accomplished by keeping safety at the top of the priority list. Most of projects that I have managed been hard bids or fixed price budgets, with liquidated damages tied to progress dates, or fast track projects.

3.While at PCL did not use foremen - used lead personnel instead. We gave all the union trades leadership training and the lead people got extra leadership training along with blueprint, specification reading and other skill training. On the light rail project the Rail Contractor was falling behind on making switches so we trained four PCL hands to do this task. They outperformed the sub contractor team of 12, proving that when the trade person gets the right training they can achieve marvellous things.


Value engineering:

A strong focus on the concept of value engineering has helped me to create high value for the companies I have worked with. PCL is a great example where I helped to get the specs changed on the dirt used in the back fill of flyover bridges, saving close to $1 million for the company. In fact when another company built there flyover to the specification they had problems.

Changing how the electrical and communication mains were installed on flyover bridge with a reduction of 525 man hours, 150 hrs equipment hours, around $100,000 in material and got rid of the liability of working around an sensitive finish product.

Personal attributes:

Personal attributes that are very important to me include:
Typically dont stop till the job is done
High energy levels
Very professional
Strong on honesty
Give credit where credit is due
Highly persuasive
Good "people skills"
Good leadership skills
Strong profit focus
Work well to budget constraints
Good conceptualization skills