To combine industry-unique experience and qualifications: Senior Project Manager, Project Manager,
Estimator, Owner’s Representative, LEED coordinator, and Executive-Level Business Development and
Architect, to achieve the highest level of personal and professional success in the Construction and
Development Sectors with a company equally dedicated to its employees and reputation.
MICHAEL P. KLESTA
OBJECTIVE:
To combine industry-unique experience and qualifications: Senior Project Manager, Project Manager,
Estimator, Owner’s Representative, LEED coordinator, and Executive-Level Business Development and
Architect, to achieve the highest level of personal and professional success in the Construction and
Development Sectors with a company equally dedicated to its employees and reputation.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2007-2008 Harbour Contractors, Inc. - Plainfield, IL
Construction Consultant
Completed LEED Silver Accredited Waste Management Transfer Facility – $9.8M
2006-2007 Owner Services Group, Inc. - Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Owner’s Representative
Owner’s Representative for $60 million worth of construction projects.
2002-2005 Harbour Contractors, Inc. - Plainfield, IL
Project Manager
Completed $18 million addition to the existing Helmut Jahn designed ‘Halo’ Building in
Niles, IL. This 70,000-square-foot facility featured state-of the-art curtain-wall and was built
to exacting acoustical specifications to function as the World Leader in microphone
technologies’ research and development facility. Fast-tracked project was awarded the 2005
American Institute of Architects’ Distinguished Building Award, for its exemplary quality
and attention to detail. Outside Sales & Client Development for select projects.
2001-2002 Frederick Quinn Corporation -Addison, IL
Vice-President of Business Development & Design Services
• Responsible for Construction Management Marketing, including solicitation of new leads
and client presentations via Power Point, hard copy booklets and corporate collateral
communications.
• Managed over $20 million of construction projects.
• Headed Design-Build Operations for a $174 million/year (ENR top 400, 2001 company).
Established cohesive corporate presence through goal-oriented improvements, personnel
evaluation, strategic planning, and coordinating Construction-Management projects.
Assumed critical role in overall business development including customizing,
establishing and creating computer-generated presentations using: Power Point; scanning;
digital reproduction; desktop publishing; digital advertising and digital photography.
• Supervised Architectural services of all Architects-of-Record. Maintained project
schedules and through professional, personal service to the client, prioritized and met
owner’s goals.
• Reviewed and finalized pre-construction documents, to affirm design completeness and
drawing accuracy, design concept and related details. Reviewed plans and specifications
in order to determine means in which to reduce client project costs and assure costeffective
construction.
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2001-2002 Frederick Quinn Corporation -Addison, IL (continued)
Vice-President of Business Development & Design Services
• Defined and profiled new markets under established methods of sales/marketing.
Stressed analysis of new cutting-edge methodologies and offered risk/reward
comparisons for all suggested ideas.
• Responsibilities also included Project Executive for the Lemont-Bromberek, New
Elementary School. Direct spokesperson of the Company, and full responsibility of
completion of the projects delivered, on-time and under budget.
1992-2001 Sigalos & Associates, Ltd. - Elmhurst, IL
Vice-President of General Construction Services
• Responsible for all General Construction Services, including defining opportunities,
formulating bid strategies, bid plan disbursements, bid tabulations and final bids,
assignment of personnel, plan review and ultimately the 100% owner satisfaction.
Project Manager
• Managed multiple high-profile, hard-bid construction projects from bidding through
owner occupancy.
• Responsible for projects, from inception to completion; including bidding, bid tabulation,
final bid analysis and negotiation, bid-letting, buy-out, contract delineation, assignment
of Superintendent, client relations, change order management and ultimate owner
satisfaction.
• Hard-Bid track record of success: 20-30% of jobs won and completed. Generated 52% of
total company revenues.
• Gross revenue generated for the company surpassed 1000% of personal earnings, per
annum.
EDUCATION
1992 University of Illinois at Chicago - Chicago, IL Bachelor of Architecture in Design
• Graduated in one of only two national pre-professional Undergraduate Architecture
programs.
• Freshman class included over 230 students, of which only 34 earned B.A.D. degrees.
• Received several awards of distinction, including representation in the School Archives,
publication in periodicals related to Architectural Design, and Winner of the All-School
Sketch Competition, 1994.
UNIQUE SKILLS
• Highly skilled in construction programs including: Primavera, Viewpoint, MS Project,
Expedition, Excel, Power Point, BidFax, and Sure Track.
• Innovative and articulate in negotiation with trades, owners and clients.
• Have and hold a potential of $20 million of negotiated work, pending mutual terms.
REFERENCES & PROJECT LISTS
Available Upon Request.
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