Successfully bid profitable jobs for general contractor, or budget projects for government, and prepare/negotiate change orders if needed.
Martin L. Forbes
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATOR
Full Charge Cost Estimator in all Divisions from Pre-Bid through contracts with owner and subcontractors. Throughout my successful career have met or exceeded profit goals on each project. Able to provide a detailed budget and a comprehensive proposal, present it and review it with owner/architect. Negotiated, Design/Build, and Competitive bids.
ATLANTIC COAST TILE & MARBLE, Williamsburg, Virginia 2008 - Present
W. M. JORDAN COMPANY, Newport News, Virginia (ENR Top 400 Contractor) 2000 – 2008
As Project Estimator successfully negotiated profitable $9 Million Liberty Inn Renovation & conversion to timeshares based on incomplete documents. Owner gave us his next project.
Competitively bid a Design/Build 3-story radiation contamination training facility.
$350K additional profit realized when I tracked cost of owner design changes, justified these costs with owner, put job out for sub bids, and project came in at my original budget.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS:
US Army, Fort Monroe, Virginia; Job Order Contract (J.O.C.)
CENTENNIAL CONTRACTORS ENTERPRISES, Vienna, Virginia 1997-2000
Defined entire scope of each project, prepared/assembled bid documents, scheduled and conducted pre-bid conferences with prime and subcontractors, prepared detailed computerized estimates for general, mechanical and electrical work using government unit price book while still meeting overhead and profit goals, determined best mix of prime and/or subcontractors, and managed many of these projects.
The Boeing Company, Everett, Washington; New 777 Jet Assembly Buildings
TRIGON TECHNICAL SERVICES, Seattle, Washington 1992-1993
On-site estimating and negotiation of change orders on nine separate contracts totaling over twenty-five million dollars for world’s largest (by volume) assembly facility.
City of Los Angeles, Playa del Ray, California; Hyperion Treatment Plant 1988-1991
Lead Estimator supervising fourteen general, mechanical and electrical estimators for the one billion dollar Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion.
Developed computer database for estimating, implemented computerized document tracking system, and trained estimators.
EDUCATION:
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California; Associate of Arts, Business Administration
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