Objective: An Estimating / Project Management position where over 25 years of experience will add value to company growth.
Chris Gattoni
Objective: An Estimating / Project Management position where over 25 years of experience will add value to company growth.
QUALITIES
• Consistent estimating results.
• Proven successes in creating innovative strategies to promote sub-contractor alliances.
• Excellent analytical skills and competent in organizational and time management.
• Ability to build and cultivate relationships with clients and provide quality customer satisfaction to achieve sales and profit objectives.
• A motivated and creative thinker with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and peers.
• Professional work ethics and values: respectful, trustworthy, honest.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Fluent in MS Office programs Strategic and Tactical Planning
MC2 estimating program Service Oriented
Some experience with E4Clicks Budget Management
MS Project experience Safety Management
Time Management Total Quality Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Estimator / Project manager 2009 to Present
GW Installations, LLC
Develop hard bid and negotiated estimates for private sector display/fixture projects. Manage projects from conception to completion. Work with client to determine type of store fixture and/or layout. Clients include LG, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Dickies, Sears, Home Depot, and Starbucks.
Estimator / Safety Coordinator / TQM Manager 2007 to 2009
Construction Concepts, Inc.
Developed hard bid estimates for federal and state projects. Worked with clients, architects, engineers, and municipalities, to provide accurate conceptual and final estimates within the GMP environment. Developed and implemented a Total Quality Management (TQM), program. Safety Coordinator.
Consistently considered cost saving opportunities in the hard bid arena.
• Developed conceptual, progress, and final estimates ranging from $25,000 to $15 million
Commercial- Up to 5 million
Medical- Up to 1 million
Industrial- Up to 1 million
Chemical- Up to 15 million
Retail clients- $25,000 - $1,700,000
• Delivered conceptual estimates based on minimal information to potential clients within 48 hours.
• Fully responsible for developing accurate and comprehensive estimates for GMP, Negotiated, and Cost Plus contracts.
• Contributed in the Design-Build process working with architects, engineers, municipalities and clients from conception to completion.
• Negotiated and performed buy-out on many projects.
• Developed and wrote a construction manual for the client’s use, ‘Your Guide To The Construction Process’, explaining procedures, cost effectiveness of teamwork, various contract methods, and the project management philosophies of CCI.
• Implemented a comprehensive safety program.
• Developed, and implemented a TQM program defining all processes (including the above listed), within the company to achieve one goal; Excellent customer service.
Project Manager / Estimator 2001 to 2006
Larmer Construction Services, LLC.
Managed successful completion of multi-million dollar private and governmental projects. Performed negotiated and fixed price estimates ranging from $25,000 to $10 Million.
• Projects- ground up and remodel, including:
Commercial- Up to 10 million
Medical- Up to 2 million
Industrial- Up to 3 million
Grocery and Restaurant- Up to 3 million
Retail clients- $25,000 - $1,700,000
• Adhered to Critical Path Project Management philosophies.
• Developed project schedules using MS Project.
• Coordinated trades, developed partnerships, and team building with architects, engineers, municipalities and clients while maintaining costs.
• Identified and addressed impending design issues.
• Exercised opportunities to increase profits.
• Excelled in contract negotiations and material procurement.
• Enforced quality control job management, workplace safety and compliance, and customer relations
• Generated accurate estimates in hard bid environments.
• Continuously refined design-build estimates as project design progressed
Estimator / Procurement 1995 to 2000
Pratt Management, LLC.
Estimated ground up and remodel projects for company owned properties. Procured all sub-contractors and materials needed to complete all projects.
Commercial- Up to 5 million
High Tech- Up to 30 million
Industrial- Up to 3 million
Strip Mall- Up to 15 million
Hotel, Convention Center- $200,000 - $4,000,000
• Procured materials for all of the self perform trades, including earthwork, electrical, mechanical, structural steel, millwork, painting, flooring, framing and drywall.
• Established relationships and negotiated with preferred sub-contractors.
• Procured all projects using Oracle software.
• Built estimating modules in MC2 (an estimating program) based on actual labor and material cost.
• Worked closely with in-house architects and engineers on value engineering to simplify the construction process, and therefore lowered costs to provide a competitive lease rate of company owed facilities.
• Estimated costs and procured materials for projects up to $30 Million.
EDUCATION
LEED certification in progress
College: Central Western University- B.S. in Construction Management
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