Profile: Results driven professional with more than 20 years of experience creating and executing efficiency and bottom line performance in project management of residential and commercial construction and remodeling industries. Demonstrated expertise for all activities related to construction of high-end, exclusive residential construction and remodeling projects development; review of specifications, trade training management, design estimating, purchasing subcontracting scheduling, billing budget management and daily construction supervision. Special competencies include scheduling, coordinating, estimating, contracting, documentation, and performing on site inspections.
Experience: Built Rite Drywall 2008-2009 Regional contractor of drywall and metal framing in commercial and residential building.
Estimator
• Created processes from estimating of the plans to job start.
• Established take off procedures that will reduced the time take offs are done.
• Preparing reports of take offs and comparing take offs to actual usage.
• Working with suppliers to stabilize pricing and making sure they are giving the best price each time.
Ginsburg Development Corp. 2004-2008 Regional developer of luxury town homes in multi-use properties in Connecticut, Westchester and Rockland Counties.
Purchasing and Estimating Manager
• Established and controlled Executive Project Managers (EPM) $64m budget for hard costs on a multi-product sites.
• Established processes that allowed the reduction in time to complete option guide pricing for the marketing team pricing from 6 weeks to 3 weeks.
• Restructured and implemented the ordering process for lumber buying, which reduce purchase order issues by 75%.
• Created master community lumber take offs to track changes when pricing was changed and how it affected site budgets.
• Value engineer plans, select vendors for bidding, and established with EPM and Marketing team standard specifications for projects reducing budgets $3.2m from original 2 year old budget.
• Compared current bids to existing sites to compare costs to historical pricing.
• Prepared and coordinated vendor bid packages for trades bidding on the project.
• Analyzed bids received from vendors to other bids received and historical costs to ensure competitive pricing and value.
• Worked in conjunction with the construction teams in contractor selection to award contracts for projects.
• Prepared all construction vendors contract packages insuring all vendors’ compliance with insurance, MDS Sheets, and coordinated the contract implementation to all affected parties.
• Developed a process to make model changes for appliances in our software system which reduced the time required by our data entry team.
• Aggressively improved vendor base by locating and qualifying competent and reliable suppliers reducing costs.
• Responsible for tracking project construction costs and analyzing Profit and Overhead statements from accounting to ensure accuracy.
• Assisted Land acquisitions and EPM’s to establish budgets for proformas on future projects.
• Responsible for maintaining contracts at opened sites and implemented price changes or specification changes.
• Responsible for Purchasing and Estimating Team oversight and created solutions for problems between site and vendors.
K. Hovnanian Companies, Edison, N.J 2000- 2004
The 6th largest national homebuilder of multi-purpose homes.
Assistant Purchasing Manager
• Prepared and presented base house model cost comparisons for Regional Presidents and NE Region President.
• Established and implemented Interior Trim supply program that reduced site contracts by 10 – 20%.
• Established regional rebate programs that added $64k / year on top of National Rebates already in place.
• Negotiated material decrease contracts.
• Created action plans for implementation of National Contracts for entire NE region.
• Recruited vendors and managed vendor bid requests in support of vendor solicitation process. Prepared, reviewed and approved bid packages and award presentations, resolved questions, conducted vendor negotiations, and made recommendations to management in support of vendor selections.
• Monitored and maintained vendor utilization, managed vendor evaluation process, reviewed and communicated vendor performance, and resolved vendor performance disputed through dispute resolution process.
• Supported community planning and set-up through identification of community requirements and timing, vendor selection, vendor validation and take-offs, community questionnaire, and dissemination of community specific budgets.
• Managed and oversaw community information system set-up and required documentation. Coordinated scope of work, details, and take-offs with Architectural Department.
• Worked with communities to identify and determine the cause of price changes and bill of materials discrepancies. Executed vendor unit price contract addenda.
• Developed and maintained relationships with Community Builders, Field Associates, Purchasing Award Committee, and vendor partners to facilitate efficient decision-making and purchasing processes.
• Managed and facilitated the identification of new products and services to improve product quality and reduce costs.
• Ensured that purchasing associated, community management and vendors accurately followed purchasing policy and procedures.
Central New England Distributing Inc.
An independent supplier of kitchen cabinets and bathrooms.
Contractor Sales
Responsibilities included designing and selling kitchen cabinetry and accessories to contractors; putting together Special Programs tailored to the particular contractor needs; and pricing, ordering, and coordinating delivery and installation of kitchens.
Koopman Lumber, Inc., Whitinsville, MA
An independent Home center with three locations.
Kitchen and Bath Manager
Responsibilities included negotiating a balanced product mix with suppliers to display in the showroom; working with sales to set profit margins; variable gross profit modeling; working up costs for Koopman Remodeling Company for installation of kitchens and any other remodeling projects relating to kitchen, baths, and flooring; placing orders with vendors and setting up deliveries; and supervising sales staff and updating them on any new products.
Education:
Additional Training Bryant College - Smithfield, Rhode Island
Associate Degree in Business Management
National Kitchen & Bath Association
Basic & Advanced Training
Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, Rhode Island
Architectural 1 & 2, and Contractor Estimating
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