CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER/ON-SITE FOREMAN
Anthony DeLeonardis
Mr. DeLeonardis has 15 years of experience in the planning, design, and construction of commercial, industrial, and engineering projects for civilian programs. He spent another eight years working on heavy industrial construction for government and military programs.
His formal training is in engineering, construction and business He is a registered California General Engineering Contractor (A266061) and also holds a California General Building Contractor’s license (B266061). In addition he has a B.S. degree in business administration and economics.
Mr. DeLeonardis is a multi-tasker, comfortable with managing numerous projects at one time, ranging from smaller rehab and tenant improvement jobs to large-scale construction efforts. His work experience covers the entire development and construction cycle, from initial land acquisition to completion of tenant improvements and final construction punchlist.
Civil engineering projects include the construction of underground piping lines for oil and gas transmission, as well as installation of underground utilities for electric, gas, water, telephone and cable. Other projects include environmental cleanups, oil well abandonments, water runoffs, and excavation and disposal of contaminated soils. Also installed storm drain systems, sewer lines, manholes, and pumping stations in addition to electrical substations and overhead electrical transmission lines. Built roadways and freeway access lanes and neighborhood streets, curbs, gutters and sidewalks, along with street lighting and traffic signals.
Vertical design-build projects include R&D complexes, industrial buildings, manufacturing facilities, laboratories and clean rooms, steel-framed office buildings, retail centers, schools and medical office buildings. Numerous apartments, condos and residential tracts were built, and solar-powered PV systems installed for space heating and hot water supply. A number of his commercial design-build projects have won awards for their outstanding quality. (See attached Sample List of Projects.)
Mr. DeLeonardis is honest, reliable, energetic and a fast learner. He is more than willing to put in late hours and weekends to bring your construction jobs in on time and within budget. He is agreeable to work on a contract or temporary basis, and is willing to relocate at his own expense. His on-the-job experience is shown below.
KARWIN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 1995 - 2010
Directed numerous horizontal and vertical construction projects as an independent general building and engineering contractor running Karwin Company, a real estate development firm.
Preconstruction Planning and Development
• Directed proposal efforts to land new contracts. Analyzed RFI’s and RFP’s to assess bid/no bid feasibility and conducted concept studies and cost/price workups.
• Drew up design specifications for those projects won in the proposal process. Worked closely with architects and engineers (civil, structural, electrical, mechanical, geological, and environmental) during space planning and the drafting of construction drawings.
• Reviewed all A&E blueprints for reliability and accuracy before final approval.
• Identified potential construction sites and arranged for land acquisitions.
• Guided proposed projects through the maze of city, county, state and federal planning departments, building departments, regulatory agencies and public utilities companies during the plans and permits approval process. Made oral presentations before city councils, planning commissions, neighborhood groups and private organizations to obtain the support necessary to secure construction approvals and building permits.
• Prepared the master construction schedule and the timelines for acquisitions of labor and materials for approved projects.
• Drew up subcontractor lists and assembled competitive bids. Reviewed all bids for compliance and accuracy to stated specs. Negotiated all contracts and awarded final contracts.
• Compiled extensive pro forma operating income and expense projections for inclusion in detailed follow-on proposals to obtain interim and long-term construction financing from lending institutions.
On-Site Construction
• Directed and supervised all construction in the field, from original demo and grading to final completion and obtaining a Certificate of Occupancy.
• Recruited, trained and managed fresh construction teams of several hundred technicians and workmen for each new project. Multi-tasked by directing several construction projects simultaneously.
• Scheduled labor, materials and resources for delivery on site and on time to keep the job moving on schedule. Applied critical path analyses to detect trouble spots well in advance.
• Inspected subcontractor work daily for timely performance and for quality control, safety and environmental requirements. Enforced the reconstruction and redo of any work not up to specifications.
• Handled all contract administration during the construction process. Reviewed and negotiated proposed change agreements.
• Authorized all progress payments to subcontractors and suppliers when their work was completed satisfactorily.
• Prepared weekly computerized construction progress reports.
• Oversaw final punchlist completion and closed out the project.
Marketing and Management of Finished Projects.
• Worked with real estate agents to obtain tenants and buyers. Conducted sales presentations and negotiated all leases and sales contracts. Directed follow-on space planning and tenant improvement construction for retail, industrial and office clients. Managed tenant relations and the operation and maintenance of completed commercial and residential properties until they were sold.
BOEING AND ROCKWELL CORP. 1986-1994
As a management analyst and new business acquisitions specialist, directed proposal efforts to acquire new heavy industrial construction projects required to produce commercial and military aircraft as well as airport and rocket launch facilities. Facilities included those for NASA aerospace engineering programs (Shuttle, Space Station) as well as secret DOD weapons systems for the Air Force and Navy (attack aircraft, stealth programs, missiles, and reconnaissance satellites).
• Coordinated space planning and design with architects and engineers for construction of major new facilities for manufacturing, test sites, and final assembly and launch areas, as well as for laboratories, clean rooms and administrative offices.
• Oversaw planning and rehab of existing facilities, including reconfiguration and installation of manufacturing work stations with motors, generators, stampers, presses, welders, lathes, overhead cranes, etc.
• Worked with pricing and procurement specialists in the drafting of cost estimates of the work to be done. Coordinated the inputs of both in-house engineering and outside contractors.
• Incorporated quality control and safety requirements into final plans.
• Prepared schedules, established milestones for work completion, and inspected and approved work completed.
COMPUTER/TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES: MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and Publisher; Shipley proposal guides.
SAMPLE COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION LIST OF DESIGN-BUILD PROJECTS
BRIARWOOD SQUARE. This solar-powered project was built on the site of a former oil field and required extensive environmental cleanup and installation of new infrastructure. The 40-unit fourplex apartment complex is located on Huntington Street in Huntington Beach, CA.
Old oil wells had to be closed down, plugged and capped, and derricks, pumps and filtration systems were removed. Sumps and oil-drenched soils had become contaminated over the years. These had to be excavated and removed, and replaced with six-inch lifts of fresh dirt brought in and compacted.
The project required the construction of new access roads, local streets, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks. Underground utilities for electric, gas, water, telephone and cable had to be built as well as sewer and storm drain systems installed. An electrical substation had to be built, transmission lines installed and street lighting and traffic lights provided. PV solar panels were installed to provide a hot water supply to the project.
LUSK INDUSRIAL COMPLEX. This award-winning 54,000-square-foot R&D/industrial building required tricky hillside construction.
The project was built on Oberlin Drive in the Lusk Industrial Park in San Diego. The pad was hewn from a steep slope with a daylight cut that bisected the site. Half the building would have to rest on cut soil and the other half on fill. Caissons up to 90 feet deep were drilled on the fill side to support the foundation. A dirt ramp was built and ground space cleared to allow the drilling equipment to access the site. A post-tension slab 12 inches thick with # 6 and # 7 rebars top and bottom were installed 12†o.c. both ways. Concrete was laid down in a single monolithic pour.
Extensive use was made of Hilfiker-type retaining walls more than thirty feet in height around two sides of the site in order to reinforce the hillside. To avoid an ugly block wall type of appearance, the open block pattern allowed the use of plantings that completely covered the block walls.
The end product proved to be a particularly attractive complex which belied its concrete tiltup walls. The walls were stepped and heavy use made of exterior glass paneling to give the building a shimmering appearance. To help anchor the site a reinforced concrete entry courtyard was created with tropical landscaping and a fountain with block sculpture and flowing water.
The San Diego Museum of Modern Art named it one of ten most attractive buildings constructed that year.
RB TECHNOLOGY PLAZA. This project required rehabbing a drab six-year-old single story industrial building with bare concrete walls and converting it into a totally modernized and attractive R&D complex.
The 75,000-square-foot facility is located at Bernardo Center Drive and Technology Road in the Rancho Bernardo Industrial Park in San Diego. The interior was totally gutted and new laboratories and manufacturing facilities were constructed on the first floor. Large clean rooms with controlled access and heavy-duty HEPA filtering systems also were installed for production of sensitive components. A new second floor was added to provide 30,000 square feet of additional office space.
The exterior was extensively remodeled with mirrored glass walls, sweeping portico entry and marbled and paneled lobbies. The company leasing the building was extremely sensitive about its advanced research, and so an extensive security system was installed with controlled access, television cameras and heavy duty locks and doors throughout.
ALAMITOS BAY HOMES. This beach community tract of homes was built in the Alamitos Bay area of Long Beach, CA. This area was also the site of old oil fields and required all the cleanup, decontamination, reclamation and new infrastructure associated with such sites. New roads, alleys, sidewalks, and street lighting were built, New underground utilities and overhead electrical transmission lines were installed, along with electrical substation and sewer and storm drain systems.
SCRIPPS RANCH TECHNOLOGY PLAZA. This 70,000-square foot R&D office/ industrial complex was built in the Scripps Ranch Industrial Park at Scripps Ranch Blvd. and Scripps Lake Road in San Diego, CA.
Extensive grading, shoring and installation of retaining walls were required to develop the three-acre sloped site and fit a building to it. As with all Mr. DeLeonardis’ commercial undertakings, this one was a total construction project from start to finish, employing several hundred workmen from all the trades over the course of construction.
Mirrored glass siding exterior disguised concrete tiltup walls. The finished building, with its large pond, waterfall, and other waterscaping touches added, and bermed and lush landscaping, which screened parking areas so that they were not visible from the street, was featured on the cover of the San Diego Water Department’s annual report on its operations..
Following completion of the shell and upon leaseup, Mr. DeLeonardis did all the interior tenant improvement work. Marbled lobbies included live landscaping with tall Ficus trees. Attractive reception areas were built for individual suites. Heavy use was made of floor-to-ceiling glass walls to open up suite interiors and provide an airy and well-lit ambience.
LUSK OFFICE PARK. This was a steel-framed office building constructed on Sorrento Boulevard in the Lusk Industrial Park in San Diego, CA. The three-story structure had lively fenestration, with stepped-back construction, twin entry towers, and balconies for most suites.
The building surrounded an atrium with a 100-foot-long stream constructed with a flowing waterfall and heavy landscaping. A dramatic elevator with glass sides was installed to rise up out of this landscaping to service the upper floors.
OCEAN TERRACE. This was a three-story customized solar-powered condominium building constructed over a subterranean garage at 1400 Ocean Boulevard in Long Beach, CA. Each unit had its own set of solar panels so that it had total control over its space heating and hot water supply.
LOW-INCOME RESIDENCES. A 20-unit complex of residential homes built for the City of Long Beach on Twenty-Third Street in Long Beach, CA. Three-bedroom and four-bedroom homes fronted on a private playground area that was built with swings, slides and sandboxes.
VILLA FRANCESCA. A 41-unit affordable senior citizen project developed for 2242 Jefferson Street in Carlsbad, CA.
QUEEN’S WAY APARTMENTS. A sixty-unit apartment project at 333 Magnolia in downtown Long Beach California. The project was built around an interior atrium with swimming pool. The building featured a three-story glassed-in lobby which overlooked the swimming and recreation area.
The city of Long Beach found the building so attractive that it leased a quarter of the space for subsidized housing for the elderly.
SOLAR-POWERED LUXURY RESIDENCE – An elaborate solar-powered heating and hot water system was installed for this upscale home on Robleda Court in the exclusive Trails area of Rancho Bernardo, CA.
SCRIPPS RANCH LEARNING ACADEMY. Pre-school complex featuring classrooms, administrative facilities and playground on Treena Street in the Scripps Ranch Industrial Park.
CUMBERLAND SHOPPING PLAZA. A 48,000-square-foot center containing retail shops, fast-food restaurants and gas station designed and developed for construction at the intersection of Bridge Road and U.S Highway 40 in Lavale, Md.
BEACH BOULEVARD MEDICAL CENTER. A 68,000-square-foot medical office center developed for Huntington Beach, CA. The building contained a glass ceiling supported by steel framing to throw light into an interior atrium off which the doctor’s suites were entered.
LOS ALAMITOS MEDICAL COMPLEX A 64,000-square-foot complex of medical laboratories and doctors’ offices on Los Alamitos Boulevard in Los Alamitos, CA.
COMFORT INN SUITES MOTEL – An 82-unit motel built at the intersection of the I-5 and 76 Freeways in Oceanside, CA.
QUALITY INN MOTEL – Remodel and upgrade of a 100-unit motel at Mission Road and the I-5 Freeway in Oceanside, CA