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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE
Seeking a position where my considerable experience and knowledge of business development, Construction civil estimating and land development management that can be fully utilized to help drive employer profit margins and complete contracts on time.
OVERVIEW
* Results oriented person with proven expertise in civil estimating environmental remediation and new construction projects, engineering management principles, customer relations and contracting.
* Broad-based knowledge of local, state and federal codes and regulations.
* Bachelor of Business Administration
* Readily establish positive, professional rapport among senior management, co-workers, team members and the public.
* Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills. Highly self-directed.
* Excellent oral and written communication ability.
* Computer literate, with knowledge of Word, Excel, BIDS-2, Microsoft Project and Internet
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
* Estimate Civil and Custom jobs.
* Negotiate and manage subcontracts.
* Manage project planning and updates.
* Supervise project mobilization and pre-job setup.
* Manage setup for cost controls.
* Supervise quality control
* Manage and setup safety standards
* Complete weekly and monthly progress reports.
* Built new client database.
* Managed and set specifications for new and used equipment.
* Land development Manager of sub-divisions, mixed-use, residential, townhouses, and podium and commercial projects.
* Served as general engineering contractor for U.S. Steel, Sheldon Oil, Suburban Propane, Catellus Development, IT Corporation, Owens Brockway, Fleishman's Yeast, Chevron, Unocal.
* Recruited, supervised and developed up to sixty personnel, including civil engineers, laborers and support staff. Directed ten man design teams. Conducted staff training/motivation meetings.
* Used diversity of business development and networking strategies.
* Spearheaded lobbying efforts to avoid steel import tariffs in California. Worked closely with Governor Pete Wilson and Congressman George Miller.
* Set-up and managed multiple pug mills, asphalt plants, crushing plants and open pit mines.
* Formulated and administered budgets in excess of $10 Million. Developed forecasts.
SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS
* Successfully returned three delayed and over budget mixed-use projects to on time and on budget.
* Class 3-landfill project, U.S. Steel, Pittsburg, CA. (most sophisticated California landfill project built to date) Cost: $2 million.
* Saved same client $24 million on 108-acre landfill project using new technologies.
* Simple, straight-forward project was a split-faced masonry structure. Stockton Car Wash, Stockton, CA. Cost: $750,000. Completed in excellent time and within budget.
* 20k s.f. medical/dental building. Stockton Medical Health Center, Stockton, CA. Cost: $6 million Built in 85 days, under stringent time and financial constraints, within budget.
* Redevelopment, site improvements, environmental remediation and earthwork. City of Suisun, CA. Cost: $3 million.
* Redevelopment and earthwork. Sheldon Oil, Suisun Bay, CA. Cost: $4 million. Treated contaminated soil onsite, saving client $2.5 million.
* Civil and earthwork. Suburban Propane, Elk Grove, CA. Cost: $2 million. Modified dikes, saving client over $200. 000.
* Demonstrated, designed and installed, at an accelerated schedule, a vehicle restraint system, including bridges, roads, and barricades to protect a facility against a high risk terrorist situation with constantly changing security issues, on a secret project. Able to please FBI, local Sheriff and customer. Completed on time.
* Steel frame building w/ 16 store fronts. Proactively, a winterization plan was implemented which allowed uninterrupted construction. Jetco Cash & Carry Restaurant Center, Lodi, CA. Cost: $1.5 million Despite bad winter project was completed three weeks early and without cost overruns.
* Close collaboration with the design team. Soil conditions were so poor that a substantial retaining wall was required to shore up the structure. Solution: have the retaining wall double as the back wall of the retail center. Cambell Plaza, Cambell, CA. Cost: $2 million
* Environmental remediation and earthwork. Catellus Development and I.T. Corp., Tiburon, CA. Cost: $1.5 million. Completed on time and within budget.
* Cypress Freeway, Oakland, CA. Earthwork & demolition Cost: $2 million saved customer $125,000. Completed on time and below budget.
* General Mills, Lodi, CA. Grading & paving and concrete tilt-up bldg Cost: $4 million Completed on time and within budget.
* San Andreas CA. airport. Blasting, grading & paving Cost: $8 million completed on time and within budget.
* Miner St. Railroad underpass, Stockton, CA. Earthwork. Cost: $4.5 million saved $128,000 by not using sheet pile. Completed on time.
EMPLOYMENT CHRONOLOGY
Area Project manager/Estimator Granite Conctruction2006-2007
Bay area Land development manager Toll Bros. 2005-2006 Dublin, CA
Construction management Strategist Gene Kause 2003-2005 Woodbridge. CA
Construction project Manager North Coast Development 2000 – 2003 Belize
VP Engineering/Chief Engineer G. R. Kause, Inc. 1988 – 1999 Woodbridge, CA.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Southern California.
General Engineering Class "A" License, with Hazardous.
Courses, workshops seminars: 40 hour EPA/OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations, 8 hour EPA/OSHA Hazardous Waste Supervisor Training, State NPDES Permits/Storm Water Permits and Construction Management Course (UC, Davis), Project Management Course (Associated General Contractors of America), Engineering Technology Certification, Managing Government Contracts Course and Quality Engineering Course (National University).
Private Pilot License, Single Engine VFR.
REFERENCES
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