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Skills

  • Market condition analysis
  • Organization
  • Problem resolution
  • Labor and material cost forecasting
  • Construction risk assessment
  • First Aid/CPR
  • Client communication and presentations
  • Budgets
  • Data collection
  • Document analysis

Work Experiences

  • Achieved revenue growth in 2015.
  • Created a centralized repository for past bid data, resulting in a 39% increase in efficiency when responding to future bid requests.
  • Championed the use of Salesforce for cost estimation.
  • Championed the use of ServiceNow to streamline cost estimation processes, reducing human error and increasing estimate accuracy by 54%.
  • Based selection on cost, reputation, and performance.
  • Adopted agile work principles.
  • Oversaw the delivery of framework project by standard team, which resulted in category.
  • Collaborated with sales and marketing teams to refine project pricing strategies, allowing for market competitiveness while maintaining a 17% profit margin.
  • Placed a high value on punctuality and worked hard to maintain an excellent attendance record, consistently arriving at work ready to work right away.
  • Achieved outstanding cost estimation in process projects.

Summaries

  • Professional process with demonstrated abilities in analyzing requirements and plans in order to create proposals.
  • Collaborated with project teams and stakeholders.
  • Accomplished Chief Estimator with over 13 years of experience leading cost estimation teams to produce accurate and timely bids for multi-million-dollar infrastructure projects.
  • Achieved results for high-value infrastructure projects in 2016.
  • Achieved a margin of 52%.
  • Collaborative Chief Estimator.
  • Collaborative Chief Estimator experienced in pre-bid consultations, significantly contributing to contract awards and ensuring precise resource management.
  • Achieved annual savings of $3.
  • Chief Estimator is a multi-talented Chief Estimator who is consistently rewarded for planning and operational improvements.
  • Strengths in client relations and team leadership backed up by Construction training.

Accomplishments

  • Managed and executed accurate cost estimates on 14 simultaneous projects with an average budget of $14, ahead of time and under allocated costs.
  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
  • Developed an SOP for the estimation department, reducing error rates in cost assessments by 42% within 6 months.
  • Streamlined the subcontractor selection process, creating a preferred vendor list that improved project turnaround times by 81%.
  • Exceeded cost saving objectives by introducing supplier relationship management strategies that yielded an annual reduction of $10 in material costs.
  • Introduced standardized estimation metrics that improved cost forecasting accuracy on Adobe Creative Suite projects by 62%, reducing financial risk for the company.
  • Implemented a continuous improvement estimation process that led to a 36% reduction in the variance between estimated and actual project costs.
  • Applied advanced metric-based analysis to optimize material procurement, resulting in a 17% decrease in material waste on framework projects.
  • Implemented pricing software that enhanced real-time cost tracking, resulting in a 12% reduction in project delays and budget overruns.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.

Affiliations

  • Project Management Institute
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Member, Lean Construction Institute
  • Attendee, Annual Construction Estimating Pro Expo 2020
  • National Association of Social Workers
  • Certified Construction Manager (CCM) through CMAA
  • Certified, Construction Estimating Software Proficiency: Adobe Creative Suite
  • Member, American Society of Professional Estimators (ASPE)
  • Member, Estimating and Procurement Innovation Forum 2015
  • Member, Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA)

Certifications

  • First Aid/CPR Certified
  • Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) – process
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) – Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • ServSafe
  • National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) - Level IV Construction Materials Testing
  • Building Information Modeling (BIM) Certification - National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS)
  • Construction Management Certification (CMC) - Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)
  • International Project Management Association Certified Project Manager (IPMA-CPM)
  • LEED Green Associate (GA) - metric
  • CompTIA Network+

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