Derek Kovaleski Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Hudson, Wisconsin, United States

Serve as the on-site primary point of contact, ensuring the timely, on-budget, and top-tier quality completion of data center projects.Oversee and manage subcontractors, ensuring compliance with project specifications and safety standards.Perform hands-on tasks when required, such as installing server cabinets, assembling security cages, and setting up air.

Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Project management, estimating, sales and business development of key services, tailored to a portfolio of high profile residential and commercial accounts. Create and design product business plans, project parameters.
• Identified and qualified potential distributor customers that increased wholesale gross profits
• Ability to read and understand job bid instructions, detailed specifications, prepare a take off of materials included in the job, estimate all necessary labor, materials, and equipment costs to prepare a thorough.
• Interacted with design, engineering and logistics to ensure an understanding of required job cost components throughout the entire development phase of a project.
• Successfully developed and implemented sales strategies, including website design and marketing plan that transitioned from a two-state retail sales company into a nationwide wholesale distributing company.
• Expertly provided inventory strategies that reduced customer lead-times by synchronizing materials and improving service levels, thus reducing inventory management costs.

• Liaison between contractor and CEO guaranteeing quality workmanship per customer’s requirements.
• Decreased costs by 34 percent by maximizing team involvement, lowering overhead and planning a geographically effectiveschedule.
• Highly motivated by being licensed in the states of WI and MN by passing all necassary tests involving the herbacide andpesticide laws and regulations.
• Results-driven in an industry that deals with many environmental issues proving the ability to cope under stressful situations.
• Consistently exceeded quotas by improving personal skill sets, labor practices, and management of employees.