Eric Brown Email & Phone Number

Plano, Texas, Us

Eric is a Partner with Greater Dallas Development and directly involved with the firm’s overall vision, growth, & strategy. He is focused on locating, developing, and defining business relationships across a variety of industries and markets. Eric brings his innate leadership skills and passion for creating winning strategies to meet clients’ construction needs, while delivering a high level of service.

Plano, Texas, Us

Lewisville, Texas, Us

Vilhauer Enterprises is one of the largest grading contractors in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. Specializing in heavy civil, mass grading, soil stabilization, land clearing, demolition, and more. During my time with Vilhauer Enterprises I was 1 of 2 department heads, and was the 1st senior level project manager in the company’s existence. I oversaw project completion for both wet utility projects, infrastructure, as well as residential/commercial/industrial grading projects. My workload was between 25-40 active projects at a time. Some of the more high profile projects included the I-635 East Project, American Airlines Cayenne, Parkland Hospital, Dalparc Logistics, Intermodal Commerce Park, Rayzor Ranch Infrastructure, and Chisholm Trail Ranch.

Anaheim, California, Us

• Responsible for managing and supporting the field operations on projects, while understanding and accomplishing the customer’s goals and protecting and promoting the interests of the Company.• Ensure Foremen and Crews have materials, equipment and information necessary to complete jobs• Manage project-specific materials and equipment purchases including: sourcing, maintaining vendor relations, ordering and tracking deliveries, uploading of PO’s and receiving and processing invoices• Prepare and issue purchasing documents (i.e. Subcontracts, Purchasing Orders, Service Agreements)• Provide estimates, projected costs, estimated costs to complete for each project, in order to maintain purchasing control.• Update job costing software with new pricing as needed.• Support field in expediting the schedule, completion of field paperwork and expediting materials• Keep project schedule on track by providing operations support• Maintain customer relationships• Collaborate with Project Foremen to prepare and submit Change Orders to the customers• Attended weekly project meetings with General Contractor, Owner, Architect and others• Attend and setup punch list walk throughs; compile the punch list and make sure the project is 100% closed out with Accounting• Provide required closeout information to the client at the end of the project (record drawings, O&M, warranties)• Keep up to date on industry trends• Foster positive communications and relationships with team members, management, vendors, and clients

Compton, Ca, Us

• Bid 23 projects in 67 days. Competitive in ALL but 3 proposals.• Finished as Low Bidder or 2nd Place in 15 of the 23.• Bid follow ups with contractors in the Greater Los Angeles market confirmed that my pricing & inclusions aligned with established competitors in our industry.• Utilized Google Drive, Microsoft Project, Agtek, Microsoft Office

Georgetown, Texas, Us

• Duties included managing all aspects of a project from initial planning to project completion and close out. • Responsible for knowledge of plans, specifications and the ability to work with engineers and inspectors to work out any issues that might arise during the course of a project.• Responsible for maintaining relations with customers, clients, engineers and inspectors and utilize those relationships for the timely and profitable completion of projects.• Utilized HCSS Heavy Job, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Adobe PRO, American ContractorWeekly Duties:• Conduct Team meetings on site with the project team to review production costs, develop 2 week schedules, project resource requirements, and identify potential problems that could impact the progress of the work.• Maintain updated schedules and resources to track work progress and effectively forecast resource requirements, sub-contract schedules and material requirements.• Review and maintain comprehensive production sheets for respective jobs in order to accurately evaluate cost to complete and profit on the Margin Sheet.• Maintain timely and comprehensive management of correspondence such as submittals, as built drawings, testing reports, purchase orders, invoices and job related correspondence.Monthly Duties:• Accurate and timely monthly progress billings to owners/clients and tracking of payment of such invoices.• Update and submittal of Margin sheet showing accurate cost to complete, correct contract amount with any approved change orders, and current quantities complete.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Prepared and provided effective and accurate Project Schedules to communicate Resource Schedules and projected needs to Management for company-wide allocation. Monitor and review financial aspects of projects with an emphasis on billing, payment, budgets, unit price variances, and estimated cost to complete. Identify important project issues such as, transitional periods between different trades for schedule coordination, discrepancies between bid documents and construction documents, oversights in the Sub Supplier list/Budget Summary during project hand off, and identifying a project that is going to lose money early in order to prepare accordingly. Review, properly code, and approve of all invoices for my projects in Viewpoint Software. Margin Review at the end of each month. Responsible for outgoing Change Orders, Pay Apps, Invoices, RFI’s, Subcontracts, Permits, Trench Safety Plans, Water Meter Requests, SWPPP, Submittal Packages, Circulation of Construction Documents.

Prepared cost estimates for residential, commercial, government, railroad, aviation, educational, hospital, and municipal building projects...specifically related to demolition and excavation work.

Managed Brown Excavating's construction survey division. Responsible for grade calculations, data reductions, generating exhibits and design models for our GPS Machine Control fleet.

Accounting And Business/Management

Civil Engineering