Project Sales And Estimation
Chicago, Tenn, Michigan, Alabama, Oklahoma, Wa, Ca, Oregon, Arizona, Hawaii, Montana, Missouri
As Estimator: Frequent travel to large-scale hotel, timeshare, and senior living projects. Meticulously gathered data for project estimation. Exact take-offs and measurements of all scopes, sourced and engaged subcontractors, vendors and labor teams. Established logistics; secured moving trucks, and storage. Initiated conversations with local permitting offices. Discussions with property owners, representatives, and GM's to hone the project scopes and budgets and proceeded to contracts. As Owner Rep: A one off project was built into a key company strategic partner. Travel with customer to prospective properties prior to purchase; to inspect, appraise the properties, establish a scope/fix list and a ROM. Upon purchase, the project remodel scope would be honed and defined. Supervised and directed the property design. 2014, Identified the need for better blueprint takeoffs. Was part of the Bluebeam Mac Beta test group version for a year. Elements adopted the Bluebeam digital platform, saving the company thousands of monthly printing costs, increasing efficiencies and reducing errors.Out of necessity, I built a multi-page bid form that ultimately auto populates the proposal as bid work is performed. Includes databases, spreadsheet layouts and formulas and final proposal layout and formulas. Honed it and used it successfully in beta form for a year. Elements adopted this bid proposal system company wide.Portfolio includes properties nationwide, spanning from Chicago to Hawaii.