John Halm Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il

Cost estimator for General Service Administration. Tenant improvements, feasability studies, conceptual estimating, engineering costing. R.S. Means, Excel, Visual Basic.

Chicago, Il

Manager, Reimbursable Services • January 2010 – Present Supervision of six Customer Financial Managers providing project cost (funding) tracking, review and documenting scope of work, acceptance and closeout of construction projects (Reimbursable Work Authorizations (RWA’s”). Laiasons to customer agency contacts. Customer support, project reporting, liaison and reporting to Central Office, editing portions of the 2010 RWA Policy Guide, providing policy statements and procedures throughout Region 5.  Leading annual and semi-annual audits and reviews (Subject Matter Expert) (SME) Training for Project Managers and Contracting Officers for the usage of Reimbursable Entry and Tracking Application (RETA) and RWA policy throughout the region. Certification for accepting and closeout of Reimbursable Services (approximately 50 Project Managers and Contracting Officers (2010). Provided training Department of Homeland Security/Land Ports of Entry for reimbursable service procedures, customer support and reimbursable service policies (2009). Provided Excel dashboard and scorecards for regional board. Team Lead • May 2008 – January 2010 Team Lead of five financial managers. Created MS Access database to track and resolve delinquent accounts receivable. Created MS Access dB “Region 5 RWA Tracking dB” integrated with MS Excel, Access and visual basic. Increased team productivity and accuracy by 25%. Monthly analysis of Un-filled Customer Orders and over-obligated projects. SME leading audits and reviews for UFCO, expenses in excess of authorized amounts.Customer Financial Manager (DOD, DHS) • August 2005 – May 2008 Cost tracking construction for tenant improvements and office build-outs for DOD and DHS.. Created Access database for use by a group of six financial managers for various agencies, which utilized visual basic and integrated with “live” Excel Worksheets for cost tracking and controls.

Ottawa, Il

- Monthly financial reporting (IS, BS, CF, etc.) - Creation of annual budgets. - Liaison with external auditor for annual certified finacials. - Liaison with sureties, bonding agents, etc. - HR office adiminstration, book keepers, project managers, superintendents, estimators, etc. - Administration of all benefits including medical insurance, 401 K, retirement benefits, training, etc. - Implemented iternal controls and replaced written bookeeping system to software package which increased efficiency and decreased human errors. - Forecasting and models for future performance utilizing Pro Forma financial statements. Integrated annual budgets with forecasted revenue, COGS, and overhead. - Monthly project tracking using Excel and Access templates integrated with visual basic. Monthly tracking tied to monthly income statements using percentage complete, labor, materials, COGS, burden, and overhead.

Romeoville, Il

Professional Environmental Engineer and Project Manager. - removal of underground storage tanks. - remedial treatment of leaking UST sites. - Preparation and receiving NFA letters, reimbursements from LUST fund. - Phase I Site Assessments. - Subsurface inventigations to delienate areas of contamination. - Air emission testing, modeling, permitting and annual inventories. - Technical ,writing, reporting for customers and environmental agencies.

• RCRA Part B permitting• Air emissions testing and consulting.• Boiler and Industrial Furnace consulting, permitting, emissions testing andinstallation of Continuous Emissions Monitoring.• Environmental Assessments.• Underground storage tank permitting, removals and remedial actions.

Palatine, Il

Air emissions testing, Air Pollution Control Systems, ESP inspections, APC systems air flow modeling.

Mba - Finance, Finance 2003, 3.56/4.0

Financial Management, Real Estate Anlysis, Financial Planning and Analysis, Analysis of Financial Statements, Investments, Mergers.

Bachlors, Thermal And Environmental Engineereing