Nicholas Gonzalez Email & Phone Number

Leading mid-level managers across all divisions of plumbing, electrical and HVAC. Watching our organization go from 30 to 80 team members in five years has allowed me to personally develop and develop others. Intentionally leading leaders to build their departments and apprentices.

Chatham, Ontario, Canada

• Coordinate restoration activities and resources of multiple projects simultaneously.• Perform site inspections, quality surveying, measuring, specifications, quantifying and pricing of structures to send detailed reports to the insurance providers. Reports would include the current status and photos, provide our opinion of the cause of loss, assessing damages and considerations for repairing or removing structure to rebuild, pre-existing conditions, safety concerns, and an estimate for emergency services, as well as necessary repairs.• Perform the necessary work to provide replacement costs and actual valuations on various properties.• Maintain a high level of customer satisfaction, as measured by a customer service program, throughout the project with the Property Owner, Insurance Adjuster, Insurance Company and/or Corporate Client.• Demonstrate effective leadership with co-workers in following and implementing the company Standard Operating Procedures.• Ensure that all Paul Davis personnel are following and are trained on current company health and safety policies and procedures.• Manage work orders, purchase orders and change orders.• Develop and maintain daily detailed project schedules within company and trades, and communicate changes to customer, trades and client as they occur.• Schedule projects to include all project phases including detailed design, permit application, material procurement, installation and money flow (e.g. draws, receivables mortgage companies involved)• Meet margin dollar targets based on annual predetermined team goals.• Build client and customer relationships as set by the team marketing goals. Sales and marketing goals are established annually with the Business Development Manager on a team by team basis.

Conduct physical fitness tests, measure personnel's ability to adhere to fitness standards. CPR certified.

• Assisted members with travel claims and military pay entitlements• Utilized and enforced federal regulations to ensure financial transactions and entitlements were lawful and correct• Provided customer service while advising, coordinating and problem solving, with organizations and vendors in creating purchase orders, obligations and commitments• Created and processed purchase orders in DEAMS in compliance with the DoD FMR• Created, routed, recorded and posted commitment and obligation documents for budget execution using ABSS and FM Suite. This system was accessed by organizations on the base, the contracting office and public vendors• Processed, verified, audited travel claims, estimated travel costs, determined fund availability, and performed follow-ups on outstanding travel orders for members• Performed audits for overpayments where collections would need to occur, creating collection letters that were sent to the member and used as legal documentation• Responsible for managing the Government Travel Card program through Citibank, ensuring that the members cards were paid in a timely manner, purchases were legal and the activation of cards when the member was deployed• Assisted organizations and users with managing their Government Purchase Card through US Bank, ensured that card limits were in place and cards were shut off at appropriate times for the budget to prepare for the next fiscal year• Controlled approved budget expenditure for the acquisition of goods/services• Liaison between the Contracting office, vendors, organizations and Budget Officer• Analyzed purchasing reports with purchase order values to perform cost analysis with the budget that the organization received• Performed audits and reviews to implement fraud prevention measures• Financial controls were measured through reporting the status of funds to commanders and resource advisors, ensuring the accuracy of reporting, eliminating fraud and protecting resources

• Prepared and interpreted working drawings, permits and schematics for maintaining, erecting, altering, and repairing buildings and structures (examples: small school house, covered parking area for a desert training facility, Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) material separating structure, shed for on base tool storage, multiple sites for tent structures in deployment environments); these plans and permits were provided by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Base Civil Engineers• Adhered to the Department of Defense Building Code through education and on-the-job training for performing the work in the field• Surveyed for proposed work sites to determine material and labour requirements• Identified and selected construction materials considering strength, type and application• Conducted safety training sessions and enforced safety procedures while working• Ensured compliance with commercial and military publications, regulations, and building codes• Discussed inspection findings and recommends corrective action• Fabricated and repaired components of buildings, utility systems, and real property equipment• Managed, constructed, repaired, and modified structural systems and wooden, masonry, metal, and concrete buildings• Ensured compliance with environmental and government regulations• Identified and selected construction materials considering strength, moisture content, grade, mix, application procedures, and curing• Safety Supervisor- presented safety briefings, enforced safety rules, inspections, and acted as a liaison with the Base Safety Officer• Investigations were prompted by any safety mishaps that were identified.

Community Attraction & Promotion

• Entered purchase orders, coded and receipted invoices for approval, data entry into various systems such as InfoHR, FMW and JD Edwards (over 300 purchase orders created/processed)• Reviewed contracts, bidding processes, request for proposals and special purchase orders for the Chatham Capitol Theatre• Provided reception duties and assisted with tracking/handling inquiries (email, social media and face- to-face) for the team; assisted in the maintenance/monitoring of social media accounts• Researched and gathered information for team members, stakeholders, and partners as required• Assisted in preparing reports to Council and funding organizations and presentations to Council• Followed the TOMRMS (the Ontario Municipal Records Management System) to archive and electronically store documents

Chatham-Kent, Ontario

Volunteering in the classroom to provide students with the opportunity to connect the information they are learning with real-world experience

Wadsworth Ohio

• Troubleshooting to work towards a solution to provide recommendations in resolving the customer’s needs• Relationship planning to build trusted relationships• Prospected possible clients to engage for developing the small business• Established a fundraiser for cancer awareness (Greens for Means), was published in multiple newspapers for my philanthropist endeavors

• Engaged with clients to access further needs and opportunities for sales• Top twenty in performance in sales goals among the entire company for three consecutive months• Received excellent training and mentorship from branch manager, business banking specialist and the financial planner to further enhance my expertise of banking

• Engaged with clients to access further needs and opportunities for sales• Received excellent training and mentorship from branch manager, business banking specialist and the financial planner to further enhance my expertise of banking

Associate'S Degree, Financial Management

PROGRAM GOAL: The goal of the CCAF Financial Management Degree Program is to prepare graduates for productive careers as financial.

Vocational Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

805 Hours of Career -Technical Training in Operating a Business. • Accounting • Business Communication Skills • Business Computation •.

Associate'S Degree, Construction Management