Rick Johnson Email & Phone Number

Orange County, California Area

TSS is a Material Handling and Retail Fixtures distributor and consultant. Available across North America. We provide design assistance, engineering, products and accessories, material handling equipment, installation services including, and permits where applicable. Please contact us at tabor4rack@aol.com or 323-462-2211 office or 714-492-0570 cell. William Tabor - President and Owner

Greater Los Angeles Area

Corporate Realty Group ("CRG") is a full service commercial real estate organization that partners with your company to provide real estate strategy, corporate services, brokerage, site selection, lease negotiation, portfolio management, project management, construction management and procurement services on a national basis.We provide broad based support for corporate clients covering office, retail, industrial, flex and mixed use properties. Our mission is to deliver results for our clients by seeking out and utilizing the most current tools and world class process to support the complete real estate life cycle. CRG delivers seamless real estate solutions and provides your firm with the necessary expertise, personnel, tools and process to execute value added solutions that help maximize profitability across your organization.SpecialtiesCorporate Services, Brokerage, Portfolio Management, Project Management

City Of Commerce, Ca

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Santa Fe Springs, Ca.

Accomplishments:• Successfully completed several major projects while ensuring business continuity, including new 30,000 SF - 80,000 SF facilities, 20K SF DC expansion, doubling the corporate office footprint, close outs, renovations, and new take over buildings where I would be involved in the TI planning and execution from start to finish in all projects. Bidding out entire scope, creating and managing the budget, reporting back to senior management with actual costs. Gaining corporate approved CER prior to start of work. • Negotiated the purchasing of all packing supplies for all DCs driving savings in excess of 40%. First year savings near $100K• Effectively create and manage vendor and landlord relationships.• Helped to select and implement a portable conveyor system that expedited container unloads and reduced the company’s dependence upon contract labor.• Safety Manager - Created the company’s IIPP.Responsibilities:• Create scope of work with budget for all construction projects• Serve as owner rep - verify scope of work onsite with landlord representative, General and sub-contractors.• Maintain all 9 facilities maintenance needs – keep all Preventative Maintenance agreements up to date• Perform plan check of completed architects site and building plans for accuracy and completeness. • Negotiated and purchased all owner supplied items• Serve as National Safety Manager covering 9 DCs located in Maine, Florida, Texas, Illinois, Southern and Northern California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee.

Orange County, California Area

Accomplishments:• Successfully completed over 100 major and minor projects from minor facelift remodels, ground up construction, expansions, close outs, remodels, and new take over buildings where I would be involved in the TI planning and execution from start to finish. Developing and competitively bidding of entire scope of work, creating and managing the budget, reporting to senior management with actual costs. • Led cross functional teams, built collaboration between departments delivered results and managed more than 10 projects at a time in multiple states and jurisdictions.• Created and successfully implemented the planning processes that were used in (18) new branches, (40+) remodels, (12) relocations, (20+) closeouts projects. • Developed cost and timing saving process improvements relating to the management of construction projects by decreasing the cycle time by 50% to complete yielding nearly 1.5M in savings to the company. Process Improvement Team• Facilitate weekly conference calls for all active projects which included a member of each functional support area (ops, HR, IT, build out, real estate, A/P, credit, inventory control, local management, consultants, general contractors, architects, fire life safety) coordinated resource, timing of tasks and owners of each in order to monitor and document all projects from start to finish.• Ordered all owner supplied materials – managed General Contractors schedule and progress payments Responsibilities:• Tracking of all construction projects including remodels, new locations, relocations and close outs• Coordinate as owner rep all TI’s with landlord, architect and city officials - monitoring and document the schedule and budget until competition. Identifying owner and landlord responsibilities.• Ordered all owner supplied materials – Manage GC schedule and progress payments• Process Improvement Team leader• Site Development Summary – weekly executive summary – Red, Yellow, Green reporting system

Greater Los Angeles Area

Accomplishments:• Project Manage / Site Superintendent on several successful major remodel projects – Northgate Market and The Home Depot • Maintain log of all sub-contractor progress, schedules, RFI’s, change orders, contracts, invoices and progress payments • Verify all construction plans / drawings verses as is conditions prior to start of work. Create as built drawings as required• Schedule and coordinate teams from each trade to complete remodels safely, on time and within budget – held regularly scheduled meeting to verify progress and schedule, identify and solve any issues, review and approve change orders with an eye on the budget and schedule at all times• Facilitated regular on site safety meetings with all AG personnel each week, documented in onsite logsResponsibilities:• Tracking of all construction projects • Purchase and coordinate all contractor supplied items for each project• AG Construction payroll – very all hours worked each week by all teams code hours according to job• Safety captain for all job sites

Greater Los Angeles Area

Accomplishments:• Project Manager on several successful major remodel projects – primarily with The Home Depot • Schedule and coordinate six teams that consisted of site superintendents, as well as a core group of carpenters, electricians, display contractors and laborers to complete full kitchen and appliance resets at The Home Depot.• Maintain log of all sub-contractor progress, schedules, RFI’s, change orders, contracts, invoices and progress payments • Verify all construction plans / drawings verses as is conditions prior to start of work. • Schedule and coordinate teams from each trade to complete remodels safely, on time and within budget – held regularly scheduled meeting to verify progress and schedule, identify and solve any issues, review and approve change orders with an eye on the budget and schedule at all timesResponsibilities:• Tracking of all construction projects both internally and with client – • Coordinating all contractor supplied items for each project• Update owner supplied website to current job status and removing any punch list items that are complete• Attend / lead jobsite meetings

Orange County, California Area

Accomplishments:• Manager a team of store planners to schedule and develop accurate fixture and merchandise plans using company standard working closely with merchants and architects for new stores, major and minor remodels. • Maintain store planning specs for all surveys, contracts, safety documents, kick off and start up documents. Work with architectural consultants to maintain companies changing standards and ensure consistency from project to project.• Coordinate pre-opening strategy meeting, kick off meetings, shell plan / fixture plan 90% review meeting with architects, construction managers, real estate rep, operations and all outside consultants.• Supervise contract labor for quality and for maintaining the critical path including fixture display contractor, racking and interior sign installers. Visit Job sites and document progress• Coordinate and schedule multi-state / multi contractor roll out of the new top stock safety netting program, purchase all materials, maintain overall schedule, issue contracts, verify invoices and change order and process for payments • Develop three versions of the new fixture and merchandise prototype used throughout the companyResponsibilities:• Lead store planner for the West Coast Division • Plan, prepare, schedule fixture and merchandise designs for new and remodeled warehouse buildings with AUTOCAD • Maintain store planning current specs for all surveys, contracts, safety documents, kick off and start up documents• Visit projects for job progress / on site meetings• Coordinating all contractor supplied items for each project

Orange County, California Area

Accomplishments:• Schedule and develop accurate fixture and merchandise plans using company standard working closely with merchants and architects for over (25) new stores, (25+) major and minor remodels.• Built collaboration within all departments to help minimize the time and process steps of designing and approving plans.• Developed and managed the Plan-O-Grams with visual merchandising director for all resets and new stores. Responsibilities:• Plan, prepare, schedule fixture and merchandise designs for new and remodeled warehouse buildings with AUTOCAD. • Coordinate all phase of design with construction managers, real estate rep, visual merchant and operations.• Perform plan check of completed architects site and building plans for accuracy and completeness.• Provide information packages (play book) for each project to construction and operations team leaders.