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..

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.

City Of Commerce, CA

Accomplishments:

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.
• 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:

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• Facilitated regular on site safety meetings with all AG personnel each week, documented in onsite logsResponsibilities:

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.