Ron Smits Email & Phone Number

7000 N Broadway Suite 305 Denver Colorado 80221

Suppling Sub Surface engineering cad, mapping , hydro excavating, traffic control, stormwater management for the highway construction , energy utility , oil& gas, and engineering design firms in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico

Cheyenne Wyoming

• Lead estimator – over saw multiple estimators at offices in Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska• Managed and supervised 150 employees• Estimated projects for Colorado and Wyoming Departments of Transportation, National Park Service, oil and gas distribution projects, private land developers, city and county municipalities • Involved with lump sum, unit based, design build and value engineering estimates • Managed offices in Loveland, Colorado; Cheyenne, Wyoming and Casper, Wyoming• Provided the following services: Interstate traffic control installations, interstate overhead and regulatory signing installations, highway striping, guardrail placement, concrete and structural footings, contractor equipment retail and rental equipment supplies • Charged with all job costs, payroll entry, daily inventory tracking, project scheduling, branch profit loss, equipment utilization and regional sales forecasting and monthly reporting to controllers• Designed PDA data entry system to track all project estimates for daily cost accuracy

Cheyenne Wyoming

• Established highway safety company in 1980 serving Wyoming and Colorado • Built a manufacturing facility producing over 100,000 square feet of signing for city, county Federal Highway, transportation departments of Wyoming and Colorado• Instituted a welding and fabrication shop to produce structural steel posts and steel safety signs • Began pavement marking division installing paint striping, preformed plastic, thermoplastic and durable markings using long line stripers• Produced and marketed phone sales department along with traveling sales personnel to transport products, distributed and warehoused for manufacturer reps• Opened offices in Casper, Wyoming; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Ft Collins, Colorado and Berthoud, Colorado• Employed 150 employees serving 4 western states• Structured central dispatch systems for all 4 offices and one call customer care center• Built a team of estimators and designed estimating software that centralized our bidding and job costing • Established a manufacturing and sales system for vehicle warning lights sold nationally• Implemented a hazard and job safety analysis process that encompassed our diverse customer needs• Designed training classes for employees regarding public works and federal standards • Sold business to United Rentals in 2000