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* Manage masonry projects including walls, steps, patios, outdoor kitchens, retaining walls, walkways, fire pits, and decorative designs* Collaborate with customer to ensure project is completed to their specification and vision* Work with all medium of masonry including brick, block, stone, cement, pavers, and cobblestone

• Supervise team of masons and tenders to complete projects• Collaborate with client to ensure quality of project and clarity of design• Manage daily operations including ordering material and directing teams • Work with architect on project design, read blueprints, and give input for better feasibility• Project components include: irrigation, stone work, planting, outdoor lighting, operating machinery• Execute patios, walkways, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, stonewalls, etc.

• Execute all aspect of masonry from landscape design to restoration of historic buildings; residential, commercial, historical preservation• Walkways, fire pits, walls outdoor kitchens, patios, driveways, staircases, retaining walls• Block, brick, paver, stone, stucco, veneer, tuck-point, waterproofing• Collaborate with team to ensure quality of project• Work with architect and team to ensure quality and timeliness

• Lead team of four to five masons and tenders from start to finish of commercial and residential projects• Accurately read blueprints and job specifications to plan and complete each task• Estimate labor and masonry cost for residential and commercial projects• Prepare job sites for daily work, ensure materials for day are ordered and arrive to job site• Work with bilingual staff and collaborate with carpenter, electrician, plumbing, and landscaping crews• Point of contact between crew and office• All duties assigned as general mason

• Operate angle grinders, wet saws, drillers, gas mixers, drill mixers, and other power tools. Operate skid steer and utilize all masonry hand tools• Work with concrete, stone, pavers, brick, cobblestones, bluestone, and block to create hardscape and landscape masonry designs• Collaborate with architect and homeowner or business owner to ensure project is to specifications and to code• Construct paver and blue stone patios and walkways, stone, block, and brick walls, outdoor kitchens and bars, stone piers, fire pits, outdoor steps, decorative and pattered designs, etc.• Veneering, stack wall, bluestone treads, cutting and flaming square and radius blue stone caps for fireplaces and pier caps, etc.• Responsible for company vehicle, pickups and dump trucks, and company tools• Snow plow in winter months. Utilize company plow vehicles, snow blowers, tools, etc. Work with snow crew to efficiently and effectively plow dozens of residential and corporate accounts in short timeframes, often overnight

• Worked with architect to design and build houses, walls, pools, patios, terraces, and bridges• Internal masonry including chimneys, bathrooms, kitchens, and flooring• Trained new hires and lead team• Responsible for start to finish masonry and working closely with clients

• Mason’s Assistant from 2000- 2002. Began with building fundamentals- set-up and layout• Responsible for job site prep, material acquisition, and crew transportation• Learned masonry with stone, tile, brick, plaster, stucco, and cement• Mason from 2002-2008. As mason mastered technique and worked on all masonry projects