William Baer Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Working and collaborating with companies to identify needs and goals in order to provide pre-construction services including estimating, sales presentations, pre-construction and project management. Very experienced working for Division 1-33 general contractors who perform their own structural trade work. Extensive hands on knowledge in structural concrete formwork and placement means and methods. Experience and knowledge building lay-out and design, multi-level and high rise C.I.P. structures, seismic retrofitting of post tension structures especially as it pertains to the design and build of large and small flat plate buildings and long span parking structures. Structural concrete plans and spec bidding of box girder bridge spans, retaining walls, sound walls, reservoirs, pump stations, water treatment plants, roadway & pedestrian bridges; planning and cost analysis for proper implementation and use of hoists, cranes and pump/place equipment in the performance of the work; welded frame and steel faced gang form systems; hand form systems; large mat footing pours, cantilevered & tie back retaining walls, soil nail walls, free standing wall cores, columns, pylons, cable stays, pedestals, bolt encasements and site work concrete; knowledge of crewing, production rates, and unit costs.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Las Vegas, NV – 2020 to 2021 -TITLE – Estimator for a general contractor in Las Vegas. Private ground up and tenant improvement estimating on a variety of projects including petroleum transfer station, new retail storefront projects, office tenant improvement projects, above grade podiums with retail/parking on grade and residential apartments above, golf resort restaurant/kitchen and facility additions.

Lake View Terrace, Ca, Us

Travel weekly to San Leandro CA office to mentor Jr Estimators and help with P.M. duties on high profile projects in San Francisco and surrounding area. Job cost tracking and monthly billing. Fast paced high volume quantity survey & estimating turnout. Review the work of others and prepare estimates and proposals for final review for company executives for bidding purposes. Submit final estimate work product to clients and follow up.

Valencia, Ca, Us

Public Works & Cal Trans Bidding: Structures Estimator providing cost analysis and bid pricing of formwork and concrete placement means and method as needed to procure contracts. Structures bidding including highway overpass bridge structures, concrete slipform paving, laser screed machines, slip formed box culverts and drainage channels, form lined highway retaining walls, hand formed underground vaults. Temporary traffic re-routing, delineation, signage.

Lake Forest, Ca, Us

Business Development & Estimating Services. Provide main point of contact representation of ARBs Self-Perform Concrete Estimating Department. Large reinforced cast in place flat plate structures including retail and multi-use structures, architectural concrete bidding, post tension slab buildings, parking structures and residential podiums. Heavy civil projects including electrical sub-stations, sanitary treatment facilities, pump stations, utility pipeline bridges and duct banks.

Tustin, California, Us

Duties include identify clients’ needs and budget constraints, quantity surveys, cost estimating and auditing, proposal writing, proposal submittals, and following up with the client by way of phone calls or face to face meetings as necessary to ensure delivery of profitable contracts leading up to and during the successful merger of Arciero Bros Concrete with Largo Concrete.

Newhall, Ca, Us

Project Manager for a specialty contractor performing temporary and permanent shoring walls, shoring pits, mass excavations, caissons, and landslide stabilization and remediation. Responsibilities included auditing existing contracts and change orders. Also performed normal project management duties such as submittal of project deliverables, creating and maintaining RFI and COR logs, extra work order tickets, close out documents, etc. while working with various general contractors doing business in the Los Angeles area including Silverline Construction, Evans & Sons, & Clark/McCarthy J.V. at the Central Utility Plant project at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Bidding of high rise structural concrete buildings on the Las Vegas Strip and various other projects throughout Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana and California. As project manager was responsible for the onsite management duties for the Caesars Entertainment Project Linq Observation Wheel; the SkyVue Observation Wheel foundations and columns project and also the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse Retaining Wall Project; Structural concrete plans and spec bidding including box girder bridge spans for interstate widening projects, retaining walls, sound walls, reservoirs, pump stations, water treatment plants, roadway & pedestrian bridges, box culverts, drainage inlets, junction structures. Some duties included conceptual estimating; proposal writing; primary point of contact conducting Client meetings and sales presentations; recommending of formwork & ready mix placement systems and working with field superintendent to finalize buyouts; preparation of purchase orders, rental agreements, material buyouts and subcontracts review and preparation; ensuring proper contract documentation; means and methods coordination with field superintendents to ensure the work was implemented according to plan, completed on schedule and within budget.

Irvine, California, Us

General Contractor: Division 1-33 - Bidding & Conceptual Estimating; Structural Concrete & Formwork Estimating. Plans and Spec bidding as well as design/build estimating and budgeting of C.S.I. Divisions 1-33. Some responsibilities include planning, preparing and submitting proposals to public and private entities; coordinating a team for the purpose of bidding Division 1-33 projects; providing oversight of all trades for the purpose of designing and bidding multi-million dollar value parking structure and site improvement projects; budgeting and conceptual estimating services; preparing subcontractor scope of work documents and ensuring timely solicitation of subcontractors; reviewing subcontractors scope of work submittals and pricing; preparing preliminary schedules, logistic and staging plans; coordinating with executive management and project managers to produce purchase orders, subcontracts & material buyouts; procurement of proper documentation and ensuring solution coordination and implementation; coordinating with field operation persons and with executive management leadership during project “handoff” meetings; visiting jobsites to review means and methods systems and other processes. Developed and maintained a database of subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, experts and technicians as needed to perform all aspects of the work involved in the general contracting construction business.

Construction Law & Contracts (Audited Classwork)

Graduate, General Studies