Brian K. Schmidt

acscsc@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/schmidtbrian1

918-***-**** Sand Springs, OK

CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECT MANAGER

Enterprising and resourceful leader with 14+years of experience managing subcontractor and crew members. Logical, efficient and bottom-line oriented with broad-based management skills used to achieve maximum cost saving and optimum work performance. Excels in creating or improving procedure and processes. Futuristic thinker and good negotiator.

Key Accomplishments

Lowered labor cost by creating a Work Breakdown Structure System and implementing a daily scope work sheet with a peak workforce of over 500.

Leadership of 35 members led to successful commissioning of 73 turbines in two months.

Assembled and organized three winning bids that had a combined value of 145 million dollars.

Core Strengths and Skills

- Team Leadership & Development - Estimating & Bidding

- Change Order Management - Site Safety

- Budgeting & Cost Controls - Subcontractor/Crew Supervision

- Risk Evaluation - MS Office

- Deloreme X-Map GIS - Inventory Control

Professional Experience

CORE Solution Group Tulsa Metro Area 4/14 to Present

Cost Recovery Advisor

Business to Business sales of Specialized Tax Strategies that helps companies recover money they may not know is available to them. Cost recovery’s are engineering based techniques such as Cost Segregation, Abandonment Studies and R&D tax credits to name a few. Small to mid-sized business can benefit the most, with benefits of $150,000 or greater per agreement.

Alternative Energy Development Corp. (AED), San Antonio TX 7/13 to 12/13

Assistant Project Manager (Contractor) Alamo 1 Solar Project 41 MW

Developed schedule for work force and was in charge of production reporting.

Managed pile installation, tracker system and 167,600 PV Panels.

Lowered labor cost by creating a Work Breakdown Structure System and implementing a daily scope work sheet with a peak workforce of over 500.

AED supplied, installed & terminated all the power and communication cables.

REPOWER USA CORP (Canadian Hills Wind Farm Calumet, OK) 6/12 to 2/13

Site Manager (Contractor) Wind turbine manufacturer.

Leadership of 35 team members through delivery, installation and quality control.

Commissioning and documentation of a seventy three turbines (150MW) wind turbine components in 5 months.

Created team of turbine installation crew, general contractor and commissioning crew.

Plus an eight member QA/QC team to work in tandem with general contractor.

Successful commissioning of 73 turbines in 2 months and O&M Team to operate plant for the next 12 years.

Wind Energy Constructors RMC/WEC (Sand Springs, OK) 2008 to 2012

Director of Estimating

Management of Request for Pricing (RFP) from Wind Developers. This included subcontractors schedules and scope break down.

Coordination with subcontractors on pricing and construction strategies for RFP response.

Creating self-performance workups for roads, foundation and turbine erection.

Evaluating and leveling of subcontractor’s pricing and self-performance in the bidding process.

Assembled and organized 3 winning bids that had a combined value of 145 million dollars.

WEC bidding format was a 1600 line excel spread and I developed a bid conversion program to convert to the owners 20 to 40 line format.

Served four years on the Executive Board for Wind Energy Construction.

Florida Power Light Energy (NextEra Energy) (North Palm Beach, FL) 2000 to 2008

Project Development 2006 - 2008

Provided field support for FPL Development and Construction groups in the US, Canada and Mexico.

Site development including DOT Permits, Rail Road ROW, T-Line location, Substation location and finalization of turbine arrays with Wind Resource Manager.

Detailed budgetary estimates and project design that included landowner and environmental constraints.

Was involved in several negotiations with land owners for Transmission lines, Substation and Turbine location.

Spokesman representing FPL Energy to educate Land Owners about wind energy and the construction process.

Also served as Turbine Delivery Superintendent, Erection Superintendent and Mechanical Completion Superintendent before moving up to Estimating and Management.

Project Construction 2000 to 2006

Management, Logistics and preconstruction support to Development Group for wind farms in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, North Dakota and Iowa.

Served as liaison between Land Owners and Project Owners on construction based issues.

Superintendent for logistics, roads, collection, turbine erection and mechanical completions

Schmidt Sales, Inc. - Montezuma, KS 1982 to 2000

Owner / Parts and Service Manager

Schmidt Sales was started by Lee V Schmidt in 1958 selling Allis Chalmers on the farm and having part bins in the chicken coop.

By 2000 lines included Case IH, Deutz-Allis, Sunflower and Great Plains drills.

Designed a tracking system for repairs and cost of goods throughout the equipment sales cycle which increased profitability by 4%.

Education / Training

Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS General Business

Project Management Certification. PMP 4/2013 from Expert Rating Global Certification

Project Management Institute Certification ongoing

Civic Involvement

Served twelve years on the Montezuma City Council.

Eight of those as President of the Montezuma City Council.

Volunteered four years on the Gray County Kansas Economic Development Board.

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