MICHAEL A. SABO
Chicago Heights, IL 60411
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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
. Proposed innovative methods of municipal spending to allow for
substantial savings and redistribution of funds in areas that required
strengthening and change.
. Initiated strategies to improve bottom line; increased customer base
350%, increased sales 5% minimum five consecutive years.
Authored modified business plans positively changing company
direction.
. Conceived and developed specialized department to significantly improve
collections; reorganizing
invoice process from 45 days to 24 hours, lien delinquent accounts by 70th
day, resulting in annual increase to receivables of $8 million.
. Managed civil design control department of 6 engineers and 8 draftsmen on
a $2 billion project.
. Maintained management positions for two corporations yielding annual
sales of $150 million and $40 billion respectively.
. Estimated and Managed Projects in the following disciplines; plumbing,
sewer, heavy highway, insulation, civil /structural excavation
and AAR Freight Car repairs.
. Prepared multi-year, multi-million dollar
paving contracts, through bidding process for
municipalities
and private businesses.
EXPERIENCE
Project Manager, Funk Linko, Chicago Heights, Il. 2012 to 2013
Director, Street, Sewer and Vehicle Maintenance Departments, City of
Chicago Heights 2009 to 2012
Director of City Services and Projects, City Engineer, City of Chicago
Heights 2007 to 2009
Diamond Coring Co, Inc., Chicago, IL Business Development/Sales/Project
Management 2005-2007
Able and Willing Plumbing Inc., Chicago Heights, IL Estimator/Business
Development 2004
K-Five Construction Corporation, Lemont Illinois Asphalt Sales/Business
Development 1998-2004
Increased sales five consecutive years through self implemented marketing
strategies
J. T. Einoder, Orland Park, Illinois Project
Manager/Superintendent/Foreman 1996-1998
Superintendent of excavation US Department of Labor Job Corp Training
Facility,
On landfill, 36th & Lawndale, Chicago
Alpha Construction, Inc. Hazel Crest, IL Paving Prep Foreman
1994-1995
SABO resume continued:
Four Season Insulation, Inc., Chicago Heights, IL Owner/Operator
1987-1994
A specialty insulation, residential and commercial rehabilitation
contractor
US EPA and IDPH Certified Asbestos Removal Contractor
Mirar Development, Inc., Chicago Heights, IL Superintendent/Foreman
Custom Homes 1991
Bechtel Power, San Francisco, CA Senior Construction Engineer
1983-1987
Pacific Gas & Electric's Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 & 2.
Avila Beach, CA.
Jobsite employed six thousand manual and non-manual personnel. Hired as a
Welding
Engineer in the Civil Department to assure welds met applicable standards.
Promoted to
Field Engineer, Field Superintendent, and Lead Engineer. As Lead Engineer
of the Design
Control group, responsibilities included supervising six Design/Field
Engineers and eight
Draftsmen. Approximately twenty thousand civil-structural design documents
were
converted from the written word into approved for construction drawings and
sent to
the field for construction. Managed and tracked all relative documentation
maintaining tracability.
Trained onsite Management and Engineering personnel
Promoted to Civil Construction Coordinator, liaison between construction
forces
and plant operations
Baldwin Associates, Clinton Nuclear Generating Station, AWS Welding
Inspector 1982-1983
Illinois Freight Car Company, Kenney, Illinois, AAR Supervisor
1975-1982
City of Chicago Heights, Police Officer
1971-1974
GOVERNMENTAL
EXPERIENCE
Alderman 6th Ward, City of Chicago Heights, IL (two terms)
1999-2007
TRAINING AND
EDUCATION
Associated Air-Lansing Municipal Airport- Private Pilot Certificate-
continuing
Computer Training; Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Databases,
Introduction to Spreadsheets, Advanced Spreadsheets, Data Mining
Audio-Visual Communications
Bookkeeping and Procedural Accounting
University of Illinois-Chicago-US EPA,IDPH Asbestos Removal Contractor
Certification