R.L. ”Sonny” Holley

*** ******* *******Houston, Texas 77047

Home # 713-***-**** **Cell # 713-***-****

olzfc8@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: To obtain a position as a Commercial Estimator in the Construction Industry, with a company that expects and rewards company loyalty, dedication and integrity.

Qualified by: Construction experience; 43 years experience; worked as a carpenter; as a Carpenter foreman, as a Superintendent, as a Vice president of Construction with two General Contracting companies co-owned with my family as a project manager, doing estimating, purchasing and contract issuance.

Able to solicit, establish and maintain relationships with subcontractors, suppliers, owners, architects, engineers, peers and supervisors.

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Computer Skills: Excel, Microsoft, Lotus, Suretrak, Microsoft Projects 2000 and Computer ease.

Employment: Alpha Building Inc Oct 2008-

JOC estimating for The MDA Hospital Program, using The

2008 RS Means Estimating Costs system. We have been asked to price projects ranging from 10,000.00 to 600,000.00 in costs.

R.L ”Sonny” Holley Contract Estimating 10/ 2006- 10/ 2008

Commercial and Institutional estimating for various GC’c.

Costs vary from 1 to 15Million.

Pyramid Constructors, LLP 2/ 2005- 10/2006

Sr. Estimator/Project Manager

Commercial estimator of Institutional facilities 1 to 20million

Cost size.

Braselton Construction, Inc 2004- 2005

Project Manager/ Sr. Estimator

Commercial estimator of Institutional facilities 1 to 20million

Cost size.

******(Company closed, Owner retired)

R.L. ”Sonny” Holley Contract Estimating 2003-2003

Commercial estimating and consulting as an out source for various commercial construction companies

(Clients do not pay on time, looked for other work)

D.T. Construction, Inc. Humble, Texas 2001-2003

Project Manager / Estimator

******(Company laid off 17, downsized back to original 4 people)

Performed preliminary and detailed estimates of General commercial and institutional projects in the Gulf coast area of Texas, primarily in and around Houston. Project costs ranged from $.5 to $10 million, with company billings of $25Ma year. Intimately involved in the bidding process including blueprint interpretation, their distribution, and review of sub-proposals. Upon award of any project of which I had been involved with during the bid process, I then conducted final negotiations as required, developing specific activities in written form as required for the writing of the scopes needed in the subcontracts.

Projects as Project Manager / Estimator

*SHS School Flood Renovation, Sheldon, Tex. 200Ksft/ $2M

Klien Elementary Gyms (3 each) Klein, Tex. 11Ksft/$2M

Bammel Elementary Addition Spring, Tex. 12Ksft/$2M

*(Superintendent on this project as well)

Projects as Estimator

Northshore HS renovation Houston, Tex. 200Ksft/$4M

Northside Middle School Montgomery, Tex. 95Ksft/$8M

Northforest HS flood renovation Houston, Tex. 250Ksft/$5M

R.L. ”Sonny” Holley Contract Estimating 2001-2001

Commercial estimating and consulting as an out source for various commercial construction companies

(Clients do not pay on time, looked for other work)

Construction Ltd, Houston, Texas 1997-2001

Operations Manager / Project Manager

******(Conflicting Business Ethics)

This $50M a year Houston commercial contractor specializes in the construction of Institutional facilities. I was asked back to assist to assist in the completion of two projects extremely behind schedule. I developed the construction schedules for these projects, assisted the superintendents in implementing both, bought out the remainder of the sub-contractors required when I arrived and initiated all paper work required to close out all projects including the Phase 1 works, inclusive of all remaining change orders and final lien releases to make it so.

Freeport Intermediate School, Freeport, Tex. 108Ksft / $8.5M

Katy High School, Phase 1, Katy, Texas 90Ksft / $7.0M

Katy High School, Phase 2, Katy, Texas 108Ksft / $8.5M

Solesbee Construction, Spartanburg, SC 1996-1997

Project Superintendent

******(Went for 1 project only; My brother needed me.)

My responsibility at this location consisted of constructing a United States Post Office using one half of an existing 100,000-sft shopping center. Upon completion of divider walls, additional structural steel supports and welding as designed by others, another General Contractor demolished the remainder of center as we continued to renovate for USP requirements.

This project required one year for it’s completion and required critical co-ordination between the two GC’s to avoid any damages to the remaining structures. Solesbee’s lack of work, and a call from Construction LTD brought me back home.

USPO of Anderson, Anderson, SC 50Ksft / $2M

Higbie/Roth Construction, Houston, Texas 1992-1996

Project Superintendent

******(Company closed as owners split up)

This $10M a year General contractor was specializing in the construction of Walgreen’s Drugstores. These units had exterior tilt wall construction, using brick façade’s. The interiors were of drywall and had various types lay in ceilings. The units also had to be completed in four months of contract signing. Company officers stated in 1996, that the economy, the pace of construction and profit line of the projects created a negative cash flow and they closed the business.

The Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas +/-100Ksf t $4.0M

League City “Walgreen’s”. League City, Texas 3Ksft/ $1.5M

Irving “ Walgreen’s”, Irving, Texas 3Ksft/ $1.5M

Flower Mound “Walgreen’s”, Flower Mound, Texas 3Ksft/ $1.5M

Construction LTD, Houston, Texas 1992-1992

Project Superintendent

******(Was employed for one project specifically)

This General Contractor specialized in Institutional Facilities. The project known as “Looscan Elementary” was eight months behind schedule.

The Superintendent was to be replaced and I was asked to complete it. We were able to pick up four months of the lost time and gave it to the district during the Christmas Holidays.

Looscan Elementary, Houston, Texas 150Ksft/$8.5M

Summit Builders, Houston, Texas 1989-1992

Project Manager / Estimator

******(Company closed. Owner retired.)

This Contractor also was an Institutional facility contractor. Unfortunately for the firm, they had begun contracting shortly after the recession of 1986 &87 and were never able to get on track financially. Bonding was a problem, and the firm was never allowed to quote projects over $1M. In the latter part of 1994 for overhead reasons Summit Builders closed their doors.

Channelview ISD, 4 portables, & renovate @ the High School 7Ksft / $.5M

Channelview, Texas Renovation 35Ksft / $1.5M

Holiday Builders, Inc., Galveston, Texas 1989-1989

Project Superintendent

*******(Was employed specifically for two Merrill Lynch Projects)

This company had a single client, Merrill Lynch Investments. This company, formerly a residential and small commercial company grossed approximately $12M a year in 1990 and 1991. Merrill Lynch had a management and procedure change in 1991. It’s my understanding only one additional project was done after I finished mine. Mr. Holiday felt that the Merrill Lynch representatives were difficult to work with.

Merrill Lynch, One Houston Center, Houston, Texas 80Ksft / $4.5M

Merrill Lynch, Sugarland, Texas 30Ksft / $1.5M

Murson Constructors, Inc., Pasadena Texas 1982-1989

Vice President, Project Manager/Estimator

50% stockholder; Corpus Christi office manager

(Disagreements with the Navy cost our company 1 million dollars. Before we ever got to court to dispute these losses, the company had to close for lack of operating and legal funds)

This $14M a year National Contractor had offices in Houston & Corpus Christi Texas, as well as Little Rock, Ark. I assisted the president in setting up cost codes system for accounting purposes of tracking immediate costs in the field. I employed and trained new Project Managers as well as the Field Superintendents. I performed preliminary and detailed estimates of general commercial projects, primarily institutional facilities in need of remodeling or additions. These projects ranged from $1M to $5M. Again, I was intimately involved in the bidding process, from job bid solicitations, to blue print interpretation, their distribution, and sub contractor’s quote review. Upon award of the projects I had been involved with during the bidding process, I then conducted final negotiations as necessitated, developing specific activities in written form as required for the writing of the scopes needed in the subcontracts. I created the job schedule for each of the projects using either Suretrak or Microsoft projects, as well as creating costs of all activities and the application for payments of each jobs.

Summarily, at this firm, I selected the Project Managers and Field superintendents as well as trained them; estimated the projects, and then upon award managed them.

U.S. Rotary wing Facility, Corpus Christi, Texas 60Ksft / $3.5M

Corpus Christi ISD 3 School Pak, Corpus Christi, Texas 75Ksft / $2.5M

Weslaco ISD 2 School Pak, Weslaco, Texas 150Ksft / $4.2M

Gretta Oppe Elementary School, Galveston, Texas 78Ksf t / $4.0M

Holley Brothers Enterprises, Inc., Pasadena, Texas 1977-1982

Vice president; Project Superintendent

Project Manager / Estimator

20% Stockholder

At this 10M a year General Contracting Firm, my responsibilities were the same as above with one exception. For the first two years we were in business, I worked in the field as a Project Superintendent.

Bay City Celanese Plant Control Building, Bay City , Texas 10K/$.5M

Murphy Road Business Center, Houston, Texas 175K/$4M

UT Marine Science Institute, Galveston, Texas 30K/$2M

Angleton High School Addition, Angleton, Texas 50K/$3.5M

Conroe High School Addition, Conroe Texas 53K/$3.5M

Preston Road Baptist Church, Pasadena Texas 20K/$1.5M

J.M. Henry Tilt wall Contractors 1970-1977

Galena Park, Texas

Project Superintendent

(Company closed, owner died)

7 years of various types and sizes of tilt wall strip center shells and concrete parking lots.

Warrior Constructors, Inc., Houston, Texas 1965-1970

Carpenter, Carpenter foreman

5 years of various poured in place structures, from ground level, to 5 floors down and back up 30 to 50 floors. Heights bothered me. I left that type of work.

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