JOHN VAN NESS

Banning, CA 951-***-**** ad162o@r.postjobfree.com

CONSTRUCTION SUPERINTENDENT

Extensive experience overseeing and leading construction operations from planning to completion; desire to work in ground-up construction. Value hard work, high standards, and integrity. Expertise spans highly skilled craftmanship, design-build, commercial and new construction, tenant improvement, excavation and grading, utility tie ins, foundations, wet and dry utilities (above and below ground), and maintenance/repair programs. HANDS-ON LEADERSHIP ETHOS COMPLETED OVER 250 DESIGN-BUILD PROJECTS Bring together stakeholders and crews to get the job done. Known for fixing the impossible, turning around projects, and managing relationships with clients, subcontractors, and vendors.

Approach challenges from many angles and deliver quality and schedule-driven projects with a positive client experience. Led months-long heavy civil, municipal, and large commercial construction projects.

Construction Management – Design-Build – Customer Relations – Onsite Supervision & Trade Coordination Schedule Implementation & Control – Inspection & Quality Assurance – Safety & Compliance – Building & Licensing Codes Personnel, Vendor & Subcontractor Management – On-Site/Off-Site Utilities & Underground Infrastructure CAREER EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESSES

ABOVE AND BELOW SITE SERVICES – Banning, CA 2022 – Present Utility and excavation company serving the manufactured home industry. OWNER / OPERATOR / SUPERINTENDENT

Oversee all aspects of multiple, ongoing construction operations, as well as Above and Below Site Services, a company that has completed 14 projects with a crew of 4, earning $1.1M in revenue in one year. Role involves scope development, ensuring job sites have proper materials and labor, addressing issues through regular walk throughs, communicating with project owners/engineers/teams, scheduling subcontractors, and working with city officials, municipalities and utility companies. Take pride in managing projects from breaking ground to occupancy, delivering on time, maintaining clean sites, and ensuring quality of work. IRONWOOD GENERAL – Palm Desert, CA 2019 – 2022

Full-service design build company: commercial new construction, structural steel, and tenant improvements. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT

Directed strategic planning, engineering, execution, and management of singular, very-involved construction projects from conception to completion, ensuring compliance with quality standards, internal controls, client specifications, and building codes.

• Completed $3.8M project for City of Calexico – a 40,000 sqft cannabis warehouse and 2700 sqft commercial dispensary; completed on time in 7 months.

• Managed singular, very-involved design-builds for commercial new construction, structural steel, and tenant improvements, including a $7M horse barn for Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac). INLAND PROPERTY VENTURES CONSTRUCTION – Banning, CA 2014 – 2019 General contractor for permitted garages and commercial remodels. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT / OWNER

Managed operations and projects to grow general construction company, while supervising a diversified team of 16 construction and administrative professionals. Contracted for singular projects ranging from permitted garages to accessory dwelling units

(ADUs) to ongoing custom commercial builds, remodels, and tenant improvements.

• Constructed new single-unit Jack-in-the-Box store in Hemet, meeting aggressive 90-day completion deadline.

• Managed portfolio construction projects for commercial complexes and business centers in Orange County (Glidewell International Tech Center, Executive Plaza) ranging from $150K to $1.3M; communicated with property owner on ongoing custom projects, including design-build of cantilever deck on a 5-story building in downtown Irvine. John Van Ness 951-***-**** ad162o@r.postjobfree.com DFI INFRASTRUCTURE – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2012 – 2014 Division of Dave Freeland Industries; multinational provider of quality piling services for municipal infrastructure and oil fields. GENERAL MANAGER

Hired to turnaround new Cure-in-Place Infrastructure Division and defaulted projects; worked directly with company owner and grew division exponentially from -$1.6M to +$6M in 2 years by introducing wastewater and potable water infrastructure to the oilfield industry.

• Established first wastewater maintenance and repair program for the City/County of Edmonton (Alberta Province) and City of Regina (Saskatchewan Province); developed and received FDA approval for CIPP liner for their potable water.

• Supervised infrastructure rehabilitation projects for oilfields, including CCTV inspection down deep vertical well shafts, mainline and lateral cured-in-pace-pipe, and sectional point repair. INSITUFORM – Asia Pacific & Australia 2010 – 2012

Global leader in the development and installation of proprietary technologies and services for rehabilitating sewer, water and other underground piping systems without digging or disruption; subsidiary of Aegion Corporation. SUPERINTENDENT

Oversaw water and wastewater rehabilitation projects with CIPP technology in Singapore and Australia.

• Developed lateral lining system for wastewater systems in New South Wales and Western Australia; rehabilitated approximately 25 miles of pipelines with CIPP technology and Epros robotics.

• Managed rehabilitation of 50 miles of sewer pipeline for Singapore’s national water agency (Public Utility Board) using CIPP technologies and supplying cure-in-place lining to local third-party contractors. PACIFIC LINERS (acquired by Veolia Environmental Services) – Hawaii & Guam 2004 – 2010 Full-service pipe and sewer line restoration company. GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT

Promoted based on track record as highest producing foreman to manage CIPP installation, lateral rehabilitation, and replacement of underground pipeline projects in California and the Pacific Islands. Directed operations for all project phases, crew, subcontractors, site safety, budget, permits, and customer service management.

• Managed Wilhelmina Rise Sewer Rehabilitation project – a 100-year-old housing development built over sewer system. Point repair excavation, pipe replacement, and installation of CIPP liners using robotics equipment – mostly in backyards with difficult access. Resolved issues with third party engineering company and city/county of Honolulu.

• Rehabilitated deteriorated sewers for City and County of Los Angeles; developed extensive magnesium crown spray maintenance and repair program to inhibit corrosion and extend life of pipe; program still in use today. Prior – Wesco Infrastructure and Baily’s Process Piping: Constructed two-story mixing platform and conveyor system for Nestle/Weight Watchers production facility using the latest technology in process piping and welding. TRAINING & LICENSES

Robotics Design & Fabrication – RS Technik AG, Dubendorf Switzerland Hydraulics Use & Design Training – Parker Hannifin, Cleveland Ohio General A & B California Contractors License – 1057314

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