Residential and commercial building all trades estimator

RESUME

Ronald J. Kahora, BachScienceInd, CET(Cert. civil eng tech), CDT (Certified Contract DocumentsTech),NJ Real estate Licensed. MonmouthOcean MLS member

DEGTEED: (Bachelor of Science 1987, NJIT…. Associates Degree Union College/Union County Tech Grad. )

Major: CM program (Civil/Construction Eng. Tech plus Bus Admin)

Graduate: 18 credits in Engineering Management and Project Management at NJIT

HIGHEST SKILLS: Estimating, Sub Management, Job Site Supervision, Mechanical and Specialty Equipment

Negotiation and comparison as arises.

787 Victory Avenue, Brick Twp. NJ 087**-***** Veteran USN-Reserve

Phone: 732-***-**** & voice mail Flip Cell: 609-***-****

iPhone 11: 609-***-****

Other Part Time Occupations: Rental Property Owner/Landlord – NJ real estate agent license current.

Email: *******@***.***

OCCUPATION: Residential and Commercial Construction/Public/MajorFacilities: PROJECT OFFICE ADMIN. Expertise and Job Site Supervision Sub Coordinator in field.

JOB HISTORY: Draftsman Mech and Arch, piping desingner, Propane gas tanks and systems, Field manager, Job Site manager, Estimator (excel), buyer, subcontract manager for buildings, site, utilities, bid packager/specwriter for sub work, Construction Documents technician, Management and analysis of subcontractor bids, shop drawings, and change orders. Uses excel, word, outlook heavily.

Skilled Admin: Main office Estimator, Bid Packager, Materials Buyer, Sales Proposal Prep., Contract and Documents Management (Cost and Technical) Cost and change order administration. Document & transmittal admin -with logging and followup. Reads ALL plansArchMEP

Skilled Field: Previously field Site sub management, most recently office estimating and purchasing (alternates time in Field or Office).

EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR: Commercial, Pub Works, and Residential Construction/DesBuild Co. (or) Large Facility/Public Works Owner under the

Software Commonly Used: Excel (heavy), Repair Base subscriber (HUD Estimates), occasional Xactimate 27, occasional MS Project, Subscribe to all Craftsman Estimating Cost Books cloud for all Disciplines, “Smartsheet” Project control Software, Microsoft CRM. Sage Administrative Documents.

Typical Work location: Main Office Estimating/Bid Packaging or at On-site trailer CM with computer/phone/fax

ACHIEVEMENTS: High owner satisfaction with control of details, cost, coordination, inspections, and closeout.

DEGREE: Bachelor of Science Industrial @NJ Institute of Technology 1987

Major: Construction Management Program (IE, CE, MET, IM, MECH, ENV.ENG selections THAT RELATE TO EQUIPMENT AND PROJ ENG. MANAGEMENT)

Associates Degree @Union College (Cranford) & Union County Tech. Institute (Scotch Plains) 1978

(2) Majors: Business and Civil Eng. Technology (ACC, BUSLAW, FIN, CIV Tech, Mech Tech)

GRADUATE: Additional 18 credits Engineering Management (EM 600 level) (IE, CE, EM select'ns)

(Safety Engineer’g, Advanced Cost Anal., Advan. Statistics, Law A/E Docs&Contracts,

Maintenance Engineering, Manufactur. Facilities Layout, Project Management (with Kerzner

book and PMBOK & all PMP review books)

OTHER EDU: 8-hour OSHA trench excav. safety. Real Estate Analysis at FDU. HVAC Lincoln Tech

Process Pipe and carbon steel welding at General Tech. Institute. *ACAD 2002 AT CDM IN WAYNE, NJ UPDATES 50 HRS. Real Estate, and paralegal contract/transaction courses.

Contractor Safety on-site training at Merck and other facilities.

CERTIFICATIONS: CDT from Construction Spec. Institute 1996

CET Certified Civ Engineering Tech. NICET 1973 right after (2) year Civ.Tech. at UC

NJ Real Estate License. Part Time on MonmouthOcean flexmls

Was formerly Boiler Black Seal Licensed for startup of new systems and gas vaporizers

SKILL EXPERTISE: -Detail drafting hand sketches for field or corrections to A/E drawings.

-Use of transits and levels for construction layouts

-Monitoring A/E details and progress prints for Constructability and clarity

-Responsibility assignments and logic and charts

-Estimating, bid packaging, spec writing, PO attachment general conditions

-Heavy Excel 2016 use, Word, occasional MS Project and Primavera

OTHER SKILLS: Was D/B Metal Building Contractor in 1997 & 1998 (See Employ. History)

FACILITY TYPES: Pharm. Labs, Office Buildings, Agricultural Labs, Offices, Cafeterias, Boilers & Piping

Sewers, Sitework, Tank Farms, Pressure Gas Systems and Environmental,

Maintenance, Warehouse & Metal Buildongs, Docks, Machinery Layout, Greenhouses, Public Housing and high rise renovations, architectural, site, or mechanical.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

-Aug. 2017 TO May 2021: PJR CONSTRUCTION GROUP, Freehold, NJ

Position: Project Estimator (full) and D/B budget estimator, Subcontractor bid packager and analyst.

Project Types: Metal Buildings, flex buildings, Block Buildings, Site Work and all trades, Fit-outs for medical offices, gyms, rock climbing tenant spaces, Child care centers, Doctor-owned Mediplexes, Auto Sales buildings new and renovations with specialty items, Churches and religious buildings. Liquor store construction and specialty items and refrigeration, Boat sales buildings and storage site work.

Plans dealt with: Site, paving, landscape, structural concrete foundation, steel regular and metal building type, Architectural (all roof, Carpentry metal stud partitions, interior finishes, epoxy floors, exterior façade brickface, Mezzanine construction, MEP and Electrical plans with water and gas piping, Elect. Service plus generator plans.

Achievements: Finalized excel estimates after negotiating with sub-bidders, obtained numerous jobs with tight

Bid analysis and estimating with subcontractors, properly price Change Orders net cost and markups of in-progress jobs.

HAVE REGULAR CONTACT WITH OVER 500 SUBCONTRACORS, ARCH AND ENG FIRMS IN ALL TRADES IN NJ AND FINISH MATERIAL SUPPLIERS AND LUMBER YARDS.

-2013 TO 2017: ROCON Construction Group, Brielle NJ

Position: Estimator, Sub Bid Packager and Buyer/Purch Agent

Project Types: Public Works Buildings Bidding in Monmouth and Ocean Counties

New House Construction. House Lifing RREM grant work reconstruction.

Strip Mall fit out RTUs, Duct, Roofing and Ceiling Renovations

Estimate numerous Public Works – (Prev. Wage) packages including Fire Academy, Boardwalk reconstruction School Renovations, Piling Helical or Timber, Town Muni Building renovations, boardwalk Life Guard and Restroom Projects, Metal Building Construction, Snack Bar and cafeteria, Public Golf clubhouses, restroom renovations, cedar siding replacement, some Historic building renovations and repairs.

If awarded, aid in shop drawing, product finalization, and sub quote finalization and budget or schedule of value submission.

Estimate plans for an average of 3 House Lifts and/or New Single Family Construction per month including Prep, Lifting, Masonry, Piles as necessary, new porches and rails PT or Trex type, wheelchair lifts and home elevators, roofing shingles or SSM, siding vinyl, impressions, Azek type trim, gas fireplaces, floors, framing lumber, tiles, HVAC units, Pex plumbing, fixtures, cabinet subcontract and shop drawing coordination.

2011 TO 2013: Mueller Services, Inc. (Insurance property inspector – field/ analysis /reports)

Commercial property insurance inspections, analysis, and photo reports.

Site visit, survey, and prepare reports and photographs of business and building,

(Over 80 hours of training in insurance inspections completed)

(Do 3 to 7 reports per week on a piece basis)

2009 TO PRESENT: RJKC SERVICES

Bid packaging, estimating and scoping for property managers throughout NJ.

Vacant home inspections, photographs for property preservation entities per guidelines

Or HUD guidelines.

Call many property and multi-property managers for maintenance and damage work at Facilites throughout NJ. Prepare measurements and scopes of work and desired cost breakdown line items.

Obtain contractors and bidders qualified and desirous of the work by issuing RFQ’s and receiving bids and submitting them to the Property Managers or owners.

Heavy contact with all property managers and contractors for Site, Snow Removal, Janitorial, Paving and milling, line striping, concrete walks and curbs, brick repair, railing repair, soffit and facia, roofing flat and shingle, painting, drywall, landscaping yearly contracts.

(Uses the subscription to Microsoft CRM as contact management program)

-DECEMBER 2004 to Dec 2008: 3D Contracting, Matawan, NJ

JOB-Site CM and (Estimator/Bid Packager when in office) (All Trades and A/E disciplines)

Completed: Maple Tree Plaza, Freehold, NJ Strip Mall 6-stores, plus fit up of 7-11 and Italian Deli

Magna Power Electronics, Flemington, NJ Electron. Plant from groundbrk. to final CO

Fit-up of Jackson Diner in a strip mall

Jade Plaza, Millstone, NJ - 6 store strip mall – to final CO

Fit-out of Delicatessan in Marlboro, NJ

Other: Permitting for miscellaneous strip mall jobs

Estimating and Bid Packaging for several Office Buildings and major site work jobs

Storage Rental Building, 3-story, permitting and Plan constructability

Orders material for in-house carpentry work

Coordinate and file for transformers, natural gas, wells, septic systems, MUA’s pits

2002 to 2004: Brunswick Associates Realtors, Edison, NJ

Construction Management for miscellaneous spec. houses being constructed by Real Estate Agency. Bid package and supervise individual specialty contractors for 7 spec. houses and 2 family houses in Middlesex and Union County

10/15/01 TO 01/02: KSI CONTRACTING, Freehold, NJ (PIPING Designer = COLLEGE BUILDING MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND UNDERGROUND PIPING UTILITES) (KSI now Out of Business from lack of work)

(Temporary) finish Building Mechanical submittals and systems layouts, shop drawings for college at Old Westbury, New York. Piping drafting and vendor coordination, design of some systems schematically represented.

Prepared documents, submittal cuts, and piping drawings, for end of school student activites building. Coordinate new vendors and existing vendors for receipt of proper A/E

DUTIES: Measuring, coordination of vendor equipment, for A/E submittal including,

Cooling tower piping, chiller piping, generator, high temp hwh and Metalbestos stacks, York final submittal and DDC system coordination of pneumatic system, Quincy compressor piping drawing and submittals, Isometrics of piping of gas and other systems, Griswold recovery tank and piping, Gas company coordination and dual regulator manifold drawings, equipment rigging, some as builts, valve selection. Chemical feed and control layout and selection for HW, CHW, and Condenser.

(Approvals returned with few or no comments due to attention to detail)

THIS FIRM HAS DOWNSIZED TO A SKELETON CREW IN JAN 2002. COULD NOT OBTAIN ANY MORE WORK.

Aug. 1997 TO 9/22/01 : MERCK & CO., INC. (RE: MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE)

(Contract and Documents Management)

Central Engineering Dept. (Contract Employee thru Sherman Services as Field CM and Doc. Office Controller, Contract Administration for Merck-managed (Central Eng’rg) projects.

DUTIES: CM in-house Merck Engineering in Management and contract documents for Major Facilities

Upgrades and Capital Projects at Rahway, NJ facility.

TYPES: Major Chem. Sewer, Water Treatment, Powerhouse and Electrical Substation

Construction. New major DI Water and Chiller Facilities, Powerhouse, & Stack.

Parking Garage Construction. Pipe racks and new DI Water Building

1996 TO 1997: R. J. KAHORA CONSTRUCTORS, INC. - Pre-Eng'd Steel Building and General Carpenty Contractors (established as NJ corporation) Residential-Commercial customers

DUTIES: Estimating, Proposals, Spreadsheets, Partial field management and inspection, transit layouts,

Shop Dwgs., Finance, Personnel, Advertising, Marketing, Insurance & Risk Management.

TYPES: Steel Buildings and Parkline Small Buildings for PSE&G and other pipeline utility

Companies. Carpentry for Offices and partitioning. Some residential repairs on occasion. Design-Build and construction of Foundations for Steel Buildings & Sheds.

ACHIEVED: Installed reinforced concrete foundations, slabs, steel buildings for PSEG Camden, TransAmer. Gas Pipelines pump station shed & Fdn., customized steel Parkline

Sheds for ATT Absecon. Repaired and renovated some residential (carpentry) with decks,

Doors, paint ranch houses, prefab fireplace retrofit, vinyl siding, insurance repairs.

Utilized Excel97 and set up QUICKBOOKS PRO for office and estimating management and proposals.

Stopped bidding 1998 due to severe cost competion. We achieved our work very well, and

with commendation, but the erratic nature and small profit margins was not worth the effort.

1994-1996: Returned to Newark Housing Authority As Temp. Eng Tech. in Modernization Dept.

(See 1983-1988 below) thru L.J. Gonzer agency.

HUD-Federal style bid packaging for upgrading sites and building systems.

1989 to 1994: AMERICAN CYANAMID AGRICULTURAL R & D COMPLEX, Princeton, NJ

(Now owned by BASF) (RE: SITE, INFRASTRUCT, TECH BUILDINGS)

In-house Engineering Project Manager and Facility Programmer for major diversified construction or renovation and maintenace upgrades. Through Operations Department of the facility. (Equivilant of an In-House GC and Subcontrator Bid Packager & Manager)

DUTIES: Execute capital projects spending on Facilities Projects Skill Expertise on front page of resume - all skills utilized on this job). Prepared sketches, drawings or details and specifications for Puchasing to send to contractors, or to local A/E's to complete more sophisticated plans for the design.

Reviewed competitive prices from the A/E's or from contractors and finalized selection of the firm. Managed the A/E progress prints and/or scheduled contracting work for in-house designs. Used Microsoft Project as the scheduling tool. PROGRAMMED AND PACKAGED and partially or wholly monitored THE FOLLOWING: (Numerous $5K to $3M capital improvements and new buildings)

TYPES: - Agricultural Bldg's and Greenhouses changes and upgrades (Dept. of Agric. Validation)

- Fume Hoods, elephant trunks, ventilation testing

- Cafeteria equipment layout, tiling and repainting

- Cold Boxes, customized

- All steel lab furniture renovations, selection and sketch/draft new views for pricing.

- DI water new and renovations

- Layout, draft, and specifiy Maintenance Warehouse ($1.2M) so that "fixed price" could be obtained for Design-Build completion with very little further programming.

- Incinerator/scrubber renovations

- Open sided steel Drum storage building and adjacent closed steel shed

- Nitrogen system design and routing of washed piping, pad for tank, tank unload sta.

- Steel canopies over doorways.

-Video conferencing sound absorption wall system

-New corridor ramps, pipe railings, sidewalks, site conc stairs & railings

- Contructability and Hazop reviews of outside engineering plans.

ACHIEVED: Excellent under -budget cost control and rapid execution of small/medium size jobs that were approved for the fiscal year through capital imporovement requests.

1983-1988

and returned

1994 – 1996: NEWARK HOUSING AUTHORITY – Modernization Dept. (PUBLIC AGENCY CONTRACTS AND PUBLIC BIDDING DOCUMENTS SIMILAR TO FED ACQUISITION )

RE: (SITE, SEWER, UTILITIES, BOILERS AND OTHER CIVIL OR MECH PIPING).

DUTIES: -Managing HUD-type contracts for A/E or engineering and subsequent contractor work.

TYPES: - Major storm and sanitary sewer upgrades, unit price measurement and earned value management, pavements and parking lots, lighting, boiler and hot water underground, lighting, siding and roofing for new “stick” townhouses replacing the highrises, elevator repair contracts, playground equipment.

-Created and managed complicated moving schedules for temporary relocations and returns to renovated apartments.

1982 – 1983: KALIPHARMA (PUREPAC DRUGS), Elmora, Elizabeth, NJ

Temporary position. In-house Plant/Lab design, drafting, and purchasing packages for upgrades to facility. Programmed and sketched or drafted packages in conjunction with meetings with the space user. Included laboratory, manufacturing, and shipping/receiving warehouse areas. Requisitioned after documents and design was complete.

1980 – 1982: RESEARCH-COTTRELL (Air Pollution Systems) Bridgewater, NJ

Position: Piping Designer for flue gas desulpherization systems

Process piping orthographic, PID’s, and precisely-dimensioned isometric spool piece design drafting for shop fabrication and assembly of pieces by bolting at jobsite. (Hand drawn)

Update drawings to As-Built after field trip measuring at end of job. Travelled to many utilities sites to coordinate spool piece fabrication to be shipped to site. Expedited pumps and equipment by mfgr.

1973-1979 : THOMAS ASSOCIATES, Westfield, NJ (Major Peak Shaving Gas Propane and Ammonia sytems, Butane tank farms and systems)

Small Design-Build firm for Propane peak-shaving systems and Anhydrous Ammonia systems. 30,000 and 60,000 gal bullet tank farms, foundations, pumps, compressors, mixing equip.

(NFPA PAMPHLET 58 AND 59 INSTALLATIONS)

Started in drafting, progressed through field management, field purchasing, for installation of Tank Farm systems, vaporization, and dilution equipment for major plants throughout the east coast. Coordinated our equipment delivery with Riggers and pipefitters at field location.

-Worked in many major facilities including Ford, GM, Sunshine Biscuit, Nabisco, Chrysler and plants throughout the eastern US.

-Drafted tank farms, vaporizors, tie-ins and layout with another engineer. Travelled to locations to meet piping and rigging bidders to deliver and/or explain documents. Returned to site after awarding to coordinate installation by riggers, pipefitters, electricians and receive our specialty purchased equipment and insure proper installation and start-up. Had boiler license, started and adjusted equipment. Largest on-site job at Elizabethtown Gas with (10) 60,000 gal tanks, steel compressor building, Waukeshaw compressors and air reciever, flare system, visible from Goethels Bridge.

REFERENCES:

Jay Sankpal, chief architect, Newark Housing Authority

L. Busch - Leonard Busch Associates, Structural engineers, Trenton

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