35 year professional in the contracting industry.

William J. Gumbiner

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KEY SKILLS

• Market services to potential clients and foster exiting relations

• Estimating: Demolition, Environmental, Heavy Highway

• Types of work completed: industrial, commercial, medical, heavy highway, infrastructure interior strip-out

• Project budgeting, scheduling creation, value engineering

• Contract: negotiations management and administration

• Subcontractor coordination and schedule management

• Job cost monitoring: estimated time/resources/cost

• Team member, mentor, proven manager of up to 7 direct reports.

• Strong interpersonal, leadership, managerial skills

• Ability to motivate others and meet specified goals and aims.

• Expert user in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, Project, Xactimate, Bluebeam and Primavera P6

• IDPH 40hr Asbestos Supervisor, HAZWOPR, OSHA 30,

• Excellent verbal and written communication

EXPERIENCE

Demolition Industry Consultants

Founder/ Instructor/ Estimator/Projects Manager/Projects Scheduler July 2005 – 1/31/2025

Provide, for many categories of entities including but not limited to: property owners, developers, potential purchasers, Specialty Contractors, Federal/State/County government entities… Requested services; contractor vetting / selection, subcontractor selection, dispute resolution, contract review, contractor progression, adherence to Site Safety regulations, Laws and compliance to same. Accident investigations, personnel recruitment, preparation of job specific documents (safety, financial, operations, engineering sign off). Business development, vet potential projects for viability, many projects ranging from 7 figures up to 9. Including but limited to, site hazard mitigation assessment and project controls, decommissioning scope prep, budget planning, prepare project estimates. Review client’s needs and their desired involvement with the contracting process. Develop trades scopes of work package, scheduling and interdependencies with other trades. Project management and controls.

Worked on many heavy highway state and locally funded projects from Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Massachusetts. Hundreds of lane miles of flatworm removal, recycling, aided with installation of sub- base.

September 2005- December 2014 develop materials and conduct demolition estimating, marketing and project management seminars for 300 attendees overall, ranging from novice to senior estimators, management and ownership. Class sizes ranged from 1 to 28. Performed several “one on one” classes for a few general contractors looking to understand the industry, a few established companies wanting to open up a demolition/environmental, hauling and recycling. (Which has lead to 3 companies surviving and thriving over 10-15 years and generating an average $20 million annual sales. Along with startups, customized seminars for existing demolition companies that wanted to incorporate our proven means, methods, policies and procedures in with existing schools of thought. 2

Result: After a decade of success, the National Demolition Association purchased the exclusive rights to the seminars so they could use our ideas and structure to base the modern-day NDA’s educational programs. November 2010 – October 2016

Provided expert witness testimony on behalf of the families of 2 workers who were fatally injured. Including reading, analyzing depositions, photographic & videos evidence and then applying several decades of means/methods/hands on experience and how the progression of events caused Injuries caused the premature collapse and the death of workers in the area. And how their shortcomings facilitated the premature collapse of several thousand tons of industrial equipment and their support structure. And as a result, the demise of workers performing tasks in the immediate area. Judgement for the plaintiffs. December 2015 – January 2017

Retained by families who lost their loved ones in a tragic, completely unavoidable, catastrophe to review all physical evidence. The condition of the 3 story brick and wood structure that that towered over, and immediately adjacent to the 1 story retail structure that was destroyed, and how it was fatally compromised by demolition contractor, subcontractors and others. It was destined to collapse when greed, along with other components, got the better of all parties involved with the defendants Judgement for Plaintiffs. November 2017 – January 2019

Retained by Demolition Contractor who was retained by the property owner to remediate then demolish a power generating facility on the shores of Lake Michigan. Contracted to review all relevant documents, generated by all parties bound by the contract. Of particular interest, the contract and documents pertaining to the environmental contractor and their schedule, schedule of values, Asbestos Survey used to prepare their proposal. The item used by Demolition Company to prepare its estimate and several hundred other items. Discovered that the Environmental contractor had woefully underbid the project. Underestimated quantities of materials that had to be removed, based on survey and their previous abatement of almost identical structures. And these structures, for the most part, are quite similar. Environmental contractor tried billing the demolition contractors to try and recoup their losses. Not only did environmental contractor miscalculate their costs and quantities… they didn’t take into account the cost of the negative impact it would have to the contractor and owner by extending the duration of the project and the items that it would impact. Judgement for the plaintiffs. Highlighted Contracts:

NF Demolition, Lemont, Illinois

May 2014 – October 2015

Estimator / Project Manager / Business Development

• Prepare estimates up to $20 million.

• Prepared and kept CPM schedule with Primavera for all active projects. Including all subcontractors.

• Marketed and sold salvage equipment and materials from demolition projects

• Locate and coordinate subcontractors.

• Designed, programmed, installed, and maintained job cost, contact and contract management software. JM Construction, Chicago, Illinois (Contracted by Demolition industry consultants.) Vice President

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September 2009 – July 2010

• Oversee day to day operations of company.

• Increased annual sales from $450,000 to over $1,000,000 in less than a year

• Estimate, negotiate, close and manage contracts up to $500,000.

• Establish and maintain customer relationships.

• Reviewed all requests for proposals received by company.

• Created and implemented estimating, marketing and safety procedures.

• Prepared and kept CPM schedule with Primavera for all active projects. Including all subcontractors.

• Marketed and sold salvage equipment and materials from demolition projects

• Locate and coordinate subcontractors.

Bechstein Construction, Chicago, Illinois (Contracted by Demolition industry consultants.) Senior Estimator / Project Manager

August 2007 – September 2009

• Estimate, negotiate, close and manage contracts up to $2,000,000.

• Establish and maintain customer relationships.

• Reviewed all requests for proposals received by company.

• Created and implemented estimating, marketing and safety procedures.

• Established and mainland with Primavera all ongoing projects within the company.

• Marketed and sold salvage equipment and materials from demolition projects. Apex Demolition, Tipton, IN (Contracted by Demolition industry consultants.) Estimator / Project Manager

March 2007 – August 2007

• Started up a demolition division of an existing roll off company.

• Developed and implemented strategic marketing plan.

• Create and implement estimating, marketing and safety procedures.

• Estimate, negotiate, close and manage contracts up to $250,000. B & B Crushing, Milwaukee, WI (Contracted by Demolition industry consultants.) General Manager

April 2005 – March 2007

• Oversee day to day operations of an existing concrete recycling facility including marketing and job costing. Had 7 direct reports.

• Increased sales volume by 300% (30,000 tons to 90,000 tons annually).

• Create and implement marketing and safety procedures.

• Maintain and foster existing customer relations.

• Coordinate and create production schedules in Primavera with all clients that were under contract to ensure

• Various state and local government heavy highway projects including bridges and elevated bridgework. Cherry Companies, Houston, Texas (Contracted by Demolition industry consultants.) Quality Assurance / Quality Control & Cost Engineer November 2001 – July 2005

• Generate daily job cost versus estimated job costing reports and schedules utilizing Microsoft Project 2000. 4

• Designed, programmed, installed and maintained job cost, payroll and equipment tracking software

• All reports generated had to adhere to the client dictated format.

• Implemented and monitored QA/QC program for a petrochemical client.

• Generate all contract dictated documentation for QA/QC compliance.

• Responsible for workforce of approximately 35 laborers and operators. Enron Energy Services, Houston, Texas

Senior Projects Scheduler / Invoicing and Reporting Senior Specialist March 2000 – November 2001

• Designed and maintained invoicing software to decrease turn around time for the invoices that were being generated.

• Generated and supported schedules for 20 knowledge management projects using Primavera.

• Developed standardized job cost reports in Microsoft Excel.

• Coordinated with 5 directors responsible for the projects to ensure that they were on or ahead of schedule.

• Assisted in the transition of back-office operations from a company bought by Enron.

• Prepared and supervised preparation of invoices for approximately 100 client locations. Omega Demolition, Chicago, Illinois

Senior Estimator / Project Manager

June 1998 – March 2000

• Estimate, negotiate, close and manage contracts up to $4,000,000.

• Reviewed all requests for proposals received by company. Averaging 15-20 contracts and 300 total employees.

• Managed all contracts.

• Recruited and staffed estimating department. Responsible for 6 estimators and 8 staff members.

• Created and implemented estimating, marketing and safety procedures.

• Marketed and sold salvage equipment and materials from demolition projects.

• Designed, programmed, installed and maintained job cost, contact and contract management software. O’Rourke Wrecking, Cincinnati, OH

Estimator / Project Manager / PC Hardware and Software support March 1997 – June 1998

• Estimate, negotiate, close and manage contracts up to an average 4,000,000.

• Established and maintained up to 8 contracts in Primavera.

• Assisted estimators in preparation of bid documents.

• Assisted in the creation and implemented estimating, marketing and safety procedures.

• Locate and coordinate subcontractors.

• Marketed and sold salvage equipment and materials from demolition projects.

• Designed, programmed, installed and maintained job cost, contact and contract management software. 5

Allied Erecting & Dismantling, Youngstown, OH

Estimator / Litigation Preparation / Project Manager January 1994 – March 1997

• Prepare estimates.

• Assisted estimators in preparation of bid documents.

• Asset recover of salvaged equipment and materials from demolition projects.

• Generated and maintained CPM schedule for all projects company was in process of completion in Primavera

• Prepare and analyze multiple historical projects completed by the company to show loss of productivity and profitability on 12-year long years project the company was completing. EDUCATION bachelor's degree in construction science and business administration Texas A & M, College Station, Texas

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