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Construction Superintendent Private Sector

Location:
Chattanooga, TN, 37402
Posted:
May 31, 2025

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Professional Experience Summary

A driven Construction Superintendent with a diverse knowledge of the processes of construction and construction surveying with strict adherence to industry practices. With over a 30 year record of success overseeing all phases of multimillion dollar construction, infrastructure, utilities and environmental projects for government and the private sector. Special expertise in formulating ideas, putting those ideas into action and building on the solutions to meet the needs of the client, contractors and engineering teams. Using my interpersonal skills that are imperative to create strong team players, provide support in order to uphold solid business practices to maximize the company's operation.

Profile of Qualifications

Surveying: Control Staking, Boundary, ALTA's surveys, Streets, Highways, Bridges, Railroad, Sanitary Sewer, Storm Sewer, Water, Gas, Title Research, Tax Records & Maps, Topographic Maps, Platted Maps, Site Surveying, High Voltage Transmission Towers, Telecommunication Towers, Building Form Survey, Tree Location with elevations, Legal Descriptions, Drafting.

Field Engineering for commercial and private sector clients. Provide support to all areas of the project, working in conjunction with general contractor, sub-contractor, laborers and clients to ensure that all construction activities move according to the project schedule. Experience includes manage/ train personnel in all aspects of construction and utility surveying.

Major projects include: Joe Pool Lake, Dallas - Military Airport Runway, Huntsville - Military Ammunition Depot, Fort Leavenworth - Dallas North Tollway, Dallas — Power Substation

Commercial projects include: Walgreens, Wal-Mart / Sam's Club, Target Warehouse, Cabela's, Restaurants, Shopping Centers, Churches, Schools (elementary, high school, colleges, trade schools), Housing projects (military, Pulte Homes), subdivisions, Office Buildings, Golf Courses (including PGA course in Memphis), Country Clubs.

Employment Summary

KHS Surveying & Design (Marietta, MS) – Senior Chief, 2020 — 2022

Supervise the operations and training of all field personnel. Responsible for all field drafting and sketches. Responsible for both horizontal and vertical control. Responsible for legal description and reference information. Direct communication with RPLS, owner and clients. Equipment operation and maintenance of total station, GPS equipment, robotic instrument, and topographic level. Operation and maintenance of company vehicles.

Wal-Mart OGP (Online Grocery Pickup) (Poplar Bluff, MO) - Superintendent, 2018 — 2019

Supervise the operations of all construction contractors, scheduling, supplies, deliveries and maintaining the safety operation of each modeling site. Communication between normal business operations and construction modifications while the business is both open and closed to the public during a 24 hour a day schedule.

Hayes Instrument Company (Shelbyville, TN) - Surveying Equipment Salesman, 2017 — 2018

Sales of surveying equipment and supplies to Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers in four state area. Train customers on the use of new equipment. Phone operations on both old and new customers. Follow customers with purchase, training, trade in of old equipment and repairs to exiting equipment.

Staudt Surveying, Inc. (Dripping Springs, TX) - Senior Party Chief, 2014 — 2016

Responsible for training of all field personnel. Responsible for all field drafting and sketches. Survey projects including title, boundary, topographic, and construction site staking. Responsible for both horizontal and vertical control. Subdivision staking including all lot corners, curb staking, and street layout. Responsible for legal description and reference information. Direct communication with RPLS and clients. Equipment operation and maintenance of total station, GPS equipment, robotic instrument, and level. Operation and maintenance of company vehicle with excellent driving record.

Phoenix College (Phoenix, AZ) — Civil Engineering / Construction Management, 2009 — 2013

Student enrolled in classes. Assigned by faculty to be a Tutor for Civil Drafting (manual drafting and cad), mathematics and Land Surveying classes. Demonstrate and trained students in the field use of equipment, calculations and proper taking of field notes & free hand sketches in addition to classroom studies with the explanation of formulas and conversions. Employed by the Veterans Services to help veterans with proper paperwork and guidance.

Holder Construction (Atlanta, GA)—FieId Engineer/Construction Surveyor, 2007 2009

Emory University— Psychology Bldg. (Five stories) — Atlanta, GA

Hired as a specialist to survey the layout for buildings that presented problems due to the complexity of the building design. Achieved cost management in both materials and labor to provide a 30% reduction in waste. This surpassed the budget for supplies, materials and production resulting in a profit for the company. The project was finished two months ahead of schedule.

Office Building — 11 story — 310,000 square feet plus 6 story Parking Garage — Phoenix, AZ

Received commendation from senior management and was asked to transfer to Phoenix with an increase in salary. At the beginning of the project I detected an error in the engineering drawings concerning the placement of forms for the concrete. A savings of four days of having the entire project closed (approximately $60,000.00 in fines and delays) was avoided by finding a solution involving the recalculation of the 384 foot arc along face of building. Design errors were detected throughout the course of the project, because of my knowledge in construction and engineering, the savings of time and cost was equivalent to three times my salary.

Renovation of Old Baylor Hospital into 9 story Office Building — Tempe, AZ

While assigned to the Office Building Project in Phoenix, I provided architectural firm with exact measurements of the top of approximately 288 window frames. Information was submitted via my AutoCAD drawing of each floor. Using my proficient knowledge in data recording, saved 80 man-hours of time scheduled for research and AutoCAD drawing.

Lewis Trucking & Grading (Lithonia, GA) —Construction Party Chief, 2005-2007

Layout office parks and subdivisions set and maintain control for streets, buildings, drainage and landscaping. Set curb & gutter on all roads. Determine placement of sanitary sewer and storm sewer manholes, inlets, junction boxes and lines. Topographic survey and records of all areas authorize placement of building pads, retention ponds, berms and signs. Trained and managed all crews.

Precast Services, Inc. (Twinsburg, OH) — Project Engineer, 2004-2005

Set and maintain control for placement of precast concrete panels on exterior of buildings. Check placement of steel plates on edge of each floor used in anchoring of concrete panels.

•MGM Grand Casino — Detroit, Ml

•Vanderbilt University —9 story classroom building — Nashville, TN

•Cabell Huntington Hospital — Huntington, WV

•Office Building — 4 story — Huntsville, AL

Kaw Valley Engineering (Lenexa, KS) — Construction Party Chief, 1998 — 2004

Supervise all phases of Construction Surveying from plan development to finish turn-key operations. Review utilities, drainage, title records and all building restrictions. Obey the State and local codes. Manage field crews on site.

•NASCAR Race Track — Kansas City, KS

•GTE Telecommunication Hub — Kansas City & Topeka, KS

•Sprint Communication Towers — 368 towers located throughout the state of Missouri

•Pulte Homes — Kansas City, KS — Entire subdivisions including streets and all utilities

•Golf Courses with residential sub-division — Kansas City, KS and surrounding area

•Parkway Retirement Village — Kansas City, KS

•Restaurants- Denny’s, Shoney's, I-HOP, Applebee's, O'Charley's — Kansas City Metro, KS Shopping Centers, Retail Stores, Schools, Colleges, Government Buildings.

Key Skills

[OSHA 30-hour Construction Safety and Health certification (27-602******)]

(Construction- demolition projects) (Infrastructure-improvement projects) (Environmental remediation projects) (Q C field engineering) (RFl's change order management) (Scheduling-cost control-time management) (High voltage-utility surveying) (Advanced computer skills-Microsoft Office, Word, Excel,

PowerPoint, AutoCAD) (Resolve complex/abstract problems) (Create teams-develop goals & objectives)

Education

American Trades Institute (Dallas, Texas)

AutoCAD

Southeast College of Technology (Memphis, TN)

Computer Programming

Muscle Shoals State Tech (Muscle Shoals, Alabama)

Electronics

Phoenix College (Phoenix, Arizona) Construction Management/Civil Engineering Degree

Certification

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