Gary Davis
Glencoe, Missouri 63038
Cell 636-***-**** Home 314-***-****
Email **************@*****.***
Education:
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
B.S. Engineering, Construction Science 1975
B.S. Business Administration, Business Finance 1975
OSHA 30 hour
Affiliations:
• Florissant Valley Community College, Florissant, Missouri, Evening class Instructor for Construction Estimating, Construction Methods and Blueprint Reading (1985-1992)
• Board of Directors – Eco Park Children’s Education Fund (EPCFF) (2002-Present)
Computer skills:
• Microsoft Office Excel, Word & Outlook
• 17 years experience HCSS Heavy Bid, Familiarity (long time ago) with Timberline & MC2
• Primavera Sure Track scheduling
Examples of Relevant Project Experience:
I successfully hard bid or negotiated the following projects. Several of the projects I followed to the jobsite to estimate changes and construction claims both on the contractor’s side and several to defend the owner on CM projects.
Alberici Group (1979-2008)
Director of Estimating (2003-2008)
Holcim Cement, Ste. Genevieve Missouri
• 1200 MTon/day worlds largest single kiln cement manufacturing plant. ($1B) Estimating Manager CM including self-perform steel and process equipment installations. JV with Washington Group. On jobsite 1.5 yrs.
U.S. Army Corp of Engineering – Olmstead Dam, Olmstead, Illinois
• Construction of the navigation dam on the Ohio River ($1.2B)
Aneuser-Busch Projects, St. Louis, Missouri, Ft. Collins, Colorado and Newark, N.J.
• Numerous plant renovation projects too many to list ($100M)
General Motors Corporation, Lansing, Michigan
• New Assembly plant Design/Build $180M. On jobsite .7 yrs.
Minute Maid (division of Coca Cola) Paw Paw, Michigan
• Plant Expansion Design/Build $2M
Hershey Project Columbus, Monterey Mexico
• New Candy Manufacturing facility Design/Build ($100M)
Biodiesel Plant – Beatrice, Nebraska
• Design/Build Greenfield Plant ($45M)
Chief Estimator (1999-2000)
Ford do Brasil Amazon Project Camacari Brasil
• Design/Build project including Joint Venture Brazilian partners ($175M). Body shop, Press Building, Final Assembly Building and 29 supplier facilities, including, injection, painting, deconsolidation, and various other first tier suppliers. After successful bid and negotiations, I was on the jobsite for 1.5 years. This was the best project in my career.
Senior Estimator (2000-2003, and 1985-1999)
Bimbo Bakery, Dawn, Texas
• Corn milling facility including building and process equipment installation ($13M). After bidding I was on jobsite .5 years.
Ford Motor Co., various locations
• Engine plant addition in Chihuahua, Mexico ($30M). After bid, I was on jobsite for .33 years
• Concrete floor demolition and renovation in Sharonville, Ohio ($4M)
• Plant additions for Aerostar extended van program in Hazelwood, Missouri ($30M)
American Axle
• Silao, Mexico Construction management manufacturing facility joint venture with Grupos Marhnos for complete facility construction and equipment installation at Guanajuato Gear & Axle Facility ($23M)
• Curitiba, Brazil Conversion of existing manufacturing facility into suitable facility for owner’s machine and assembly work. Install production equipment in new facility
Great Lakes Steel, Ecorse, Michigan
• Install pusher furnace for ITAM ($7.4M)
Bunge Co., Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Building steel fabrication, erection and equipment installation ($3.1M)
• Refinery and extraction buildings for soybean processing ($8.4M)
Detroit Edison, East China, Michigan
• Crusher house and coal handling concrete work at St. Clair Power Plant ($3.2M)
• Furnish and erect structural steel at the St. Clair Power Plant ($1.6M)
General Motors Corporation, Linden, New Jersey and Arlington, Texas
• ASRS for ACCO conveyor including building additions in Linden, New Jersey ($2.5M)
• ASRS conveyor tunnel in Linden, New Jersey ($1.2M)
• ASRS for ACCO in Arlington, Texas ($4M)
Chrysler Corporation, various locations
• Engine and assembly plants in Curitiba, Brazil ($80M)
• Stamping plant addition in Belvidere, Illinois ($11.3M)
• Body shop addition at Jefferson Avenue Plant ($3.5M)
• Body and paint shop additions for truck plant at Dodge City in Warren, Michigan ($5M)
• Foundations package and site prep for Jefferson Avenue Plant ($6.9M)
Ralston Foods Incorporated, various locations
• Renovation and relocation of five-line bakery including support, process and packaging system for Bremner Bakery Division in Princeton, Kentucky ($14M)
• Equipment installation in Battle Creek, Michigan ($2.1M)
Anheuser-Busch Companies, St. Louis, Missouri
• Brewhouse Tours renovations and negotiated removal and replacement of Brewhouse Mezzanine ($5M)
• Modernization of brewhouse at central brewing facility ($10M)
• Equipment and concrete packages in Fort Collins, Colorado ($763K)
Manitowoc Crane Co., Manitowoc, Wisconsin
• Equipment relocation to South Works ($6M)
ITT Continental Baking, Detroit, Michigan
• New muffin line ($2.4M)
Kiel Center Partners, L.P., St. Louis, Missouri
• 18,500-seat sports and special event arena in downtown St. Louis using a fast-track delivery system over a 22-month duration ($104M)
Kellogg Co., Battle Creek, Michigan
• Installation of bran and rice processing and packaging equipment for Building 100 ($12.8M)
Monsanto Co., St. Louis, Missouri
• Demolition and site work for Building D ($200K)
McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri
• Construction, renovation, expansion and equipment installation for conversion from truck body plant to aircraft production tooling facility of Building 245 ($25.8M)
Capital Development Board of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois
• Correctional facility in Canton, Illinois ($18M)
Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
• Major expansion of subsurface parking garage includes four-level, 600-car underground parking facility ($9.3M)
Central Illinois Power Service, Coffeen, Illinois
• Installation of automatic unit train coal unloading facility including excavation, concrete, structural and conveyors, rail and bridge work ($11.5M)
McDonnell-Douglas Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri
• SCIF facility in Building 65 ($188,400)
• Building 65 addition ($12.5M)
• Gantry furnace area demolition in Building 27 ($387K)
• Building 27 GC equipment relocation ($419K)
• KCH chem. line in Building 27 ($365K)
• Renovate restrooms in Building 2 ($717K)
• Numerous projects for Building 2, 27, 64, 65 totaling aprox. $20M
Sr. Estimator/Cost Engineer/Jobsite Office Manager (1989-1994)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alton, Illinois
• 3rd stage cofferdam and Auxiliary lock and remainder of dam contracts on the Mississippi River for Melvin Price Locks and Dam 26 ($224M). JV with Martin K. Eby. After leading successful bid, I was on this jobsite for 4 years.
Estimator (1979-1985)
Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc., Moberly, Missouri
• Thomas Hill Coal fired Power Plant additional unit $25M
Continental Grain, East St. Louis, Illinois
• Barge loading system $2M
Missouri Portland Cement Co., Joppa, Illinois
• Plant modification to finish cement handling systems $275K
General Motors Corporation
• New assembly plants Lake Orion Michigan and Wentzville Missouri $2B. After preliminary and detailed estimates, I was head estimator for a group of 6 estimators doing change order estimates and negotiations as part of the CM team running project.
Prior to Alberici:
Burns & McDonnell Engineering, Kansas City, Missouri (1975-1979)
Engineering Cost Estimator, Contract Negotiation, Value Engineering
Armco Steel, Kansas City, Missouri
6 strand Continuous Scrap Charged Melt shop
Basin Power Coop, Wheatland, Wyoming
Laramie River Station 2- 750 mw coal fired units on a Greenfield site. 6 months on project jobsite.
Iran Air Lines, Tehran, Iran
Foam Fire protection system for an aircraft hanger for a Concord supersonic airplane. After estimate and negotiations with performing contractor I was engineer’s representative until political unrest required a non-American.
Saudi Arabian Government
King Kahled Military City Project for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. This project was for a military airbase and hardened shelters for aircraft as well as housing, shopping, roads, utilities on a Greenfield (really sand) project site.
U.S. Navy, Keflavik, Iceland
Airport Control tower
City of Kansas City, Missouri
Little Blue Interceptor Sewer and Treatment plant.
Associated Electric Cooperative, Moberly, Missouri
Thomas Hill Power Plant
Heartwood Homes, Kodiak, Alaska (1971-1974)
Carpenter (Summer Worker)
Numerous residential, light commercial and light industrial projects