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Director of estimating

Location:
Glencoe, MO, 63038
Salary:
130K
Posted:
February 24, 2010

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Resume:

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



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