James Dawson
Brunswick GA *****
Email: ***************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE: Commercial and Residential construction and reconstruction foreman with over 22 years of experience and excellence, by providing supervision of projects for major companies in the United States and United Kingdom. Combining my excellent carpentry skills, hands-on details, loyalty, customer service and work ethics I will add value to any company.
KEY STRENGTHS AND SKILLS
Organizational: Very well organized and comfortable working on projects with time constraints. Completing projects to required specifications and in limited time frames and projected cost guidelines.
Communications: Highly effective team player that understands the value of working together towards a common goal while maintaining professionalism at all times with co-workers as well as handling customer concerns and obtaining customer satisfaction .
Training: Experienced and effective at training new employees and co-workers alike.
Motivator: Self-starter with the ability to analyze operations and recommend strategies to improve job performance.
Competent: Knowledge of project management and supervision of construction staff and managed a full range of trades workers completing light and heavy commercial projects with contractual agreements of up to $1 million per project.
EXPERIENCE
04/01/05 Current Yankee Remodeler
95 Truman Street
New London, CT 06320
L & M Hospital, New London: Foreman Overseeing the remodeling of offices, Emergency Department (5 phases) framing, Sheetrock, taping, door frames, doors locks, door closers, panic hardware, kick plates drop ceilings, painting, misc jobs, ordering material, overseeing jobs, maintaining dust control in contained areas, controlled job site clean-up and tracked change orders. Instalation of V.C.T tile, carpet squares and Herman Miller office furniture
Connecticut College, New London: Foreman Overseeing the remodeling of classrooms, bathrooms, library and lecture hall for the framing, Sheetrock, taping, door frames, doors locks ,door closers, panic hardware, kick plates, drop ceilings, painting, misc jobs, ordering material, overseeing jobs, attending meetings, completing daily work reports, maintained and controlled job site clean-up.
05/02-12/04 Johnson Controls
Pfizer, Groton, CT 06340
Six Sigman Project: Commercial Work Carpentry, General Maintenance, small projects, patching, painting, vacuum pumps, plumbing repairs to fixtures, lamping, ordering materials, building crates, making plexiglas boxes, trays, contamination boxes, installing shelves, repairs to doors and locks. Training: Safety, scissor/man lift, blood borne pathogens and zero tolerance.
02/93-05/02 Yankee Remodeler
95 Truman Street
New London, CT 063200
L & M Hospital, New London, Commercial 6 years general maintenance remodeling offices, x-ray rooms, installed steel studs, sheet-rock, drop ceilings, steel doors and jambs, cove base, cabinets, lead lined sheet-rock, floor tiles, carpet tiles, door closers, locks, simplex locks, repaired doors, patching, painting and other misc jobs. Maintained on site clean-up, took inventory of materials each day and ordered material when required.
Residential: Building new houses additions i.e. trusses, windows, siding floors, stairs, doors, trim, kitchens, bathrooms, termite repairs, roofs patching and painting and other misc. jobs. Maintained clean job site, took inventory of material, framing, wood studs, installing kitchen units and rubber/brying roofs.
07/92- 10/92 A/Z Corporation
Perry Lorenz, President,
1671 Center Groton Rd.
Ledyard, Ct 06339
Commercial Construction: Metal framing, doors, base cove, sheet-rock, wood framing, suspended ceilings, shelves, flooring painting and other miscellaneous work.
06/88-01/91 Ian Penman
42 Sunnyside Rd
Alloa, Scotland, UK
011-44-259-72244
Residential Construction: Building new houses, roofs, mid-joists, sleeper joists, studs, floors, ceilings doors, trim shelves, building and installing kitchen units.
06/88-08/78 Richardson & Starling,Scotland, UK
Flourish Inn's, Scotland, UK
Taylor Woodrow, Scotland, UK
Protim Services, Earls Rd, Grangemouth, Stirlingshire
Scotland, UK 011-44-786-485829
Commercial & Residential Construction: Repairing floorboards, ceilings, door frames, trims, sash and case windows, cutting out old beans and bolting new beans alongside old ones. Stripped and re- strapped timber walls, cut out roof trusses and bolted new ones alongside. Remodeling wooden beans and replacing with concrete beans. Maintained clean job site and ordered materials for job.
EDUCATION
1963-1969 Coalsnaughton Primary School
Coalsnaughton, Scotland, UK
1969-1974 Alva Academy
Alva, Scotland, UK
08/74- 08/78 4 year Apprenticeship
Hunter & Thomson
Scotland, UK
REFERENCES
Gary Jarboe, Johnson Controls Pfizer, Groton, Ct 06340 860-***-**** after 3pm Mon-Fri
Thomas Leiper, Leiper & Son Plumbing & Heating Vermont 1-802-***-****
Carl Bagwell, Yankee Remodeler, 95 Truman St. New London, CT 06320 860-***-**** ext 13
Jon Stockford, 35 New York Rd Montville Ct 06353 860-***-****
Michael Wallace, Homestead Rd Ledyard CT 06339 860-***-****
John Renwick London, England UK 011-44-071-9488052
Harry Mantzaris, Yankee Remodeler, 95 Truman St. New London, CT 06320 860-***-**** ext 12
Rich Gonyo, Yankee Remodeler 860-***-****
Mike Mahoney, Yankee Remodeler 860-***-**** ext 20