Project Manager Construction

Abraham L. Schainker

***** ******* *****

Silver Spring, MD 20901

Phone: 240-***-****

***.*********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a challenging position in the DC metropolitan area, where I can utilize my engineering degree and knowledge of estimating in the construction industry.

EDUCATION/RECOGNITIONS:

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD

Obtained May 2003

Clearance: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

EXPERIENCE:

Jonathan Nehmer & Associates, Feb. 2011 - Present

Director of Estimating Apr. 2012 - Present

Project Manager/Senior Estimator Feb. 2011 – Apr. 2012

• Promoted to Director of Estimating to manage the estimating department in preparing cost estimates for conceptual and detailed budgets of renovations, acquisitions, conversions, and new builds.

• Estimating construction and FF&E for both new construction and capex projects, to create complete project budgets

• Management of the pre-construction, construction, and closeout phases of hotel renovation and construction projects

• Negotiation of bids, change orders, monthly payment requests, etc.

Senior Mechanical Estimator Parsons Corporation, Oct. 2009 – Feb. 2011

• Completed a wide variety of difficult and complex estimating activities for IV&V with a focus on the mechanical discipline including industrial HVAC, fire protection, and plumbing.

• Large US Government projects including working with the Corps of Engineers.

Cost Analyst/Estimator Marriott International, July 2005 - May 2009

• Worked within the Marriott Estimating Department preparing cost estimates for lodging products in North America.

• Developed annual Capital Expenditure estimates for properties to use as a cost guideline.

• Prepared conceptual to construction document estimates for renovations including acquisitions and conversions with an accuracy level of +/- 5% on construction document estimates.

• Worked with the Project Management Department to analyze bids for compliance with scope, drawing, and specifications.

• Prepared conceptual and detailed estimates for conversion and renovation of existing hotels through site survey and pricing of detailed scope of work.

• Maintained historical records of cost data on projects to assist in the preparation of future cost estimates.

Cost Analyst/Estimator Bartley Corporation, May 2003 – Jul. 2005

• Prepared Concrete estimates for bidding purposes, including quantity take-off and pricing for commercial and residential projects. Put together RFI’s and communicated directly with the Builder and or General Contractor.

• Responsible for the evaluation and implementation of a Concrete Foundation Management Software application to automate the business for residential Concrete Foundation Contractors. The objective of the systems is to improve the productivity of the internal infrastructure of the company by automating a number of the following interrelated tasks such as plans retrieval, lot specific plan storage, scheduling as well as dispatching, invoicing and automatic quantity calculation from the AutoCAD file.

SKILLS/SOFTWARE PROGRAMS:

• Success Estimator

• MII

• MatLAB

• MathCAD

• Microsoft Office

• AutoCad

• Microsoft Access

• Visual Basic

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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