General Contractor Estimator
Resume:
JOHN D. KERSTETTER
Cleveland, TN 37323
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
December 2011 to April 2012
Project Engineer/Estimator
American Custom Manufacturing, Inc.
I developed and implemented estimating process and organizational systems. I prepared scopes of work and assembled structural steel and miscellaneous metals hard bid proposals. I performed project engineer functions including, but not limited to processing submittals, ordering materials and preparing shipping tickets.
February 2011 to July 2011
Director of Estimating
Stein Construction Company, Chattanooga, TN
I developed and implemented new estimating process and procedures starting from the obtainment of projects to bid through turnover to operations. I designed and instituted all bid, buy and turnover procedures for Stein Construction. I was responsible to oversee the assembly of all bids, approved all proposals before submission and evaluated and approved all contracts before execution. I created and maintained a master sub database, bid log and estimating calendar. In addition to the aforementioned responsibilities I assembled hard bids and budgets for all vertical industrial work.
May 2009 – July 2010
Chief Estimator
Prestige Construction Group, Richmond, VA
In addition to the specific estimator duties identified below, my responsibilities included overseeing our staff in the assembly of all bids, budgets, request for proposals and/or request for qualifications. I identified and targeted projects suitable for bidding, set overhead and profit margins, prepared general condition cost, maintained sub data base, created and maintained bid and budget spread sheet templates and bid log, assigned personnel to lead projects and mentored staff.
Specific Estimator duties included building and maintaining client relationships, preparing and presenting conceptual & schematic estimates, performing take-off pricing, assembly of bids for general contract and prime trades projects, setting up successfully bid and negotiated work and support services to project mangers for said work.
May 2006 – January 2009
Estimator
EMJ Corporation, Chattanooga, TN
See specific Estimator duties above
April 2001 – May 2006
Estimator
JC Beal Construction, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI
See specific Estimator duties above
January 1999-December, 2000
YouthBuild Program Manager
Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency, Pontiac, MI
Specific duties consisted of designing and implementing the YouthBuild Pontiac Program, which included creating the curriculum and infrastructure, writing the budget, hiring teachers and trades instructors, recruiting students, overseeing the rehabilitation of a condemned house in Pontiac, and teaching the building trades course. Not only was I responsible for the administration of the YouthBuild Pontiac, but I also served as the Construction Manager, Site Trainer and Construction Skills Instructor.
January 1997 - January, 1999
Building Trades Instructor
Leona Group, L.L.C., Lansing, MI
New Directions Institute, Pontiac, MI
Specific duties consisted of classroom and hands on instruction, in the modern application of construction practices as well as leadership development. Program and curriculum development, job shadowing, mentoring, internship advisor, academic to trades subject integration, material and equipment orders, class projects, tool and material inventories, contact for supply houses as well as donators of program, and Quality School program implementation, as defined by William Glasser, MD., were some of the main functions performed, as a Building Trades Instructor, at new Directions Institute.
September, 1991- August, 1996
Vocational Trades Instructor
Associated Builders & Contactors of SE., MI, Madison Heights, MI
Carpentry I, II, III, IV, Madison Heights, MI
Drywall I, W.J. Maxey Boys Training Center, Pinckney, MI
Specific duties consisted of classroom and hands on instruction, in the modern application of construction practices as well as social skills, so as to ensure each apprentice readiness for field work in the present and for future advancement. Program and curriculum development, material and equipment orders, class projects, material and equipment inventories, and apprentice advisor were some of the main functions performed, as a Vocational Trades Instructor, for the Associated Builders & Contractors of SE., MI.
December, 1990- May, 2006
Residential Builder, License # 210*******
Kerstetter Construction, Linden, MI
Specific duties would included customer relations, estimating, bidding, planning, drawing, scheduling, coordinating suppliers and subcontractors, as well as performing all aspects of hands on work from new construction to home remodeling. Homes, garages, remodeling, additions, rough framing, roofing, gutters, replacement windows and trim, were just some of the many types of work performed by Kerstetter Construction.
November, 1987-September, 1991
Journeyman Carpenter
Damico Carpentry Inc., Troy, MI
M.T. Rod, Inc., Rochester, MI
Light Commercial and Residential Construction
Specific duties consisted of rough framing homes, apartments, and condominiums, application of pine, calculation of structural headers as well as rafters, stairway design, blueprint reading, layout and leading a crew of three or more, as a foreman.
August, 1987-November, 1987
Estimator/Expeditor
Woods Construction Co., Fraser, MI
Retail Stores
Specific duties consisted of preparing project bids, including quantity take-offs of materials, man-hours, and equipment, as required and expediting the aforementioned on site as per project schedule.
June, 1986-August, 1987
Job Superintendent
Arby’s Construction and Equipment Co., Atlanta, GA
Light Commercial
Specific duties consisted of obtaining project bids, preparing subcontract agreement proposals, providing assistance in awarding contracts, scheduling and coordinating all subcontractors, expediting materials and equipment as necessary and administration of all invoices, change orders, purchase orders and back charge forms.
EDUCATION
1987-Present
State of Michigan, Temporary Vocational Authorization, awarded March, 1999
1982-1986
Ferris State College; B.S. in Construction Management, with honors, awarded
May, 1986. A.A.S. Building Construction Technology, with honors, awarded May, 1984.
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