10530 Monticello Forest Circle

(502) 558-3852

aaronw@wahvac.com

 

William Aaron Wooden

 

CAREER PROFILE:

To obtain a long term position with a growing company utilizing my work experience to lead and manage others and providing facilities maintenance management.  My experience can be fully utilized to provide and maintain an efficient and well managed building operations.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:                                                          

Water & Air HVAC Products Inc.                                     November 1, 2009 – August 31, 2015

President and Owner of Manufacturer’s Representative Business

·  Responsible for overall financial decision making process along with my Controller.

·  Daily coordination with Controller on all financial matters.

·  Authorized signature for all checks paid by the company.

·  Decide which vendors are to be paid on a weekly basis to maintain net 30 payments.

·  Established and enforced Water & Air HVAC Products Inc. “Employee Handbook” requirements for all employees.

·  Responsible for all human resource requirements for all employees.

·  Established all company paid holidays and vacations for all employees.

·  Responsible to promote and encourage all safety aspects for all employees to abide by.

·  Responsible for “IT” management direction of small business server and PC’s.

·  Responsible to contact and establish contractual agreements with manufacturers of HVAC related equipment.

·  Responsible for equipment vendor relationship management.

·  Responsible to set procedures for all vendor sales goals.

·  Responsible to manage and support two salespersons and setting obtainable sales goals.

·  Responsible to establish and manage commission structures for salespersons.

·  Responsible to generate sales of HVAC air & water moving equipment.

·  Sales and application of boilers, hydronic pumps & piping accessories, humidifiers, fans, ductwork, UVC germicidal emitters to contractors and end users in Kentucky and southern Indiana.

·  Estimated and managed Seismic (earthquake) Controls Engineering for restraint of building (plumbing, HVAC & electrical) components to the building structure on new commercial construction projects.  This service was promoted to Plumbing, Mechanical and Electrical Contractors.  Completed onsite project inspections to ensure the restraint of the components by the contractors met the requirements stated in the engineered Seismic Controls documentation.

·  Estimated and managed installation of Steril-Aire UVC germicidal emitters inside building HVAC units for building owners (schools, hospitals, office buildings, etc…) to improve indoor air quality and to minimize employee absenteeism due to sickness.

·  Provide limited management to hydronic pump service technician.

·  Responsible to manage all maintenance aspects of building leased from landlord.

 

Note:

I made the difficult decision to close down business operations of Water & Air HVAC Products Inc. due to a very competitive industry that no longer allowed adequate mark up of equipment cost to cover the company overhead and provide a reasonable gross profit.

 

Rademaker Corporation:                                                  January 1, 2006 – October 31, 2009

President of the Building Automation, Electrical Contracting and the Engineered Equipment (Manufacturer’s Representative) operating divisions of Rademaker Corporation

·  Report to the CEO on monthly financial performance of the three operating divisions.

·  Responsible for daily coordination with the Vice President of Finance on all financial matters regarding the three operating divisions.

·  Worked with the CEO and Vice President of Finance to complete yearly employee evaluations.

·  Led and implemented needed revisions to the Rademaker Corporation Employee Handbook.

·  Led planning and implementation of employee drug screening process.

·  Established requirement that any employee injured on the job would receive a urine drug screening as part of the company policy.

·  Worked with CEO and Vice President of Finance to maintain all human resource  policies.

·  Responsible for the daily management of the Engineered Equipment (Manufacturer’s Representative) division of Rademaker Corporation.

·  Responsible to contact and establish contractual agreements with manufacturers of HVAC related equipment.

·  Responsible for equipment vendor relationship management.

·  Responsible to meet all vendor sales goal requirements.

·  Responsible to manage and support four salespersons and setting obtainable sales goals.

·  Responsible to manage and support the two division managers for the Building Automation and Electrical Contracting divisions.

·  Coordinated with the CEO and Vice President of Finance on needed computer hardware and software upgrades for the three operating divisions.

·  Coordinated with the CEO and Vice President of Finance on needed vehicle purchases for the three operating divisions.

·  Coordinate the generation of sales of HVAC air & water moving equipment by sales engineers.

·  Sold boilers, hydronic pumps & accessories, humidifiers, fans, ductwork, UVC germicidal emitters to contractors and to end users in Kentucky and southern Indiana.

·  Responsible to manage commissions for all sales personnel.

·  Responsible to address and find solutions to disagreements between employees based on human resource policies.

 

Note:

The CEO of Rademaker Corporation made the decision to sell the Building Automation division and the Electrical Contracting division to Comfort Systems USA (a nationwide mechanical and building automation controls contractor).  This transaction was completed in October 2009.  The Engineered Equipment Division was not a part of the purchase by this company.  The CEO and I agreed that I would establish a new company with a new name and would own and manage this manufacturer’s representative business.

 

Rademaker Corporation:                                                   October 2003 – March 2007

Safety Coordinator for the Building Automation, Electrical Contracting and Engineered Equipment divisions of Rademaker Corporation

·  Supervise company and OSHA records that relate to safety in our facility and at various work sites in Kentucky and Indiana.

·  The maintaining of all “personal information” in a secure file with limited access.

·  Work with our workers compensation insurance provider to obtain safety material such as pamphlets and videos to be used as training material for employees at the annual safety meeting at our facility.

·  Communicate with our workers compensation insurance provider when an injury had occurred in order to verify the injury took place while the employee was working and verify insurance coverage would pay for the cost of treatment.

·  Completed a detailed “Employee Safety Training Program” manual that was given to each employee and each employee was provided training in the manual safety contents.

·  Complete monthly OSHA injury report logs and post logs in common locations in our facility for all employees to read and review.  Ensure that safety logs and other safety forms are placed inside equipment gang boxes, stored on site, at all active construction job sites Rademaker Corporation employees worked on.

·  Provide annual employee safety meeting to review and remind all employees of the importance of safety on the job.  Reviewed common sense procedures with all employees to follow in limiting the chance for injuries.

·  Provide unannounced on-site inspection visits of multi-week duration jobs.  Checked all equipment such as power tools, electrical cords, ladders, fire extinguishers to make sure each was in “good” working order.  Removed equipment that needed to be repaired (such as a tool power cord) or needed to be replaced.

·  Supervised scheduling of weekly “Toolbox Safety Meetings”.

·  Coordinate with Building Automation and Electrical Contracting division managers to assure that all company safety policies were followed by employees on a monthly basis.

 

Note:

Another employee of Rademaker Corporation was given the position of “Safety Coordinator” so that Aaron Wooden could focus more of his time to complete his other responsibilities as President of Rademaker Corporation.  I was responsible to manage the position of Safety Coordinator until October 31, 2009.

 

Rademaker Corporation:                                                 March 1, 1993 – December 31, 2005

Technical Sales for the Engineered Equipment operating division of Rademaker Corporation

·  Responsible for sales market territory within the state of Kentucky and Indiana.

·  Responsible for yearly sales goal for given market territory.

·  Responsible to call on consulting engineers within given sales market territory and provide updated equipment information.

·  Assume position of customer service technical representative as a function of the sales process.

·  Supervise the take off HVAC related equipment from commercial construction plans and specifications and provide written quotations.

 

Rademaker Corporation:                                                 March 1, 1992 – February 28, 1993

Inside Sales Support for the Engineered Equipment operating division of Rademaker Corporation

·  Learn the basics of the types of equipment and how to correctly apply their use.

·  Learn how to read and interpret a set of blueprints.

·  Aid the other sales engineers helping to design equipment for construction projects.

·  Assist in writing up equipment documentation for projects.

·  Handled incoming sales calls and price equipment.

 

Rademaker Corporation:                                                  June 8, 1987 – February 28, 1992

Panel Shop Technician – Field Jobsite Installer for the Building Automation division of Rademaker Corporation

·  Mount and wire building automation equipment control panels.

·  Work with job project managers and/or division manager to check out the wiring and operation for projects.

·  Worked on job sites under the direction of an experienced, lead technical installer to help install the electrical conduit, power wiring, low voltage cables, and building automation control components within the interior mechanical/electrical rooms and other building spaces to provide and install a complete building automation control system.

·  Trained how to properly bend electrical metallic conduit.

·  Trained how to properly install low voltage cabling.

·  Trained how to properly pull wiring and cabling through the conduit system.

·  Worked under the instruction of the lead technical installers to aid in checking out the control wiring systems and connections to the components.

·  Trained how to properly make wiring terminations.

·  Have experience in safely using mechanical lift systems.

 

EDUCATION:

Sullivan UniversityAssociates Degree in MarketingLouisville, KY

Jeffersontown High SchoolDiplomaLouisville, KY

 

COMPUTER SKILLS:

·  Can type up to 20 words a minute.

·  Proficient in using Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft EXCEL and Microsoft PowerPoint.

·  Proficient in learning and using various HVAC equipment sizing and pricing software provided by the manufacturers we represented and sold their equipment.

·  Proficient in proofreading documents for grammatical and punctuation errors.

·  Limited proficiency in troubleshooting and operating computer servers and PC’s.

 

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

·  Excellent written communication skills.

·  Excellent verbal communication skills.

·  Proficient in public speaking in front of crowds up to 200 + people.

·  Proficient in leading and managing employees (team members) to enable them to carry out their responsibilities.

·  Proficient in encouraging all people to strive for excellence.

·  Proficient in leading others through example.

·  Proficient in making decisive decisions when emergency situations arise.

·  Proficient in evaluating maintenance repair costs for large facilities.

·  Proficient in evaluating true construction work cost.

·  Proficient in evaluating true labor cost for construction work.

·  Thorough understanding of the plumbing, HVAC and electrical equipment within a building.

·  Proficient in use of hand and power tools.

·  Mechanically minded individual.

·  Strong motivation to start and complete tasks on time.

·  Proficient in reading structural, architectural, plumbing, HVAC and electrical blueprints.

 

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:

Served at Highland Park First Baptist Church as a volunteer facility maintenance manager for 21 years (1992 through 2013).

·  Approved and purchased maintenance items for the HVAC system.

·  Managed a yearly maintenance budget.

·  Initiated interviewing and selecting outside contractors. 

·  Proficient to evaluate costs and determine if the budget will allow the expenditures.

·  Proficient in hiring service contractors to complete the needed maintenance tasks.

·  Proficient in managing service contractors to ensure they complete the needed tasks they are hired to complete.

·  Strong knowledge base of plumbing, HVAC and electrical components inside and outside of a building.

·  Utilized decisive decision making skills.

·  Proficient in communicating with insurance carriers.

·  Proficient in negotiating with insurance adjusters and contractors.

·  Led church in a major building renovation.

·  Proficient in project management in working with general contractor and subcontractors to complete the building renovation meeting the budget and completion time table.

 

REFERENCES:

·  Can be provided upon request.