WM. THOMAS ARNOLD, II

CONSTRUCTION/PROJECT MANAGER

 

Address: 15457 N. 1815^th Street, Teutopolis, IL  62467-3352, (217) 690-1761

e-mail:  uofi78@hotmail.com

 

SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE:

 

Thirty-one years in the construction of Buildings, Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Bridges, Box Culverts, Local Street Sections, Refinery and Petrochemical projects.  Positions held included: Superintendent (5 years), Lead Estimator (16 years), Chief Estimator (6 years), Office Engineer, Scheduling (23 years), Cost Engineer (28 years), Project Engineer, Project/Construction Manager (23 years), Vice President (5 years), Member of Board of Directors (10 years) and finally President (3 years) of Mautz & Oren, Inc.

·         Over 27 years experience in Waste and Water Treatment Plants, Buildings and Highway Structures

·         4 years of petrochemical project experience.

·         All projects completed on time and within budget.

·         Profit margins exceeded estimate by an average of 65%

·         All projects completed on schedule.

 

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

 

MAUTZ & OREN, INC., Effingham, IL                                                                                    1983 to 2008

 

President of Mautz & Oren, Inc at the time of its dissolution.  Total responsibility for the management, estimating, solicitation of subcontract and materials proposals, analysis of proposals for inclusion in bid, purchasing, scheduling, contract execution and negotiating of change orders and all other items associated with the construction of Water and Wastewater Treatment, Buildings as well as Illinois Department of Transportation projects.  Strengths are in the civil structural, mechanical and piping work on these projects and thorough understanding of plans, specifications, problem solving and construction methods/ techniques. 

My abilities to manage and estimate projects are reflected by the success of these projects yielding an average of 1.65 times the estimated profit margin during my tenure.  We self performed concrete (to include placement design), excavation (to included design of safe excavations), piping (to included design utilized to order piping materials), miscellaneous metal installation and process equipment installation. 

Positions held: Superintendent, Project Engineer, Estimator, Cost Engineer, Scheduler, Project Manager, Construction Manager, Vice President and President.

Other responsibilities included the employment of management and field supervision, decisions on which projects field personnel were assigned to also rested with me.  Decisions and recommendations, for what equipment was to be utilized on the projects as well as recommending future equipment purchases and or replacement rested with me.

Worked closely with project engineering firm(s) in reviewing project plans and specification and possible discrepancies as they pertain to the contractibility of the project.  Prepared required submittals for review and approval by the engineering firm(s).  Worked closely with suppliers and subcontractors in their preparation of the required submittals for the engineering firm(s) and the interpretation of the plans and specifications as they pertained to the requisite submittals and contract requirements.  Prepared construction schedules and periodic updates.

During my employment I successfully completed a 4 hour Construction Management seminary by the AGC in Open Shop construction; Competent Person Training by the AGC and NUCA; Training in the use of Primavera scheduling software; 60 hour Construction Project Management Course by the AGC; 8 hour course in Management vs. Leadership, Stress Management by the AGC.

 

 

SAUDI ARAMCO, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia                                                                                    1981 to 1983

Worked as a Cost Engineer with assignments in both the procedures and the construction oversight departments.  Field assignment was as a cost engineer with a major modification of a $360 million offshore oil production platform in the Arabian Sea. 

During my employment, I completed a 40-hour course in Cost Planning & Evaluation System (COPES) by McDonald Douglas Automation; 40-hour course in Management Control & Scheduling System (MSCS) as well as numerous other computer training courses.

 

 

MID-VALLEY, INC., Houston, TX                                                                                                  1978 to 1981

Worked in the corporate estimating department, on refinery and steel mill estimates, and two separate Refinery projects of Forty and Sixty Million Dollars.  While on these projects, I was the Chief Field Cost Engineer, Office Engineer and assisted the Project and Scheduling Engineers in their duties and with the preparation of field estimates and reports for management.

Duties included monitoring ongoing costs, calculating cost to complete, monitoring in-place quantities of work complete and calculating percent complete.  Reviewing daily time sheets and material purchases with the project superintendents to facilitate proper costing documents which were subsequently reviewed and analyzed in order to prepare the information and reports that the Project Manager, Project Superintendent and Project Engineer required.

 

 

MILITARY:  U.S. Army, 1971 to 1973, Security Clearance:  Inactive Secret

 

EDUCATION:

 

BS – Civil Engineering, Construction Management, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

AS - Pre-Engineering, Lake Land College, Mattoon, IL

Continuing Education Listing Upon Request