John William Philip Neiland PMP

150 The Maine  • Williamsburg, VA. 23185

Phone 757-645-5713Alt(757)-645-7877 • jwpneiland@hotmail.com

 

 

Objective: To obtain employment in a position of supervision and leadership in Construction Management

 

Professional / Industry Experience

 

Ss Constantine & Helen GOC of Greater Washington DC

Silver Spring Maryland 10.1M

 

On site Contracted Construction Site Manager: 

·  On-site Project Management including: 

·  On-site presence on all working days either:

·  Monday through Thursday, or

·  Monday through Friday.

·  Workdays consist of either 4 x 10-hour days or 5 x 8-hour days.  

·  Building and maintaining of job schedule.

·  Reviewing of all shop drawings.

·  Management of field office for Courthouse Construction.

·  Communicating with Architect, Owners and Courthouse Construction.

·  Filling and responding to RFI’s.

·  Ordering and coordinating of material orders.

·  Reviewing of payment applications for subcontractors.

 

·  On-site Superintendent functions including:

·  Directing and overseeing of safety meetings and on-site safety officer.

·  Scheduling and coordinating of subcontractors.

·  Keeping of daily logs and meeting minutes.

·  Oversee on site security measures and material storage.

 

·  On-site Management of secretary including:

·  Secretary office management of field office.

·  Support Project Manager/Superintendent with timely correspondence.

·  Coordinate with Church Building Committee

 

Courthouse Construction Inc. Gloucester VA 2007-Oct 2015

 

Site Project/Construction Manager/Estimator/Scheduler:

·              Present location on site in Silver Spring Maryland running the satellite office for a 8.6 million with 1.5 M in change orders project scheduled for completion April 2016 Total Cost 10.1M

·              project design and development including scope, subcontractor selection, capital cost, installation estimating, and project scheduling.

·              Coordinate with vendors and subcontractors to assure competitive cost, best schedule and delivery for all project-related equipment, supply installations, and construction services.

·              Manage vendors and subcontractors to ensure quality control and project delivery on time and within budget, while meeting or exceeding customer expectations.

·              Foster positive and effective business relationships at all levels and project phases.

·              Provide ongoing project status updates with all parties throughout design and construction.

·              Evaluate technologies and equipment; recommend most suitable for each application.

·              Provide project reports, documentation, technical assistance, support, and collaboration.

·              Manage project expenditures and job cost accounting processes: including accuracy, documentation, approvals, payment reporting, and tracking.

·              Ensure compliance with company, industry, trade, and jurisdictional safety standards, practices, codes.

·              Manage complex subcontracts

·              Advise and implement the necessary safeguards to ensure subcontracts are performed as per  the contract documents

·              Prepare Change Orders and negotiate settlements of contractual disagreements.

·              Implement company safety, health and hygiene practices

·              Resolve  issues/problems with construction contractors’ through Critical Path Method logic, sequence of activities and activity durations

·              Perform complex estimating activities with minimal direction and assistance

·              Perform quality control procedures as required

·              Perform EVM  analysis

·              Variance analysis

·              Perform other duties as require ensuring a smooth sequence of construction from start to finish.

·              Scheduling and weekly updates. Critical path and Risk Anaylsis

·              Estimate and Manage all the complex and 3m and up projects for Courthouse Construction Inc

·              Successfully guided Courthouse Construction Inc from a company that could handled Projects up to $500,000 to its present JEWEL ;  Muhlbauer USA 10.5m project completed in 10 months (4 Months ahead of schedule)

 

 

Construction Solutions Inc Hampton VA2006-2008

 

General Manager of Construction

·              Main Estimator for the company.

·              Prepared estimates for bidding purposes.

·              Gathered the correct information so that the proposal will have a successful conclusion, turned the data into useful information by confirming unclear information through cooperation and mutual respect with architects, clients, subcontractors, and property developers. 

·              Turned the successful bid package over to the project manager and informed the project manager on why the project bid was successful and how to approach the project to accomplish each phase successfully.

·              Oversaw the construction division

 

Ritchie Curbow Construction Company Inc. Newport News VA 2001-2006

Pre-engineered Division Manager, Project Manager, Estimator

 

·              Main function and responsibilities included pre-engineered building estimates, re-roof estimates, detailed bid estimate

·              Manage the metal building division, schedule crews, hire steel erectors, train the crews in erection equipment safety by holding training classes, training new steel erectors, implementing an apprentice training program for steel erectors, providing best practice classes in the field.

·              Review proposals, review contracts, write contracts, purchase orders, change orders, procure the necessary equipment to perform the erection work in a speedy, efficient, safe and cost effective manner, prepare monthly billings, P&L and Budgets.

·              Liaison with architects, owners, developers, resolve design issues, track the projects involving metal buildings, advise other project managers on metal building issues, resolution of conflicting structural issues that arise due poor coordination between the architectural drawing and actual field drawings,

·              For the general construction division  carried out additional duties in the preparation of estimates and manage conventional projects.

·              Provide advice to clients of alternative but functional options that will provide the same square footage and maintain the required exterior design requirements by performing value engineering on projects that are over budget.

·              I initiated the movement of Ritchie Curbow Construction Company’s increased involvement in government projects.

·              Point of contact for the Army Corp of Engineers in matters related to pre-engineered building construction overseeing the daily operation of the Pre-engineered Building Division.

·              Pre-engineered sales representative and perform actual field sales including cold calling and following up on leads.

·              Successfully guided Ritchie Curbow Construction Company Inc into Government Work by estimating and winning bids  in Camp Perry, Fort Eustis, and Northrop Grumman. 

·              Scheduling ,Risk analysis Critical path analysis, EVM.

 

 

Scott Thomas Construction,                                                                                                 2000-2001  

Estimator

·              Prepared estimates for bidding purposes.

·              Gathered the correct information so that the proposal will have a successful conclusion, turned the data into useful information by confirming unclear information through cooperation and mutual respect with architects, clients, subcontractors, and property developers. 

·              Turned the successful bid package over to the project manager .

·              Informed the project manager on why the project bid was successful and how to approach the project to accomplish each phase successfully.

 

 

H.S. Williams Co. Inc. Marion VA                                                                                      1995-2000

Project Manager

·              Implement the permanent processes and procedures to begin construction.  Liaison with the engineers, architects, clients’ subcontractors, building inspectors during the construction and as each phase of the project is guided safely through all of the different divisions involved within the construction of the project.  

·              Perform the weekly project scheduling, cost tracing, ads and subtraction to the client and subcontractors contracts. 

·              Kept the projects on schedule and updated the schedule as needed. 

·              Write payment requests, purchase orders, change orders and subcontracts. 

·              Resolved design flaws and provided possible solutions.

·              Estimated when needed

 

Smyth County Schools System 1990-1993

 

·              Implement training exploration programs for students interested in careers associated with trade and related work. 

·              Perform assessment tests

·              Assisted Students to realize their full potential in a trade suited for them and their future.

·              Began the first soccer high school team in Smyth County.

 

Education

Virginia Intermont College BA Organizational Management

University College Cork City IrelandAssociate Degree  Social Studies

Virginia Polytechnic College            Teacher Vocational Certification

State Guard Association of America             Military Emergency Management Specialist

Project Management InstituteProject Management Professional Certification

 

Technical

Master Plumber License State of Virginia, Master Gas Fitter License State of Virginia. Safety Training: General Employee Radiation Training. Confined Space Entry Supervisor, able to connect to Oracle databases, write queries, reports, write sql. Proficient in all Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint; -Proficient with Timberline, Project Manager 2010, Suretrack, Primavera p3 and P6,Astek, digitizer, planswift, Revit, and estimating programs.  Butler Advantage-engineered Building and Fast roof estimating programs. Excellent communication, organizational and analytical skills; creative and adaptable to a variety of people and situations

 

 

 

Extracurricular

Hiking, Kayaking, Cycling, Reading, Self Study, Fitness,  Family

 

 

 

                                                       Philosophy

 

I believe by providing the customer with quality work and excellent craftsmanship for a fair cost, I will secure my continued growth in the challenging field of construction management.