WALTER BAKERSUMMARY

• Visionary Operations Executive with solid experience managing all levels of multiple projects including estimating, budgeting and administration.

• Commercial Industrial Project Manager/Senior Estimator in both the Private and the Public sectors with projects ranging in size from $ 50,000 to $20,000,000.

• Operations Manager, Chief Estimator, Preconstruction Manager for large General Contractors that performed commercial and residential construction for the Government, Public and Private markets. Successful commercial and residential development projects in size of $300,000 to $25,000,000.

• Managed development projects from property acquisition, project conception, design, construction, to lease and/or sale of the project.

• Negotiated and won bids in excess of $1,000,000,000. • Utilizing computerized estimating software programs Microsoft Project, PRIMAVERA in

conjunction with estimating and accounting teams to create cost accounting from estimating to project management.

• Conceptual and budgetary estimates and buyout of negotiated projects to include purchasing of materials, supplies, and subcontractors, writing of subcontracts, owner contracts, and creating project schedules.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Project, Excel, Word, Outlook, Primavera P6

EXPERIENCE

Self-EmployedRichmond, Virginia February 2014 to November 2015

• Prepared conceptual, budgetary and hard bid estimates for Various Contractors for less than $50 Thousand to $2 Million.

• Formed relationships on a first name basis of many Sub and General Contractors, Equipment Rental, and Suppliers, and companies necessary for the execution of a Project from Preconstruction to completion and punch list.

Jadco Research and Engineering, Chicago, Illinois April 1997 to March 2015Operations Manager/ Senior Estimator/ Safety OfficerStarted at Jadco Research and Engineering as Superintendent to implement a Steel Erection Division.Eventually became Operations Manager over the entire Company as well as heading up Preconstruction and Estimating. Areas of responsibility included:

• Project management• Budgeting expertise• Safety Administrator• Senior Estimator• Pre-construction Manager• Office Manager

• Field Superintendent• Total quality management• Expense Control• Facility Management• Market/Industry Knowledge

• Employee Training and Development

• Vendor Negotiations• Inventory Control• Labor Cost Controls Leader

• P&L Management• Multi-unit Operation Management• Negotiation Skills• New Business Development• Budget Administrator

• Managed Jadco Research and Engineering Steel Division.• Handled all functions related to Preconstruction, Budget Analysts, Estimating, Project

Management, and Company Safety.• Supervised Erection of Many Structures including Multi-Story Office and Apartment• Buildings, Bridges of all types, Water Treatment Plants, Shutdowns and Various Mills

and Foundry’s.• Developed and directed strategy for launch of new Structural Steel, Precast and Rebar• Erection Division, that became #1 in the market place 11 months after launch. • Strengthened the Company’s business by leading implementation of new miscellaneous

Steel Fabrication Shop. • Began setting the concrete to keep the problem of bad anchor bolts and setting angles for

precast panels installed correctly, we set the forms, tied the rebar, poured the concrete and set the Structural Steel and Decking.

Owner 1982 to 1996Genesis Construction Corp.

• Started Genesis Construction Corporation and progressed from small Rebar installation to Structural Steel and Precast Concrete Erection Company.

• In 1984 we added a Seven thousand square foot Miscellaneous and Ornamental Iron Fabrication Shop.

EDUCATION

Washburn Trade School Chicago, Illinois, USADiploma/ Certificates: Ironworker Apprenticeship, SafetyAll aspects of Ironworking including Fabrication, and Erection.OSHA 10 and 30 Hour Safety Courses for Construction and Mining.Post-Tensioning Concrete Installation and Maintenance.Has worked on Nuclear site projects and been Nuclear certified.