Qualifications
‘O’ Level Carpentry
City & Guilds (Carpentry)
Advance City & Guilds (Carpentry)
Training
Apprentice served 1979
5 Day SMSTS Certificate
5 Day First Aid
Employment History
Date March 2015-October 2015
Position Projects Manager
Company Virgin Holdings
Location: Necker Island, British Virgin Islands
Contract Value: $1.4 Million USD
Task: Construction of 2 staff housing units consisting of 5 bedrooms and common area in each.
Reason for leaving: Contract completed
Date September 2008-February 2015
Position Projects Manager
Company Kee-chanona
Location: Trinidad West Indies
Contract Value: $35 Million
Task: Build new school and infrastructure. Build 3 high rise apartment blocks and build multi-theatre for University of the West Indies.
Reason for leaving: Contract completed
Date September 2007 – March 2008
Position Projects Manager
Company Sandals and Beaches
Location: Jamaica Central Caribbean
Contract Value: $50 Million
Task: Build new 18 room accommodation block with walk in pools and refurbish a 12 room block construction of re-bar and concrete
Duties included materials take off and procurements from America and china. Chair weekly site meetings, oversee contractors and oversee site administration
Reason for leaving: Contract complete
Date August 2005 – September 2007
Position Section Manager of hotel and resort in Ambergris Caye
Location Belize Central America
Company:Johnston International
Contract Value: $60 Million
Task: Build 38 room block with pool and marina, construction re-bar and concrete. Duties included overseeing re-bar schedules that were adhered to by contractors. Setting out external and interior walls and apertures material take offs and attending twice weekly meetings with clients and contractors.
Reason for leaving: Contract complete
Date November 2004 – August 2005
Position Section Manager at Farnborough airport
Company Slough Estates
Contract Value: £20 Million Refurbishment
Task: Oversee refurbishment of three listed wind tunnels. Extensive asbestos removal. Reporting to head office and English Heritage, ordering materials, hiring of labour and tradesman, writing and logging method statements
Reason for leaving: Left to work overseas
Date August 2004 – October 2004
Position Site Manager of office complex for Royal Bank of Scotland
Company Barlows Cambridge
Task: Material take offs and ordering of materials, day to day running of site, hiring or labour and tradesman and chair site meetings.
Reason for leaving: 3 month fit out only
Date May 2003 – July 2004
Position Site Manager
Company Scottish and Newcastle (Premier Lodge)
Contract Value: £2,000,000 plus
Task: Fit out of a new twin nine storey block with central atrium in Kings Cross. This would form as a 144 room hotel with a conference area, reception, bar, restaurant and kitchen. Material take offs, ordering materials, hiring labour and tradesman, chairing weekly meetings and planning and organising deliveries with the local police force and highways department because of limited site.
Reason for leaving: Contract complete
Reference Contact Jon Seymour – 01732 850995
Date September 2002 – May 2003
Position Site Manager
Company D J Trimmings Builders
Location: Germany
Contract Value: £500,000 – £1,000,000
Task: Build two luxury 5 bedroom houses. Contract made more difficult with houses being built into a side of a bank and having to use a new rubberoid tanking. Material take off hire of labour ordering materials overseeing setting out of buildings, site day to day running and chair meetings with client.
Reason for leaving: Contract complete
Date April 2002 – September 2002
Position Site Manager
Company Unite
Contract Value: £4,000,000
Task: To turn an empty office complex into student accommodation of 220 rooms, ordering materials, hiring labour and trades, overseeing setting out and monitoring deliveries on a limited site.
Reason for leaving: Contract complete
Date 2001 – 2002
Position Contracts Manager
Company Fosters International
Location: South of France and Paris.
Contact Value: Up to £500,000 – £1,000,000
Task: Turn empty units into Café Oz’s in Paris and Antibes, Its head office in the UK, overseeing site managers, sharing meeting with clients organising procurements and monitoring budget and costs
Reason for leaving Build house for daughter in New Zealand
Date 1999 – 2001
Position Foreman
Company Logic Interiors, 15 Earl Richards Rd North, Exeter, Devon.
Contract Value: Up to £350,000
Task: Office fit outs with building alterations, take off of materials, ordering materials, hiring of labour and trades and day to day running of site and chair meetings with client
Reason for leaving: No contracts with starting dates
Date 1998 – 1999
Position Site Joiner
Company SouthWest Renovations Ltd, Pound Place, 51 Wolborough St, Newton Abbot, Devon.
Reason for leaving: New tax law about SL60 (CIS) card
Date 1997 – 1998
Position Site Agent
Company P J Browns, London (building Walkabout pubs for Regent Inns).
Contract Value: Up to £850,000
Reason for leaving: Laid off too long between pubs.
Date 1995 – 1997
Position Site Foreman
Company Randall Construction Ltd, 1 Newbery Commercial Centre,
Location:Exeter airport business park.
Contract Value: Up to £3.5 Million
Reason for leaving: Company lost Weatherspoon contract.
Date 1991 – 1995
Position Carpenter (English Team Leader)
Company Peter Louden Builders, Rootenburg, Germany.
Reason for leaving: German taxes
Date 1981 – 1991
Position Freelance Foreman
Companies Fox Bros, Bradford. Liause & Gray, Coventry. Vale, Cardiff. WFC, Newton Abbot. Davies, Cardiff. Boss, Exeter.
Contract Value: Up to £350,000
Date 1980 – 1981
Position Shopfitting Foreman
Company Shopfitting Design Centre, Heron Rd, Sowton, Exeter.
Contract Value: Up to £400,000
Reason for :Company went bust
Date 1979 – 1980
Position Carpenter
Company Willets, Croydon
Reason for leaving: End of contract
References
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