Sr. Estimator

DAVRON CV: Candidate 1881602

SENIOR ESTIMATOR | HEAVY CIVIL & INDUSTRIAL PRECAST | ESTIMATING MANAGEMENT & PRE-CONSTRUCTION

Core Expertise

• Leading estimating departments and pre-construction teams for heavy civil, industrial, and precast projects nationwide.
• Developing company-wide estimating procedures, checklists, and job flow processes to standardize bid-to-build execution.
• Preparing detailed cost estimates, takeoffs, schedules, and buyouts for projects from design through closeout.
• Identifying value engineering opportunities and managing change orders to protect margins and project profitability.
• Collaborating directly with engineers, DOTs, contractors, and owners to resolve technical issues and scope gaps.

Project Background

• Estimated and managed bids across commercial, industrial, highway, municipal, federal, and private sectors.
• Handled precast systems, retaining and sound walls, bridges, underground storm and sanitary systems, and specialty concrete units.
• Led nationwide turn-key estimating and production coordination, including international product manufacturing and vendor management.
• Implemented project tracking, forecasting, scheduling, and cost accounting to improve bidding accuracy and project controls.
• Performed plan and profile takeoffs and collaborated with engineers on redesigns to reduce cost risk and exposures.

Key Skills

• Estimating management | Pre-construction | Project buyouts | Value engineering
• AutoCAD | Adobe Creative Suite | Microsoft Excel | MS Project
• Trimble | Agtek | HCSS | SmartBid | iSqFt | BidEx | Primavera | Bluebeam
• Titan II Precast Management System | Precast production coordination
• Takeoffs & cost estimating | Scheduling, forecasting & cost accounting

Education

• A.A., Graphic Design; Minor in AutoCAD — Ocean County College
• Continuing education: AutoCAD and construction management courses

Awards & Recognition

• Member, National Precast Concrete Association (NPCA)

Why Interview this Candidate?

They bring over 20 years of estimating leadership across heavy civil, industrial, and precast sectors, with proven experience scaling estimating teams and standardizing bid processes. Demonstrated strengths include detailed takeoffs, value engineering, subcontractor management, and safeguarding profit through disciplined change-order control. Proficient with industry estimating and project-control tools, they can quickly improve bid accuracy and preconstruction workflows.