James Burns
Columbia,MD
Summary
Over thirty years of Construction Project Management, estimating, and customer service experience focused on productivity, profitability, and quality assurance.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
President / Owner
MODCO Specialty Contracting Co.
Columbia, MD
01.1998 - 02.2024
- Founded and built a Construction General Contracting company to service the healthcare, educational and commercial markets
- Responsible for all sales, estimating, project management, etc
- Prolific sales at over two dozen hospitals and universities in the Baltimore/DC corridor.
General Manager / Owner
Link Burns Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Voorhees, NJ
01.1990 - 12.1997
- Doubled production capacity and sales of a precision sheet metal contract fabrication job shop with only a 30% increase of personnel and no additional machinery
- Directed all new account negotiations, as well as existing account development and penetration
- Established written policy and procedures for production, quality assurance, new employee integration, employee evaluation, and inventory management
- Doubled warehouse capacity by installing an inexpensive freestanding steel loft
- Directed purchase and adaptation to a network software system for streamlining cost accounting tasks
- Reduced office to production floor processing time from one day to one hour
- Reduced labor collection lag time from 24 hours to real time
- Implemented a quality assurance program resulting in a documented increase in customer acceptance of shipments to a rate of 99.98% utilizing ISO 9000 processes
- Developed and enforced a corporate safety manual based on routine mock safety audits conducted by the New Jersey Department of Labor.
General Manager / Owner
XYZ Industrial Finishing Company, Inc.
Voorhees, NJ
01.1990 - 12.1997
- Pioneered a four booth, clean room, job shop industrial finishing company
- Personally performed all site renovation
- Divided management time between Link Burns Mfg Co Inc and XYZ Industrial Finishing Co as required
- Engineered layout and technical procedures to achieve genuine clean room capability
- Achieved profitability within one year on self-generated revenue exceeding $750,000
- Established a direct mail lead generation process and a scripted pitch that routinely yielded two new accounts per week from fewer than eight hours of labor per week
- Oversaw all aspects of production, profitability, quality assurance, sales, estimating and customer development
- Personally performed all machinery and equipment repairs as well as site maintenance.
Education
BS - Marketing and Management
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA05-1987
Skills
- Construction management
- Renovations, building, and demolition
- Building site supervision
- Value Engineering
- Estimating
- Reading Blueprints
- Subcontractor Management
- Risk Management
Timeline
President / Owner
MODCO Specialty Contracting Co.
01.1998 - 02.2024
General Manager / Owner
Link Burns Manufacturing Company, Inc.
01.1990 - 12.1997
General Manager / Owner
XYZ Industrial Finishing Company, Inc.
01.1990 - 12.1997
BS - Marketing and Management
Lehigh University
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