Scott C. Carboni
Bradenton
Summary
Business leader with expertise in strategic planning and problem-solving. Proven track record in recruiting and training staff to meet customer and business demands. Strong team-building skills with a focus on fostering a respectful and inclusive work environment.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Owner
Wahoo Woodworks & More, LLC
12.2024 - Current
- Construction project manager services.
- Construction program management PMO services.
- Custom design, fabrication and installation of wood cabinetry and shelving.
- Drafting services - store planning, custom home design, custom cabinet shelving design.
Construction Project Manager
Floor & Decor
04.2023 - 08.2024
- Knowledge expert reviewing 90% drawings to complete 100% CDs.
- Select Gas to bid project, receive bids, level bids and award to winning GC.
- Manage GC on ground up and takeover store projects from start through completion.
- Assess buildings for suitability when they are takeover projects.
- Turnover buildings to fixture setup crew and store manager 100% complete.
- Direct warranty walks with store manager and GC before opening the store.
- Travel is 50% in southeast region of the U.S.A.
- Southeast region of the USA. Store size from 55K S.F. - 80K S.F.
Vice President/Program Director
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL PDS - Multi Site)
09.2010 - 04.2023
- Develop and maintain operation procedures, training and manage project management teams across the USA.
- Qualifying and contracting GCs to renovate properties for multiple clients.
- Write schedules and assign sites to staff of JLL PM’s, GC’s, sign fabricator/installation companies.
- Create and update playbooks for JLL PM’s and GC’s, budget workbooks and scope of work workbooks.
- Training PM’s and GC’s in how to survey properties and how to build budgets from previously mentioned workbooks.
- Hire architects to produce CDs.
- Review architectural drawings.
- Hiring expediters to walk through CDs through building departments for permits.
- IT register, lighting, and cooler/freezer retrofits.
- Write and submit budgets to clients for approval.
- Maintain aggressive renovation schedules while properties are open/closed.
- Punch walks properties and create as-built drawings.
- Approve invoices, collect conditional/unconditional lien waivers, warranty books and closeout projects.
- Host client, JLL PM and GC lessons learned meetings throughout the year.
- Client satisfaction scoring – 5 out of 5 in all 12 years of my employment at JLL.
- The client list includes Aaron’s, Discount Tire, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, GoPuff, Grubhub, Public Storage, RaceTrac, Shady Rays, Toys R Us & White House Black Market.
- Travel averages 60% across the U.S.A.
Owner
Carboni Design Group, LLC
03.2009 - 09.2010
- Contracted residential and commercial design and project management.
- Design custom homes.
- Evaluating foreclosed houses for investor for purchase.
- Writing construction budgets for foreclosed properties.
- Accessing the comps in neighborhoods for potential profit.
- Design and project management to complete properties.
Manager of Construction Services
HD Supply, Inc. (Creative Touch Interiors)
09.2004 - 01.2009
- Responsible for renovating existing spaces for residential design centers, stone counter fabrication shops, offices, and warehouses across the USA.
- Due diligence of proposed new sites to create pro-forma budgets for director of real estate.
- Review leases before signing, saving up to 25% on lease agreements.
- Lead for design meetings between store planning department and outside architect firms to design new facilities.
- Reduced errors and omissions.
- Champion of writing and managing all construction, fixtures, furniture and I.T. budgets.
- Final construction document review before sending out to bid.
- Selecting architects, engineers and general contractors and awarding contracts after the bid process.
- Writing and maintaining construction schedules.
- Design all warehouse layouts for various lines of business using AutoCAD.
- Procurement and scheduling deliveries for HVAC, lighting, doors, store fixtures, warehouse racks and signs.
- Contract security systems, IT, store fixture and warehouse racking installations.
- Conduct site visits as necessary to review safety, budget, and schedule for on time and on (+/-5%) budget delivery.
- Hold weekly construction project calls with internal operations people. Write and distribute the minutes.
- Complete punch lists and turnover buildings to management in turnkey condition.
- Collection of subcontractor and GC partial/final lien waivers for closeout.
- Responsible for warranty work for the first year.
- Travel averaged 80% across the U.S.A.
Construction Project Manager and Set Up Supervisor
The Home Depot
09.2002 - 09.2004
- As project manager my responsibilities were the same as for HD Supply, building Tool Rental Centers.
- Review all purchases for racking inside new Home Depots.
- Award contracts to winning racking installation and supervise installation on a weekly basis.
- Ensure that rack contractors use the Home Depot National Racking Installation Standards during installation.
- Turnover building to merchants and store management for merchandising.
- Maintain a small carpentry staff on site until store merchandising is complete.
- Developed the first manual for instructing rack installers how to build-out the inside of the racks for merchandising.
Store Planner
EXPO Design Centers (A Home Depot Company)
01.2001 - 09.2002
- Designing fixture and store layouts.
- Meet with merchants to ensure that all merchandising criteria is met.
- Custom store fixture, kitchen, and bath designs.
- Supply fixture take-offs for purchasing department.
- Main contact for RFI’s.
- Produced first in-house fixture manuals, value engineering and electrical requirement drawings saving $100k/store.
- Training other store planning methods, I developed as Manager of Store Planning for Boscov’s Department Stores.
Owner
Carboni Design Group, LLC
03.1998 - 01.2001
- Design engineering for Convention Show Exhibit companies.
- Design custom homes.
Store Planning Manager and Construction Project Manager
Boscov’s Department Store, Inc.
12.1989 - 03.1998
- Store Planning Manager responsibilities: Designed stores structural layouts, front of house and back of house, custom fixture design for each store and fixture setup.
- Store size ranged from 135K Sq.Ft. – 200K Sq.Ft.
- Manage and train staff of 5 store planners.
- Building evaluation and value engineering.
- Managed architects, final plan review of construction documents.
- Merchandising plans working with buying staff/merchants.
- Custom fixture design.
- Fixtures and signs procurement.
- AutoCAD software upgrades and drawing standards.
- Project Manager responsibilities: Managed GCs over phone and weekly site visits up to final 2 months.
- On site project management last 2 months of projects to ensure on time delivery, design build designs on site, store fixture set up and merchandising.
- Punch walks/warranty walks.
- Collection of lien waivers for final closeout and warranty books.
- Train store planners to manage construction sites for design build in the field and store set up fixturing ready for merchandising.
- Largest project managed was Mall at Steamtown, Scranton, PA. 1991 - 1993 - $106M/500K Sq.Ft.+ Downtown store/mall.
- Imploded 3 city blocks of houses/businesses.
- Connected anchor store across the street with bridge over Lackawanna Ave. to the mall.
- Connected to Steamtown National Historic Site (Railroad Museum).
- Underground parking under the entire mall and 2 parking garages flanking each end of the mall.
Education
Architectural Drafting -
Lincoln Technical Institute
Six Sigma Training -
The Home Depot
Construction Project Management -
Georgia Technical Institute
Skills
- Bidding processes
- Client relationship management
- Vendor procurement
- Team leadership
- Problem solving
- Quality assurance
- Effective communication
- Design coordination
- Project management
- Budget development
- Contract negotiation
- Design software (AutoCAD)
Timeline
Owner
Wahoo Woodworks & More, LLC
12.2024 - Current
Construction Project Manager
Floor & Decor
04.2023 - 08.2024
Vice President/Program Director
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL PDS - Multi Site)
09.2010 - 04.2023
Owner
Carboni Design Group, LLC
03.2009 - 09.2010
Manager of Construction Services
HD Supply, Inc. (Creative Touch Interiors)
09.2004 - 01.2009
Construction Project Manager and Set Up Supervisor
The Home Depot
09.2002 - 09.2004
Store Planner
EXPO Design Centers (A Home Depot Company)
01.2001 - 09.2002
Owner
Carboni Design Group, LLC
03.1998 - 01.2001
Store Planning Manager and Construction Project Manager
Boscov’s Department Store, Inc.
12.1989 - 03.1998
Architectural Drafting -
Lincoln Technical Institute
Six Sigma Training -
The Home Depot
Construction Project Management -
Georgia Technical Institute