Kroon's Construction, LLC is owned and managed by Robert Corbett.  

 

Experience Resume of Robert Corbett

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I am a very versatile and highly proficient construction professional with forty-five years’ experience.  Now before that statement makes you think I am too old for your team, please take the time to read on to understand why I would be a valuable asset for your project.

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First, to quell doubts, I am healthy, agile, and can still outperform most of the younger workers.

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My experience covers the full gamut of trades, supervision, and administration with about a 50/50 split in time experience between hands-on running crews in the trades and construction management.

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Trade Experience

For about half of my years in construction I have been a self-employed General Contractor.  During this time, I built many homes from ground up.  I have done: the ground utilities; excavations; formed and poured foundations; framed; trussed; roofed; plumbed; wired; insulated; drywalled and finished; trimmed; painted; and every other trade involved and all with the required inspections.

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Along with my own work I performed sub-contract work of all these trades for other builders.

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For some of these years, when the economy was lean, I concentrated on remodels.  I have done window replacements for large apartment complexes, and for many homes; a large number of bath remodels including custom tilework, cabinetry, and heated floors; room additions; decks; kitchens; laminate floors; etc.

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So, in short, I am highly skilled across the trades with an A+ quality output.

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Supervisory Experience

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For three years I was General Field Manager for a production home building company called Building Building LLC in Vancouver, WA.  I was in charge of all field operations.  The production volume was about 200 homes per year with about 40 under construction at once. 

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The duties I performed included: Supervision of subdivision development; estimating and plan take-offs: purchasing and procurement; sub-contractor development and contract management; scheduling; company workforce management; inspection management; safety compliance; progress and coordination meetings; quality control; risk and loss management; conflict resolution; problem resolution; and customer interface along with any incidental that came along.

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Project Management 

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For one year (2008-2009) I had a Contract Construction Project Manager position representing LifePort Inc. to oversee the construction of LifePort Armor building and LifePort Air Medical.  The products the company produced were for helicopter outfitting.

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The Armor building was a new, ground up 48,000 sq. ft. industrial manufacturing building and production floor with 10,000 ft. of office.  That was a $3M job.  The Air Medical building was a complete remodel of a 48,000 sq. ft. existing building for a production floor and 12,000 ft. of engineering office.

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My duties were: Contract management; insuring owner’s requirements: draw approvals; contractor and sub-tier contractor management; submittal approvals; scope management; quality control; contingency management; money flow projections; schedule assurance; aid in laying out fluid production flows; and change order management and tracking. 

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These jobs were completed, and I received excellent references from the Chairman, the CEO, and the CFO of the company.  Soon afterward the company was sold to Sikorsky.

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Administration

Beside the administration required to run my own companies, and the positions I worked for other companies, I have been on the Board of Directors for Fish First-Lewis River.  This is a non-profit whose purpose is to ‘Restore salmon runs on the Lewis River’.  I have been the Administrator for this non-profit for about 6 years, as well as project manager and grant writer for their salmon habitat projects.

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I have developed grant presentations and presented them before large multi-department government boards and been successful in obtaining grants.  These grant writings become large technical writings and presentations covering many disciplines of science, and government permitting.  A grant round can take two years and involves several presentations, and a large amount of technical writing. 

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After obtaining grants I also project managed the implementation of the projects in the river.

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I set up the website for this company: Fishfirst.org , Managed their funds, tracked expenses, materials, and labor, invoiced the state as required, and maintained Government contractor status.

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My hope is that this Resume will show that I am a unique individual with a wide range of talent.

Currently, my wife and I are fairly unencumbered with anchors and would be willing to relocate.