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Charles J. Conserva, Jr.
Summary






Experience
Over 25 years experience in the construction industry
including 6 years Project Management experience and 12 years leading
a team of associates for two prominent national homebuilders as a
Purchasing Executive. Expertise in:
• Trade partner relationship management & recruitment.
• Associate performance, recruitment, training & mentoring.
• Communication skills with sales, construction, homeowner
services, architecture, & national contracts team.
• Scope of work maintenance.
• Unit cost estimating & budgeting.
• Option inventory & pricing.
• Contract negotiations & maintenance.
• Purchase order/ Schedule A maintenance.
• Variance purchase order management.
• Specification management.
• Software management & conversions.
• Process and procedure implementation.
• Scheduling.

May 2007–Jan. 2008 Pyramid Builders Annapolis, MD.
Project Manager
Custom estate home builder in Annapolis, responsibilities include:
• Detailed take-offs and budgets.
• Bid documents and contracts.
• Material ordering and scheduling.
• Client relationship management.
• Change order management.
• Track and monitor actuals vs. budgets.
Noted accomplishments:
• Added a feature to the companies Excel based estimating
software to calculate labor hours per unit of measure and total hours
to complete for all activities performed in house by employees. Also
added features to improve the software's functionality.
• Start up customer service department generating $250,000 in
revenue in first five months.

April 2005–Feb. 2007 K. Hovnanian Homes Landover, MD.
Vice President of Purchasing
• Directed central purchasing department for the Maryland
Region (MD., DE., DC, PA). 23 direct reports 910+ closings per year.
• Trade Partner Council committee member.
• Implemented and executed:
• Electronic Web based purchase order system.
• Home Design Gallery software program.
• Quarterly trade partner lien waiver program.
• New products; revisions to scopes of work and series
specifications.
• Starts process and procedures.
• Purchasing tracking report.
• Quarterly budget report.

Noted accomplishments:
• SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) Compliance- Within first 6 months led
Region from 20% to 99% compliant with contract agreements, schedule
A's, scopes of work, and insurance.
• Trade partner cost reduction initiative (July-Sept. 2006).
Captured 6.8 Million; 5.5M direct to house costs remaining to GL
accounts.

1995–2005 Pulte Home Corporation Westborough,
MA.
Director of Purchasing
• Managed central purchasing & estimating department for New
England division (MA., NH., RI., CT.). 8 direct reports generating
450+ closings per year.
• Recognized as 1 of 200 top purchasing executives in the
country for 4 consecutive years (2000-2004) by Builder Executive
Magazine.
• One of four purchasing executives selected nationally to
participate on a committee for the development of e-procurement; a
purchasing software program which is part of a custom integrated home
builder's software suite. Software was implemented and rolled out in
2005 and 2006.
• One of twelve purchasing executives selected nationally to
participate on a committee for the development of an estimating
software program to compliment e-procurement.
• Led negotiation efforts at the divisional level with
leading "I" joist manufacturers. Working with regional VP of
Purchasing, local written agreement expanded to a national agreement
for the corporation which remained in effect for 6 years.
• Implementation of a quarterly Random Lengths program which
controlled lumber dealers costs during the bid process. The program
added a competitive advantage and stabilized a volatile lumber market.
• Participated in growing a start up division which became the
top homebuilder in the area both in volume and profitability.
• Participated in a divisional effort to improve our customer
service scores. Received from the corporation the "Customer Service
Silver Award" in 2003 and the "Customer Service Platinum Award" in
2005.
• Focused on unit cost contracting and unbundling lump sum bids.
• Led operations group to standardize specifications across
targeted consumer groups.
• Designed an estimating software program written in Excel.
1990–1995 F.N. Murphy Properties Westborough,
MA.
Project Manager
• Responsibilities included feasibility analysis, budgets,
costs, contracts, schedules, purchase orders. Managed office,
construction, & customer service associates.


Education Arizona State University Tempe, AZ.
• B.S., Design, College of Architecture
Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston, MA.
• A.S., Building Construction
Computer Skills Windows operating system, Microsoft Office Excel,
Word, Outlook. Lawson & Marks System accounting software, ODBC (Open
Database Conductivity), OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing),
familiar with various estimating programs & integrated home builder
software programs.