Charles Swenson

-Oversee multiple projects at one time and keep customers, design staff, and shop personal aware of initial designs and project developments from start to end of project.

-Prioritize sections of project at contractors request

-Welcome and entertain new and existing cliental. Help bring their visions into reality and make their project come together.

-Keep projects on schedule by meeting deadlines and managing workflows.

-Problem solve and engineer existing and new procedures and products on production floor and on job sites.

-Work closely with estimating department to keep projects with -in scope of work

-Prepared meeting agendas and held monthly business meetings for the department, assisted with monthly training meetings.

-Coordinated committee meetings and worked with multiple groups on a variety of topics.

-Developed SOG's and SOP's for the departments by-laws. Worked to make sure they were enforced as needed to keep the membership safe.

-Researched and developed specifications for new equipment needed. This would be one example of committee developed projects with a few members working together to purchase equipment.

-Train and develop new and existing command staff.

-Attend meetings with neighboring mutual aid fire departments to keep relationships strong. These meeting cover operating procedures so fire ground activities are productive, cohesive, and most importantly, safe.

-Meet with Fire Board, which is who we contract with to provide services, to keep budgetary concerns and changes clear and responsible.

-Worked with hiring committee for continued growth in the department

-I started a custom cabinet shop from a vision in December 2007. After being in the trade for 13 years prior, I followed my dream and went on my own. I worked hard and built a very lengthy customer base and a reputation many people talked about in this area.

- I developed budgets and delivered cost estimates to my customers. Worked with change orders as the project was in developmental stage and as the projects was on going and through completion.

-Investigated many new materials and worked to find cost effective results for each of the materials used.

-Final cost evaluation was done and the final invoice prepared and sent to the customer.

-Worked closely with may different sub-contractors in every project. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, framing, and interior finishing. We all had to work together so through the planning stage and onsite meetings so the end product would be seamless for our customers.

-Developed strong communication skills in person and by the many ways we communicate today. I looked forward to meeting a new client or visiting an existing client for a new project. It was so rewarding to have so many return clients over the 15 years.

-Promoted my business through social media and answered any questions through each source of communication.

-I was lucky to have a team of people that worked for me through the years at different times. Watching and helping them master our craft of custom cabinetry was very rewarding.

-Negotiated with my suppliers to gain the best pricing available for products that sometimes varied greatly and frequently.

- Balanced and managed all of the companies financial activity.