Mike Foster
Tiler & Business Owner - Mikes Tiling Services
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About
A highly versatile and motivated person with over 20 years construction experience, and over 14 years Floor & Wall Tiling experience, whilst being a Sole Trader of Mikes Tiling Services, based in Devizes. Strong skill set and the ability to adapt and learn quickly.
Experience
Tiler Owner - Mikes Tiling Services - Devizes
(2012-08)
Business owner, working on various refurbishment projects, both residential and commercial.
- Visit client, gain knowledge of works required, prepare quotations, price up costings of the work
- Carry out remedial works to make good areas for Tiling
- Develop and maintain communication with clients and other trades
- Manage own workload and timescales
- Provide clients with advise, my skills and undertake installations
- Set up the company in 2012 and managed to build a successful company
- Gained general maintenance contracts of a couple of luxury glamping sites locally
- Gained continued contracts with local builders, lasting 10 years plus
- Installations and remedial work for many other non tiling related projects
- Complete career change, retrained with a building company to become a tiler
Finance Department - Tyco Electronics
(2002-08 - 2012-07)
- Undertook various administrative duties
- Account holder with many large International companies
- Communicated with various external clients
- Support the development and launch of new products to the department systems
Roofer - Broadbents of Oxford - Oxford
(1991-06 - 1993-06)
Pipefitters Mate - NG Bailey - MOD sites
(1995-06 - 1998-06)
Building Trades - Various
(1998-06 - 2002-07)
Various building trades including fitting windows, repairs and maintenance
Education
GCSE - General Education - Dorcan School (1986 - 1991)
