Patrick Martin

Accomplished Senior Construction Manager and Executive with experience in New and Renovations in Residential, Commercial and Industrial Projects. Extensive expertise as Project Executive and Senior Operations Manager in Design, Engineering and Construction, Cost Development and P&L Manager, Material Procurement, Contract Administration, Quality Control, Scheduling and Excellent Customer Service Programs, Safety Plan Execution and the Timely Delivery of a Quality Project.

President / Owner - Marwood Construction & Marwood Estates - Houston, Texas

(2016-01)

Full service general contractor providing self performing & subcontractor services for buy/repair/flip renovations, commercial stucco & structural concrete repairs, apartment renovations and residential home renovations.

• Awarded & executed FEMA/GLO contracts at $2.1M for residential Harvey storm home repairs.
• Contracted & completed 68 unit apartment complex whole unit structural renovation under schedule.
• Negotiated structural concrete repair contract for floor & beam repairs in 12,000sf parking garage.
• Engineered & implemented stucco repair of failed EIFS system on 4 story condominium project.

Vice President of Operations - APS Solar - Houston, Texas

(2011-01 - 2015-12)

Recruited to substantially turnaround severely troubled EPC self performing solar residential and commercial contracting firm. Provided direct leadership to the engineering group, restructured labor force, redeveloped business development process while creating procurement group. Sought & won negotiated design build renewable projects.

• Increased gross profit margins by 13% in a 6 month period resulting in the first profit in 3 years of this start-up.
• Completely restructured operations team resulting in a increase of 375% in revenue, while decreasing overhead.
• Facilitated cultural shift in project selection & execution by the use of subcontractors with self performing team.

President / Owner - Marwood Construction - Houston, Texas

(2007-01 - 2011-12)

Fostered start-up general contracting company building spec homes, "on your lot" luxury homes and high end light commercial finishes including design-build and project management services for residential and light commercial construction. The entrepreneurial venture's responsibilities included conceptual pricing, building sites procurement, financing, architectural design and the construction and sales of custom homes.

• Structured joint venture to purchase, renovate and transform 146 unit C apartment to B class.
• Constructed and delivered $8M in luxury custom homes.

President / Managing Partner - Structural Forensics - Houston, Texas

(2002-01 - 2007-12)

Led startup partnership structural engineering firm servicing clients in the oil / chemical processing industries, commercial offices and industrial processing facilities. Provided risk based assessments, modeling and repair schemes for distress mass concrete and steel structures. Initiated sales strategy forming detailed engineering contract services including site assessment, static & dynamic modeling, budgetary cost of magnitude and construction management services.

• Successfully developed licensed structural engineering business from business development model created to advance previous employers revenue base.
• Negotiated sale of Structural Forensics to partners after building client roster to 8 firms of Fortune 500 list and a book of business of $5.5 M at 45% gross margins.
• Raise $500k in private capital to finance start up of Structural Forensics & arranged $6M in financing for apartment rehab for Marwood Construction.
• Fully accountable to partners for contracts, accounting, cash flow, insurance, banking and financial statements.

Branch Manager - Structural Preservation Systems - Houston, Texas

(1997-01 - 2001-12)

Recruited as general manager by East Coast based $80M company specializing in commercial repairs of mass concrete structures including parking garages, building facades, and high rise buildings. Challenged to transform newly acquired firm from coatings services to structural repair. Held full P&L accountability to grow business and penetrate market.

• Developed proprietary engineering assessment method that provided ground work for admission into Fortune 500 industrial facilities as a qualify vendor.
• Build and trained sales force which grew sales revenue from $1M to $12M in a 4 year period.
• Created training program for account sales development for construction Project Managers.
• Increased gross margins from 17% to 38% through strategic pricing with value propositions for client.
• Unprecedented Repair- Responsible for concept engineering through the detailed execution of a Coker Structure repair which involved heavy lifting both 400kip drums from the structure and repairing the concrete structure while the operating unit remained processing without an interruption.
• Managed the best safety culture in entire company and maintained a 0 recordable rate in 4 years.
• Modeled and instituted field leadership program and train the trainer program to deal with a labor shortage which resulted in employee growth from 18 to more than 70 skilled laborers in 24 months.

Vice President of Construction - Southern Homes - Slidell, LA

(1994-01 - 1997-12)

Recruited to turnaround this 350 unit home building operations plagued by delays, poor quality and low customer satisfaction. Challenged to bring order to Construction, Purchasing, Estimating, Customer Service, Sales and Product Development.

• Increased closing volume in 12 months by 60% by reducing building time by 54 days and initiating quality control program which increased customer referral / approval rates from 34% to 88% in 24 months.
• Architect of subcontractor development program to supply required in market shortage of subcontractors.

Vice President of Operations - Areon Constructors - Houston, TX

(1991-01 - 1994-12)

Joined $6M luxury homebuilder that focused on speculative & design/built estate homes priced from $750K to $3M. Held full charge for Construction, Procurement, Costing, Accounting, Change Orders, Value Engineering and Customer Service.

Manager of Construction - Glades International Construction - Boca Raton, FL

(1988-01 - 1991-12)

Managed construction of luxury homes, office buildings and parking garage. Managed operations and profitability of all planned unit residential developments. Producing $18M in revenues and 200 homes annually.

Project Manager - Arthur Rutenburg - Boca Raton, FL

(1985-01 - 1988-12)

Directly accountable for building in excess of 30 custom luxury homes priced $300K to $750K. while routinely outperforming construction budget by 4% or greater. Only Project Manager to build "on your lot" in South Florida.

Superintendent promoted to Production Manager - Ryland Homes - Houston, TX

(1978-01 - 1985-12)

Responsible for overall production and profitability in the building of over 250 homes annually. Decreased routine production building time to an average of 62 days while outperforming budget by 2%. Best service record in Texas.

• Strategically scheduled operations housing starts consistent to projected cash flow planning.
• Drove process management resulting in continual improvement of building time reduction.
• Expert in developing product vendor relationships to optimize long term pricing benefits.
• Expert in value engineering benefit / loss analysis in balancing product design, product selection and cost.
• Extensive experience in short term and long term budget and business planning and pro-forms preparation.

BA - Business Administration, concentration in Finance and Economics - Michigan State University