Blake Boma

Senior Estimator at Traylor Bros., Inc.
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Omaha, Nebraska, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Construction
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Senior Estimator
      • Aug 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • Construction
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Senior Estimator
      • Jan 2019 - Aug 2022

      Notable Pursuits- Amtrak East Yard Reconfiguration- NICTD South Shore Double Track Project 1- SCRRA Burbank Junction Speed Improvements- Walk Bridge Program- Union Pacific Railroad Company - Seadrift Industrial Lead- Union Pacific Railroad Company - Noonan Siding- Desert Express High Speed Rail Las Vegas to Victorville (LA)- NICTD West Lake Corridor Design Build- Cap Metro Lakeline to Leander Double Track- Port of Los Angeles - Pier 400- City of Saint Joseph Bridges- MTS Imperial Transit Double Track- Ottawa Confederate Line

    • United States
    • Construction
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Senior Estimator - Commercial
      • Dec 2017 - Dec 2018

      Lead estimator for commercial/industrial concrete division within the Intermountain West region. Additionally lead on bid pursuits for DOT projects. Scope includes wastewater treatment facilities, post-tension structures (parking garages, office, condominiums, educational, civil/municipal & tenant improvements. Delivery methods ranging from Design-Build, CMGC/CMAR, and Design-bid-build. Experience in low bid, best value, or negotiated contracts.Primary Responsibilities:- Generate relationships and continued communication with potential general contractors, owner/client staff, subcontractors and suppliers.- Contract documents acquisition/maintain for review through bid process.- Technical proposal writing.- Estimate schedule preparation.- Bid 2 Win (B2W) estimate set up/estimate.- Compile Historical Cost & Project Experience/Resumes- Pre-bid meetings.- Site visits/inspections.- Analyze plans, specifications, general conditions, special provisions, etc. review.- Generate Q&A’s/RFI’s pre-bid.- Quantity surveys/take-offs of project scopes with emphasis on structural concrete.- Subcontractor/supplier solicitation and evaluation.- Good Faith Efforts/DBE/Small Business evaluations.- Buy America compliance.- Risk analysis.- Bid time construction schedules. (P6)- Bid review preparation.- Quote Review/Bid Leveling/CloseoutNotable Pursuits- Logan Waste Water Treatment Facility (Logan City, UT)- Timpanogos Visitors Center Replacement Project (National Park Service)- Spanish Fork Pedestrian Trail Suspension and Prefabricated Bridges - Stadler Manufacturing Rail Car Facility- Salt Lake City Airport - North Concourse- Adobe Phase 2 - Parking Garage- Point of View Apartments- Hub of Opportunity- Foote's Rest Hotel- Traverse Ridge Phase 3 - Parking Structure/Office Building- Brickstone on Harmony- Sandy Civic Center Parking Structure (UTA)- I-15 Northgate Interchange (ITD)

    • United States
    • Construction
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Lead Estimator
      • Sep 2014 - Dec 2017

      Herzog Contracting Corp. founded in 1969 provides general contracting services with focus on mass transit railroad construction in streetcar, light rail transit, commuter rail, and freight systems within challenging work environments. Other services include heavy highway construction, equipment leasing and sales.Lead estimator and support estimator on projects across the United States in various procurement delivery systems ranging from Design-Build, CMGC, Design-bid-build, and Multiple Prime Contracts. Experience in low bid, best value, or negotiated contracts as well in both capacities as a prime contractor or subcontractor. Additionally, participate in Joint Venture roles.Primary Responsibilities: - Relationship and communication with industry counterparts, potential subcontractor & suppliers, prime contractors, and owner/client staff. - Contract documents acquisition/maintain for review through bid process. - Estimate schedule preparation. - HCSS Heavy Bid estimate set up/estimate. - HCSS Heavy Job Production Analysis - Compile Historical Cost - Pre-bid meetings. - Site visits/inspections. - Analyze plans, specifications, general conditions, special provisions, etc. review. - Google Earth Project Overlays - Generate Q&A’s/RFI’s pre-bid. - Quantity take-offs & quantity reconciliation (internal or with JV partners/clients /consultants). - Subcontractor/supplier solicitation and evaluation. - Good Faith Efforts/DBE evaluation. - Buy America compliance. - Risk analysis. - Bid time construction schedules. - Bid review. - Bid closeout. - Outreach events for potential subcontractors and DBE’s. - Project support on change orders. - Create proposals for subcontractor scope. - Isqft Implementation.

    • United States
    • Construction
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Superintendent/Estimator/Project Controls
      • Nov 2007 - Sep 2014

      One of North America's largest and most respected construction and mining organizations with focus on safety, quality, compliance, schedule and budget. Experiences were directly related to light/heavy rail projects across the United States from Salt Lake City, to Phoenix and Chicago in various work capacities.Project List/Role - See Accomplishments/Projects below for further detail.Project Engineer - Northwest Extension LRT - Valley Metro Rail (VMR)Close-out Manager - Dan Ryan Track Renewal - Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)Superintendent - Draper LRT - Utah Transit Authority (UTA)Close-out Superintendent - Mid Jordan Light Rail Extension - UTAProject Superintendent - Jordan Valley Transit Oriented Development (TOD) - UTASuperintendent - Mid Jordan Light Rail ExtensionLead Field Engineer - Airport TRAX - Utah Transit AuthorityStructures/Grading/Utilities Field Engineer - West Valley TRAXUtilities Field Engineer - Line Section 1 Valley Metro LRT

    • Construction
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Construction Manager
      • Apr 2006 - Nov 2007

      Kimball Hill Homes provided me with an opportunity to enter the construction management field with very little experience. An on the job two month long training course providing knowledge of the home building process and customer relations. Units were tract home construction from the slab up, consisting of post tension concrete slab on grade, one and two story stucco finish homes. • Supervised release to delivery construction of 62 homes with average values in excess of $350k.• Permits Applications• Ensured conformance with all building and municipal codes for City Officials inspection approval. • Completed all homes under local division average construction time, and held best average build duration.• Provided key performance in providing home closing providing the Las Vegas Division with the required number of units to achieve annual goal.• Held the "Cup Award" for shortest build duration of a home within the Division, 98 calendar days start to finish of 3400 sf home.• Week of departing from Kimball Hill, last home was within 7 days of reaching 57 days of completion status.• Managed multiple homes in various subdivisions concurrently, controlling production of 24 homes at one time.• Supervised remodel of sales offices converted into home sales.• Performed home owner walks with exceptional satisfactory results being rewarded with over twenty customer satisfaction rewards.

    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Assistant Consumer Lending Manager
      • Jul 2005 - Apr 2006

      • Co-Manager of Home Loan Department acquiring skills in full service lending, customer service and loan underwriting.• Developed and executed personal marketing approaches to target new business. • Co-Manager of Home Loan Department acquiring skills in full service lending, customer service and loan underwriting.• Developed and executed personal marketing approaches to target new business.

Education

  • Monmouth College
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