Christopher Lane McConnell
Objective
Looking for a challenging career with a company that is so diverse that a person with my communications skills and my management back ground in logistics will immediately become an asset to your company.Experience
July 1997 / Quest Design and Displays / Sugar Land TexasLead installer
Assisted in all aspects of fabrication of interactive displays including the fabrications of the displays. The finishing, upholstering, packaging, coordination of delivery and installation of displays. Traveling to most of the locations via company vehicles to time shares, resorts, and real-estate offices across the entire country.§ Operated all types of wood working and milling equipment. From hand tools to shapers, routers, saws of all varieties, lathes, spray rigs.
§ I have safely and effectively operated numerous types of material handling equipment knowledge of various types of scissor lifts, and rated up to 5 tons. I have experience and have worked a rigger.
§ Installed vinyl impact lettering, logos, signs, and high end art work from oil canvasses to interactive décor and displays.
§ I have designed and fabricated custom shipping crates/containers for shipping custom displays such as large models of ships, buildings, cities, and topographical models to various locations internationally.
§ Asset management of the displays and graphics used and chachkis.
§ Developed installation procedures from packaging to shipping receiving and staging of product for installation.
§ Sourced contract labor for interstate/intrastate projects
January 1999 / Exhibit Network Incorporated / Houston, Texas
Fabricator warehouseman installer
§ Manage customer owned trade show properties and inventories.§ Maintain facility cleanliness and upkeep of grounds and building interiors and exteriors.
§ Responsible for traveling to international tradeshows throughout the United States.
§ The creation and functionality of displays and techniques for installation of displays many which were up to 30 feet tall and up to 100 feet long installing multiple displays in extremely short periods of time.
§ Manage installations and the use of man hours effectively.
June 2001 / Office Facilities/ / Houston Contract Interiors / Houston, Texas
Project Manager
§ I conducted marketing of services available through OFG interacting with clients and prospective new clients to obtain contracts and create relationships.§ As the project manager for HCI my primary responsibilities were to conduct turnkey installations of modular furniture.
§ Starting with receiving, inventory of parts for all projects. The proper distribution of product for installations. The removal and disposal of packaging and shipping materials using todays green standards.
§ Maintain the safety, conduct, effectiveness, and the productivity of manpower expended to achieve the scheduled completion of the project.
§ Conducted pre and post construction meetings for logistical coordination scheduling of delivery manpower needs, installation procedures, and the safe and effective implementation of scheduled deadlines.
§ Attended pre/post construction meeting to coordinate and execute exit strategies and augmentation of post project punch list items distributed to the involved trades.
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June 2007 / Pioneer Contract Services Inc. / Houston, Texas
Project Installation Manager
§ I conducted on site surveys of client facilities for space design and planning..§ Represented Pioneers interest during pre-construction planning.
§ I currently work effectively with our client architects and end user to implement a safe and profitable completion of project before deadlines. Delivering a pristine, functional work environment for the client’s end users.
§ Manage the delivery and installation of furniture products to clients and the expedient completion of punch list items and issues.
§ Conducted receiving operations of products at customer facilities many projects required multiple trailer loads often lasting several weeks and exceeding a half of a million pounds of freight per project.
§ Capable of reading construction blue prints and CAD generated drawings.
§ Knowledgeable of ADA requirements’ and city codes.
§ Over saw the green efforts to augment the removal of trash and disposal of office products such as cubicles, office furniture, and dun age from packaging.
§ Scheduling of manpower required to conduct operations specific to each project.
§ Managed massive corporate migrations from Exxon/Mobile, Cameron, B.P., Chevron, Shell Oil, G.E. Oil and Gas, Vinson and Elkins, Kinder-Morgan, and large remodel/construction projects for Cameron Academy Worley – Parsons, Houston ISD, Pasadena ISD, Spring Branch ISD, Klein ISD, Ft. Bend ISD
Education
1980 Graduated / Dixon High School / Dixon Illinois1980 Graduated U.S.N. “Basic Training” Naval Training Center Great Lakes Illinois
1980 Graduated Basic Submarine School New Haven/Groton, Connecticut
1980 Graduated Marin Navigation “A” school Naval Training Center Orlando, FloridaMilitary Service
1980-1990 Honorably discharged United States Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Leading Petty officer and Assistant Navigator Navigation Department. Served onboard a submarine, two aircraft carriers, frigate, and served 2 years in Yokosuka, Japan.References are available on request.