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Chris Pendleton — 12+ years as an estimator and project manager

General contractor–side preconstruction, GMP, and buyout experience, backed by design-build civil infrastructure and a multi-billion-dollar federal program.

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Work history

Companies, roles, and key projects

From self-perform trade scopes to multi-billion-dollar infrastructure and federal programs, with commercial GC preconstruction at the center.

  1. January 2020 – PresentCommercial, civil, and industrial

    PenCo, LLC

    President

    • Estimate and manage projects from preliminary budget through bidding, bid leveling, and final award.
    • Complete on-screen takeoffs in Bluebeam, PlanSwift, and Agtek; use Claude for quantity checks and estimate assembly; set pricing with preliminary schedules for overhead and general conditions.
    • Calculate P&L and gross margin for executive review and maintain the subcontractor and vendor relationships used for pricing.
    • Lead permitting and early preconstruction, and identify drawing, specification, and constructability risks before bid.
  2. January 2019 – December 2020Preconstruction and buyout

    Regional commercial general contractor

    Project Manager

    • Bid, negotiated, and value-engineered budgets and GMPs that met client financing goals and protected margin through buyout.
    • Controlled cost for financing and budgeting; assigned projects finished profitable and under budget.
    • Tailored scopes and contracts, closed preconstruction gaps, negotiated changes, and maintained Primavera P6 schedules for competitive bids and negotiated proposals.
  3. March 2016 – December 2018GMP · LEED

    AECOM Hunt

    Project Manager / Assistant Project Manager

    $207 million LEED convention center

    • Issued bid documents, tailored front-end contracts, and closed descoping into the guaranteed maximum price.
    • Led subcontracts up to $9 million and negotiated T&M, PCIs, CORs, and proposal requests using BIM 360, CMiC, AutoCAD, P6, Textura, and Oracle.
  4. January 2015 – March 2016Heavy civil · PPP design-build

    The Walsh Group

    Project Engineer

    $2 billion PPP design-build bridges program

    • Coordinated field design changes critical to the design-build tunnel and estimated change impacts to Walsh and subcontractor contracts.
    • Reported production and project-control data and obtained building, MOT, and AHJ permits.
  5. 2014 – 2015Federal program

    Bechtel

    Construction Engineer

    ~$3 billion chemical agent destruction pilot plant

    • P6 and Microsoft Project scheduling support, submittals, man-hour and equipment tracking, and QC inspection plans.
  6. 2011 – 2013Trade estimating

    Specialty waterproofing/sealants subcontractor

    Estimator

    • Division 03, 04, and 07 estimating scopes.
  7. Summer/Fall 2011Field operations

    National design-build general contractor (internship)

    Internship

    • Field operations and self-perform concrete estimating.

Tools

Bluebeam · PlanSwift · Agtek · AI-assisted estimating with Claude · Primavera P6 · AutoCAD · MII · MCACES · Procore · CMiC

Certifications

CPE · STS-C · Primavera P6 · Procore Project Management · PMI (Project Management Institute) · ASCE Quality Management · OSHA 30-Hour

Education

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

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