Darin Davis

Experience

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  DRD Construction and Maintenance Inc.

  Feb 1989 - Jun 1999

  President

  • Full service and nationwide property preservation construction company. • Main offices, Woodland Hills, CA, and Austin, Texas and 20 satellite offices nationwide. • Contracted by Bankers Trust, Wells Fargo and Bank of America to rehabilitate then maintain 1400 properties nationwide. • Coordinated and facilitated construction activities nationally with licensed contractors, managing over 40 full time employees in 20 different states.

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  D and S Homes Inc

  Jun 1999 - Dec 2008

  President

  • President of D and S Homes, Inc., and owner of Fairland Construction Inc., general contractor. • Developed, designed, entitled, and built residential homes, apartments, and condominiums throughout Southern California, from Los Angeles to Mammoth Lakes California.• Completed entitlements on approximately 350 units and sold approximately 200. Generating over $80,000,000 in total sales (list provided upon request). • As the general contractor, managed all construction including budgets, and schedules. Created new systems, insuring a home’s completion in 90 working days. Conducted inspections throughout the project and assured regulations and code compliance. Communicated with employees through weekly and monthly meetings including partners, our controller, and superintendents.• Provided design input, project management and administrative services. Managed a team of 22 full time employees along with 30 to 40 subcontractors. Coordinated and assembled employee procedure manual. Hired and managed engineers, attorneys, and architects. • Designed, reviewed and value engineered all plans. Prepared budgets establishing land development, building, and entitlement costs. Responsible for successful designs, plan checking and permits guaranteeing that our design is executed in accordance with project plans and specifications.• Prepared and presented potential projects to investors, city and neighborhood councils, and design review boards. Networked with local councilmen and women on all projects.• Project close out, I coordinated and assembled a quality control department. This department would distribute to new home owners, operating, training and warranties manuals and process complaints received on warranty items after project completion. Show less

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  Skymax Builders Inc

  Dec 2008 - Jul 2015

  President

  • As a general contractor, I created investor funded portfolios, purchasing foreclosed duplexes, triplexes, and four-plexes in south central Los Angeles.• Generated an investor pool of 1 to 2 million dollars and created a portfolio worth approximately 10 million dollars. • Rehabilitated/Remodeled 70 units on 26 different locations, managed all units until portfolio was sold.• Managed, supervised, and coordinated 6 employees and 10 to 20 subcontractors. • Before purchase investigated/reviewed existing permits, planning and LAHD issues, determined proper materials and prepared investor budgets.• Developed an itemized, standardized pricing system appreciated by all investors. • Provided Investors monthly profit and loss, balance sheet, reconciled bank statement and rent roll. Show less

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  University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

  Construction Project Manager
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  Turn Keys-4-Cash, LLC

  Dec 2016 - now

  Real Estate Investor

  Turn Keys-4-Cash LLC is a professional, full service real estate solutions firm that buys and sells properties throughout Oahu, Hawaii. We specialize in buying distressed homes. We renovate and resell them to retail home buyers and landlords.

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  Bowers + Kubota Consulting

  Aug 2017 - Mar 2020

  Project Manager

  Bowers + Kubota is an Employee-Owned Kama‘aina architectural/engineering firm based in Oahu, Hawai’i. They specialize in architecture, construction management, program management and project development from preliminary analysis and planning through complete design, for a wide variety of clientele on all the major islands.

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  Rider Levett Bucknall

  Mar 2020 - May 2021

  Sr. Project Manager

  Pre-Design included formulating project forecasts, schedules from historical data, and managing the client's schedules and project budgets expectations with designer. Procurement responsibilities, request for pricing process for Client. Developed, monitored, and managed all contracts.Prepare, and submit to the Owner a monthly forecast, schedule, and invoices for payment. Tracked plans and Specifications changes, schedule of values, material & equipment submittals, request for information, change order proposals Owner monthly report included risk decision issues, design and construction updates, latest financial developments, forecast projections, contingency, schedule updates, and strategies to resolve any possible unidentified issues. Post-Construction, beneficial occupancy, coordinated/tracked final walk-through, and punch List completion Show less

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  Arita Poulson General Contracting LLC

  May 2021 - now

  Senior Project Manager

  Responsible for all contract negotiations with subs and vendors; Subcontract and vendor scope qualifications, negotiations and contract compositionsCharged with timely and within budget project buyout.Create and maintain project CPM schedules on weekly basis.Estimate and negotiate change orders with clients and subcontractors.Establish project objectives, policies, procedures and performance standards within boundaries of company protocol.Monitor and control construction through administrative direction of on-site Superintendent to ensure project is built on schedule and within budget. Manage financial aspects of contracts to protect and simultaneously maintain good relationship with Client.Supervise and direct overall project activities as assigned. Includes planning and coordinating project activities with others, resolving problem areas, ensuring all company/project policies, procedures and standards are maintained. Show less