Delilah Collins

* Meet with clients to discuss their needs and produce a solution within budget
* Provide custom decorative designs for clients including venetian plaster, metallic and marble faux, as well as textural faux and stencil work

* Assist team with designing conceptual presentations for client’s remodeling needs utilizing client’s photos of existing space by re-creating a new look using Photoshop
* Assist team to create presentation boards, digital and physical, included in Design Development package to client.

(Programs used: Photoshop, Office)

* Manage proposal methods to ensure each project maximizes revenue while minimizing costs with budgets exceeding $1.5M.
* Develop and manage and project schedules. Tasks include ordering materials, scheduling deliveries, as well as coordinating/aligning labor required to complete project tasks in a timely manner without sacrificing quality.
* Analyze change order requests to assess overall project impact and adjust project pricing according to company standards as well as implement changes in both field and necessary documentation.
* Familiar with many project types including Retail, Luxury Hotels, Mixed Use: Hospitality/Hotel, Residential High-Rise

* Managed and trained a team of four estimators to become familiar with the flooring scope and the fundamentals of flooring.
* Responsible for prioritizing project workload to meet deadlines of time sensitive bids by identifying additional resources and aligning those resources to project tasks.
* Contributed to digital arching processes to reduce paper usage and create a clearer document record.
* Integrated project pricing by acting as a liaison between project management, estimating and proposal departments.
* Developed and maintained professional relationships in order to provide client with fair and competitive proposals.

Project Estimator:
*Trained new estimators on Callidus planning software to develop project material estimates.
*Created, implemented, and maintained new training techniques that allowed for smooth transition of new hires into estimating positions.
*Contributed to digital arching processes to reduce paper usage and create a clearer document record.
*Generate reports containing material specifications, requirements, and amounts needed for scope of work to allow pricing process to create a preliminary bid.

* Managed and supervised team to package customer's personal belongings.
* Effectively trained new crew members to perform basic and challenging tasks.
* Responsible for teams' performance, customer relation & satisfaction.

* Responsible for daily cash audits and total banking transactions in order to produce accurate financial statements.
* Achieved management duties such as delegating jobs & assignments to other coworkers to make certain the store operated smoothly.
* Discover time saving methods to handle inventory shipments and ordering.