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WORK EXPERIENCE & TRAINING / 38 YEARS EXPERIENCE , Management, Sales, Design, Engineering, Manufacturing & Installation.
WILLIAM D. LEAVITT
3923 W. 5325 S., ROY, UTAH 84067
HOME PHONE: (801) 985-3994 / CELL: (801) 430-5941.
Inclusive date from: June 1972 - September 1981 (Marveon closed in September 1981.)
**40 hours to 60 hours a week.
Firm Name: Marveon Sign Co. / Jerry Brown - General Manager.
Address: 3532 Riverdale Rd.
City: Ogden State: Utah Zip: 84403
Description of Work: Doing layouts for signage including neon & tranformer layout, lamp & ballast layout, stuctural layout for steel. Production area including manufacturing, installation, & painting electrical signage inside of plant & on site, of signage small to very large, on site & fabrication of signage in plant. I worked with all manufacturing equipment and with boom & ladder trucks & staging at heights up to 80 feet. In 1977 I started working in the design department doing graphic layouts and structural drawings showing face graphics, steel placement, support & concrete placement.In 1978 I was made design dept. manager until I left Marveon after YESCO acquisition in 1981.
Inclusive date from: 1975-1977. ( Art Tech closed in 1977.)
**Part time approx. 30 hrs. a week.
Firm Name: Art Tech / Howard Leavitt - Owner / State Licensed Contractor.
Address: 325 36th street
City: Ogden State: Utah Zip: 84403
Description of Work: Doing layouts for non-illuminated signage, painting on site and in plant. Manufacturing signage and supports, and installing on site. Working with computerized lettering and layouts. Also involved in selling.
Inclusive date from: 1981-1990. **40 hours to 50 hours a week.
Firm Name: Young Electric Sign Co. / Richard Atkin Division Manager.
Address: 2767 Industrial Drive
City: Ogden State: Utah Zip: 84403
Description of Work: Graphic Design Consultant, working in the layout of electric signage including neon, flourescent, cabinets & supports. Also I did painting of 14' x 48' billboards & large scale wood signs on a subcontract basis for Richard Atkin. Also during this time I was in the process of learning structural engineering. In 1985 I was promoted to design department manager, and in 1986 was also engineering manager. From 1985 on I attended the monthly financial statement manager meetings going over
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the profit & loss and financial forecasting for my department of four people and the division of approximately 35 people.
Inclusive date from: 1990 - 1992
Firm Name: Young Electric Sign Co. / Dave Peoples - Division Manager.
**40 hours to 60 hours a week.
Address: Utah / Arizona Port of Entry, (William D. Leavitt Manager,)
City: St. George State: Utah
Client: State of Utah Department of Transportation, under State P.E. Rod Terry.
Description of Work: This project was a $ 2,500,000.00 project involving the total computerization of a port of entry, inclusive of weigh-in-motion, main scales, five large scale electronic message centers & supporting structures, large scale earth removal and replacement, large scale reinforced concrete placement, and the addition of large quantities of trees, shrubs and plants. I estimated the full $ 2.5k project involving ten separate subcontractors I did the engineering for the electric signage and supports and coordinated the electrical coordination. Also I drove to St. George on Monday and back on Friday for over a year acting as an on site project manager, EEO officer, and oversaw traffic control lane closures over the entire project and over the twelve subcontractors, while doing on site work for YESCO. I managed the installation of $ 165,000.00 of roadside sign installations. I did all of the paperwork for YESCO showing the monthly state payable quantities and showed the amounts to our financial clerk back in Ogden how much to pay each. I also worked closely with the Arizona & Utah State people in meetings and work standards. In 1992 this project ended and I went back to Ogden Division as Design Director & Engineer.
Inclusive date from: 1992 - 1994
Firm Name: Young Electric Sign Co. / Dave Peoples / Mike Record - Division Manager.
**40 hours to 60 hours a week.
Address: 2767 Industrial Drive.
City: Ogden State: Utah Zip: 84401
Description of Work: Again I took over the graphic design and engineering department, while acting as a production coordinator. I managed the four person department and worked with our Corporate P.E. in SLC via telephone and visits coordinating large scale electric sign engineering. Again I was involved in monthly financial meetings and planning. I also went on site with our installation crews doing engineering and overseeing their installation procedures to make sure welds were right and installation was correct.
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Inclusive date from: 1994 - 1994, (April through September, then went to YESCO SLC.)
Firm Name: Young Electric Sign Co.
City: Idaho Falls State: Idaho Zip:
Description of Work: Branch Manager in Idaho Falls, Idaho. I was in charge of the financial budgeting, and sales departments while doing sales, and working closely with our manager of production and installation. The total people under myself was approx. ten. Again I also did my own graphic design, engineering and estimating for each of my project, I also went onsite with our crews when needed to check out installation procedures, welds and engineering on from small scale to large scale electric signage.
Inclusive date from: 1994 - 1997,
Firm Name: Young Electric Sign Co.
Address: 1148 South 300 West
City: Salt Lake City, State: Utah Zip:
Description of Work: Chief Engineer. I was over the engineering department with one other individual doing all of the structural mathematics, drawings and electrical layouts for small to large scale electric signage. Again I also did graphic design along with the wind truss, sheet metal cabinet and pylon enclosures along with individual letter and electrical layouts. On large projects such as the E Center in West Valley, I worked with the shop in the structural steel engineering and main support design and engineering, which I ran the calculations and went over them with our corporate P.E. I went on site daily to check the installation techniques, welds and concrete on many installations to make sure they met my specifications, and were done right. In 1996 I was also appointed design department manager of the eight person department while also being the engineering department manager. This included working with the design people with engineering and graphics, however I went back to engineering manager after having too much workload in the engineering department. I worked closely with the corporate PE, Benjamin Jones, on each structural design.
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Inclusive date from: 1997 - 1999
Firm Name: Legacy Sign & Service.
Address: 1939 South 300 West
City: Salt Lake City, State: Utah Zip: 84119
Description of Work: Sales, Design & Structural. I was an Account Executitive and in addition I did my own structural calculations, designs and inspected work for proper fabrication while traveling on sales calls. I was top account executive in sales from 1998-1999.
Inclusive date from: 1999 - 2010
Firm Name: Advantage Sign Co.
Address: 3850 Evelyn Rd.
City: South Ogden, State: Utah Zip: 84403
New Location: Advantage Sign co.
Address: 3086 N. 750 E. - Suites 2 & 3.
City: Layton, State: Utah Zip: 84041
Description of Work: I took over ownership of Advantage Sign in January. I did the sales, designs, engineering, fabricating of signage and manage any off site subcontracting. In addition to this I am the qualifier for the Utah State Electrical Sign Contractors license for Advantage. This enables us to manufacture, work on or install any electric signage. In June of 2001 we moved to a new Layton location and we brought six employees on. We brought on another salesperson and produce over four hundred eighty thousand dollars yearly volume. I take care of the financial management sell, design and engineer all of the sales that we do. I also, when needed, fabricate & weld small to large electric signs, complex & square, including painting in the shop and install with a 65' Skyhook crane and have a current class B CDL license. On many sales calls I take a power inverter for the car, plug in a printer and prior to meeting with the client take the photo of the building / design the display, print the design, estimate the project and write the contract. In may instances sell the project. This has worked out well on many out of town accounts.
Software Knowledge: Coreldraw 14/ Autocad / Risa / Cadlink / Wordperfect, & wrote engineering sheets for cabinets, pan channel letters, pole signs in Excel.
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SUPERVISORY ROLES:
a.) - Marveon Sign Co. 3532 Riverdale Rd. Ogden, Utah - 1978 to 1981 - Design dept. Manager.
b.) - Young Electric Sign Co. 2767 Industrial Dr. Ogden, Utah - 1985 to 1990 - Design dept. and engineering dept. Manager.
c.) - Young Electric Sign Co. St. Port of Entry Project St. George, Utah - 1990 to 1992 On site project manager, EEO officer and financial estimator and coordinator.
d.) - Young Electric Sign Co. 2767 Industrial Dr. Ogden, Utah - 1992 to 1994 Design dept.and engineering dept. manager.
e.) - Young Electric Sign Co. Sunnyside Dr. Idaho Falls, Idaho - 1994 to 1994 Branch Manager.
f.) - Young Electric Sign Co. 1148 South 300 West Salt Lake City, Utah - 1994 to 1997 Engineering dept. Manager. For approx. 1 year also design dept. Manager.
g.) - Advantage Sign Co. - January 1999 to present.
Licensed State Electrical Sign Contractor for fabrication & installation Working owner, salesman, engineer, designer, fabricator & installer.
TRAINING:
a.) - Art Instruction Schools Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1980 to 1981 Art, design training. Completed while working full time at Marveon.
b.) - Young Electric Sign Co. Corporate Offices - 1985 Structural engineering training given to a handpicked group in the engineering departments by the Corporate P.E. Completed
while working full time at YESCO.
c.) - I.C.S. Scranton Pennsylvania - 1986 to 1989 Civil Engineering, completed three semesters while working full time at YESCO.
d.) - Certified Leasing Professional - Yesco SLC Division.
e.) - Have extensive training on the YESCO computerized estimating software, and know their pricing structure thoroughly. Also trained in the Excel engineering software.
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References: Matt Marten / Regional Manager Arbys, Utah / (801) 419-1867.
Tracy Smith / Account Executive / (801) 430-5990.
Jason McBride / (801) 771-5432.
AWARDS: Six time honorable mention winner in the NESA & ISA design contest.
Honorable Mention in Signs of the Times Electric Design contest in 1982.
Fourth Place in Signs of the Times Electric Design Contest in 1984.
First Place Award in the Denver West Design Contest over all of the designers throughtout YESCO in 1986.
Designed the Ogden Triathlon logo for Ogden City.
Designed the Northwest Sign Council logo, picked as first place over all of the entries from various sign companies throughout the Northwest.
Have won various trips through YESCO to Cancun and others.
PUBLICATIONS: Featured in the 1979 Signs of the Times Magazine Design Gallery.
PERSONAL DATA: Born: March 25th, 1955 / current age 54.
Place: Ogden, Utah.
Health: Excellent.
Marriage Status: Happily Married with four grown & married daughters.
Years Experience: Since 1972 - 38 years.
Achievements: I have learned all phases of the Sign Industry and have had the opportunity to work closely with some of the Industries Greatest Leaders.