Note: This is verbatim, and I have not corrected spelling errors.
So, let's see what GARLAND says about GARLAND, and U.S. COMMUNITIES:
This is directly from an application I received
(05-10-2013)
“The Garland Company
As a consultant for The Garland Company, I developed
relationships with high-end, governmental, educational, and municipal clients
to assist them in managing their roof assets.
The Garland Company is a premium roofing manufacturer that
values the relationship-based sales approach.
After a three week immersive training program, I was charged
with completing inspections and forensic roof evaluations for companies and
clients like: Lockheed Martin, The Dallas County Community College District,
The City of Dallas, The City of Mesquite, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, Dell,
Air Liquide and others of similar merit.
As part of my duties I worked closely with architects,
designers, and specifiers to ensure that The Garland Company’s line of products
was the only roofing manufacturer named in the specification or offered to the
client.
Upon completing the design phase, I would solicit bids from
qualified, local roofing contractors to perform the work under my consult and
supervision.
Design Build Solutions - The Garland Company
Design Build Solutions is The Garland Company's design and
construction arm. Prior to 2006, it was a vastly underused entity created to
control specifications through the bid process. However, once arwarded The US
Communities Buying Co-Operative Contract in 2006, I saw a massive opportunity
to do much more than control specifications.
I began marketing and actively soliciting projects to be
designed and built by DBS all over Texas.
Working mostly on military contracts, I marketed our design
capabilities to The Office of The Surgeon General, The Army Core of Engineers,
and The Office of Veterans' Affairs.
Most of our projects were small, multi-family base housing
and medical center upgrades. As DBS was not "completely" set up to
handle large, multi-disciplinary bids, I solicited bids, evaluated
sub-contractors, and engaged in buy-out and VE process with subs and owners.
Soon, it became necessary to create budgetary checks and
balances. I implemented a customized version of a project management software
created for me by Podio and created and managed construction budgets using
Quickbooks Contractor Suite.
A change in Garland's Scope of
WOrk under The US Communities Contract lead them to stear me away from
Design-Build projects. As I had created valuable relationships in the industry,
I chose to start XXXXXXXX with a group
of like-minded construction professionals to continue pursuing larger contracts
and to branch further into the private sector”.
