Opening of Bids - Northwest Elevated Storage Tank Improvements Proj No. 122-018 - Viking Painting, LLC

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Carter Spoelstra - Director of Business Development Carter has been in the water tank industry his entire professional career. He started in 1997 with Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel (PDM) and worked for three different tank construction companies. He has served many different capacities over his career including draftsman, team leader, estimator for water and industrial storage tanks, estimating manager, and sales manager. Carter works on a national level for both the AWWA D102 Coating Steel Water Storage Tanks standard and the AWWA D101 Standard for Inspecting and Repairing Steel Water Tanks. He has also been a presenter for STI/SPFA Steel Tank Steel Tank Seminars across the country. If you have a coatings project out for bid or one in the planning stages, please reach out to discuss with Carter. Serena Stach—Controller Serena began her career with the Kiewit Corporation in 2001 working with subcontractors, bonding agents, and insurers to validate and maintain compliance with contractual obligations to both prime and sub-tier contracts. With full command of the contracts typically executed, she went on to work as a business manager managing all transactional accounting and operational reporting for multiple successful vertical building projects in the Nebraska area including TD Ameritrade Ballpark and several at Nebraska Medicine. Serena progressively advanced her career in business management until becoming the Area Business Controller for the largest region in Kiewit’s vertical building segment. After a brief departure from the industry, she is most enthusiastic to return to her career roots with Viking. Her goalis to ensure Viking is as efficient as possible while providing the highest quality products to clients both internaland external. Catie Van Ornam – Business Supervisor Catie started her career in payroll and hasn’t left the field since. She processed in-house payroll in the transportation industry for 10 years. For the last 4 years she was employed at a workers compensation company that also offered full-service payroll processing for clients in various states. Her role included improving department efficiencies, hiring & training new specialists, and ensuring tax compliance in multiple states. Jeff Gilbery – Environmental Health and Field Safety Jeff has been in the tank industry from 2004 and spent 11 years as a maintenance foreman before spending the rest as a paint foreman and field superintendent. He spends a lot of his time on the road checking in on our sites ensuring all of our crews are supported with all the equipment needed to operate safely. Jeff is Responsible for keeping track of new, revised and withdrawn regulations and informing management personnel of the impact of regulatory changes on the company’s operations and managing compliance environmental health and safety programs. Monte Lund—FieldSuperintendent Monte started working in the Industrial painting business in 1986 in Minnesota. He blasted and painted for a contractor for 10 years before deciding to start his own tank painting business with a partner in 1996. They owned and operated this business for 5 years until Monte decided to move to Northern Iowa and start Viking Industrial Painting in 2001. Monte owned and operated Viking as a successful company for many years before selling his company to John and Rory. Monte will continue to provide solid operational support to ensure a smooth transition and plans to stay on for several years. Scott Jones—Foreman Scott has been in the tank and industrial coating industry for many years and works hand in hand with Monte to ensure successful projects and that we provide a safe and productive working environment for our team. Scott is also one of the nation’s leading experts running and blasting with the Versa-Blaster. This is a self-contained piece of blasting equipment that can help with environmental concerns and increase blasting productivity. Luan Ha – Project Manager Luan was born in raised in Vietnam. He moved to the United States and attended college at South Dakota State University where he graduated in 2015. Upon graduation Luan started as a project coordinator in the water tank industry. Viking was lucky to have him join our team in 2018 as a project manager. Luan works closely with Operations to ensure all tank projects are completed in a timely manner, to specification, and meeting our customers’ expectations.