Mike graduated from the University of Buffalo with a major in Architecture, a minor in environmental design, and some practical, boots-on-the-ground, construction experience. Architecture grads who have personally framed houses are right in our strike zone so offering Mike a spot on our team was an easy no-brainer.
We’re glad we did because Mike’s got all the intangibles too, the stuff you can’t learn: good taste, an eye for what works and what doesn’t, and the kind of obsessive work-smarter, not harder, mentality that efficiency auditors drool over.
Mike may be Timberbuilt’s most efficient worker.
His workstation is built for speed. He’s a Jedi master at optimizing keystrokes. Give Mike a drafting program and he’ll climb inside, tinker with its guts, and pop back out with a customized workflow full of automated shortcuts and time-saving tips.
Mike lives on our design team where he’s been an impact player from day one. He’s spent time over the years guiding clients through floor plan decisions and adding his drawing skills to renderings. He currently plays a crucial role, compiling the budget set at the center of our design process, which is a good indicator of the amount of trust and responsibility he’s earned.
Mike coordinates between clients, our operations department, and the entire design staff to combine floor plans, renderings, measurements, and a detailed material list to help clients assess their budget and find a general contractor. He also draws the foundation, reviews the modeling, and is a trusted set of eyes for the final draft.
Mike’s work accomplishments pale in comparison to the exponential boost that he injected into company morale and long term well-being when he introduced our team to the best lunch spot in the continental United States. We’re talking of course about The Toasted Hog in Angola, NY.
If you haven’t been there, you have not lived a meaningful life.