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Hydro-Vac, Inc.

HVI has been a family-owned and operated company since 2001. In 2020, Caleb stepped in on a truck and worked part-time at night and on the weekends to learn what it took to run the company from an operational and business standpoint. Caleb has started and sold his small businesses, so his experience as a young entrepreneur transfers over to his role at HVI.

- Caleb oversees ongoing business operations within the company. 
- Jobsite crews and office staff report directly to Caleb. 
- Caleb is reporting directly to the CEO.

Currently, Caleb oversees close to 20 employees and 7 service crews.

Chief Operating Officer

- Directing the day to day operations. 
- Directing 6-7 crews, fleet vehicles, and managing 12-14 people.
- Online job bidding and estimating. Proficient in several construction softwares.
- Fielding all company / customer calls and emails.
- Assisting in recruiting new employees, fielding resumes to the CEO
- Running advertising ads across platforms. 
Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and web platforms.
- Overseeing the Hydro Excavation division; invoicing, billing, vendors, and health & safety program.
- Daily, weekly, and quarterly reports for various organizations. Such as DOT, FMSCA, and various Unions.

—— ACHIEVEMENTS ——
- In 4 months, I have assisted in hiring, onboarding, and training 2 full-time crews. 
- Bringing in an additional 50-100k gross per month. 

- In 6 months, I completely took over bidding/estimating. 
- Largely contributing to the 400% increase in net income for the company.

Head Operations Manager and Coordinator

Framework - Construction Recruiting

Helping framework connect more people to more opportunities through online and social media initiatives.

Consultant / Contractor Role

- Creating videos
- Online campaigns 
- Assisting in the recruitment process

Marketing Outreach Consultant

Fouss Vending

Self Started a Vending Machine Company from my Dorm Room.

* Providing Vending Machines AND Micro-Markets to businesses sized Small to Medium 
* Scaling the business consistently 
* Donating a Percentage of Profits to various charities designed to help people out of crisis

—— ACHIEVEMENTS ——
Sold the company. Bought by a vending machine startup company. 
* Exited at 21 years old.

Ambassadors for Business

* Consistently served as a volunteer at AFB events
* Assisted in setting up and takedown of the event
* Assisted in maintaining the community and socializing of the events
* Engaged with numerous local professionals in their field
* Built long-term friendships with local business executives
* Spoke on the "Do Something Initiative" at an event

Ambassador

5 Things About ME ⬇️

- I’m a Christ Follower
- I’m a Husband
- I’m a Father 
- I’m a Business Owner
- I’m a Coach & Consultant 


CALEB Fouss 👷🏼‍♂️👨🏼‍💻

CDM Smith

Represent state transportation authority in the management of $25M project load, pushing multiple unique projects from conception to occupation, ensuring roadway maintenance facilities and their associated assets are able to consistently and reliably accommodate the safety and welfare of all residents and visitors.

Professionally utilize extensive operational and production experience to enhance management team’s quantifiable progress to complete long-lead workable backlog projects previously impossible due to understaffing and underfunding. 

Key proponent of introducing lean construction techniques and incorporating statewide standardization in processes and quality control.

Construction Specialist

Analyze, design, and modify existing grounds and structures to comply with local and state regulations while accommodating customer requests.

Employ engineering knowledge to architectural models and ideas to ensure customer satisfaction while maintaining adherence to feasibility and constructibility.

Facilitate and maintain constant communication with partner and customer to accommodate schedule and resource impacts to overall SOW.

Project Specialist

Kimball Equipment Company

Reliably perform as factory service specialist in support of dealership client obligations, minimizing downtime, extending machine operational lifetime, and continuing client satisfaction.

Utilize specific skills learned in engineering setting and apply to field project solutions and 1st-level MHE performance assessments, with minimal supervision and extensive communication with parts and sales departments to guarantee service project delivery.

Upon failure analysis, expedite parts delivery and installation for equipment in dealership storage awaiting either rental or sales commissioning.

Mobile Mining Service Mechanic

Signature Farms, LLC

Extensive interaction and coordination with 17 clients on $2.3M horse stabling and training complex.

Represented owner to ensure continued maintenance with existing customers, and encouraged additional boarding contracts as owner’s health declined.

Ensured all horses were fed, exercised, cleaned, and otherwise cared for in their owners’ absence. Maintained balance of trust to guarantee boarder retention.

Property and Grounds Manager

Kilgore Companies

Manage day-to-day logistics and delegation of tasks to support reliable operation of a permanent sand washing plant.  

Ensure all plant components are safely in satisfactory operational condition before, during, and after shift startup.  

Coordinate repair orders and production schedules with upper management/extra shifts to ensure sales goals are met.  

Effectively communicate milestone production/downtime information, and assure/verify that stockpiles will be in compliance with sales/QC requirements.

Sand Washing Plant Operator

MINDS Inc.

Build, install, commission, and maintain Minds asphalt plant controls systems and related electrical panels.

Initiate on-site customer training during installation and commissioning process.

Manage, direct, and dispatch field technician and programmer teams.

Coordinate regular interaction with customers post-commissioning, verifying reliable operation and receiving suggestions to drive development of future software updates.

Support continuous software/hardware improvement with corporate representatives.

Western US Division Operations Manager

United States Air Force

Lead operator and instructor for $1.8M Terex E225P asphalt plant; responsible for training 19 RED HORSE units in proper plant operation and maintenance.

Represent operations crews from production scheduling and logistics standpoint, ensuring materials and associated procurement requirements are met while designing trucking routes and placement timelines to satisfy plant production parameters.

Certified fuel tank inspector; follow all AFOSH guidelines to ensure tanks are compliant.

Responsible for HAZMAT control of runoff and spills; ensure remediation principles are in place and utilized.

Provide quality reports to superiors, capably interacting with engineers to ensure product meets design standards.

Subject matter expert in all asphalt production capacities, including mechanical operation and maintenance, PLC controls and programming, electrical installation and maintenance, burner adjustment and repair, etc.

Assist in operation and training on Eagle 1000 rock crusher, Erie Strayer concrete batch plant, and Screen Machine aggregate separator.

Licensed and trained on all conventional heavy construction equipment in Air Force inventory.

Equipment Operator, Special Capabilities Instructor

Hennessy Surveying

Managed construction material logistics and tracking to verify delivery quantities and arrange 100-acre lay down yard with unique GPS coordinates to validate scheduled pick orders could be efficiently processed.

Monitored and uploaded point data to master material tracking programs within managing contractor database.

Accommodated contractor material request orders utilizing original coordinates, expediting extremely efficient flagging and loading.

Attended and recorded daily meetings with managing contractor logistics personnel, enabling constant system analysis, reducing errors and increasing productivity.

Shot/flagged 1000+ pieces of steel and pipe each day in order to meet construction demands and delivery schedules.

On-call and qualified to switch to a construction surveying capacity, assisting layout crews in shooting anchor bolts, checking grades, performing as-built surveys, generating AutoCAD drawings, and other construction-related surveying duties.

Construction Layout, Material Tracking & Control

Davis Land Surveying & Engineering

Responsible for strict adherence to MDOT road construction guidelines for the removal of existing pavement, remediation of underlying soils, subgrading, and paving of $300k state highway project.

Kept precise daily records of quantities removed and placed.

Provided weekly updates to Engineer, showing production tracking and projections.

Made predictions of cost and schedule impacts of PCOs.

Worked closely with Contractor to ensure project quality exceeded expectations from accelerated schedule.

Maintained regular correspondence with Client and Engineer.

Additional duties:

Created documents for properties surveyed by field crew, including full certificates of survey, mortgage reports, legal descriptions, and auxiliary sketches for proposed construction projects on said properties.

Updated township records to reflect changes in property boundaries over specific time periods (showing growth and/or shrinkage in residential, commercial, and industrial land usages).

Completely updated company filing system, reorganizing over 20 years of records.

Provided office administrative support when necessary.

Civil Construction Inspector, Layout, Draftsman

Bowen Engineering Corporation

Civil Field Engineer on $20M+ coal-fired power plant remediation (FGD) construction projects for multiple TVA facilities.

Managed administrative and construction aspects at both locations, including :

Document control

Schedule updates

Negotiated material / service costs to align with budgeted resources

Coordination with TVA CM representatives for critical excavation activities

Coordination with subcontractors to ensure quality and production targets were met

Performed control and deep-cut excavation layout, monitored grading progress

Facilitated concrete procurement and delivery schedule on critical pours

Made field-determined adjustments to deliveries

Made accept / reject judgment calls based on load quality

Developed, implemented, and enforced task-specific, detailed procedure logs for crews

Provided material suppliers with detailed drawings and specifications of required items (anchor bolts, embeds, etc.)

Expedited material procurement, delivery, and tracking

Ensured daily reports of job activities were relayed to CM

Performed drawing analyses on contract drawings to help resolve MEP, civil, and architectural conflicts

Related daily activities to PM, incorporating new information into constantly changing outlook.

Civil Field Project Engineer

Construction project engineering specialist with extensive experience in heavy industrial construction methods, logistics/expediting, project/document controls, and considerable knowledge of MHE installation, operation, and maintenance.

Reliable, trustworthy, patient, and tolerant thinker with tenacit, protective, proactive, and productive doer skills.

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