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BIO OF BRETT H. RIORDAN
employment history | inventions | hobbies
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Brett Riordan began working in the family business (then Overnight Engineering)
at a very early age to earn extra "toy" money. Brett is still involved today
with new product evaluations, although his full time career is supervising the
construction of new homes. Brett has overseen the construction of the custom homes
of several members of our Sacramento Kings basketball team who appreciated his
attention to detail.
As part of his weekend motocrossing, he occasionally works the fun side of our
company, Cameron Technologies where our motto is: "If you can't get sideways, airborne
or upside down, why do it?" Cameron Tech sells motorcycle and aircraft accessories.
Employment History
Pardee Homes Irvine, CA April 2004 to Present
Position: Construction Superintendent
Duties Include: All functions from lot approval to management of all sub-contractors, to delivery of "finals"
on completed units on homes ranging from $1 million to $2 million plus, in
the Ladera Ranch & Yorba Linda areas. Office functions include
development and implementation of internal purchasing and scheduling systems. Special
skills involve construction areas requiring unique and large-scale drainage systems and
methane management and abatement systems.
Freelance Sacramento, CA July 2003 to April 2004
Position: Freelance Construction Consultant
Duties Include: All functions from lot approval to delivery of "finals"
on completed units and solving customer service issues.
RKB Communities Sacramento, CA November 2002 to June 2003
Position: Construction Superintendent
Duties Include: All functions from lot approval to delivery of "finals"
on completed units and solving customer service issues. Office functions include
development of internal purchasing systems, development of proprietary accounting
reports for company controller, coordinating purchasing events with production
scheduling, obtaining bids for all purchased goods and from all subcontractors.
Ryland Homes Sacramento, CA May, 2002 to October 2002
Position: Superintendent
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Duties included: assisting superintendent with all functions
from lot approval to delivery of "finals" on completed units consisting
of semi-custom two story homes from 2,000 to 4,500 sq. ft. Specific
duties included scheduling of all subcontractors, inspection of sub's
work, coordination of repair punch lists, coordination with building
inspectors to obtain finals. Customer service functions included customer
home walk-throughs and making sure warranty repairs were completed to
customer's satisfaction. |
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Results: Met and exceeded all production goals set by management
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What Brett's boss said:
"I am writing this letter to highly recommend Brett Riordan as a valued,
respected, consistent, resourceful and very studious assistant superintendent. Brett and I started our business relationship approximately 2 1/2 years ago when I
was the Operations/Construction Manager at JTS Communities. Additionally I also
hired Brett at Ryland Homes where he successfully demonstrated multiple skills or
talents in scheduling, customer service, and in the completion of assigned
construction task. Brett is hardworking, schedule or task orientated, diligent,
and is always extremely consistent with his work. In my opinion consistency is
what truly characterizes a professional business or person in any industry. Brett
definitely posses that characteristic, and provided measurable consistency to JTS,
Ryland, under my supervision. He is a valued employee, and with additional
experience, will be very successful in the construction industry. Additionally
because of his skills and talents Brett will soon be ready to continue his career
growth in a Superintendent capacity."
Sincerely,
Daniel D. Wilson
Sunset West Executive Communities Inc.
VP/CEO
JTS Communities Sacramento, CA May 2001 to May 2002
Position: Assistant Superintendent
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Duties included: Assisting superintendent with all functions
from lot approval to delivery of "finals" on completed units consisting
of semi-custom to full custom two story homes from 4,000 to 5,800 sq. ft including personally overseeing homes built for the Maloof brothers,
owners of the Sacramento Kings basketball team and members of the
Sacramento Kings basketball team. Specific duties included scheduling
of all subcontractors, inspection of sub's work, coordination of repair
punch lists, and coordination with building inspectors to obtain finals. |
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Results: Met and exceeded all production goals set by management
for each quarter. |
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Brett Riordan overseeing Sacramento
Kings player Scott Pollard's home
Construction at The Shores. |
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Brett Riordan showing Lynn Riordan
a courtyard in one of his new homes
at the Shores |
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FunToDo.com El Dorado Hills, CA Feb. 1998 to May 2001
Position: MIS Manager
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Duties included research for and updating of management information
systems including technical, marketing, and sales logistics for C.E.O.,
hired fired and managed staff of twenty-seven data entry personnel. Coordinated network architecture and system upgrades. Provided support
for server rooms consisting of nine HP quad processor servers running
Microsoft sequel seven on NT based operating systems. Prepared and
maintained corporate personnel and safety manuals. |
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Results: Developed MIS systems as company grew from three persons
to nearly forty. |
Home Improvement News Cameron Park, CA March 1995 to February 1998
Position: Sales Executive
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Duties included: Sales of print media advertising for quarterly home
improvement newspaper. |
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Results: Helped grow newspaper from 300,000 circulation to over
1,000,000. |
The James F. Riordan Company, Inc Cameron Park, CA May 1989-March 1995
Position: (Part time) Assembler/Technician
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Duties included: Same as Overnight Engineering, below |
Overnight Engineering, Inc. San Jose, CA 1987 to May 1989
Position: (Part time) Assembler/Technician
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Duties included: Assembling electro-mechanical devices, stuffing
printed circuit boards for wave soldering, and running machines
including drill presses, vertical milling machine, lathe, disk grinder,
bending brake, metal shear and punch press. Also inspected parts prior
to shipment. |
Inventions
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Brett Riordans Dinosaur
drawing template |
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The Dinosaur Template
Brett became innovative at a young age. In Kindergarten, he went to his
father Jim Riordan with an idea for a drawing template. Brett had been watching
his father do mechanical drawings on a drafting board using circle templates. Brett's
idea was to make an all-in-one drawing template for making dinosaur drawings, complete
with trees, rocks, grass and several types of dinosaur. Brett picked out the dinosaurs,
and then he and dad arranged them so they fit on one 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper. Jim Riordan then designed the injection molds and took the design to a mold maker. A mold was made and the templates produced . . . Riordanco had
no sooner taken
delivery of the first batch of Brett's templates than Tupperware introduced their
dinosaur templates with great fanfare. Brett's templates instantly looked like a "me
too" product, providing early lessons about the importance of being first to market
and how competition can spring out of nowhere at any time. Ah well, at least he got
to give away a bunch to his school mates for the next couple of years and became the
only student inventor in his school with a finished product.
The Quik-Turn Industrial Vehicle
Brett was experimenting with building radio control race cars and developed
what our patent attorney Tom Lampe called, "a brilliant solution for industrial
vehicles which must maneuver in very tight and confined areas."
This vehicle wheel and steering configuration can be used on push carts,
electric vehicles, hydraulic powered vehicles and gasoline or propane powered
vehicles.
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Brett's Quik Turn industrial vehicle
in straight ahead configuration |
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Brett's Quik Turn industrial vehicle
with both sets of wheels turned |
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Hobbies
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Brett on the motocross track at
Prairie City, CA . . . check out that lead! |
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Motocross riding and racing. Brett grew up on BMX bikes and switched to motorcycles
before his feet were able to touch the ground. Anxious parents would "catch" him
at the end of a ride! When Brett began motocross racing, he took first overall in
his very first race!
Brett is an expert sport bike rider and has had a Honda 70, Honda 90, Honda
XL175, Honda XL350, a Honda CBR 600, two Honda CBR 900 RR's, a Suzuki TL 1000 and
two Yamaha R1 "liter bike" road racers. He was a member of the "Cap City Sportbike
Crew," a group of riders who specialized in stunts and trick riding. He is a master
of wheelies and can truly go for miles at speeds up to 125 mph! He also does tricks
such as "stoppies" which make mom turn blue.
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Brett Riordan doing stand up wheelie
on Yamaha R1 |
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| Brett doing a "stoppie" on his R1 |
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Growing up in a flying family where his dad, grandfather and both granduncles were
pilots made it only natural that Brett learn to fly. He started flying tailwheel
airplanes as a child on his dad's knee, just as his father Jim did when he was a child. Brett learned how to fly gliders at Sky Sailing Airport in Fremont CA. (now in Warner
Springs, CA). Bret Willat, a famous sailplane airshow performer and proprietor of
Sky Sailing and the "Sailplane Magic Airshow" personally taught Brett how to fly
gliders. Brett then took helicopter lessons in a Robinson R-22 but chose to stick
with fixed wings for having fun. Besides, helicopters don't do good rolls! He earned
his FAA student pilot certificate and soloed in a Champion Citabria aerobatic plane
at 16 years old while still in high school. He then soloed in a Cessna 150 and built
time in a four place Cessna 172. By the time he soloed he was already capable of
performing all basic aerobatic maneuvers including multiple turn spins. Brett went
on to learn to fly ultralight aircraft, earned his USUA ultralight pilot's license
and now has time in a CGS Hawk, Quicksilver MXL II Sport, Flightstar IISL and
Flightstar Spyder.
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Brett getting ready to solo a
Quicksilver MXL Sport II ultralight |
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Brett Riordan Getting a glider lesson
from Bret Willat |
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Brett Riordan's first
helicopter flight lesson
in a Robinson R22 |
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Brett, (on left) and Jim Riordan after
Brett's first solo flight in their
Champion Citabria aerobatic plane |
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Always up for an adventure, Brett completed the "ropes" course at Northstar and
also enjoys Skydiving, camping, mountain bike riding, shooting, snowboarding,
recreational go cart racing and all types of water sports from jet skiing to wake
boarding. Painting cars and motorcycles is also a hobby. Brett painted his first
car, our Manx dunebuggy, while a sophomore in high school.
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Brett high above the ground on the
"ropes" course at Northstar
ski resort in CA |
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Brett on his first skydiving tandem
freefall "hooks up" with friend
Doug Pleatman and gives a thumbs up |
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Brett after winning his
first indoor go cart race
in Stockton, CA |
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This Manx dune buggy was
the first car Brett painted |
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