Vice President and Project Manager

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Employment History at Gallin

• Estimator, 1994
• Superintendent, 1998
• Project Manager, 2000
• Vice President, 2002

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Education

• Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Bachelor of Professional Studies in Construction Management, 1993

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Memberships and Certifications

• LEED accredited by the US Green Building Council, 2007

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Notable Projects

• Rockefeller Center Business Centers
• Wachovia
• Links Holdings
• The West Group
• D.F. King & Co, Inc.
• Vornado Realty Trust
• The Durst Organization
• EOS Partners
• WestPoint Home

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Construction has always been at the center of Andrew Cortese’s life. He grew up in a family-owned construction business, and began working in the field with his father as a teenager. Andrew started his construction career during college, working as a freelance estimator for a variety of subcontractors. He graduated Pratt Institute summa cum laude in 1993 with a degree in Construction Management.

Andrew joined John Gallin & Son in 1994 as a full-time estimator, spending four years working on conceptual budgets, value engineering and lump sum estimating. Over the past 14 years, Andrew has worked his way up through the ranks to become a Vice President and Project Manager — a position in which he has full responsibility for the management of projects and communication with clients.

Role and Responsibilities
As a Project Manager, Andrew has total responsibility for seeing that the project is completed successfully. Working closely with the client and the architect, he plans and schedules the work. His Project Superintendent then takes that schedule and makes it happen. If problems threaten to slow the project, Andrew immediately steps in and gets things back on track.

Andrew works directly with the architect and engineer — and spends a great deal of time examining the fine details in construction documents — to ensure that the project is being completed exactly as planned.

As the primary liaison among the client, architect, Gallin management, and subcontractors, Andrew coordinates the physical construction of the site and keeps all parties in contact. In addition to giving the client and architect updates of day-to-day progress, he meets with them weekly to review the project's status and ensure that things are moving forward quickly and smoothly — on time and on budget.

Andrew, like all Gallin employees, is open and candid with clients in an effort to earn their trust. All of his clients view Andrew as an integral part of their team, a leader whose only concern is the successful outcome of every project.