Big D Construction

Andrew Soderquist has been in the construction industry for over 25 years. Andrew excels in design-build and conceptual estimating and believes the most accurate method is to dissect every project – no matter how large or complex – into smaller components. He incorporates this “itemization” method into his daily routine and finds that it facilitates more manageable and accurate pricing.

Blake Van Roosendaal is Big-D’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to being CFO, Blake worked as the firm’s Controller for the past 16 years. As CFO, Blake oversees all aspects of the company’s finances, including the development and management of budgets, preparation of financial statements and reporting. He provides executives with timely and accurate financial statements, ongoing cash flow projections, oversight over accounting and finance operations, as well as design and maintenance of the financial reporting structures.

He guides the Controller, treasury, shareholder relations, accounting, tax, and internal audit functions to pursue the company’s aggressive growth strategy and meet its clients’ and shareholders’ expectations.

Blake joined Big-D Construction in 2002. He has been a catalyst to the firm’s revenue growth and success. Blake holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA from the University of Utah.

Bryan Utley is a Vice President in Big-D’s Salt Lake City regional office and has been with Big-D since 2013. He has a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Arizona State University and nearly two decades of construction industry experience. Bryan started his career as an estimator and has since followed an upward career path, increasing his knowledge and project responsibilities, to become a key leader in the Preconstruction Department at Big-D. He has an expert understanding of construction components, analytical, able to find practical and innovative solutions to project challenges and is skilled at realizing critical business objectives is challenging markets. Bryan leads estimating teams that focus on many key market sectors for Big-D – Multi-Family Housing, Warehouse/Distribution, Higher Education, and Religious/Cultural facilities

Cory Moore is the President of Big-D Construction Corporation and a member of Big-D’s Board of Directors.

Cory is a 20-year veteran of Big-D Construction. His first construction role shortly after graduating high school was working as a laborer. He then continued to work up the ranks in the field from laborer to carpenter, concrete crewmember, and foreman. While attending college at Utah State University, he was the Quality Control Manager on a $100 million healthcare project in Northern Utah.

After college, Cory settled into the Big-D Corporate office where he spent time in Big-D’s estimating, project management, and business development groups. Cory excelled at sales and soon became Big-D’s Vice President of Business Development in 2007. Shortly afterwards, Cory was promoted to VP of Sales & Preconstruction. In this role, Cory was instrumental in helping Big-D achieve unprecedented financial growth. In 2017, Cory was named the Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Big-D’s Regional offices. The following year, he was promoted to President.

Cory is responsible for the development and implementation of both short-term and long?term company-wide strategies to ensure Big-D’s growth, effectiveness, sustainability, and overall stakeholder ROI. He is passionate about setting goals and metrics that support Big-D mission and success. Since taking charge of Big-D Sales, the construction firm has experienced revenue growth of 300% from $500 million to $1.7 billion.

Cory has been twice named as a 40 Under 40 award recipient, once in Engineering News-Record and once in Utah Business Magazine.

Cory Schubert is a well-rounded leader known for his attention to detail and skill identifying subcontractors to meet the specific needs of a project. From field supervision to estimating to project management, Schubert has been involved in every aspect of construction.

This involvement makes him a valuable asset during the pre-construction phase of a project. His personal passion is to build and maintain relationships – a passion starts with clients and extends to subcontractors and vendors. Cory earns trust through his actions consistently, which has paved the road to his leadership roles in the organization.

There are two undeniable facts about shortsightedness: 1) It can’t be treated with corrective lenses; and 2) It has no place in Big-D. Good thing Forrest McNabb epitomizes its polar opposite.

His long-view approach to the construction process begins even before the relationship does, and doesn’t end until we have a completed project and an extremely satisfied client. From demanding painstakingly thorough estimates to creatively exploring and recommending more cost-effective alternatives, Forrest’s business philosophy is centered on performance. After all, if a completed project doesn’t result in a positive reference or letter of recommendation, we’ve failed. And failure isn’t a word in Forrest McNabb’s vocabulary.

There are two undeniable facts about shortsightedness: 1) It can’t be treated with corrective lenses; and 2) It has no place in Big-D. Good thing Forrest McNabb epitomizes its polar opposite.

His long-view approach to the construction process begins even before the relationship does, and doesn’t end until we have a completed project and an extremely satisfied client. From demanding painstakingly thorough estimates to creatively exploring and recommending more cost-effective alternatives, Forrest’s business philosophy is centered on performance. After all, if a completed project doesn’t result in a positive reference or letter of recommendation, we’ve failed. And failure isn’t a word in Forrest McNabb’s vocabulary.

John Kemp is passionate about the construction process. With over 21 years of industry experience, John has worked in business development, preconstruction, and the construction phases of projects. Throughout his career, John has focused on delivering projects from beginning to end with a mindset on quality, value, schedule, and safety.

John’s projects include higher education, religious facilities, office, multifamily, retail, industrial, high-rise, medical, and most recently correctional facilities and K-12, where he served as an Owners Representative. Under his leadership and diversity of projects, John has successfully led teams and completed projects that meet the expectation and goals of owners and partners.

Ken brings more than 27 years of extensive operations and preconstruction experience, in technically-based process projects, including food processing plants, high-tech and bio-tech facilities, laboratories, university work, high-end office buildings, retail and mixed-use projects.

During his years as Project Manager and Project Executive, he has developed ways to build team consensus and solve challenging problems associated with fast-track and Design-Build projects.

Mark Glauser has been with Big-D Construction since 1984. Earlier in his career, he had the opportunity to work in several field positions including laborer, carpenter, and field engineer—which all helped him understand each project from a ground level to gain a deep understanding of every aspect that goes into a quality build. For the last 20 years, Mark’s responsibilities have evolved to include more of a high-level project-specific leadership focus, with roles such as project engineer, project manager, and project director.

Working mostly in the Food & Beverage, Low Temperature, and Warehouse & Distribution segments, the majority of Mark’s projects are design-builds with clients like Sysco Foods, Associated Foods, Hershey’s, US Cold Storage, Tyson Foods, and more. He prides himself on building life-long relationships with each of his clients. Mark has a reputation for directing teams built on mutual respect and honesty with trade partners and employees who bring value, teamwork, quality, and safety to every project.

Michael started his construction career with the world’s largest contractor at the time – Morrison Knudson. Then in 1996, Michael joined Robison Construction Group as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer. Michael’s widespread knowledge of the construction industry, coupled with his expertise in finance, assisted him in successfully charting the company’s 733% growth, reaching a peak of $425 million in annual completed projects, with more than 1,000 employees in three states.

Michael joined Big-D Construction in 2015 to re-establish the Big-D Resort and Residence Division, with the base office in Park City and sister offices in Jackson, WY and now Bozeman, MT. By bringing together one of the most driven groups of young professionals has resulted in a reputation of executing on the most challenging projects. He is also active in the Park City community. He served as the Board President of the National Ability Center in Park City. He is also an avid mountain biker, skier and upland bird hunter.

As an experienced Project Manager, Estimator, Business Development, Rich has nearly 30 years of experience in the construction industry. His verifiable track record in preconstruction and value engineering sessions set precedence through management of schematic design estimates and project team meetings.

Thus allowing each building to be designed to-budget, and managed to completion. Knowledge, proficiency, and integrity empower Rich to assemble and manage qualified teams to deliver timely, accurate, and highly detailed results on commercial construction projects of all shapes and sizes. With an excellent work ethic and experience level, combined with his ability to take a strong leadership role, Big-D considers Rich to be an asset to any project.

Shandon Brinkerhoff has been in the construction industry since 2003. Shandon has always loved working with his hands, so construction was a natural career choice. His eye for detail and desire to surpass client expectations drives him to success. To Shandon, the most rewarding part about a project is working with his team to provide a seamless, transparent building experience for owners. He thrives on delivering a final product that blows initial expectations out of the water. He also appreciates the comradery and lifelong friendships that are part of the construction management process.

Shandon joined Big-D Signature in 2012 to lead the project team as Regional Manager and Project Director. He is responsible for developing and refining Signature’s processes and maintaining excellent relationships with existing, future, and past customers. His ability to make everyone around him feel like an MVP is rare.  Shandon’s leadership and positive outlook are monumental to the success of the Big-D Jackson office.

At a young age Tim became enamored with the personal reward that constructing things provides. After college he enjoyed a successful career supervising and managing very large and complex projects in Boston, Hawaii, Alaska and Seattle.

Tim missed the personal connection and care that high end residential homes involves and he helped establish Dovetail Construction in Bozeman, Montana. As a partner in the firm Tim oversees the business and project management operations alongside his
friend Kevin who he has known since they were 5.

With over 20 years of experience in the construction industry, Tim has successfully delivered a diverse range of project types of varying scale. With much of his career spent working in the construction division of a Twin Cities developer, Tim’s expertise includes working with owners and architects during preconstruction to ensure projects are well-positioned for the owner’s long-term success.  Tim excels at collaborating with all project stakeholders throughout preconstruction to ensure that scope, quality, and budget expectations are clearly defined as early as possible and strictly adhered to throughout the project’s life cycle.

Trevor Hunsaker brings more than 15 years of higher education, medical office and commercial office leadership and experience to your project team. His dedication and dependability have been an example to all who have worked with him.

Trevor’s main goals are to ensure customer satisfaction and quality work in all of his tasks. He excels at accuracy and quality work on all projects given to him. He is a team player and an asset to any organization with whom he is affiliated. He is honest in all of his dealings and has a very high work ethic.

Troy S. Thompson began his construction career here in SLC in 1978. Since then, he has spent more than 35 years in the construction and development industry, earning the respect of his owners and colleagues. His many duties from those humble beginnings have included construction carpenter, superintendent, project manager, project director, commercial vice president, senior vice president of operations, executive vice president, and president of a major development company.

Thompson’s education in Construction Management started at Utah Technical College and finished at Arizona State University. Whether researching solutions to maximize value for a specific client, or lecturing to college students and industrial trade organizations, Troy believes in sharing his knowledge with those working in our industry, and those striving to have a successful career. He is persistent and methodical while prosecuting all facets pertaining to construction operations, design oversight and the preconstruction phase.

Thompson will continue to use his unique qualifications to provide executive oversight for day-to-day business operations and strive to help employees advance their careers, create “work-life balance” and to be an integral part of growing the business that he loves. His dedication to the industry, and personal resume of managing more than three billion dollars of commercial building projects, makes him a valuable member of any team.

Blaine brings nearly 40 years of construction experience to Big-D. He began his career working as a laborer, which allowed him to gain a firm grasp on the ins and outs of successful construction management. After graduating with his bachelor’s degree in construction management in 1988, Blaine joined Martin-Harris Construction—which is now an independently owned, wholly operated subsidiary of Big-D Companies.

In 1996, Blaine joined the Big-D Construction family here in Salt Lake, filling several positions and overseeing countless Food & Beverage, Warehouse & Distribution, and Cold Storage project teams over the years. His love of construction runs deep, and Blaine consistently finds himself with some sort of project on his to-do list even outside of work. He enjoys hard work and loves to see the final product.

Oscar brings more than 25 years of construction and construction estimating experience. His extensive background in all phases of construction enable him to provide a comprehensive and accurate budget estimate of each building system beginning at the conceptual stage.

Oscar has been responsible for preconstruction management and estimating efforts on various large commercial buildings, laboratories, public facilities, residential complexes, historical preservation, seismic strengthening of projects, clean rooms, data centers, theme parks, healthcare facilities, warehouse distribution center, food processing facilities, and university campuses.

Greg has more than 30 years of construction experience in all project management phases from pre-job planning to project closeout. Preconstruction experience includes budgeting, scheduling, value engineering, scope development, subcontractor bid analysis, constructability review and subcontract negotiation. Construction phase responsibilities includes scheduling, overall project coordination, subcontract negotiation, invoices, change order quotations, quality control and project closeout.

Greg’s experience gives him a broad understanding of what it takes to get the job done.