John Zeman
Business Development Manager @KELLER
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WORK HISTORY
Business Development Manager @KELLER
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
Keller-North America is the nation’s largest geotechnical specialty contractor, and my role is to scale their Central and North Texas operations. We are not only a contractor, but engineers, and businessmen to provide value engineering on any planned project to reduce cost and schedule. Keller specializes in the construction of deep foundations (e.g, drilled shafts, CFA, rigid inclusions, etc.), earth retention (e.g, soldier pile/secant walls, soil/rock nail walls, etc.), and ground modification (e.g, compaction grouting, water/chemical injection to treat expansive soils, etc.).
EDUCATION
Washington State University
Masters of Science, Geotechnical Engineering
Washington State University
Bachelors of Science, Civil Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT JOHN ZEMAN
John is a business executive with a proven track record of scaling businesses, including a successful business sale to a Fortune company. He has 25+ years of progressive engineering, operations, and business development experience. He brings extensive experience as a change agent, setting strategy, recruiting, and managing large design and design-build projects. His experience spans executive positions from top AEC engineering firms to technology, having full operations, P&L, and business strategy responsibility.PROVEN BUSINESS RESULTS• As COO (Integrator) for a SaaS-based tech startup, initiated and successfully negotiated the $20 million acquisition of Enroute by Pitney Bowes. • Saw an opportunity and implemented a strategic initiative for a regional design-build program. Within 1.5 years, formed a multi-discipline engineering and contractor team, and won the $225 million WSDOT I-405 design-build project.• Developed and successfully executed a business strategy to scale Enroute, a SaaS-based, Shipping logistics and analytics company, delivering 433% growth within two years.• Performed due diligence for a regional deep foundation construction company prior to their $25M+ purchase of another construction company.• Developed research and implementation strategies that enabled a Power Contracting\'s power and transmission business to aggressively penetrate a new market in Southwestern United States.BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT THOUGHT LEADER• Established a new strategic direction that included process and system improvements, leading strategic projects, and alignment of technology with revenue generation. PROJECT MANAGER• Structural design of 6 long-span bridges for the $116 million WSDOT US-12 design-build project.• Developed, won, and project manager for Teck’s Red Dog Mine conversion of their mill slurry and non-compliant water pipelines from a gravity to a pumped system.• WSDOT I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East, five-span, 1,140-foot-long bridgeCHANGE AGENT• Implemented leadership, organizational, operations, solutions, and market penetration initiatives for companies and design-build projects.MARKET SECTORS3PL/4PL supply chain logistics, civil infrastructure, transportation, private and commercial development, construction, mining, rail, industrial, facilities, water and wastewater, airport, pipeline, power and energy, manufacturing, oil & gas, and federal ports and maritime.OTHER• Remodeling residential homes for 20+ years• Real estate broker• Property management
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