I've learned a lot. - Senior Project Manager Advanced Mold Diagnostics Employee Review

I was born and raised in Bulgaria. Mom, dad, baby brother and myself moved to the united states in 2003. We all moved into a two bedroom apartment near an industrial park. Without a vehicle and with an interpreter, we walked around looking for work. We knocked on the door of one building and met Craig Camel and Garey Brooks for the first time. This was my first contact with Advanced Mold Diagnostics. They hired us on the spot and my dad and I started working there for $8.00 an hour, quite a big difference from the $50+ I earn now. Here it is more than 15 years later and I’m still here. This is the only job I’ve had while living in the USA. Dad is now down to part time, but also works for another Bulgarian friend of ours. I had some electrical and IT training from school and working back home. Dad had worked in a nuclear power plant. We really didn’t know much about construction let alone mold remediation. In the beginning, Craig would go on every job with us and give us guidance. After a year or two we started running our own crews/jobs. We’ve probably been in over two hundred hospitals in that time. I’ve seen a lot of guys come and go over the years. Some people stay for years and others only last months or less. I’ve learned so much about construction and the building sciences from working side by side with Craig all these years. I learned more about stucco and how water damages homes and business's then I ever could have imagined. We must have inspected and repaired 500 homes and I don't know how many commercial buildings over the years. I know this as we did 368 for KHovnain and the rest for other builders and actual home owners. I am tired of the constant travel at this point. Living out of hotel rooms and eating fast food got old after more than a decade. I’m now a senior project manager and oversee other pm’s. I still travel with Craig, but only for the initial inspections and site visits. Except when he took me, Garey and a client to a Duke - Syracuse basketball game in North Carolina, that was fun. Now I’m home most nights and really like it this way. This job is not for everybody. Now that we are doing larger and larger projects we’ve morphed into more of a construction management company and we have the subs doing a bulk of the work and our superintendents work nights and weekends overseeing them on site.