Schreier Josef, Ing.

Jun 2021 – Present
STRABAG a.s.

Cost estimating specialist, Innovator, Software developer

Since December 2021, I have developed more than a dozen of simpler programs that save time for the employees of STRABAG every day.

1. AutoFill – a program that quickly estimates the cost of projects within seconds from data collected from previously finished or estimated projects.

2. Translathor – tool to quickly and precisely translate large quantities of data in excel files. Its capacity is up to 2 million characters per minute or 600 pages per minute. It may translate between 26 languages depending on the user’s needs.

3. AList Complete solution – designed as an Excel Add-in using C# and VBA languages to convert data structures between predefined Excel files and XML files. Quickening the transfer of data between Arriba iTWO XML data structure and STRABAG’s Excel file price lists for the Czech and Slovak republics, which I had negotiated and designed with STRABAG’s group companies representatives. Furthermore, the tool is capable of converting national-wise used construction price catalogues (URS, OTSKP) within a couple of minutes to make the files ready to import as bills of quantities or price estimations or other XML structure files recognized by Arriba iTWO importers for modules.

4. StockChecker – with the volatility of the price of electricity on a stock market, I have developed a tool that tracks the price of several commodities on the non-wide-public stock market by the largest Czech Energy company ČEZ.

5. Connector of billing modules for large-scale projects that removes the necessity to manually enter data into two separate programs, ASPE (required program to use by the Czech government) and then to Arriba iTWO (STRABAG’s mandatory project management program) Fastening the process to take just half an hour instead of a whole day.

6. Other algorithms to convert data from one format to another (XML, JSON, Excel Files, data scraping)

Jul 2021 – Nov 2021
STRABAG a.s.

Construction site manager

I was responsible mainly for solving on-site issues, communicating with the investor in English, designing and releasing project reports (weekly and monthly), furthermore coordinating construction works or delegating work and recording work done and informing the investor about work to be done in the every upcoming 3 weeks.

Mar 2020 – Jan 2021
Satra spol. s r.o.

Civil Engineer

I took part in the designing section of Prague’s inner ring road (Městský okruh). My job was to implement and coordinate requirements of Prague’s municipality and other professions such as utility engineers or architects.
The project consisted of one interchange (tunnel to surface) in difficult terrain and an approximately 1.2 km long section of primary surface urban road.

Aug 2019 – Feb 2020
Sentient Consultants

Cost Manager

I participated in several cost estimating projects for large residential (Neugraf, Vackov) or commercial (BB Centrum) projects. Part of my assignment was to prepare bilingual bills of quantities. Additionally, I lead due diligence of a few smaller projects for Tesco stores expansion around the Czech Republic.

Mar 2019 – Jul 2019
Geosan Group a.s.

Software Developer

I was assigned to develop project managing Excel spreadsheets. It had to be mostly automatized as filling in the data was quite complicated and users would make errors, especially with breaking linked formulas. I have learned the essential knowledge of Visual Basic.

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019
Geosan Group a.s.

Cost Manager

My first subcontracting experience for smaller projects in Prague and in Central Bohemia region.

Jul 2014 – Sep 2018

Various part time jobs related to civil engineering

My jobs mostly consisted of delegating work to construction workers or controlling the volumes of used materials or checking snags, maintaining a list of snags and removing them.