April Brown

Engineering Department Manager/ Sales & Estimating Representative

Largo, Florida, United States

About

Commercial Fire Alarm Design Professional w/ 20+ years experience. (NICET Level 1, Master Certificate for AutoCad & Undergraduates Certification for Construction Management) • Proficient in all aspects of Project Management: contract reviews & addendums, schedule of values, department billing, permitting, change orders, material ordering & delivery coordination, budget management, labor management, inspection scheduling and coordination with all trades & project close out documentation. • Design of Code Compliant Commercial Fire Alarm Systems from small Conventional systems to large Addressable Emergency Voice Evacuation systems. Fire Fighter Phone Systems for high-rise applications, Elevator Supervisory & Recall Systems. • AHCA & ADA requirements. • Able to provide complete engineered design packages for new or retrofit systems, value engineering of existing system upgrade designs, full system calculations for power requirements, wiring & equipment specification. • Commercial Permitting with a long standing relationship with many Local & State Fire Marshals & Fire Inspectors • Programming systems for Central Station Monitoring including Multi-Partitioned systems. • Recreating any building’s background in AutoCad, whether it is a small one story doctor’s office or a 15+ story high rise building.

Experience

  • Engineering Manager at Commercial Fire & Communications Inc
    Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Construction Coordinator at GA Nichols Company
    Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Alarm Design Manager at Piper Fire Protection
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Senior Low Voltage System Designer

  • Fire Alarm Designer at VSC Fire & Security, Inc.
    Aug 2015 - Aug 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Fire Alarm Design/Coordinator at Power Design, Inc.
    Oct 2014 - Jun 2015 · 9 mos