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Chris N.

Construction Estimator | Takeoffs, Bluebeam & Bid Packages

I'm a Construction Project Manager with 15 years of experience overall across residential, commercial, and heavy civil construction, including heavy highway and bridge work, with additional background in demolition and roadway safety work. I do this full-time as my day job. Upwork is where I take on extra projects, and I turn them around fast. What clients hire me for: ✅ Construction estimating and quantity takeoffs: Bluebeam-based takeoffs, full bid packages with specifications and exclusions, bid tabulation, and subcontractor bid leveling ✅ Project scheduling: MS Project baseline schedules, schedule updates, look-aheads, and delay analysis, including time impact work and claim support ✅ CAD drafting and plan corrections: 2D drafting in AutoCAD, plan corrections, redlines turned into clean CAD, as-builts and record drawings, and shop drawings built from manufacturer documents or hand sketches. Right now I'm producing millwork shop drawings from hand-drawn elevations for a residential client ✅ Bluebeam plan review and markups: 15+ years in Revu, electrical plan corrections, field redlines, markup sets a crew or a reviewer can actually follow ✅ Field and office documentation: daily reports, RFIs, submittals, punch lists, lift plans, and closeout packages ✅ GIS and utility records: mapping in QGIS, as-built records, and fiber and outside plant documentation One recent client, on a bid package I built for him: "His details for Specifications and Exclusions was the reason our Bid is on the short list of consideration." Tools: Bluebeam Revu, AutoCAD, MS Project, Procore, Excel, QGIS. OSHA 30. Field background: INDOT spec work, ITS and roadway safety, senior living facilities, fire station remodel, and residential electrical work. I'm based in Indianapolis, Indiana and work remotely nationwide on Eastern Time. Send me your drawings and a deadline and I'll tell you straight whether it's a fit and when you'll have it back.

🇺🇸Indianapolis, United States$55/hr100% JSS5.00 (8)Since Sep 2026
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.5k

Last 6 months ÷ 2, the fewest it counts (since Sep 2026)

World#16,840 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,075 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
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Read daily since Oct 13, under 30 days

Total earnings
$5k

Billed in all: $5.3k

World#254,427 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#40,013 / 62.1k
Per project
$250

$331 in the last 6 months

World#246,818 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#39,644 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
15

Across 17 contracts

53% fixed47% hourly
World#9,888 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,638 / 62.1k
Projects in all
20

Across 22 contracts

64% fixed36% hourly
World#133,450 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#19,378 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$5.3k+$3.7k earned since Oct 13Billed in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$0$2k$4k$6kOct 13Oct 26Nov 8

Tracked from Oct 13, 2026.

Skill rankings: Top 3% in Microsoft Excel

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