MaryJean is the Owner and President of NY-CONN Corp., an electrical contracting and construction company located in Danbury, CT. She runs us through the various types of projects her company handles, from road repairs to new building construction, and offers advice for interested students. Along with the innate passion for construction, she tells us that those in the industry who excel are the ones who know how to work in a team setting.
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My name is MaryJean Rizzo-Rebeiro and I'm the owner and president of the NY-CONN Corp., which is a electrical construction company in Danbury, Connecticut. We've been in business for, this is going into our 29th year. We did, we finished a couple years ago the Belimo project and we did that from the ground up, doing all the electrical work in their headquarters in the United States. We do a lot of, again, DOT work. We just finished Sacred Heart University, doing an addition, a new building there for I believe it was the nursing program. We do a little bit of everything. I'm a certified DBE with the state of Connecticut so we venture into that as the sub-contractor on some projects throughout the state of Connecticut. We do a lot of roadway work, traffic work. So it's from beginning to end. We start with the rough-in stages where our employees go in and they start doing the rough-in work of running the temporary service until the walls get in and so to speak and the they go and they start rough-in it and the fixtures get delivered to the project so that duration of a project can run anywhere from a year to 18 months, depending on the size of the building. So basically the electrician is always the first one in and the last one out. Technically, and as a business owner you wear many hats. So you're the accounts payable department, you're the payroll department, you're the human resource department, you're the insurance department, you're the bonding department, you're handling all aspects of that. So going back years back I handled all of that. Registering the apprentices and everything from the day to day basis of the operation and moving forward and then you build your team. My brother's been a part of my team since 1995 and I made him a partner in 2007. So my day to day operation is still very involved with the financial aspect of it, dealing with my bank regarding our line of credit, the bonding company, and overseeing finances and that type of area of it. I recently hired a human resource person which took me a long time to let that part of the business go because again as a small business your greatest asset, for me, I'm a service industry, is my employees.
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