Advanced Mold Diagnostics reviews

I first came to work at AMD back in 2007 when the Company was just starting to grow and learn its potential. My first interview was with the HR Manager, Colleen. She felt that I would be a good fit for the company and set up my second interview with the owner, Craig. Craig was impressive and we immediately had a mutual respect for each other. One of the interview questions that has always stuck with me was when Craig asked me if I was easily intimidated to which I replied, absolutely not. I think Craig was trying to prep me for the fact that this was a male dominated industry and that I shouldn’t take any disrespect from anyone, no matter who it was. I started out as an administrative assistant for the production department area and for Garey, the General Manager. We had a great staff and I immediately moved up into managing the production department because both Craig and Garey felt it was a better fit for me and it was. I learned so much about this industry – air quality, mold remediation, water intrusion, stucco, environmental remediation, general construction – you name it, I was learning it! I am very proud to say that I can instruct anyone on the proper way to apply stucco to a home, flash windows, apply sealant, dry out a structure and the list goes on and on. We went through many changes over the years, some were better then others but we stuck together through those changes. I myself went through some changes in my personal life and needed to make a difference in my work environment. I left AMD in 2013, moved out of state and took a job that made me miserable. Over the years, Craig, Garey, Nick and I always stayed in touch. We had become more than just co-workers, we were family. Craig and I touched base recently and he asked me one simple question – if I was happy where I was working. I think he could tell in my voice that I wasn’t and immediately asked me if I would ever consider coming back to AMD. I jumped at the opportunity to come back to a field I was so comfortable with and work among people who make the day fly by – even on the bad ones! I now live almost an hour away from the AMD office but even when I’m stuck in traffic, I’m happy knowing that where I spend my work day is enjoyable. The in-house staff, laborers, project managers – all great people to work with – our staff is strong and we work well together. AMD truly is a great company!

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.