WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.340 --> 00:00:02.960 My name is MaryJean Rizzo-Rebeiro 2 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:06.230 and I'm the owner and president of the NY-CONN Corp., 3 00:00:06.230 --> 00:00:08.650 which is a electrical construction company 4 00:00:08.650 --> 00:00:09.840 in Danbury, Connecticut. 5 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:11.320 We've been in business for, 6 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.350 this is going into our 29th year. 7 00:00:13.350 --> 00:00:15.410 We did, we finished a couple years ago 8 00:00:15.410 --> 00:00:17.960 line:15% the Belimo project and we did that from the ground up, 9 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.490 line:15% doing all the electrical work in their headquarters 10 00:00:20.490 --> 00:00:22.133 line:15% in the United States. 11 00:00:22.970 --> 00:00:25.480 line:15% We do a lot of, again, DOT work. 12 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:27.970 line:15% We just finished Sacred Heart University, 13 00:00:27.970 --> 00:00:31.340 line:15% doing an addition, a new building there for 14 00:00:31.340 --> 00:00:33.190 line:15% I believe it was the nursing program. 15 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:35.870 line:15% We do a little bit of everything. 16 00:00:35.870 --> 00:00:38.670 line:15% I'm a certified DBE with the state of Connecticut 17 00:00:38.670 --> 00:00:40.810 so we venture into that as the sub-contractor 18 00:00:40.810 --> 00:00:43.620 on some projects throughout the state of Connecticut. 19 00:00:43.620 --> 00:00:46.240 We do a lot of roadway work, traffic work. 20 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.100 So it's from beginning to end. 21 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:51.230 We start with the rough-in stages where our employees 22 00:00:51.230 --> 00:00:53.070 go in and they start doing the rough-in work 23 00:00:53.070 --> 00:00:55.610 of running the temporary service 24 00:00:55.610 --> 00:00:58.430 line:15% until the walls get in and so to speak 25 00:00:58.430 --> 00:01:00.000 line:15% and the they go and they start rough-in it 26 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.270 line:15% and the fixtures get delivered to the project 27 00:01:02.270 --> 00:01:04.680 line:15% so that duration of a project can run 28 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.600 line:15% anywhere from a year to 18 months, 29 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:09.030 depending on the size of the building. 30 00:01:09.030 --> 00:01:11.350 So basically the electrician is always 31 00:01:11.350 --> 00:01:12.790 the first one in and the last one out. 32 00:01:12.790 --> 00:01:16.510 Technically, and as a business owner you wear many hats. 33 00:01:16.510 --> 00:01:20.110 So you're the accounts payable department, 34 00:01:20.110 --> 00:01:21.030 you're the payroll department, 35 00:01:21.030 --> 00:01:22.160 you're the human resource department, 36 00:01:22.160 --> 00:01:23.403 you're the insurance department, 37 00:01:23.403 --> 00:01:24.850 you're the bonding department, 38 00:01:24.850 --> 00:01:26.710 you're handling all aspects of that. 39 00:01:26.710 --> 00:01:30.811 line:15% So going back years back I handled all of that. 40 00:01:30.811 --> 00:01:32.800 line:15% Registering the apprentices and everything 41 00:01:32.800 --> 00:01:35.780 line:15% from the day to day basis of the operation 42 00:01:35.780 --> 00:01:38.240 and moving forward and then you build your team. 43 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:42.420 My brother's been a part of my team since 1995 44 00:01:42.420 --> 00:01:44.740 and I made him a partner in 2007. 45 00:01:44.740 --> 00:01:47.060 So my day to day operation is still very involved 46 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:49.670 with the financial aspect of it, 47 00:01:49.670 --> 00:01:51.798 dealing with my bank regarding our line of credit, 48 00:01:51.798 --> 00:01:55.820 the bonding company, and overseeing finances 49 00:01:55.820 --> 00:01:58.330 line:15% and that type of area of it. 50 00:01:58.330 --> 00:02:01.920 line:15% I recently hired a human resource person 51 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:03.620 line:15% which took me a long time to let 52 00:02:03.620 --> 00:02:06.530 line:15% that part of the business go because again 53 00:02:06.530 --> 00:02:08.690 as a small business your greatest asset, 54 00:02:08.690 --> 00:02:11.543 for me, I'm a service industry, is my employees.