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Since 1965, Yantis Company has prided itself on not only being a contractor, but a valuable member of the complete project development team. Yantis Company has always been committed to providing our clients the best pricing which includes value engineering. This ability saves our development clients both time and money. The Yantis estimating team averages over 20 years of construction and design experience and has helped build or bid billions of dollars’ worth of projects throughout Texas. Recently, Yantis Company worked with Pulte Group to reduce the budget of a project by over $1.1 million dollars.

The value engineering included redesigning the lot grading criteria to reduce the amount of rock excavation, in addition to redesigning the street layout to reduce drainage infrastructure. At Johnson Ranch for DH Development, Yantis Company helped value engineer the plans saving the client over $538,000 (11% from original price). This value engineering included redesigning the storm drainage, water and sanitary sewer layouts in addition to redesigning the lot layout to give the developer two additional lots.

“Arnold and the Yantis team were integral in our efforts to value-engineer street, drainage and utility improvements and expedite getting our development going as soon as possible. Arnold’s engineering background and past experience working for land developers provided us an important third-party perspective on the construction plans. Yantis worked alongside our engineers to make some value driven design modifications and also improved the land plan.”

-Charlie Hill

If Yantis Company can be involved on your project, please give us a call at 210.655.3780 or email us at marketing @yantiscompany.com. For more information about Yantis Company and its projects, please visit our website at www.yantiscompany.com.

Yantis Company is pleased to announce the hiring of Todd Compton as the new Director of Business Development. A 21 year resident of San Antonio, Todd has over 16 years of professional experience in strategic planning, business development, meeting facilitation, public involvement, project development, project teaming, project management, environmental permitting and construction inspection.

Please feel free to reach out to Todd at [email protected] or (210) 771‐5989.

Mike Yantis Jr. ’02, CEO of Yantis Company, has quickly moved up the corporate ladder. Starting out as a project manager at Yantis in late 2002 after finishing his bachelors in management, Yantis was promoted to president by 2007, and then CEO inlate 2012.

His hard work and dedication helped make his family’s company more successful than ever between 2002 and 2007, helping the company to grow by almost 200 percent and 400 employees,making Yantis one of the largest private companies in the greater San Antonio area. Yantis said that for a long time he said yes to whatever work came his way, part of how he helped get so much done,but learned that sometimes no is the better answer.

“You overcommit yourself and you endup just running in circles,” Yantis says about saying yes all of the time. At the end of one week Yantis realizedhe had only spent about five hours at his desk doing actual wor1<,and knew he had to learn to delegate better. “Iwould just caution you to focus on what’s actually going to help you along. Don’t do things at the expense of your goals.”

Yantis warned students against other mistakes like over­ diversifying a company, rushing into deals that seem too good to be true without doing research, and letting things get personalbetween you and other employees and with competitors.

“Not everybody’s going to like you,” Yantis says about getting out into the work force. “At the end of the day you don’t need to let it drive you crazy or make it something that you worry about all the time. If there’s business to be done, business is business.”

The only thing that Yantis recommends making personalis communication. “The thing you have to remember about e-mails is that they live forever,” says Yantis about today’s preferred method of wor1< communication. “Tone is really hard in e-rnails,so people take e-mails the wrong way sometimes. If you’ve got something bad to say tO> somebody, or something negative, do it face to face.”

His advice stems partly from his experience of having old e-mails he had sent used during
litigation in a lawsuit Yantis Company brought against a competitor severalyears back. Yantis says sometimes when you receive a negative e-ma,il it is easy to get caught up in an onilne battle,but youhave to hold yourself back.

Most importantly, Yantis says, he wanted students to realize part of being successfulmeans making mistakes along the way. He wanted to share some of his mistakes and how he deak with them so the students could learn how to dealwith certain situations.

Dominic Odom ’15, a Business Honors major, says the visit with Yantis taught him about how construction in and around the San Antonio area works, and how complicated the bidding process is. “The main takeaway that Mr. Yantis imparted onto me is that business need not be a personal thing,” Odom says. “Feeling slighted is a good way to lose perspective on a job.”

Originally Published at http://maysbusiness.tamu.edu/index.php/yantis-ceo-mistakes-part-of-the-joumey/