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Move Solutions has named Chuck Coffman as its Austin branch manager. For more than five years prior to his promotion, Coffman served as a senior account manager at Move Solutions. Move Solutions is perhaps best known as a commercial moving company, but as a business unit of Total Office Solutions, LLP, the Austin office offers a wide range of services to help companies relocate or upgrade the work environment. In addition to moving furniture, computers and crates, Move Solutions has teams trained to disconnect or reconnect computers, break down workstations for transport and install modular furniture systems. Other services include used furniture sales and acquisitions, furniture liquidation, and final cleaning after a move. “We are much more than a moving company. We offer a turnkey solution, whether a customer is looking to reconfigure its offices or plan the layout of a new space, buy or sell office furniture, expand, contract, or relocate,” Coffman says. Over the past year, Coffman has helped to build the teams that now deliver those services in Austin, and in September the company completed the development of those service lines by delineating the expanded offerings on its Web site at www.movesolutions.com. Earlier this year Coffman boosted the company’s used furniture business, called New Again Solutions, by coordinating an initial acquisition of 800 workstations in a single purchase. Thanks in part to his marketing efforts, a growing number of Move Solutions clients are taking advantage of the company’s planning, furniture brokerage and other offerings in addition to moving services. One of those is PBS&J. As part of the engineering firm’s Austin move of 200 employees to a new, 64,000-square-foot office, PBS&J worked with space strategist Melanie Fitzpatrick of Move Solutions’ sister company, Move Plan Solutions, to prepare for the relocation; and with New Again Solutions to liquidate surplus furniture clean the space the company had vacated. More recently, Coffman oversaw a 175,000-square-foot move for Emerson Process Management, involving the relocation of 600 employees. As part of the Emerson move, Move Solutions’ Tech Team Solutions specialists disconnected and reconnected the company’s desktop computers as part of relocating Emerson’s extensive server labs. Move Solutions has 45 full-time and 20 part-time employees in Austin. Its parent company, Dallas-based Total Office Solutions is privately held and employs approximately 325 employees, with offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Other business units owned by Total Office Solutions include New Again Solutions Ltd.; Tech Team Solutions Ltd.; Move Plan Solutions Ltd. and Corporate Source Ltd. |
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A View from the Top! Submitted by Robin Connally Office of Facilities Planning and Construction University of Texas System 512-499-4730 phone 512-494-3443 fax rconnolly@utsystem.edu Pictures |
On Thursday, October 14, IFMA had it's monthly meeting at the Cousin's
building property, the Frost Bank tower. After a wonderful lunch at
McCormick and Schmicks, the group of 65 was led up to the 30th floor by
Chief Engineer Tim Courson, FMA. The view was incredible. the group had
ample opportunity to take photos, and then climbed up to the catwalk in
the crown of the building. Tim also accompanied a group through the
mechanical room. If you didn't like heights, this wasn't the tour for you!
For those that had a conflict or didn't get the opportunity to go up to
the catwalk, we will try to have a follow-up tour in the spring when it is
warmer and less windy.
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A senior citizen in Florida bought a brand new Mercedes convertible. He took off down the road, flooring it to 80 mph and enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left on his head. “This is great,” he thought as he roared down I-75. He pushed the pedal to the metal even more. Then, he looked in his rear view mirror and saw a highway patrol trooper behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. “I can get away from him with no problem” thought the man, and he tromped it some more and flew down the road at over 100 mph. Then 100, 120 mph. Then he though, “What am I doing? I’m too old for this kind of thing.” He pulled over to the side of the road and waited for the trooper to catch up with him. The trooper pulled in behind the Mercedes and walked up to the man.
The trooper replied “Sir, have a nice day.” |
“Sir,” he said, looking at his watch. “My shift ends in 30
minutes and today is Friday. If you can give me a reason why you were
speeding that I’ve never heard before, I’ll let you go”. The man
looked at the trooper, and said, “Years ago my wife ran off with a
Florida state trooper, and I thought were were bringing her back.”J.R. Howard has an opening for a maintenance technician to do basic work in a commercial building. It would include changing light fixtures, ceiling tile, adjusting doors, changing HVAC filters, etc. It pays $9.50 with benefits. His work number is 996-4142 or e-mail r10145c@ freescale.com |
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