-: 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.