Obradovich’s Work Nets Big Job 

When Jason P. Obradovich got the call from Earl Fossum, his heart was pounding. Obradovich’s resume was good. He built up his tint company, Glass Coating Specialist Inc. (GCS) in Tampa, Fla. Before that, he had already built a solid custom business in Alabama. But the largest building he’d tinted to date—a ten-story office tower in Sarasota, Fla., paled in comparison to One Sarasota Tower—the 13-story, $40-million beacon on the bay that Fossum ran. The approximately 45,000-square-foot tint job would provide a nice little payday. But, as Obradovich listened to Fossum, the vice president for ICORR Properties International, he could see it fading away.

“He calls me up and says, ‘I heard you have not done a project of this size before,’” Obradovich says. “My heart just dropped. I knew it was over. But then he says, ‘Congratulations, you’re going to do one now.’” Just getting to the stage of hearing that he won the project at One Sarasota was big in itself for Obradovich. He spent a lot of time and effort and even enlisted the help of his distributor to get the gig. But once it started, a new set of challenges arrived.