Marko Vovk CV /BIO
Education: Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Cleveland State University 1988, Gilmour Academy 1979
Experience: 32 years experience in inspecting, materials consulting and testing, performed over 17,000 + home and property inspections, 1000 plus environmental reviews, presented expert witness testimony before local, municipal courts, and the American Arbitration Association.
Author: You’re Home Inspection Report, The Bio-Growth Report, the Lead Report, and the co-author of The Illustrated Mold Handbook. The reports and books are sold nationally. Marko also holds one US Patent. Marko is a YouTuber with over 370 Videos and 7,000,000 Views. Please visit his YouTube channel under the name ClevelandMarko.
2013 to present
Active and not active Licenses and Certifications
• State Licensed Radon Tester T-000259-1
• State Licensed Lead Risk Assessor OH-000644
• State Licensed Custom Operator Pest-Termite-Wood Boring Insect (I do not do pest certifications)
• Certified NBI HVAC air balancer certification #021420
• Certified 203 KHUD residential building inspector
• ASHI American Society of Home Inspectors #108428 (I teach seminars for ASHI yearly).
• GROUP 5000 MEMBER active and in good standing (This group has seven other great home inspectors).
• Certified Indoor Environmentalist CIE (This is one of these five-day classes I took)
• ICC BI code certified
• Indoor Air Quality Association (not current)
• NCI Certified Carbon Monoxide Consultant
• State Licensed Multifamily Radon Tester
Before 1993
(Most below were from when I was a high rise building inspector during 1980-1993)
OTHER CERTIFICATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, AFFILIATIONS, Education, Technical Learning and more: (mostly past / and some still present)
ASCE, CES, AISC, AWS, ACI, ASTM, BBB, UL, NRC, CEC Level III, TROXLER, R-METER, WINSOR PROBE, SIR, 203K certified, the University of Findlay lead paint risk assessor, 1996 and 1999, University of Cincinnati lead paint Inspector 1992, University of Cincinnati lead paint supervisor 1990, Princeton Gamma Tech principles of x-ray fluorescence, 1990, Professional Service Industries Asbestos Abatement Contractor 1993, OSHA competent person 1993, Building Inspection Principles CEC 1981-1993.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Construction consultant and contractor for Churches Fried Chicken 1982-1984. Director for CEC construction inspection-laboratory for the Cleveland Area 1980-1993. Directly supervised the inspection and materials testing for the following; Downtown 12 story JAIL II, project, Marriott at Society tower 28 story complex, Renaissance 15 story tower, Eaton Center 28 story tower, North Point 22 story tower, Western Reserve 10 story tower, Red Cross building, Playhouse Square parking structure, Playhouse Square Palace theater renovation, Bond Court restoration, Lake County Jail Building, Deaconess hospital garage, Enterprise Place, Red Cross building, Metro Burn Unit garages, Apple supermarkets, and the Findlay Mall. (Welds, concrete, soil, steel, bolts, building materials, curtain walls, roads, bridges, and more were all part of Marko’s scope of work)
Marko Vovk has bought 17 homes from 1981-2014. Some were sold; some were rebuilt, some had additions added, some were 100% rehabbed, and some he still owns.
