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Amy Oddo of Oddo Construction Services and Buffalo SBDC Advisor Bill Grieshober
Amy Oddo of Oddo Construction Services and Buffalo SBDC Advisor Bill Grieshober

Amy Oddo
Oddo Construction Services, LLC
Buffalo SBDC

Yongmi (Amy) Oddo was born in Seoul, Korea and immigrated to the US in 1983. She is a naturalized US citizen and the owner of Oddo Construction Services, LLC, a demolition and concrete construction company in an extremely competitive industry. Amy competes in this mostly male dominated business, although she is female, Asian and speaks English as her second language. Amy started the business in May 2005 with just one employee, as a sole proprietorship. She became a limited liability company in January of 2006 with capitalization of $90,000, $65,000 in equipment. She has grown this business to five employees and has acquired a $50,000 line of credit from HSBC Bank. In April 2008, Amy contacted the SBDC for assistance in applying for a woman’s business enterprise certificate. Certified Business Advisor William Grieshober assisted her with the NYS WBE application and in applying for SBA 8(a) status. In March 2009, she received WBE certification status, and in October 2009 she became an SBA 8(a) certified contractor. While she was working on the certifications, Amy attended the 10 week WBE Contracting Program at Buffalo State College sponsored by the SBDC, and successfully completed the program. She is currently bidding on her first Federal project as an 8(a) contractor. According to Amy Oddo,“ Mr. Grieshober has been instrumental in helping me apply for NYS WBE certification and the SBA 8(a) program.”
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