Matthew J. Chicos

What Matthew J. Chicos leaves behind is paperwork: 203 permitted projects in BuildZoom's records, 27 of them pulled in the last three years. He works out of Veterans Road in Winthrop, and the trade is electrical. The jobs are modest in size — a typical permit runs about $8,500 — and they cluster in Boston and the towns around it, with work recorded in Milton, Charlestown, Hyde Park, West Roxbury and Hingham. That is the shape of an individual licence-holder working steadily around the metro rather than a large outfit. Credentials are the thing to pin down before booking. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts electrician licence and a construction supervisor licence under his name, and it also shows two credentials that did not survive: a Maine electrician licence and a Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, both recorded there as cancelled. Those entries are BuildZoom's own records, not a state confirmation, so ask him directly and check the Massachusetts boards for what is current. For a permitted electrical job in Winthrop or Boston, the volume of filed work is the useful thing here — a long, steady permit trail. Ask for the current licence numbers and a couple of recent customer references, since there is no written customer history behind this profile to lean on.