DesignArchitectural and Engineering Plans• Review plans from Architects and Engineerso Any mistakes found now save a tremendous amount of time and money trying to fix mistakes later.• Cross reference Brand Standards and Protype drawings against the plans.• Have Interior Design Plans incorporated into the rest of the design drawings and make sure they work together to ensure no issues laterFitness Equipment Drawings• Work With Vendor, Ownership and Brand to create drawings. Low Voltage Drawings• Work With Vendor, Ownership and Brand to create drawings. o Phone Locations o Music and speakerso Security Cameraso TV LocationsInterior design drawings These drawings play a crucial role in the hospitality industry, as it directly impacts the overall guest experience. A well-designed space can create a welcoming and inviting atmosphere that encourages guests to feel comfortable and relaxed during their stay. Start with Brand Standards, then take ownership vision, location and expected guest demographics and create a design focus that makes Ownership, Brand and ultimately end user happy.• Take Ownership Vision- create Interior Design Plans and get them approved by Brands• Responsible for Purchasing, managing and constructing any Mockup or Mini mockup roomso Make sure ownership and Brand understood what the final product was going to look like• Manage Team to Create Interior Design Drawings and create the following construction and purchasing documents• Color Boards• Specifications Sheets • Full lighting layouts, floor finishing elements, elevations, as well as the positioning and placement of FF&E• Fabrication drawings of custom-designed items and Millwork• Fabric and finishing samples• List of recommended suppliers• Budgetary breakdown• Matrix • Renderings

Construction ManagementManage FFEManaging FFE is a multi-faceted process that includes:• Receive Instructions• Create a plan• Draft a Budget• Create Final Design• Sourcing• substitutions• purchasing• accounting• logistics• installation• completionQuite often we would build some portions of the building off the Interior Design Drawings in lieu of the Architectural drawings. In these cases, we created & supplied more details in the ID drawings.Direct Finish Crews• Supplied detailed Interior Design drawings to finish trades to build off.• Supply specs, samples & install instructions • Coordinated install schedule with deliveries Trades included:o Flooringo Painterso Wall CoveringHelp Manage Electrical trades• Supplied drawings o Showing where underground power should beo Showing which fixtures go whereo Create dimensional drawings showing exactly where outlets should go to coordinate with FFE.• Supply specs • Coordinated install schedule with deliveries Manage Low Voltage Teams• Created Drawings for all low voltage & get them approved by Ownership, Operations & Brands• Supply specs & standards • Make sure low voltage drawings work with Electric drawings & ID Drawings• Coordinated install schedule with deliveries Low voltage trades include:• Low Voltage Wiring• HSIA• PBIX• TV• Guest Room Entertainment• Security Cameras• Music & Speakers• Panic ButtonsManage Install Teams• FFE Furniture• Fitness EquipmentBand Liasson• Brand Standard expert • Handled much of the Brand Correspondenceo Design Team  As we finalized Design As we wanted to make any changes I would discuss As issues arise, I would discuss options• Ran Rough-in inspections• Ran many of the 30 days out inspections• At openings for 2-7 days to address any issues that come up & work with opening team• Coordinate the Interface between hotel systems & Brand reservation systems day of opening

Sourcing, Procurement & PurchasingOnce Design is finished & approved & products & finishes are selected & scheduled, then I proceed to Sourcing, Procuring & Purchasing where I work on pricing, negotiating, purchasing & getting all products on-site – on budget & on time.Sourcing• After Color boards & Design are approved, then I research product & supplier options. With research you can find items with a lower price, shorter lead time, looks better, more functional, Samples will be brought in & if approved we update the spec books.Procurement • Prior to the actual purchasing, I was responsible for the Designing, budgeting, research, sourcing & negotiating price & terms• After the Purchase, I was responsible for the supply chain management, transport & logistics to get items from around the world to the hotel, on time, under budget & coordinated install Purchasing:Once Final selections are made weather original selection or replacement item, then Purchase Orders are written, Budgets updated, payments made according to terms to finalize the actual purchase• Items that I would have purchasedo All FF&E (Furniture, Finishes & Equipment) Though fixtures, equipment & furniture appear in the acronym, I was responsible for any elements not permanently attached to the actual structure. I was responsible for just about anything that a guest can see in a hotel.o All OSE (Operating Supplies & Equipment) All day-to-day items needed by staff to for the daily operations & functions of a hotel• This includes managing budget• Negotiating pricing & terms with vendors• Allowing operations the tools to order all items they need to manage hotel prior to opening• Coordinate the delivery of all OSE within scheduleo All Finishes Took control of Purchase of all finishes from Contractors • This was to do to better control costs • This allowed us more control of the delivery scheduleo When needed helped with purchasing of other Construction related items

Responsibilities:• FFE Purchasing• Interior Design• Operating Systems• Brand and Provider LiaisonAccomplishments:• Purchase all FFE under Budget & on time to meet aggressive construction schedule. • Manage Interior Design team to bring to life Ownership visions while meeting Brand Standards. • Supply tools to Site Supers & Contractors to ensure that ownership vision is created with minimal questions. • Checks to make sure the design team did not miss any Brand requirements & that ID plans & Construction plans coincide. • Purchase and Manage the Operating Systems of the Hotels. • Coordinate the installation with other construction trades to ensure no issues later.• Learn Brand Standards, Meet with Brands on site, get brands to buy into ownerships visions.• During the Pandemic when many companies stopped building, we continued. o I renegotiated with all vendors & contractors under my umbrella to extend our terms & lower pricing. o Figured out new processes to deal with logistics to address the growing costs & delays.• Prior to opening- I spend up to a week on site to resolve any open issues, address punch lists, deal with any brand concerns, make sure all operating systems are operating and arrange for the system interface with the Brands reservation systems.• Build a team atmosphere instead of an Owner- Vendor/Contractor mentality to create ownership amongst my team members and wanting them to help solve issues and problems quickly.

Responsibilities:• FFE Managero Budget managemento Sourcingo Purchasingo Logisticso InstallationAccomplishments:• FFE Final Costs consistently came in under Budget• Improved the efficiencies in purchasing, finish the processes earlier• All finishes were delivered on time, not delaying project and not too early creating additional costs in warehousing.• Coordinate & deliver FFE from around the globe to the hotel in an organized manner in a small window of time & have it installed on-time without interfering with final construction or Operation Staff Training.

Responsibilities:• Assist the PMs freeing up time so they can concentrate on critical tasks.• Procure bids for many disciplines & projects.• Make sure bids include entire scope of work• As new plans come in, make sure they are all uploaded and all parties received changes• As bids came in, I took it upon myself to start leveling bids to help simplify the award process for the PMsAccomplishments:• Increased the quantity & quality of bids so we could find more qualified contractors to choose from to meet our budgets• Improved Bid lists by cleaning up old data & finding, adding & pre-qualifying new potential bidders• Changed & improved bid process • Created telemarketing scripts • Created a standard response for common concerns our contractors may have while discussing bids• Created Database/ follow up program in Excel• Quickly went from working on 1 discipline for one project to as many as 40 disciplines on 7 different projects. . Clerk May 2012 - May 2013 Responsibilities:• Convert storage rooms of plans from old jobs from paper to digital.Accomplishments:• Converted all plans, ahead of schedule• Named and filed the plans efficiently

A Direct Marketing & Distribution Company that purchased Distinctive Mailing Services.Responsibilities:• As new owners & staff came in, I helped with the transition & training of the new staff.• I helped smooth the introductions & issues with Distinctive’s customers as we switched over to First Choice.• I was responsible for training of new team of all the new services that were created.

A Direct Marketing & Distribution Company that was looking to get into the Travel Industry.Responsibilities:• Reported Directly to the CEO and VP of Sales • Hired to cut costs & increase efficiencies• Responsible for finding New Business opportunities & markets• Prepare strategic Plan, project concepts & designs• Managed budgets, cost control, revenue projections, market analysis & P&L• Forecast & create timelines for all scheduled work events• Responsible for marketing research projects. • Responsible for hiring new IT teamo Created new Inventory Systems & got company online• Coordinated with Printing & our Graphic Designer to produce full color directories.• Created Sales Presentations & represented company at Trade Shows, Conferences and Important sales callsAccomplishments:• Increased Travel Clients by over 400%.• Created umbrella of previously unavailable services, for our travel clients & prospects• Marketed the company as an alternative to the established Travel Marketing companies• Ran focus groups to discover what prospects liked & disliked about our competitors• Created highly efficient databases, making the company more attractive to potential clients when compared to our more established competitors, by assisting them in better targeting, thus receiving a higher ROI on their marketing initiatives• Created an entire Order Processing, inventory management, fulfillment managing, database collecting, report generating, billing and accounting system that was functional in Excel that allowed the company to run the service as we awaited the programmers to convert into FoxPro.• Before available, sold a concept to 30 clients, so when launched the company had clients participating.• Generated revenue from the new product I created TBC Client (to offset development costs) before the product was even launched.• Launched the new product 3 months ahead of schedule.• Renegotiated terms with UPS, cutting out costs and increasing our profit margin

A Direct Marketing & Distribution Company that controlled the largest market share of the Travel Industry.Responsibilities:• Reported directly to VP of Operations• Oversaw the largest division of the Company• Was responsible for Forecasting and P&L • Came up with short term and long-term goals.• Successfully managed several Cross- functional teams directly or indirectly o Fulfilment and Direct mail o Printing o IT and Database management o Telemarketing, Order processing o Sales/ Marketing/ Tradeshows o Accounting/ Billing o Warehousing/ Inventory control• Liaison between departments when interdepartmental issues arise.• Liaison with the Consortiums to make sure we met their goals• Was used as the main closer for salesAccomplishments:• Created & launched new order processing system, web site and inventory system.• Within 3 years my department became the main Division of the company as the sales revenue tripled and profit margin increased sextuple. • Department Employee of the Year my first year of employment• Company Employee of the Year my second year.• Ran my own Division by 3rd year.• Was appointed to a team led by Human Resources to build company morale.• Spearheaded new areas of growth such as on-line ordering & new markets initiatives.• Re-wrote many processes