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Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Facilitating the acquisition and tenure of real property on behalf of the City of Surrey, specializing on their Capital Works projects. Actively maintaining strong relationships with various departments within the municipality to ensure project scopes, deadlines and budgets are being met. While working cohesively with the acquisitions team to ensure all negotiations and communications with the public is consistent and fairKey responsibilities:• Liaising negotiations between the City of Surrey and the property owners to achieve a win-win scenario by communicating the City’s current and future plans while keeping interactions positive and constructive• Reviewing civil engineering drawings, appraisal reports, and real estate contracts for both active and future projects and providing input from a property impact perspective. • Ensuring active knowledge of any amendments made within the City of Surrey, including but not limited to OCP and NCP amendments, construction codes, building guidelines, contract revisions, and policy updates.

Cayman Islands

Responsible for drafting and facilitating proposals aimed at redeveloping condominium buildings, in addition to managing the marketing and re-branding of a successful real estate development company. Worked alongside the executive team to create the companies’ logo, value proposition, website, brochure and general branding strategy. Key responsibilities: • Provided analytical and organizational support for the team in terms of documentation, communication, contracts and proposals• Liaised with the key members of The Butler Group to create promotional materials which was aligned with the team’s vision • Created all marketing and communications material centered on The Butler Groups newly launched redevelopment strategy • Established the marketing communications schedule for the sold-out, pre-development project; “Seacrest” • Facilitated the selection of fixtures, finishes and equipment for Seacrest while communicating with various vendors and suppliers during the selection process• Coordinated with the teams’ active schedule to ensure deadlines were being met and activities for the various projects were getting completed

Grand Cayman

Specializing in Dart Real Estate’s first luxury development “The Residences at Seafire”; a $309 million dollar resort and residences project on Seven Mile Beach. Gaining strong experience managing a newly formed sector of Dart Real Estate, while working alongside the Vice President of marketing and sales to build and mold a successful sales team. Achieving and exceeding all sales goals and targets assigned to the team in terms of budgeting and time line. While maintaining a strong relationship with owners, prospects, stakeholders and the project managers to ensure communication, expectations and timelines were being satisfied.Key responsibilities• Working alongside the VP of marketing and sales and the asset manager to ensure proforma targets are being achieved along with providing weekly sales reports intended to track information on new deals, market insights and any new or evolving trends• Maintaining a strong working knowledge of all residential product being offered including but not limited to the project pricing and plans, specifications, and construction drawings • Proactively pursuing new sales leads, stimulate referrals and maximize every opportunity to promote sales activities• Establishing trusting relationships with prospective and current clients and owners throughout the purchasing process to maximize sales and customer satisfaction• Facilitate in the reporting and sales status updates for the internal and external stakeholders in order to monitor and support the developments progression• Mediate change order requests between the construction team and prospective buyers, while keeping costs and unnecessary work to a minimum

Focused on assisting buyers and sellers acquire and dispose of Real Estate, while working alongside a top producing Realtor (#1 Producer, RE/MAX 2000 Realty, 2014), averaging 55+ home sales per year. Experience working alongside builders and development companies, beginning with land acquisition and working through to the building, marketing and selling stages.Key Responsibilities• Maintained an active knowledge of the Official Community Plan, Area Concept Plan, and municipal zoning bylaws of the teams market areas to identify potential opportunities or set backs• Drafted and completed marketing and sales proposals for various government agencies (past projects include Metro Vancouver Housing Corporation (2010) and Public Guardian and Trustee of BC (2010-2015)) • Negotiated with clients and Realtors in order to create a win-win situation regarding terms and price of contracts • Maintained a high level of organization to ensure the team is aware of all appointments, assignments, clients and projects • Created the yearly budget for the team including sales goals, expected revenue and soft and hard expenses, while consistently monitoring progress to ensure targets were being met

Diploma Program In Urban Land Economics (Dule), Real Estate Development

Activities and Societies: Urban Land Economics, Residential and Commercial Property Analysis

Diploma Of Technology, Marketing Management: Professional Real Estate