Bill Loper Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

• Sourced and developed relationships with new and current trade partners, creating a competitive quoting environment that enhanced both the cost to the company and the quality/service from the sub-contractor. • Planned and executed new annual community purchasing details to quote, analyze quotes, create budgets per plan/elevation and SOX documentation and review, ensuring all the information/cost/purchase orders are accurate would be correct, the cost as low as possible and determining the best most important we would have a good number to set the selling price. • Collaborated with trade partners and construction team, identifying and eliminating process inefficiencies and waste found located in reviewing quotes and issuing extra Purchase Orders, and using relationship skills with Construction Managers to communicate issues.

• Ensured accuracy of inventory system by monitoring staff in completing transactions in an accurate and timely matter.• Improved inventory accuracy from 85% to 98% by reorganizing inventory and performing cycle counts for 80,000 square foot warehouse of downhole expandable solid-steel liner systems.

Houston, Texas Area

• Drove all aspects of purchasing for 90+ home closings/year that included quoting, sub-contractor interaction, issuing Purchase Orders and resolving problems. • Assembled and maintained base house budgets and option budget reports, to controlling and projecting cost/sale pricing and to monitoring profit slippage

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed accounting, purchasing, payroll, and HR for individual projects valued at up to $5MM.• Executed sourcing plans to purchase commodities: concrete, lumber, brick, electrical, plumbing, HVAC contracts, sheetrock, flooring, and landscaping, controlling an annual spend of up to $9MM. • Reduced costing errors 35% and improved processes through implementation of a detailed cost accounting system.

Houston, Texas Area

• Developed and implemented the company’s first purchasing system, optimizing cost controls and profits for projects valued up to $4MM.• Tracked and updated master schedule for projects using Buildlinks software, to documenting daily tasks and monitoring projects for target completions. • Reduced maverick buying by field personnel 30% by creating a good solid relationships with the Project Managers, to offering great customer service to them and requiring Purchase Orders for all purchases. • Achieved 75% decrease to Variance Purchase Orders by quoting all projects at the start of project and using those quotes to issue correct Purchase Orders. at the beginning of the project.

Houston, Texas Area

• Procured $27MM/year of building material/labor for individual projects valued up to $2MM• Established a standardized purchasing system used by 5 project managers, identifying the best trades/vendors and reducing direct cost by 19%. • Created purchasing spreadsheets and systems that eliminated bidding process for vendor based on contract pricing and reducing the estimating cycle by 25%.