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Irvine, Ca, Us

Fountain Valley, Ca

Manage and direct administrative services of real estate, facilities, construction, corporate-owned assets and business continuity.• Provide primary direction, planning and management of corporate real estate purchases, sales, leases and construction• Drive strategic direction for planning, maximizing the value/use of portfolio• Responsible for search, negotiations, legal, due diligence, escrow, and remodeling/ground-up build; construction projects ($50M-$70M)• Specialized in downsizing and subleasing of properties • Direct workplace strategy, including hybrid environment; reconfiguring; space reduction• Direct strategy of owned properties and leased office space, transaction lifecycle, and portfolio benchmarking and optimization; reducing occupancy costs by optimizing space utilization; develop strategies to shift under-utilized assets and take advantage of market conditions; sub-leasing, renegotiating terms, early terminations, lease assignments or landlord recaptures.• Direct the preconstruction efforts of architectural design competitions, architect selection, and continued design and value-engineering throughout the lifecycle of construction • Responsible for developing the budget, monitoring of spend vs. budget, and achieving budgetary targets; diplomatically balancing financial accountability against customer requirements• Provide facilities and construction support services for various parent company subsidiaries throughout Americas• Work with Finance teams (General Acctg, FP&A and Tax) on expensing/capitalizing strategies• Create and manage IIPP and Workplace Violence Prevention Plan• Direct the efforts of facilities teams on various programs such as LEED, WELL, air quality, OSHA, HazMat, fire inspections • Act as 24/365 lead on the Business Continuity board • Advise and be assigned projects directly by our Global COO • Highly experienced in interfacing with I.T. department on their infrastructure requirements, including on-site data centers

Irvine, Ca

I managed the domestic and international operations of up to 74 offices in 28 countries worldwide. Responsibilities included: facilities management, construction, leasing, budgeting, office services, mailroom/shipping, maintenance, building systems, safety and I.T. infrastructure. This position required solid experience in facilities and real estate portfolio optimization.• Developed standards, policies, and procedures for facilities and administrative services teams• Planned new office build outs and remodeling, including design, construction material, building systems, infrastructure, branding, working with architects, landlords, contractors and various direct vendors• Developed detailed budget forecast for projects and submitted approval requests• Implemented Workplace Safety Program to include: IIPP, ergonomics, hazmat, threat response, evacuation and various locally required programs• Developed and maintained annual CapEx/OpEx budget for all offices and the departmental expenditures• Managed the corporate-owned and leased vehicles and leased office equipment• Analyzed metrics and created presentations for the monthly executive board meeting and the quarterly meetings parent company Board of Directors (steering committee)• Managed mailroom, shipping/receiving, and other administrative functions• Managed leasing management and facilities portal and developed data repository & archive system (10,000+ documents)• Conducted multiple lease renewals and office construction projects per year• Searched and selected new office locations and negotiated the leases• Reviewed lease documents in preparation for Legal review• Actively directed the real estate brokerage team• Managed the integration process of one acquisition per year, incorporating their facilities and leasing into the Tungsten management system, processes and procedures• Reviewed existing and new service contracts, with continued improvement in service quality, while maintained

Irvine, Ca

The Red Eye Group was a boutique business process consulting firm, catering to Fortune 1000 and mid-market clients with services including real estate, operations, vendor management, I.T. Infrastructure, business expansion, M&A, and consolidation, in a broad range of industries, including financial, Insurance, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, banking, retail, and I.T. services.• Acted as project manager on projects involving real estate operations, as well as corporate infrastructure/process improvement implementations, including M&A and certification audits• Analyzed business processes, in order to develop procedures, best practices, and forms to be implemented by customers and company (in-house)• Developed project scope definition, work breakdown structure, resource management, scheduling, budgeting, quality assurance and control, risk analysis and mitigation, and procurement management• Conducted project kick-off and ongoing meetings and presentations with employees, management, vendors, partners, and clients and coordinated with internal stakeholders and sponsors• Acted as single point of contact between clients, vendors and company• Analyzed and conducted performance/metric analysis to prepare & present various project reports• Wrote technical and user manuals for developed products, systems, and procedures using Word, Visio to create diagrams, and flow charts, Adobe Illustrator for graphics design

Irvine, Ca

SiteLite, Inc. was a pioneer in the field of Managed Service Provider (MSP) by providing 24x365 remote administration of network devices, operating systems, web servers, databases, and high-level e-business applications, ensuring high availability and performance for mission-critical environments.• Managed internal corporate operations projects, such as development of procurement, shipping, asset management projects• Was project manager for build-out of new corporate headquarters, its 24x365 Support Operation Center (SOC), and consolidating relocation of 4 regional offices - directing the efforts of every functional manager in the company, and project management staff of 8• Was on the Change Management committee, following ITIL practices, reviewing and approving all change requests, in order to reduce the effect, risk and costs associated with the changes • Managed system integration division: customer projects, system engineering staff, and IT service accounts• Managed purchasing, configuration, shipping of project material • During down-sizing, instituted many policy, process, contract re-negotiation and vendor changes to lower operating costs by 12%• Performed Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) on all corporate expenditures in order to ascertain their ROI

Irvine, Ca

Reccom was acquired by SiteLite (above) in 2001I Managed the services division (System Integration): projects, field engineers, service accounts. Reccom was acquired by SiteLite in 2001 and continued operations within SiteLite. All Reccom staff and management continued working under SiteLite.

Arlington, Tx

Davis Systems (below) was acquired by Breakaway in 1996• Managed customer software/hardware installation projects• Was responsible for all aspects of on-site installations and training • Conducted customer training sessions in 16 states and 6 countries• Was the intermediary between customers and software developers• Managed software upgrade deployment projects• Accompanied sales staff to out of state customer sales meetings• Wrote user reference manuals and in-house support technician manual

Torrance, Ca

Davis Systems was acquired by Breakaway International (above) in 1996.• Was responsible for all aspects of on-site installations and training• Accompanied sales staff to out of state customer sales meetings• Conducted vendor industry show booths• Conducted customer training sessions, nationally and Internationally• Was the intermediary between customers and developers• Was responsible for all ordering, inventory management, hardware production, and shipping processes• Coordinate beta testing, software upgrades, QA, and technical support• Wrote reference manuals and the in-house support technician manual• Traveled to customer sites in 16 states and 6 countries

Bachelors, Business Administration: Management / Minor: Computer Science

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Activities and Societies: Computer Club

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