Marc Gilbert Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Responsible for developing Stantec’s relationship with key clients, building the reputation of the firm and winning work new work. I collaborate with Stantec’s internal business line leadership and pursuit teams to align priorities and drive successful pursuits and winning proposals across the US South region and beyond.

Austin, Texas

• Initiated relationship building with university administrators at leading campus auxiliaries, housing, finance and administration, real estate and student affairs for the purposes of understanding and responding to.
• Led on-campus business development efforts related to winning new student housing development and management services engagements.
• Fostered and maintained relationships with property-level staff in markets where business plan included expanding university relationships.
• Supported dozens of multifamily/student housing projects through all stages of development, including team management, concept refinement, university interface, student and community engagement.
• Worked closely with university administrators, third-party owners, and design team throughout development stages to resolve issues and advance projects to timely financial close and start of construction.
• Led engagement with university stakeholders, students and public meetings to refine, advance and inform project scope and development.

Austin, Texas

• Served as business development/proposal manager, developing winning proposal themes and awarded proposals totaling more than $3.4 billion in project value in student housing projects nationwide.
• Interpreted RFQ/P solicitations to identify winning strategies; coordinated technical subject matter experts to develop, draft and design proposal responses, interview presentations, and pursuit support materials.
• Planned and executed corporate media strategies including press releases, ad copy, industry-related research and narratives; created content and maintained corporate website and internal news site
• Qualified design and construction team members and implemented pursuit strategies for competitive governmental/institutional procurements.
• Planned/implemented corporate marketing and communications strategies.
• Received multiple corporate promotions. ACC Employee of the Year for 2015.

Salem, OR; Lafayette, LA; And Other non-Gannett Community Newspapers

• Held department head leadership roles at community newspapers for Gannett, Cox, and Independents
• Managed newsroom departments annual budgets as managing editor
• Led staffs to Gannett corporate and national awards: 9/11 Breaking News (2001), Visual Presentation (2001), Investigative Reporting (2004); and 2006 DART Award for reporting on violence

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Executed news editing, copy editing and publication design with keen attention to detail and nightly deadlines
• Extensive use of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite and online content management systems

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

• Executed news editing, copy editing and publication design with keen attention to detail and nightly deadlines.
• Extensive use of Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite and online content management systems.

Bachelor Of Arts, Communication-Journalism

Activities and Societies: Editor, The Shorthorn - Campus daily newspaperB.A. Communication-Journalism

Certificate, Christian Studies

Certificate in Christian Studies