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Oversight of the Sand Hill Collection for DivcoWest, a Class A property in Menlo Park.

Directed transition planning, activation and operation of the 1M+ square foot Salesforce Transit Center through Lincoln Property Company as the Asset Manager reporting to the TJPA Facility Manager. Areas of responsbility included management of the transit center's public spaces, retail leasing, open space programming, and promotional platform. Established the relationships with the transit operators from negotiating and managing the occupancy agreements to working with them to move in and commence operations. Established the internal financial structure and policy foundations obtaining TJPA Board of Director approvals as needed. Member Board of Directors East Cut Community Benefits District and various other East Cut committees.

Career Highlights Stanford Health Care:-Executed strategy to build new department that provides facilities and property management services to satellite locations for the adult and children's hospitals--Property Services. Hired staff and created the financial, regional and operations and maintenance infrastructure.-Built Leasing Administration department. Selected application; directed creation of processes for tracking terms and conditions; established parameters of "must haves" for consistency of terms when negotiating with landlords. This enabled systematic management that scaled as business grew to over 200 lease records today.-As Property Services grew from a few sites (about 450K sf) to over 150 sites (about 2.5M sf), formed a regional management and operating structure to create proximity to the customer, thus, improving responsiveness.-Restructured the adult hospital's Engineering & Maintenance department to an operating structure for 40-50 engineers to report to five assistant chief engineers rather than reporting to one chief engineer. This created a functional management organization. And, streamlined the positions to eliminate titles inconsistent with industry practices. This created a clear hiring and training structure. -Established the Engineering Project Office department to manage million-dollar capital projects to replace major equipment in the adult hospital. Created the positions; hired staff; set up the financial infrastructure; and built a five-year capital plan that would begin to address multi-year deferred maintenance for an improved patient and employee experience. -Implemented a computerized maintenance management system: selected the consultant; managed the request for proposal process; selected the application; managed the installation; communicated to the organization; and hired the super user staff. This took the department from being paper based to being technology based that set the foundation for future expansion.

Career Highlights Oracle:-Worked with brokerage community to dispose of surplus real estate.-Shaped Redwood Shores Headquarters Building Services department from a fee managed service to an in-house service that necessitated building the administrative, operations and financial infrastructure. Responsibilities included directing the Engineering & Maintenance department for building and site maintenance; directing the Site Services department for contractor supervision, data center and lab management; directing the Planning Department for small tenant improvement construction, furniture inventory maintenance and management and move services. Significant projects included upgrading the building automation system from request-for-proposal to implementation; reroofs; fire-life safety system replacements and project managing sub-station shutdowns for electrical infrastructure replacements.

Career Highlights The Martin Group:-Opened 360K s.f. Midpoint Technology Campus in Redwood City. Major tenant was Excite@Home. -Established new field office to manage four sites comprised of approximately 1.2M sf of office/light properties. Major client was TIAA Cref.

Career Highlights William Wilson & Associates:-Established field office to open and fee manage approximately 1.1M sf of new construction, the largest of which were the first three buildings of the Oracle Redwood Shores headquarters campus totaling 850K sf.