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Northern Virginia, Virginia, United States

Redmond, Washington, Us

Accountable for cross-business execution and planning of data center real estate solutions by designing, and delivering predictable and measurable data center real estate solutions quickly and under budget. in US-East, Canada and LATAM. Identify opportunities, gaps and overlap whereby to streamline and accelerate changes and scale the real estate portfolio for growth. Help drive consistency, quality and insight across relevant real estate programs, facilitate and support business reviews.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Accountable for directing real estate operations while providing leadership to teams of up to 20. Conduct site selection analysis activities from concept through occupancy for a variety of Fortune 500 companies and manage 500,000+ square feet of transactions annually. Evaluate and assess business and economic incentives, due diligence, employee compensation packages, leases, GAAP financials, pre-construction budgets, build-out, and operations across domestic and global locations. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:⇒ Guided cross-functional strategic analysis and oversaw team members in reviewing lease agreements and defining renewal, relocation, expansion, termination strategies, and alternatives on a cash, NPV, and IRR basis, including the use of M&A activities, enabling reduced exposure and client savings of 15% on real estate projects.⇒ Drove efforts to capture significant occupancy cost reductions by leading teams across the public and private sectors in identifying consolidation options for portfolios of up to 12 million square feet and developing business case alternatives.⇒ Partnered with client stakeholders in developing competitive build-to-suit projects, including zoning process approval for multiple build-to-suit projects; leveraged a custom acquisition strategy, advised during construction, and guided on operations.⇒ Led efforts to integrate lease obligations into multi-year business planning, enabling client to make sound business decisions and determine capital or operating lease standing in compliance with FASB 13.⇒ Oversaw highest and best use studies incorporating demand drivers for commercial firms nationwide by leading municipal, rural, and warehouse location projects for properties sold or transferred at multimillion-dollar values.⇒ Developed and administered multimillion-dollar construction budgets and associated project schedules to ensure on-time and within budget completion in adherence to clients’ business requirements.

Fairfax, Va, Us

Led the development and execution of a real estate strategy for a portfolio of property nationwide totaling 3 million square feet. Supervised three direct and 25 indirect reports while managing daily business operations, GAAP reporting, audits, and annual planning functions. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:⇒ Established and built a team of five in developing an internal database to track property information, financial data, and lease abstracts, driving performance improvement while streamlining operations.⇒ Drove occupancy cost reductions by overseeing all aspects of multimillion-dollar real estate projects of up to 100,000 square feet; led teams of up to 20 through RFP, negotiations, site evaluation, construction and design hiring, product vendor selection, and cost estimate and schedule development.⇒ Optimized real estate portfolio performance by integrating the use of measurement and metrics to support the deployment of facilities cost metric on a per-square-foot basis; leveraged data to develop competitive bids for proposals and set up internal cost centers.⇒ Contributed to insurance policy and claim negotiations to ensure compliance with lease terms.⇒ Led effort to right-size occupancy requirements and costs by working with a team of 10 senior leaders to define office space standards and functions.⇒ Oversaw the design and deployment of a facility maintenance tool to enable real-time tracking of facility problems and support report generation to identify faulty equipment that optimized budget cycles and was subsequently implemented by IT and finance functions.⇒ Secured new business and a 10-year, multimillion-dollar follow-on contract as a key member of the proposal team accountable for highlighting facility capabilities and locations for a technical proposal and addressing options for cost proposals.⇒ Managed expectations and communicated project status as related to profit and loss (P&L) and business requirements to the COO, CFO, and strategic leads.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Honorably served in the Army as an Attack Helicopter Pilot-In-Command, achieving 1,000+ incident- and accident-free hours in training and in imminent danger zones worldwide.

Mba, General Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering Technology

Engineering