Matt Lear Email & Phone Number

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Oversaw and guided interior office and industrial construction projects for clients and building owners. Serve as sole point of contact between GC, architect, stakeholder, and ownership to minimize error, maximize decisional efficiency, and complete projects on time and scope.Led concurrent construction projects for Goldman Sachs, including first-generation interior-finish, multi-floor interior retrofit, and departmental restack, leveraging relational contacts in market to push permitting and procurement to circumvent supply issues while holding client accountable for decisional delays. Avoided cost overruns in short-term 5-floor sublease takeover by using former tenant’s existing office conditions, furniture, and fitment. Aligned internal stakeholders at all levels to create unique space on time and budget, delivering 2.8K ft2, first-generation, public-facing wealth management office in Austin, TX. Completed multi-phase remodel / reconfiguration and move that involved 200 people across 10 floors without business downtime, including revised access, IT, and furniture.Spearheaded concurrent projects for CBRE’s IPJM (investor-owned) group, including lease make-ready, industrial TI, and paving. Attracted top rates in slowing leasing market by facilitating quick make-ready single-tenant light manufacturing facility. Managed occupied manufacturing TI projects, increasing tenant efficiency, and building value, including paint, LED retrofit, building addition, and electrical service upgrade. Repaired paving in busy multi-tenant warehouse during business hours without impacting operations.Collaborated on quick-moving business development project, estimating team to build, clean, and analyze data for 120-site nationwide construction program. Created precise cost modeling accounting for scope, supply, and variable market-specific costs in days not weeks. Cut process and analysis time 50% while increasing accuracy and building in evergreen flexibility.

Greater Atlanta Area

Owned P&L, business strategy, and operations for 8-bedroom luxury executive retreat / private vacation facility.• Maintained 40% occupancy rate (10% more than similar properties) throughout COVID via strategic marketing and safety protocols.• Managed sales, maintenance, permitting, community relations, and marketing while growing profitable revenue center during COVID pandemic.• Designed and delivered customized guest experiences by liaising with executive retreat sponsors and high-profile guests to understand needs and preferences.

Co-founder of SaaS building custom, web-based employee performance appraisals for clients across industries. Led all facets of implementation and day-to-day management including creation, migration, training, support, and accounting. Hired and managed a developer to port my application to the web allowing the company to scale as a service independent of hardware/software constraints.• Met with executive-level clients, defining employee appraisal needs and using MS Access and SQL to design database solutions.• Spearheaded database implementations, including process writing, data migration, end-user training, and IT support. Maintained systematic evergreen approach, allowing business to scale without cost of re-writing code or processes.• Enabled company to scale with stability (99.995% uptime) by leading developer team to build customizable solution.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Advanced through multiple leadership positions across a diverse range of key functions in America’s largest college sports marketing company. Managed high-priority projects, spurred relational connections, aided sales success, and kickstarted new properties. • Construction Management: Led the renovation of 20+ spaces (100K+ ft2) over 8 years, managing $14M in construction spend from concept, design, construction, through handoff and use. Sole point of contact between all teams and CEO. Additionally, co-led a rapid-deployment team starting new properties across the country aligning internal and external stakeholders.• Recruiting: Partnered with senior leadership team to identify talent needs for impactful roles and developed a steady inflow of high-potential candidates through active recruiting, networking, and relationship building. • Internal Communications: Developed content and managed a resource website used by 800 sellers to share ideas, build connections, and enable success. Led all content generation and management for the site for 2 years. • Intern Program: Led a large internship program, developing a talent pipeline resulting in 75% of interns receiving full-time roles. • Ad Sales Support: Helped 500+ sellers in 70+ markets nationwide to craft data-driven narratives to sell ads in collegiate games. • Office/Facilities Management: +50k sqft, 140 staff, Liaise with building, vendors, staff, and C-Suite. Hire, Manage, and Mentor support staff • Property Start-Up Team: Ad Hoc team of specialists deployed to rapidly bring new business units off the ground in a dozen locations. Skills brought to the team: Construction, facility, technology, relationship, team-building. • Cultural Initiatives: Ad Hoc team to build, reinforce, and institute cultural initiatives across multiple business units to instill a cohesive approach during mergers and acquisitions.

Vail, Colorado, United States

Founded the database customization service to support small businesses with a wide variety of data management needs. • Partnered with 100+ clients to identify business issues and develop and customize database-driven solutions including issue-tracking systems, membership management systems, customer databases for small businesses, and more. • Led all business strategy, defining scope, objectives, and development for each project while prospecting new clients.

Vail, Colorado, United States

Built databases in Act! and Access for a wide range of clients in the Vail valley. Built databases to assist organizations involved in sales, real estate, club management, construction, and development. Taught two and three-day seminars in Word, Excel, Access, and Act to professionals honing their skills.