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Flower Mound, Tx, Us

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

In this role, I headed day-to-day activities related to an independent project management firm delivering services to hotels across US hospitality market. I managed full spectrum of construction management, involving feasibility, land use plans, entitlements, material sourcing, and staff scheduling for multiple projects while ensuring the best personnel, consultants, and contractors were contracted for project. I steered aggressive schedule management throughout project timeline and coordination with operating entities limited revenue displacement and guest disruption. I introduced ROI opportunities for owners by identifying energy efficiencies, building space optimization, and new amenity development.• Seamlessly executed capital improvements for clients worth $850M.• Grew business from startup and optimized performance to generate $1.5M+ in annual revenue.• Negotiated PIPs with major brands on client's behalf to reposition or built properties from ground up.• Conceptualized, designed, and constructed bar and outdoor areas to generate and deliver $4M+ in annual revenue for hotel in San Diego.• Renovated a hotel with 1.2K+ rooms in 93 days for the City of Houston.• Repositioned historic hotel property in St Petersburg, Florida, adding restaurants, golf amenities and infrastructure upgrades, as well as zoning and entitlement modifications to properly• Built new 250 room hotel from entitlements through occupancy

Carrollton, Texas, Us

In my current role, I am directing end-to-end operations associated with planning and management of portfolio with 400+ owned and 1100+ franchised properties. I am leading high-performance teams of design, construction, maintenance, and capital. I am heading implementation of robust policies and best industry practices to ensure utmost health, environmental, and safety compliance with set legal/regulatory guidelines. I am overseeing review and analysis of all project phases, involving construction, hand-over, and technical support to uncover and mitigate process anomalies, risks, and potential losses. I am providing excellent leadership support through procedural changes to increase capital budget and reporting accuracy. I am developing new construction prototype with 82% of floor plan generating revenue (best in class) that contributed to the largest new build pipeline in economy space.• Set renovation standards to deliver best in class amenities for guests and savings costs by 10% for franchisees.• Implemented Motel 6 Classic brand for company generating an ADR increase over 200%• Conceptualized and designed concept to convert big-box retail buildings into midscale hotels with 40% margins.• Developed standards and protocols for a suites hotel product that generated 10 new franchise signings the first year.• Reduced outstanding and delinquent franchisee renovation timelines by 35% in two years• Instituted aggressive budget reviews that identified $MM of overpayments and poor resource utilization, increased capitalization of project costs, and streamlined project processes.• Re-engineered disaster response and remediation procedures and secured 40% reduction in related capital expenditures

During my tenure, I supervised full lifecycle of capital budgeting, design, construction, purchasing, and engineering functions for a 74-hotel nationwide hotel REIT. I created and implemented processes and procedures for project budgeting, bidding scheduling, forecasting, and project management. I set engineering, maintenance, and hiring standards for corporate and field engineers. I overhauled purchasing department, contracting processes, and construction accounting procedures to improve accuracy of capital budgeting.• Executed $125M+ capital improvement plan within set time constraints.• Reduced energy 20% through minor capital investment, equipment rebates, utility incentives while driving engineering and operating standards.• Deployed a comprehensive engineering program to track preventative maintenance, promote in-house repair, and decrease capital expenses for portfolio by 40% while maintaining operating costs leading to increased guest satisfaction scores across portfolio by over 12% with everything in working order

Bachelor Of Science, Building Construction

Bachelor Of Science, Environmental Design