Robert E. Bates, Mba

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Chief Executive Officer @ REB Rebar and Steel
Melbourne, FL, US
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Melbourne, Florida, United States, United States
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About Robert E. Bates, Mba

Visionary CEO, Board Member and Author with masterful insights into startups with company turnarounds. Leads by example, self-driven, self-reliant and sets goals with a collaborative approach to exceed expectations. Spearheads and implements sophisticated plans and projects with a proven track record of transforming all aspects of business on time and within budget. Brilliant interpersonal skills to coach, encourage, engage, and motivate others through change. Drives revenue growth, transforms culture, improving operations while evolving robust teams with top performers.

Robert E. Bates, Mba's Current Company Details
REB Rebar and Steel

Reb Rebar And Steel

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Chief Executive Officer
Melbourne, FL, US
Robert E. Bates, Mba Work Experience Details
  • Reb Rebar And Steel
    Chief Executive Officer
    Reb Rebar And Steel
    Melbourne, Fl, Us
  • Shenandoah University Mba
    Advisory Board Member
    Shenandoah University Mba Oct 2023 - Present
    It is with great pleasure that I invite you to join the Advisory Board for the TransformativeLeadership Program at Shenandoah University. Membership on the Board is by invitation only andis based upon your personal and professional accomplishments. The Board is comprised of adiverse, innovative, and extremely well-connected network of top executives.Board members make a number of contributions to the program, including:1. Preserving and enhancing the reputation and quality of the program through strategicreview of our executive education noncredit courses to the community, as well as helping tobuild our value to the business community.2. Offering expert guidance to our faculty and students through occasional classroom visits,forums and conferences, and input on our programs.3. Promoting the program’s goal of linking industry with academia to help ensure that our workis relevant and benefits the business community.As a member of the Advisory Board, you’ll be asked to (please initial next to each opportunity):
  • Reb Rebar And Steel
    Chief Executive Officer
    Reb Rebar And Steel Jul 2021 - Present
  • Reb Rebar And Steel
    Chief Executive Officer
    Reb Rebar And Steel Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
    President, CEO and Founder for a start-up steel and rebar company. Provides visionary leadership to the company’s long-term strategies, goals, plans and policies with full profit & loss. Directs and coaches Finance, IT, Marketing, Operations, R&D and Sales to develop yearly business plans, budgets, and procuring capital funds for capital funds for projects.
  • Profitel Group
    Vice President Of Business Development, Remote Consultant
    Profitel Group May 2018 - Jun 2022
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    Vice President of Business Development, Remote Consultant, for a professional consulting firm providing expense and cost reduction services in banking, healthcare, shipping, and telecom. Reports to the CEO setting the organization's strategic direction while developing and executing company sales and marketing plans. • Leads Marketing and IT on website updates to improve overall corporate messaging while integrating HubSpot CRM. Optimizing keywords to increase overall company visibility since the company is not listed in the top 100 sites on keyword searches.• Drives C-Suit targets monthly with CEO, Marketing and Sales. Targeting medium to large size companies.• Steers creative outreach strategies to attract and retain clients.
  • Progressive Properties
    Chief Executive Officer
    Progressive Properties Sep 1992 - Jun 2022
    Baltimore , Md, Us
    President, CEO and Founder for a start-up commercial, HOA, and residential real estate company. Provides visionary leadership to the company’s long-term strategies, goals, plans and policies with full profit & loss. Directs and coaches Finance, IT, Marketing, Operations, R&D and Sales to develop yearly business plans, budgets, and procuring capital funds for projects while managing staff of 37 with over 100 consultants and contractors. Acquire and merge with a larger company in the area and I lead the team.• Powers sales from zero to over $280.1M while expanding offices in Maryland, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Increases Real Estate professionals by 250% without new office space, utilizing internet work at home staff in multiple states.• Intellectualizes capital improvements agreement using our MSA’s (Master Service Agreement) with agreed project phases, building codes, and inspections. Reducing overall re-work by 60% for all markets.• Spearheads a portfolio in excess of over $44.5 million.• Uses creative financing to reduce overall company debt to increase cash flow and accusations.• Devises processes management program for multi-state procedures reducing employee errors by 48% in all aspects of the business.• Guides strategic tax strategy for the company. Planning, reducing, minimizing, and reworking taxes to keep them close to zero year after
  • My Mortgage Shop
    President, Ceo, Chief Architect And Founder
    My Mortgage Shop Nov 2005 - Oct 2012
    President, CEO, Chief Architect and Founder for a startup e-commerce home purchasing and mortgage related Service Company. Visionary leader who provides the strategic long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies with full profit & loss reasonability. Coaches and directs Finance, IT, Marketing, Operations, R&D and Sales to develop business plans and budgets. Staff of 6 including employees and 50 consultants. Lead the mergers and acquisitions team for our company.• Revolutionizing home buying for everyone. Making home buying easy for everyone, reverse bidding auction site for all services and products, providing valuable advice each step of the way. From your risk, credit, affordable home price, best realtors, inspectors, mortgage products, and title companies with customer ratings on each vendor. Next-generation Smart (Artificial Intelligence) SaaS (Software as a Service) technology.• Heads Venture Capital meetings requesting $2M in funding.
  • Sprint/Nextel
    Director Budgets And Planning
    Sprint/Nextel Oct 2002 - Nov 2005
    Overland Park, Kansas, Us
    Director Budgets and Planning for a wireless operating company. Devises and develops budgetary guidelines, budgets, and analyzing trends affecting the division with a $226 million-dollar budget. Including nine departments under the office of the CTO. Works with the Sprint acquisitions team on a finance and R&D technical perspective. • Increases the divisions budget from $20M to $226M since Operations was carrying R&D costs in previous years.• Directs team on tax strategy to capitalize over $20M dollars. R&D and Operations was showing them as operational and not deprecating all assets in previous years.• Leads the Sarbanes-Oxley migration team working with Finance and Operations to meet our financial reporting requirements.• Intellectual for the budgeting and reporting software to ensure accurate planning and monthly/quarterly forecasts. Including budgets to actual spending, project variance analysis, PR/PO aging, and vendor pay out reporting.
  • Scoreboard, Inc
    Director Product Management
    Scoreboard, Inc Feb 2001 - May 2002
    Director Product Management for a start-up company designing to optimize wireless networks. Enhances existing product lines, increases profitability and sets profit and loss goals for each product. Visionary leader created the product strategy, road maps, requirements and specifications. Directs hiring and training of product managers and lead the mergers and acquisitions on a technical perspective with Andrew.• Successful turn-around executive – converts a dishearten and risk- adverse company into a can do, idea-generating team by leading the team providing collaborative product plans, notes, focus groups and weekly meetings resulting in improved 90% efficiency throughout the company.• Increases the profit margins from 10 % to 25% by re-working data collection and reducing customer pricing by 40% in one year.• Improves the pricing of all our products and upgrades by 35% with extensive vendor negotiations.• Creates new product plans including GSM, Wireless Location, OSS, A-bis data, Foot-Print Optimization, and Adaptive Antennas resulting in new sales opportunities for the company.• Guides Business Development opportunities with Ericsson, Motorola, Nortel, Actix and other companies to develop business relations for joint sales and development efforts.
  • Advocate Mortgage Group, Inc.
    Vice President Operations
    Advocate Mortgage Group, Inc. Mar 2000 - Feb 2001
    Vice President Operations for a mortgage and title company. Works with the President to design a winning strategy for the company. Enhancements of day-to-day operations to support growth, add to the bottom line and maximize profits. Develops strategic plans, goal-settings with results. Full P&L while leading Led Accounting, Finance, Information Technology (IT), Marketing and Operations. Manages staff of 50 with a $ 63K budget. Resigns for better opportunities.• Turns around a failing company by driving sales up by 60% and decreasing expenses by 47% in just 8 months.• Implements a sales channel management program to determine sales ratios and results with weekly meetings resulting in a 32% increase in closing rates.• Devises a plan to fully utilize the internet to expand business, diversify products offered, and to cover the USA through online shopping.• Accelerates hiring of new Loan Officers by 300% in just 4 months without new office space utilizing internet work at home staff in multiple states.• Enhances procedures to better utilize information technology with 80% greater efficiency of employees, while re-negotiating vendor pricing.• Led bring in Loan Processing in house to reduce processing fees and accuracy.
  • Trueposition
    Sr. Manager System Design
    Trueposition Sep 1997 - Feb 2000
    Berwyn, Pa, Us
    Sr. Manager System Design for a start-up wireless location company creating software and hardware to deploy E911 systems. Directs and enhances the departments wireless location design, process management, system performance analysis, executive reporting and troubleshooting. Controls staff of 2 employees, 2 consultants and a $45K budget.• Championed lowering of back-haul costs by 600% by converting from point-to-point T1’s to Frame-Relay.• Visionary which conceives, designs, plans and implements the System Configuration Optimization and Utility Tool (SCOUT) application to easily configure and check the accuracy of the wireless location systems (SCOUT). Reducing scheduled implementation timelines by 60% within the Operations department while providing executive level performance reporting. Still in use today.• Devises procedures and processes for design, implementation, and trouble ticket system. Develops standards on network configurations, switch and router templates.• Spearheads focus groups with Product Line Management to provide strategic planning for new company products and life cycles.
  • At&T Wireless
    Sr. Pcs Design Engineer
    At&T Wireless Jan 1996 - Sep 1997
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    Sr. PCS Design Engineer for a TDMA cellular phone operating company. Devises system recommendations with goals, improvements, and budgets for spectrum re-allocation of microwave and all national executive systems design reviews. Resigns for better opportunities.• Led the nation in best practice guidelines and design reviews.• Conceptualize and enhances the frequency planning design produces and guidelines for all AT&T PCS systems throughout the United States.• Taught classes demonstrating how these techniques can maximize network performance while improving quality calls.• Sent to Taipei, Taiwan via AT&T International below.
  • At&T Wireless
    Manager, Network Operations
    At&T Wireless Feb 1995 - Dec 1995
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    Manager Network Operations for an AMPS and TDMA cellular phone operating company. Led daily operations including routine preventative and emergency maintenance of cellular, microwave, and switching facilities, including a Motorola 500, 2500 and a GMH 2000 systems. Controls a $2.5-million-dollar budget, manpower, schedules, with 17 employees and 2 consultants along with all processing of vendor bills, monthly accruals, and monthly cash flow analyses. Resigns for better opportunities.• Converts worst market for system outages and brought it up to second best in the nation in less than 8 months. Resulting in a 63% increase in overall customer satisfaction.• Leeds the team to ensure successful system cutover of a Hughes network in less than one year.• Visionary for the creation of a new database program to address customer troubles, system maintenance, cell site outages, and new vendor performance.• Awards: o Largest Successful Market Cut-over of Hughes System at Bell South.
  • At&T Wireless
    Sr. Engineer, Rf Design
    At&T Wireless Mar 1992 - Feb 1995
    Dallas, Tx, Us
    Sr. RF Design Engineer for a TDMA cellular phone operating company. Controls all Lucent systems in Texas and Louisiana. Analysis, design, implementation, optimization and enhancement of wireless telecommunications networks throughout the region.• Transforms San Antonio MSA from being with worst market in the nation to fourth best with an extensive system build-out in just 1 year.• Conceives and designs the Lucent Network Traffic monitoring and forecasting model to reduce system troubles by 75%, still in use today.• Establishes processes and procedures for the department including RF Design, Real Estate, Network Design, Construction, and Performance. Converted them into Microsoft Project and used as a template for all projects.• Directs first Sectorization program in the market.• Awards: o Largest Build Out of Regional Sectorization and new sites. o San Antonio MSA most improved national markets (Ranked 4th from last).
  • Far Eastone Telecommunications Co. Ltd
    Sr. Manager, Rf Engineering
    Far Eastone Telecommunications Co. Ltd Feb 1997 - Jul 1997
    Sr. Manager RF Engineering for a startup DCS 1800 and GSM 900 cellular phone operating company. Led the team of mobile engineers, systems designers and spectrum re-allocation employees. Enhancement of analysis, design, implementation, and optimization of wireless telecommunications networks. Directs staff of 10 with a $1.2 million budget. Only allowed to work 6 months on a US passport.• Largest deployment in the world (www.fetnet.net) over 1,700 base stations and 15 AXE nodes using Ericsson equipment.• Drafts counterparts in Marketing, Finance and IT to develop engineering cut-over and optimization plans, produces and deployment schedules.• Led executive design reviews and performance procedures for the department.• Directs hardware and software engineering activities with vendors and consultants. Evaluates new technologies and methods prior to selection, implementation and testing.
  • Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems
    Multiple Positions
    Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Nov 1988 - Mar 1992
    Multiple Positions for an AMPS and TDMA cellular phone operating company. Devises processes and procedures for all the positions below to easily and effectively train employees.• Traffic Performance Engineer optimizing performance of a telecomm network by analyzing, predicting and regulating the behavior of traffic transmitted over the network. o Conceives, designs and develops Motorola forecasting model program from switch data to analyze and predict Market growth needs. Sends out executive reports weekly.o Intellectualizes and creates Manager’s database and distributed executive weekly reports.• RF Engineer analysis, design, implementation, optimize and enhance of sites in the market.• Computer Programmer writes programs, updates and user manuals.o Lucent PACE program first user interface and database to create and store cell data while creating “csdata” files in the correct format.o First user interface and database to store cell data and automatically runs LLC Radials, Signals, and Boxes RF programs.o Trouble ticket database logins into each switch and base stations to create, track, and report on system problems. Reports generated daily to provide to the Cell Site and Switch Tech to make repairs.• Project Manager for Engineering and Operations to plan, budget, oversee and document all aspects of department. Creates Microsoft Project and flow charts for the team.• Network Design Engineer designs, installs, tests, and documents network equipment.o PC’s, Printers, BOS, PACE, Microwave Monitor, Two EMX 2500’s and Lucent switches.• Switch Technician troubleshoot, locate, repair equipment problems, handle configuration and fault management on all platforms, run backups, billing tapes and work with Cell Technicians on repairing system problems.• Cell Site Technician performs preventative and maintenance on all base station and transmitter equipment. • Awards:o Largest System Cutover at SWBMS.o Co-Operative Education Student of the Year, 1989.

Robert E. Bates, Mba Skills

Budgets Budget Planning Business Development Business Planning Business Process Improvement Business Strategy Business Turn Arounds Change Management Cellular Communications Company Turn Arounds Contract Negotiations Corporate Tax Strategy Data Mining Databases Disrupter Entrepreneurship Executive Coaching Executive Development Executive Leadership Executive Management Executive Mentoring Executive Pay Finance Management Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Information Architecture Information Technology Leadership Development Mobile Devices Mobile Product Development Multi Media Marketing Campaigns New Business Development P&l Management Product Management Program Management Project Management Project Planning Product Development Risk Mitigation Sales Management Start Ups Strategic Partnerships Strategic Planning Strategic Visionary Strategy Swot Analysis Team Development Telecommunications Wireless Vendor Management Visionary

Robert E. Bates, Mba Education Details

  • Penn State University
    Penn State University
    Finance
  • Capitol Technology University
    Capitol Technology University
    Computer Engineering
  • Howard Community College
    Howard Community College
    Computer Engineering
  • The George Washington University
    The George Washington University
    Mobile Communications

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Robert E. Bates, Mba attended Penn State University, Capitol Technology University, Howard Community College, The George Washington University.

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