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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

▪Managed the entire escrow process for multiple parties. Coordinated with both our internal accounting team and outside credit facilities to ensure all funding conditions were cleared and contractual timelines were met. In this role, I was individually responsible for the funding of up to $12M per day and 50 residential transactions per week. ▪As Homeward grew at a pace of 375% year-over-year and expanded from three states to seven, I played a primary role in helping to open new markets. This involved quickly developing a thorough knowledge of these markets and, in turn, helping to educate colleagues about the various intricacies within each market.

Dallas, Texas, United States

▪ Played a pivotal role in developing operations and strategy for a company as it grew from 2 markets to 21 markets, and a market cap of roughly $200M to $3.8B▪ As a Fulfillment Specialist, I was personally responsible for managing a high volume portfolio of home transactions - up to 500 per month across multiple markets. This entailed closely monitoring the entire escrow process from start to close, coordinating with multiple parties, from large credit institutions to third party vendors, in order to ensure a successful close. ▪ In my role as Agent Experience Partner, I worked in a direct client facing role where I worked directly with other licensed real estate agents in the negotiation and ultimate sale of hundreds of homes across three markets.▪ Was the key lead in the on-boarding and intensive training of 30 individual contractors in Guatemala. This involved educating them about Opendoor in addition to the various nuances and complexities of the American real estate industry. This team went on to play a significant supporting role at the company.

▪ Served as the sole associate to Neal Ward, McGuire Real Estate’s #1agent, San Francisco’s #8 agent (per Multiple Listing Service), and theUnited State’s #77 agent (per Wall Street Journal)▪ Through my tenure with Neal Ward Properties, Neal’s annual sales volume increased by over 500%. In 2015 it reached $211 million, upfrom $31.7 million in 2008.▪ Exclusively managed all transactions with a sale price up to $2.5 million▪ Produced and coordinated all marketing material

San Francisco Bay Area

▪ Oversaw all marketing operations for an independently-owned realestate brokerage with over 55 agents in two separate offices and anannual sales volume of over $225 million▪ Managed the production and placement of all advertising materialfor the firm and its individual agents▪ Spearheaded a full scale rebranding campaign for a 50 year oldbusiness, completely reinventing all company marketing

San Francisco Bay Area

▪ Managed up to 60 transactions per month for multiple agents.▪ Collaborated with various escrow companies, lenders and inspectionservices to ensure each transaction progressed according to schedule▪ Achieved the highest closing percentage among fourteen districtsnationwide for sixteen months straight▪ Worked directly with company executives to help determine revenueprojections for Zip Realty - a publicly traded company

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor’S Degree, Communication And Media Studies