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Wesley Chapel, FL, US

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Coordinated daily operations and maintenance activities for multiple facilities, ensuring optimal functionality and safety.
• Managed vendor relationships, including contract negotiations and performance evaluations, to ensure high-quality service delivery.
• Developed and implemented preventive maintenance schedules to minimize downtime and extend equipment lifespan.
• Conducted regular inspections and audits of facilities to identify and address maintenance needs and compliance issues.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support facility-related projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Monitored and managed facility budgets, tracking expenses and identifying cost-saving opportunities.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Spearheaded a comprehensive restructuring initiative, orchestrating the redesign of operations and development processes.
• Pioneered the development of an adaptable organizational system, successfully integrating all departments, fostering a reduction in process bottlenecks and a decrease in response times.
• Innovated and implemented a cloud-based workflow system, enhancing project continuity, and boosting efficiency, facilitating a decrease in project delays and a reduction in resource wastage.
• Collaborated with customers to define project roles and responsibilities, project scope, and objectives, fostering a cross-functional understanding among team members, which drove an improvement in project delivery.
• Fostered close partnerships with vendors and stakeholders, ensuring project timelines and budgets were consistently met, ensuring on-time and on-budget project delivery rate.
• Instrumental in transitioning paper-based processes to digital forms and in-house systems through effective coordination with external IT vendors and developers, achieving a reduction in data entry errors and a cost.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Developed project plans tailored to meet stakeholder and customer requirements, consistently delivering within budget and achieving desired outcomes, while maintaining full accountability for project results.
• Collaborated closely with the Customer to define project roles, responsibilities, scope, and objectives, fostering a cross-functional understanding among project team members, and enhancing project clarity and.
• Conducted project tracking by generating clear and concise status reports and time management reports, enabling the proactive identification of potential issues and tracking project member progress against commitments.
• Leveraged insights from recent projects to identify and recommend improvements, cost-saving initiatives, and substitutions that positively impacted current and future project budgets and schedules, demonstrating a.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Managed house accounts, leveraging market research and analytics to develop strategies that drove an increase in additional account growth.
• Directed the implementation of new processes and procedures, yielding an improvement in productivity for account representatives’ company-wide.
• Demonstrated exceptional communication skills by achieving an increased client retention rate through effective follow-up, streamlined new client onboarding, and efficient vendor management.
• Oversaw account payables, managed relationships with new and existing vendors, and maintained existing accounts, ensuring accurate payments while enhancing vendor relationships and account stability.

Tampa, FL

• Managed and maintained accounts, efficiently setting up new accounts, while achieving an excellent accuracy rate in bookkeeping and accounts payables, ensuring financial integrity.
• Collaborated with team members to prepare and analyze financial documents and reports, yielding a reduction in report preparation time and improved data accuracy.
• Implemented a streamlined process for accounts management, reducing errors and discrepancies and increasing overall team productivity.

Tampa, FL

• Efficiently managed and audited contractor licenses, conducting in-depth cross-examinations of contractor companies facilitating an increase in license compliance.
• Innovated and implemented new processes that achieved nationwide licensing compliance, reducing non-compliance instances within the first year of implementation.
• Leveraged exceptional communication skills to establish a seamless follow-up system, achieving an increase in client retention, and onboarded new clients while managing vendor relationships that drove an improvement in.

• Guided new employees through the company training program.
• Utilized exceptional communication skills for employee growth and development.
• Ensured additional education throughout the year for current employees.