Real Estate Project Manager
Resume:
Resume
John W Tomblin
***** *. **** ******, ***. 337
Phoenix, Arizona 85381
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EXPERIENCE
Sofvue – Business Analyst / Lead Project Manager ( 11 years ) Phoenix, Arizona
Mar 2004 – Present
As a senior business analyst and software project manager, I have successfully designed, managed and launched hundreds of projects across a wide range of industries saving my clients millions of dollars. Past clients include private enterprise, Fortune 300 firms, the dental and medical industry, real estate, the U.S. military (USAF – non-combat), higher education and large education research companies. In addition to gathering and managing business and programming requirements, I’ve managed teams of 2-30 programmers developing multi-million dollar application systems. I’m also highly skilled creating both low and high-fidelity wireframes and I’ve written thousands of use-case scenarios, algorithms and countless project deliverables. Additionally, upon completion of each iterative Statement of Work (SOW), I serve as the lead project manager ensuring project milestones and UAT requirements are fulfilled. I work directly with senior stakeholders and team leads managing project goals and expectations, development teams, as well as project contract negotiations, scope change requests and cost overruns. Upon completion of sprints, I deliver all required technical documentation, training manuals and for larger projects, screen-capture video training materials. Occasionally, I travel onsite to deliver training to management teams and end-users. For branding and marketing purposes, the company name was changed from DataTitan to Sofvue in March 2010, and operated under DataTitan between March 2004 and March 2010.
Fidelity National Information Services (FNIS) – Regional IT Director (Southern United States) ( 8 years )
San Antonio, Texas and Santa Barbara, California
Feb 1995 – Feb 2004
As Regional IT Director for the Southern region of the United States, I successfully managed IT operations for over 900 branch locations of the company, including national brands Fidelity National Title, Alamo Title Insurance Company, TICOR and Surety Union Title. I played a pivotal role in helping redesign the company’s primary business tool, SIMON, a project requiring two years to design and three years to develop and release. Over a two year span, I interviewed and gathered business requirements from over 1,000 users across five states. I help assemble the management and development team in California, helped lead a scoping team to design the software, and then assisted with the rollout to over 50,000 desktops nationwide. I reported directly to the national CIO. In 2002, I deployed the Fidelity Information Systems Team (FIST) system, a regional web application designed to consolidate regional IT network and data center engineers, reduce Time to Resolve (TTR) service tickets as well as reduce overall payroll 10% over a five year span. (FIST) also facilitated a five tier task/points management system requiring IT staff to earn a pre-defined number of points before reaching evaluation-ready status. Given the perception of IT as a cost center, not a revenue center, this approach eliminated virtually all non-producers across the enterprise and dramatically improved the IT evaluation and raise process. Resume
John W Tomblin
14109 N. 83rd Avenue, Apt. 337
Phoenix, Arizona 85381
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Additionally, between 2002 and 2004, I managed the construction and launch of two IT Support Call Centers, one in Austin, Texas and the other in Denver, Colorado. Once opened, the call centers jointly supported 8,000+ users. This effort greatly improved trouble-ticket communications and lowered overall response times, in some cases by as much as 35%. Further, the opening of the call centers facilitated the closure of surrounding “smaller” support centers allowing one center to grow the support base and lower operational overhead, even with added time and hotel and travel costs of IT network engineers. After the first year of implementation, the call centers lowered overhead costs by an estimated half a million dollars.
Austin Institute of Real Estate - Director of Education ( 5 years ) Austin, Texas
Mar 1988 – Mar 1993
As Director of Education, I was responsible for managing all campus activities, course scheduling, teacher scheduling, as well as managing and developing course content approved by the Texas Real Estate Commission. I was also responsible for writing and managing state approval of Mandatory Continuing Education (MCE) courses, as well as hiring and managing an active roster of 75-80 instructors. The Austin Institute of Real Estate was instrumental in offering prep courses for both real estate licensees and brokers in the state, and I taught core and MCE courses, along with state exam prep courses, to over 50,000 students and licensees over a five year span. I also taught courses across Texas as an approved Graduate, Realtors Institute (GRI) instructor for the Texas Association of Realtors, as well as the Spencer School of Real Estate. It was also during this time I published “Perceptions of Value – Real Estate Appraisal Theory”, while also serving as Senior Consulting Editor to “Texas Real Estate Agency Law”. “Perceptions of Value” was inducted to the Library of Congress in 1992 (Library of Congress HD 1387 - T661992-ISBN 10-096*******). First Austin Appraisal Service - Partner ( 5 years ) Austin, Texas
Mar 1987 – Feb 1995
As one of three partners and serving as Operations Manager of the company, I was responsible for completing appraisal assignments, creating all company processes, defining company appraisal practices and issuing appraisal assignments. I created a series of processes that streamlined the appraisal process and I created a company database to decrease appraisal development time and delivery. At its peak, the company was appraising over three hundred single family residential, residential income and small commercial investment properties each month. While with the company, I became a State Certified Residential Real Estate Appraisal through the Texas Real Estate Commission, and I directly appraised over 3,000 residential and small income producing properties over a four county area.
Keller Williams Realtors – Real Estate Agent ( 3 years ) Austin, Texas
Mar 1985 – Mar 1987
I was personally trained by Gary Keller, founder of Keller Williams Realtors. In this role, I listed and sold residential homes and small income producing properties for three years. I was responsible for listings, marketing, contract negotiations, managing vendors and closing all transactions. Resume
John W Tomblin
14109 N. 83rd Avenue, Apt. 337
Phoenix, Arizona 85381
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Waterloo Builders – On-site Builder Representative ( 1 year ) Mar 1984 – Mar 1985 As an on-site sales representative for large regional custom spec builder, I was responsible for representing the builder in qualifying prospects, assisting with financing, negotiating contracts, working with outside real estate agents and closing signed contracts. PROJECT MANAGEMENT (SDLC) SOFT SKILLS
20 years (SDLC) project management experience
20 years technical writing experience
20 years’ experience eliciting project and business goals
Strong relational DBA experience
Prior HTML and MySQL programming ( 3 years’ experience)
Extensive experience managing .NET software development teams
Excellent communication, written and presentation skills
Extensive experience interviewing User’s and presenting to stakeholders
Delivering project plans and component application system designs
Presenting to banks and investors to fulfill short and long term financing
Exceptional conduit between stakeholders and PM’s, BA’s and programming
12 years extensive Component Based Development (CBD) experience
Leadership skills managing multi-million dollar application systems
E-Commerce PCI and Authorize.net integrations
E-Commerce FEDEX, UPS and DHL integrations
AMAZON API integrations
Extensive UAT experience
Android & (iOS) mobile application design and licensing management
Broad component based engineering and architecture design experience
Prior experience managing teams up to 200 programmers/PM’s
Capable of multitasking across numerous projects simultaneously
Deep experience defining, developing and writing algorithm requirements
Capable of writing complex Use Case studies and component/test scenarios
Direct management of custom software projects from $10K to 1M+
Strong ability to define and mitigate risk, scope and feature creep
Solid written communications skills preparing Statements of Work (SOW’s)
Software contract, pricing and change management negotiation skills
Demonstrated ability to managing teams on- and off-shore
15 years’ experience offering UX/UI screen design architecture
Proven experience creating low- and high-fidelity wireframes (20K+)
RFQ/RFP/RFI business requirement review and selection experience
Extensive Waterfall, Iterative and Agile application development experience Resume
John W Tomblin
14109 N. 83rd Avenue, Apt. 337
Phoenix, Arizona 85381
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SOFTWARE SKILLS
Balsamiq ( High – Interm.)
MS Visio (Low – Interm.)
MS Project (Low – Interm.)
Powerpoint (Expert)
MS Excel (Expert)
WireAtlas (Proprietary )
Camtasia Studio (Expert)
File Maker Pro 12 (Expert)
Workvue – (Proprietary )
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
University of Nevada at Las Vegas – Business Administration (1980 – 1983)
Real Estate Broker – State of Texas (1987 – 2003)
State Certified Real Estate Appraiser - State of Texas – (1990 – 2000)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – 2014
Member, PMP Institute, IIBA, Arizona Technology Council PERSONAL & INTERESTS
Favorite Authors – Guy Kawasaki, Michael Crichton, John Grisham
Avid reader of autobiographies
Many travels to the orient to visit family, as well as weekend excursions to cities across the Southwest, particularly amusement parks in Southern California
Happily married with one child
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