Real Estate Sales
Resume:
SAMANTHA CRISTIANO
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTRUCTION ASSISTANT
Motivated and organized professional assistant with 3+ years of experience
supporting and coordinating the activities of owners, project managers,
purchasing officers, and analysts involved in buying services, materials,
and products for South Florida based construction and real estate
development, and 8+ years of success in wholesale and retail global trade
merchandising, production, and procurement management.
Specialize in account management, vendor communications, and efficient
operations leadership assistance.
Cost Accounting
Vendor Relations
NTO Files
AP Support
Systems Planning
Prepare Submittals
Follow Dispatch
Transcribe Minutes
Priority Scheduling
Budget Tracking
Cost Coding
Collect COI
Document Drafting
Logging
File Management
Microsoft Office
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
PURCHASING & PLANNING
. Increased cash flow by 30% for a 30m project on-site by monitoring
critical path priority purchases and initiating and managing billings and
receivables of stored material inventories for Project Managers
. Communicated, monitored, and tracked purchases of equipment, materials,
and services in regional office for 6 projects on a daily basis, and
scheduled deliveries to site by corresponding with suppliers, Insured
project's purchasing execution, and plan timelines
. Produced historical reports for implementing new and analyzing old buys
for project profitability for 6 road and bridge construction projects
. Provided current Purchase Order status for Project Managers to accurately
negotiate with 175 suppliers and 20 subcontractors, mitigated financial
crunches and improved cash flow by $3.3 million
. Championed cross-administrative support to interior and exterior teams to
include estimators, analysts, project managers, directors, FDOT
engineers, bond agents, and field managers, logged Insurance, waivers,
new purchases, and project progress approvals
. Coordinated overall internal communications and backup for CEO, CFO, and
CPA to include financial reports, purchase orders, A/P statements,
contracts, risks, projections, budgets, cost accounting, drawings, and
site plans, prevented large preliminary payables and claims
. Generated and managed a division's maintenance, and progress calendar by
coordinating extensive meeting arrangements including phasing changes and
minutes for CEOs, developers, 2 controllers, and 6 project managers
. Attended progress meetings and followed job progress thru Primavera,
FDOT's required Progress Software
. Managed several custom lifestyle and luxury projects to include private
capsule collection for Cirque Du Soleil selling out thru performances
worldwide, a co-brand product for BORBA Cosmetics for sale in the U.S.
promoted by Eva Longoria, and a global travel brand promoted by Brad Pitt
. Procured, purchased, and produced raw, textile, leather, hardware,
furniture, POS software, and packaging materials for several consumer
industries in Italy, New York, Barcelona, and Paris including NYC retail
storefronts, residential, fashion, and accessory brands
Sales & Marketing
. Generated and sold to 300 contract and partnership clients on 3
continents thru brand identification, travel, and online presence
. Coached and developed global sales agents in 6 showrooms and market
presence in 13 countries, drove sales by over 25% by closing contracts
with retailers in Tokyo, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
. Increased team's real estate rental sales by 20% by quickly and
consistently following-up on leads, added new appointments for a top-
producing team specializing in exclusive loft-style developer conversions
. Showed penthouses and lofts, and held open houses to progressive
clientele and celebrities resulting in new multi-million dollar sales
. Created, purchased, distributed, and managed inventories of real estate
and product marketing packages by writing descriptions, press releases
and kits, pricelists, photo and video, and hired stagers for rental and
sales units, uploaded to MLS, Postlets, and Loopnet platforms
. Designed, launched, and updated simple and clean websites thru
communications with media engineers
Executive Operations, P&L Management, and Communications Leadership
. Assisted with spear-heading creation and management of division's master
purchasing budget plan by proofreading, resolving, and communicating with
500 account holders generating over $160m of income for firm thru
Foundations software and Excel
. Organized corporate real estate entities, purchases, and sales to
include, property management, acquisition, taxes, leases, client
communications, and transaction coordination
. Supervised a team of 6 reports and assisted with recruiting and on-
boarding of new office administration, and accounting professionals for
regional office with 400 employees
Professional Experience
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS ASSISTANT SEPTEMBER 2009 - APRIL
2012
Posen Construction, Incorporated Fort Myers and Fort Lauderdale, Florida
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CEO November 2008 - August 2009
Posen Construction, Incorporated Rockledge, Florida
OPERATIONS PROCESS AND MARKETING COORDINATOR May 2008 - October 2008
KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY
Los Angeles, California
PRINCIPAL AND DIRECTOR, BRAND MARKETING April 2003 - April 2008
Wake Industries, Incorporated New York, New York and Los Angeles,
California
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
HCSS, SUGARLAND, TX 2010
Heavy Jobs Inventory MMS, Process Management MRP, and Dispatch Software
Real Estate Salesman License 2008
Department of Real Estate, California
A.A.S., F.I.T, New York 1997-2004
Inventory Management and Design
American Intercontinental University, London, U.K.
1997
International Business Trade Management
Central Michigan University, Michigan
1994-
1997
Finance, and General Business
Selected Professional Association
. Leadership Lee County, Community, Business Improvement, Chamber of SW
Florida, 2010
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