Ruben Rivera
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Senior Project Manager
Management Executive
Over 14 years’ experience driving strategic growth and production capabilities for leading construction
corporate. Highly competitive, passionate, persuasive and articulate, able to achieve results others
believed to be impossible. Experienced in scheduling, building and product management, large scale
project tracking, completions as well as tracking tenant issues and resident scheduling.
Demonstrated success record in:
Branding, managing and positioning product lines.
Distilling value, overcoming objections and securing hard to close deals.
Experienced with both private and governmental projects and goals, engaged in strategies
and tactics corporate and government clients to limit the effect of transition on their customers.
Motivating staff to peak performance levels.
Proven record of success, working with clients and their subcontractors to produce the products
they desired
CORE COMPETENCIES
• Tracking large scale projects • Tracking correspondences • Creation of
specifications
• Implementing polices for clients • Creation of tracking logs • Auditing and Compliance
• Attend community meetings • Creation of meeting minutes • Solution creation
HIGHLIGHTED CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
Revenue Generation Within two years, generated nearly $2 million in value engineering.
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Account Development – Created new revenue streams by reached out large national firms
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seeking to add value to their portfolios with a repair replacement program.
IT Office Upgrade – Revamped office procedures to a more modern electronic/paperless
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friendly environment, within first year.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Reliant Construction Incorporated Chicago Illinois 2003 – Present
Senior Project Manager
• Within two years, generated nearly $2 million in business savings/revenue.
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Increased revenue by 16% from $1.3Million to $1.9 Million within one year.
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Generate sales through agency and direct clients.
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Work closely with clients to identify their needs and challenges and provide solutions oriented
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processes and timelines..
Created a process that allowed for value engineering on nearly every project. Where Reliant
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teams and Client teams would meet to discuss strategies to save capital.
Hispanic Housing Development Corporation Chicago Illinois 2002 2003
Property Manager
• Hired by a CHA subcontractor to create a rotating maintenance and long term
maintenance/replacement program.
• Managed the repair needs of nearly 1,300 units and a staff of approximately 45.
• Created safety programs, vehicle maintenance programs, modernization plan, etc.
• Created and oversaw hiring of workers to repair approx 200 units of vacant housing to be repaired
for new residents,
• Tracking and rotating units out of the vacancy status to occupied and then adding new units to
vacancy/repair list as they became vacant.
Pacific Construction Services Chicago Illinois 2000 2002
Project Manager
Managed the Chicago Housing Authorities “Plan for Transformation” a 100 million dollar vision
to remodel over 3.000 units of occupied housing.
Creation of a master tracking matrix, creation a meeting schedule, for meetings with the Client,
with subcontractors, and residents.
Creation of building specification that would allow remodeling of 3,000 individual, each one
occupied and each one different in specification from the next.
Creation of e file system, based in excel so that all parties would be able to review it, without
software upgrades or special equipment.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and American Studies, Depaul University, 1996