Management Real Estate

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Jim Branden desires to work with a firm leading the industry by improving

the built environment. His diverse career spanning 25+ years includes

consulting to some of the nation's largest real estate developers, property

managers, retail organizations, federal and state construction agencies.

His experience includes representing owners and tenants in leasing

situations, programming, scoping, designing, inspecting construction,

monitoring maintenance and other aspects of the A/E/C/ industry. He has

managed facilities studies evaluating over 15,000,0000 square feet of

facilities and programmed / master planned / developed facility

requirements for many millions more. He has been a licensed architect with

buildings in many states. As a GSA certified Value Engineering Specialist

(VES), coupled with his other credentials, he:

. Designed all types of buildings for the private and public sectors

. Developed real property management plans

. Modeled state-of-the-art mobile field data-collections systems for

facility assessments (including physical, structural, mission support,

environmental, sanitary and social aspects)

. Created Capital Investment Strategies and Management Plans covering 5-

to 30-year spans

. Directed standardization of processes for reviewers on many aspects of

real estate acquisition, management and disposal

. Utilized best-practices from private sector standards including ASTM,

BOMA, etc.

Thus, his breadth and depth of experience enable him to plan and execute

complex projects related to all aspects of facilities: programming,

authorization, funding, planning, design, construction, user-assignments,

usage, mission adequacy, condition assessments, and decommissioning.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

. Scoping, negotiating, planning and managing multi-disciplinary teams

both within his company and other firms

. Communication, coordination, presentations, group facilitation and

consensus building

. Multi-governmental agency coordination with clients, contractors, and

all parties of the A/E/C industry

. Realty & Facility Master Plans

. Facility Condition Assessments / Utilization Studies

. Capital Investment Strategies

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

. M.B.A., Florida Atlantic University

. B.A., Architecture with Honors, North Carolina State University

. General Services Administration - Value Engineering Specialist

. American Planning Association - American Institute of Certified

Planners

. Project Management Association - Project Management Professional

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

The paragraphs below discuss the diversity of projects under his

leadership.

US Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) - lead his firm (a

subconsultant to a "small business") in planning, producing, editing and

coordinating the "Army Space Planning and Criteria Manual" (ASPCM) 2010

Edition. This 30-month effort resulted in a desk reference of 2,400 pages

covering: Reporting, Criteria, Planning, Programmable Increments, Land Use

& Site Planning Considerations, and Other Considerations, for each of the

950+ Army Facility Category Codes.

Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) Mr. Branden lead teams of land

planners, facility inspectors, retail shopping designers and engineers.

His innovative master planning process included holding charrettes that

included every organization affected by the AAFES decisions. These

assignments, across the US, in England and Germany, included dealing with

landlords, other tenants in the shopping centers, code officials,

regulators and other officials. The key to success came at the end of the

charrette process, when Mr. Branden, asked everyone to identify any of the

proposed 10 - 15 scenarios that their organization "could not live with if

AAFES decided to do this one?" That always narrowed the choices to 2 - 4

acceptable alternatives for further analysis.

Trammell Crow Company Mr. Branden was project architect for a number of

shopping centers, office / warehouse and other projects in central Florida,

with Trammell Crow as the owner / developer / property management client of

the small architectural firm with which he worked at the time.

References: Available upon request

Security Clearance: Secret (inactive)

Past member of:

AIA

CSI

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