Courtland Holman

**** ****** *****

Patterson, CA 95363

209-***-****

E-mail: abmnaq@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

A management position that utilizes my strong management, development,

engineering and construction skills gained through more than 20 years of

experience with the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Pittsburg, City of

Brentwood, ARCO, Tosco, and other companies.

Experience

City of Pittsburg, California

Redevelopment Agency Project Manager

April 2008 - February 2010

Responsible for various mixed use and economic development projects within

the Redevelopment Agency's adopted areas as well as marketing Pittsburg's

downtown to developers, brokers, and business owners in order to revitalize

an under-utilized downtown.

. Lobby government officials for additional funding for low income housing.

. Provide or implement infrastructure so that low income and commercial

development can occur.

. Write staff report and resolutions to Agency Board and City Council for

funding, loans, property purchase or sales, and contracts.

. Negotiate with property owners and developers on loans, contractual

issues, terms and conditions for commercial, low income residential,

market rate residential, and mixed use projects that include Los Medanos

Village, Siena Court Senior Apartments, Bay Area Regional Transit, Mecca

Block, and others.

. Construct various residential and commercial building while maintaining

budgets associated with various projects that range up to $15 million.

. Created or obtained marketing tools and demographic studies and developed

materials to attract business and industry to locate within Pittsburg.

. Coordinated with governments, consultants, and outside legal counsel on

mixed use and historical project.

. Hired and directed a marketing consultant in a focus effort for the

revitalization of the downtown.

. Interact with real estate brokers, SBDC and other economic development

associations in East Contra Costa County.

. Act as the safety coordinator for the Redevelopment Agency.

City of Brentwood, California

Economic Development Project Manager

November 2001 - February 2008

Responsible for attracting new business to this fast-growing Northern

California city and facilitating the interactions between developers,

brokers, residents, business owners, and the city to ensure a positive

experience. I helped attract over a million square feet of new commercial

development to the City of Brentwood.

. Acted as a single point of contact between developers, business operators

and the City, meeting with and assisting them with their projects. Serve

as an advocate for the City as well as the new businesses, providing

assistance to the departments of Planning, Engineering and Parks to

ensure timely responses from city staff, developers, business owners,

consultants, and applicants.

. Created or obtained marketing tools and demographic studies and developed

materials to attract business and industry to locate within Brentwood.

Created an innovative web-based property locator to enable developers and

businesses to quickly locate and evaluate potential building sites in the

city.

. Created a one stop preliminary fee estimate for developers that greatly

reduced the time involved in obtaining permitting for projects from each

department by a factor of months.

. Successfully focused efforts to grow and retain existing retail business

and to expand home based business into storefront or business park

locations.

. Proactively reached out to desired businesses and industries with direct

mail and marketing, encouraging them to locate in Brentwood and at the

City sponsored Sunset Industrial Park.

. Worked with East Bay Economic Development Alliance to attract Bio-Medical

firms to East Contra Costa County.

Greenburg Farrow, Inc.

Site Development Coordinator, Oakland, CA.

August 2001 - November 2001

Short-term position to manage and complete several commercial development

projects for a major retailer. Managed staff, consultants and contract

terms to ensure projects were on budget and financially successful.

. Primary client point of contact for projects.

. Managed project schedule and real estate transactions.

. Meet with cities on big box retail projects to obtain planning commission

approvals.

A&S Engineering, Inc.

General Manager, Walnut Creek, CA.

January 2001- August 2001

Managed architectural-engineering office and projects in the convenience

retail field including gas stations and retail outlets, responsible for

hiring office staff, sub-consultants and general contractors. Managed

budgets and created the bid, building and implementation process for a

variety of new ground-up and remodeled construction projects.

. Reviewed construction drawings as created by staff and consultants.

. Attended public hearings and facilitated the development and permitting

for construction.

. Negotiate contract with business owner or developer.

Tosco Marketing Company

Construction Manager, Costa Mesa, CA.

June 2000- January 2001

Construction management for the retail marketing arm of Tosco Corporation,

one of the largest independent marketers of petroleum products in the U.S.

and the largest operator of company controlled convenience stores. Managed

contractors, consultants and budgets of more than $10 million.

. Managed and created the bid, building and implementation process for a

variety of new ground-up and remodeled construction projects for the

Circle K convenience stores and 76 gasoline stations.

. Attended public hearings to facilitate the development and permitting for

construction.

. Managed staff responsible for mailing bids, assigning purchase orders and

processing invoices.

ARCO Products Company

Sr. Project Engineer, La Palma, CA.

August 1988- June 2000

Increasing management responsibility at California's largest petroleum

marketing company. Work lead to two company-wide awards for energy and

environmental efficiency. Responsible for the management of significant

corporate projects with multi-million dollar budgets throughout the state

of California.

. Managed the implementation of "ARCO and am/pm Building and Brand Image" a

marketing program to update ARCO's and am/pm's identity.

. Created comprehensive scopes of work, budgeted, implemented and managed

numerous "New Look" marketing and branding projects involving more than

1200 sites including: $21 million canopy fascia, $18 million am/pm

building, $3MM SmogPros and conventional station, $2MM coffee dispensing,

and $4 MM maintenance programs.

. Managed the bid, build and implementation process for a variety of unique

buildings and the prototype quick serve restaurant concepts, some of

which were adopted throughout the chain.

. Managed the construction of a variety of co-brand fast food restaurants

at ARCO am/pm locations.

. Worked with marketing department on their projects, made suggestions,

changes and implemented the final results.

. Estimated, designed and managed the installation of some of the state's

first photovoltaic energy generation systems at 3 ARCO facilities.

. Estimated new, reconstructed and remodeled locations for ARCO stations

and optimized master building and canopy drawings and reduced

construction costs by $200,000.

. Environmental Compliance Health and Safety Engineer from 1989 through

1996 for buildings and USTs.

. Helped develop and implement ARCO's compliance testing and reporting

database.

Kawneer Company Inc. Engineer, Visalia, CA.

August 1987- August 1988

. Designed and drafted curtain walls, doors and windows for various

projects including the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas Nevada and the Atrium

at Lawrence Livermore Labs in California.

Education

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno CA.

A..S. General Engineering, College of Sequoia's, Visalia CA.

Awards

ARCO awards only 10 prestigious Stamp out Waste employee Awards each year,

company wide, for employees who identify new ideas to save the company

energy, money or to improve the environmental impact of the company.

. Stamp out Waste 1999 and 1992. Worked with a team member to design, build

and implement a proprietary LED identification sign that is energy

efficient and was a first in the industry and worked with a team member

to research and implement a device to prevent leaks in single wall

underground storage tanks, saving the company more than $1 million

dollars in cleanup costs.

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