Manager Maintenance
Resume:
Willard R. Simmons
Canyon Country, Ca. 91351
abmx5q@r.postjobfree.com
Dear Sirs
Thank you for taking the time to look at resume.
I'm a highly motivated and well experienced individual who is looking for a
career position in your organization.
I bring with me over 30 years of dedicated and quality achievements on
which I have accomplished the goals and visions of the companies. Bringing
about cost saving enhancements, improved production of employees and
streamlining of actual policies and procedures in organization. With this
experience comes a person well organized, efficient, having strong
leadership and communication skills, and a willingness to work hard to
accomplish the goals of the company by taking ownership of my
responsibilities set before me.
Thank you for your time. I look forward to hearing from you in the near
future.
Respectively yours
Willard R. Simmons
EXPERIENCED DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
SUMMARY STATEMENT
I'm a highly experienced, results oriented leader with a proven track
record in managing multimillion-dollar budgets, bringing higher
productivity and cost saving measures to organizations along with
comprehensive strategic planning and implementation skills; With over 30
years experience in this field, I bring expert direction in development,
technology integration, and customer satisfaction. Demonstrated ability to
acquire technical knowledge and skills rapidly. Innovative problem solver,
able to see the business and technical sides of a problem. Proven
leadership, negotiation and problem resolution abilities. Exceptional
communication skills, both oral and written. Published author, and frequent
keynote speaker at industry conferences. I look forward to hearing from you
in the near future.
Respectively yours
WORK HISTORY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
May 2009-March 2010
Executive Director of Facilities
SRO Housing Corporations
354 S Spring Street
Los Angeles, Ca. 90013
As Director of Facilities, my goals were to increase productivity, morale,
organizational structure and training, while decreasing overall costs and
corruption within the ranks. My daily responsibilities included the
oversight of:
. 26 hotels with 2200 tenants, the facilities maintenance, security and
parks department along with all transportation vehicles.
. Oversight of a $3 million dollar budget .
. The creation of new policy & procedures for both security and
facilities
. Streamline and clean-up the work order system (Yardi) campus wide.
. Hire competent leadership in both facilities and security departments.
The results of my achievements were considerable:
. After a few months, hired competent leaders in both departments that
raised the bar considerably and had tremendous positive results while
wiping out corruption by removing those responsible for these acts.
. Saved the corporation $8.2 M in a licensee oversight that would have
crippled the company.
. Raised the morale and productivity by good management, trustworthiness
and a team mindset.
. Started the process of writing and incorporating both a policy and
procedures manual, giving better structure and accountability to
departments personel.
. Increased productivity of maintenance workers by 50% by dividing the
facility department into 3 separate divisions with good leadership in
all.
. Decreased loss of funds by increasing productivity, creating computer
monitoring inventory, decreasing down time of completed repairs, and
increasing training of staff.
In carrying out these responsibilities, other skills sets were used such as
production of working drawings, specification and outlay of construction
projects and remodels, project coordination, conceptual drawings for
planning future projects, dealing with vendors, consultants and
contractors, in-house staff, tenants and volunteers, contract oversight,
the creation of scope of work, estimating and schedules, complete budget
oversight of security, maintenance and the parks departments, safety/OSHA
compliance and training, fire code enforcement and corrections through
Regulation 4 and fire alarm operations, cubical design and the development
of preventative maintenance programs.
PERSONAL SKILL SETS:
. Computer literate in Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint.
And Yardi.
. High organizational and efficiency abilities.
. Budget savvy.
. Strong knowledge of transportation scheduling, and preventative
maintenance programs, pull notices on buses, vans, work trucks.
. Strong interpersonal skills.
. Great communication skills in both speech and writing.
. Detail oriented with project management skills.
. Good investigative abilities due to security/law enforcement
background .
. Strong knowledge of security surveillance, recordings, and Detex
systems.
. Strong knowledge in all construction/maintenance arenas; Turn key.
. Strong in taking ownership of responsibilities.
. Certified locksmith, ability to create key systems.
1996-2008
Facilities Manager
The Masters College
21726 Placerita Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, Ca. 91321
As Facility manager my responsibilities entailed the maintenance, repairs,
remodel and preventative maintenance on 36 large campus buildings with a
large staff of tradesman dedicated to this task. In coming to the college
there was dissention, low morale, no work order system and very
disorganized. My goals were to:
. Develop PM programs.
. Develop and streamline the work order system.
. Reorganize department to increase productivity by accountability,
raising morale and a team concept mindset.
. Reorganize facilities compound by the creation of specific trades
areas, inventory control and overall organizational cleanliness.
. Increasing open communication between facilities, staff and students.
I also sought to increase my own awareness of skill sets used by
crewmembers by taking night classes and gaining both licenses and
experiences in the trades of HVAC, electrical, carpentry, plumbing, fire
codes, blueprint reading, general construction and maintenance. With my new
skills in these areas along with the skills I already had, all enhanced my
ability to achieve these marvelous goals for the College. Upon leaving
after 12 years of faithful service the department was well organized with
very high morale, operated efficiently, and was well organized.
1986-1996
Facilities Manager
Grace Community Church
13248 Roscoe Blvd
Sun Valley, Ca. 91352
As facility manager my responsibilities included the management of 12 large
buildings with over 1 million square feet of high daily use, with a
membership of 10,000. In coming to the facilities organization, I found it
to be disorganized, having low moral, low productivity and a lack of
accountability. After a short time all these areas were addressed and all
departments became highly organized, very productive in achieving their
daily responsibilities, having a high morale due to a sense of a team
concept.
Within this capacity I had the following responsibilities.
. Streamlining the facilities, security, grounds, custodial and
transportation departments by reducing downtime of repairs, calls for
service or security needs by 30% and increased production by 40% by
several means:
. Creation of a computerized work order system,
. Time management training of crews, and higher accountability of skill
sets for each department.
. Enhancing the policy and procedure methodology, and management by
walking around.
. Creation and implementation of preventative maintenance programs in
HVAC, boilers, heaters and other systems.
Involved in the oversight of this position was production of work drawings,
specification and outlay of construction projects, Project coordination,
conceptual drawings, dealing with vendors, consultants and contractors,
staff and volunteers, the creation of scope of work, estimating and
schedules, complete budget oversight, safety/OSHA compliance, cubical
design and the daily planning and execution of all in house staff of
custodial, security, grounds, maintenance and the transportation
department: (Giving oversight to several buses and vans, maintenance,
planning, CHP checks, pull notices, etc) .
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Married 26 years, four adult married children and 6 grandchildren.
EDUCATION
*B.A. degree in Social Psychology: "California Baptist
University" Riverside, California, 1981.
*M.A. in Counseling, The Masters College
Santa Clarita, California, 2006
*HVAC and Electrical training from North Valley Occupational center,
San Fernando Valley, California. 2004-2005. Licensed in both areas.
*Fire & electrical code class from North Valley Occupational center,
San Fernando Valley, Ca. 2005-2006.
*OSHA training at the Master's College 2007-2008.
*Facilities Management training institute. 2000. Fulfilled course with high
academic
marks.
*Pierce College: 1976, Dairy science certification for 2 year program
San Fernando Valley, Ca.
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