portfolio management
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Georgia Leon
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **** ***** *** **
City: Sammamish
State: WA
Zip: 98074
Country: USA
Phone: 425-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: 110
Willing to Relocate
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Georgia Leon
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgialeon
CAREER SUMMARY
15 years in commercial real estate with experience providing senior leadership in portfolio management, lease administration, project management and facility management. Proven ability to drive multiple projects simultaneously across all levels of an organization to achieve compliance, financial performance and corporate growth objectives. Demonstrated team leadership and supervision experience with strengths in leading change, continuous process improvement, talent management, development and retention. Provide coaching, team vision and performance management, driving business growth and alignment with company values. Skilled at developing and maintaining long-term relationships with vendors, business partners, industry and trade associations.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
T-Mobile, USA Bellevue, WA 2006-2012
Senior Manager, Real Estate and Facilities Operations (2011 - 2012)
Sr. Manager Lease Compliance (2007- 2011), Portfolio Manager (2006-2007)
Led the Real Estate Facilities team working across the division and various lines of the business as a one-stop partner for lease compliance, facility management and workplace efficiencies. Manage and set the strategic direction for a team of 7 providing overall operations and facilities management for the Corporate Campus, 70 Regional Business Offices, Area and Regional Headquarters and other admin facilities. Operations include 220 leases with annual rents of $144MM.
Managed a division budget of over $25MM and worked closely with the Real Estate Facilities Finance team throughout the budgeting process.
Worked closely with Real Estate Partners in collaboration and implementation of strategic direction and partner with Lines of Business to nationally support mission essential and people-centric assigned locations.
Provided leadership on programs and projects continually focusing on identifying inefficiencies and establishing controls and measurements to drive ongoing process improvement.
Carried out management and administration of the lease portfolio including compliance for all design and construction, facilities management, landlord liaison, date escalation and SOX/ICS processes.
Participated in the development and execution of a comprehensive business plan that resulted in the abstraction process being brought in-house creating a savings of over $1MM for the company.
Collaborated on a cross functional team that developed the Facilities Escalation Process. Presented process to stakeholders for review and engaged internal/external partners for input on identifying proactive tools for escalation, business risk and gaps in communication.
Provided cross-functional leadership and process integration with customers and business partners including Legal, Finance, Outsourced Vendors, Transaction Management, Design, Construction and Facilities.
Management and renegotiation of a national vendor contract, including facilitating team meetings, process improvement and Service Level Agreements. Achieved annual contract spend reduction of $250,000.
Facilitated vendor management of a fortune 500 accounting audit firm for a common area maintenance (CAM) audit contract with an annual contract spend of $400,000.
Senior Manager, Lease Compliance, Real Estate and Facilities, Continued Collaborated with organizational changes within Lease Compliance resulting in the implementation of a Quality Control group to improve auditing and reporting.
Provided ongoing coaching and group training sessions for team members to drive performance improvement in work organization, communication, dealing with change and conflict management.
Legacy Commercial, LLC Bellevue, WA 2001 - 2005
Commercial Property/Asset Manager
Managed all aspects of property management for 1.4 million square feet of retail shopping centers, high rise office buildings and industrial properties. Managed over 36 commercial buildings across United States and Canada and held responsibility of managing all aspects of over a $5 million dollar budget.
Financial oversight and management of common areas, tenant improvements, capital improvements, variance reports, quarterly reports, year-end projections and ten year projections.
Responsible for three class A office buildings over 100,000 square feet full service buildings.
Managed all vendor relationships and projects for Capital and Tenant Improvement totaling over $2 million and ranging from 1,000 to over 25,000 square feet.
Capital improvement projects included a 130 ton HVAC unit install, five roof replacements (approximately 30,000 square feet), full remodel/expansion of a building in Canada and parking lot improvements.
Assisted with leasing transactions and managing all tenant improvements projects for a class A building that was less than 60% vacant to over 90% occupancy in less than a year.
Facilitated contract review and renegotiation for vendor contracts and lease payments not being collected resulting in over $100,000 budget savings and additional income in the first year of employment.
Bay West/The Seattle Design Center Seattle, WA 1998- 2001
Assistant Property Manager
Managed all aspects of commercial property management for 500,000 square feet consisting of three buildings including retail and 30% office spaces. Led vendor projects including monitoring, negotiating and communication of all contracts.
Managed all aspects of $1.5 million budget including creating the budget for common areas, tenant cost of goods sold, one- time expenses, tenant improvement projects and capital improvements.
CB Richard Ellis Real Estate Services Seattle, WA 1996- 1998
Sr. Facilities Customer Service
Centralized Call Center for clients, follow up calls with customers and vendors and dispatching vendors
Facilities Department supporting Washington Mutual, American Savings Bank and Great Western Banks.
EDUCATION DESIGNATIONS
Master of Arts, Consulting and Coaching in Organizations
Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS): Bastyr University
Bachelor of Science, Applied Behavioral Science
Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS): Bastyr University/Leadership
CoreNet Board of Directors -VP of Communications for Seattle Chapter
MCR Candidate (Masters of Corporate Real Estate)
Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM)
CPM Candidate (Certified Property Manager)
Washington State Associate Broker License
Six Sigma Greenbelt Certified
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS TRAINING
CoreNet Global 2008- present Seattle Chapter Leadership Board- VP of Communications 2010 current MCR (Masters of Corporate Real Estate) Candidate MCR Course Performance Management 2011 MCR Course Managing Effectively in Global Markets 2011 Global Summit Chicago 2011, San Diego 2008 CoreNet Workplace Discovery Workplace Mobility 2010 Portfolio Management 2008
IREM 2010- present CPM Candidate (Certified Property Manager) Human Resources Essentials for Real Estate Managers Marketing and Leasing for Office Portfolio Property Maintenance and Risk Management Investment Real Estate: Financial Tools Ethics for Real Estate Managers
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified Workplace Efficiencies Six Sigma project Quality Fundamentals
NRTA Conference 2008 Development in Retail Law Renewal Option Reviews Real Estate Finance for Lease Administrators Project Management
Accruent Insights Conference, 2008
High-level overview of the Lease Administration application, including abstracting a lease, processing rent payments and managing financials.
Law Seminars International 2008
Latest Information on negotiating and enforcing commercial leases including negotiations, new developments in landlord/tenant relationships: Case law update from Washington and insights from other states.
Deloitte 2006
Lease Audit Training Lease Administration
T-Mobile Corporate Training
Completed over 50 hours of coursework including Leadership Excellence, Team Development, Performance Improvement and 360 Evaluation.
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