Tim Alonso

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Address: ***** ***** ******

City: Sonoma

State: CA

Zip: 95476

Country: USA

Phone: 650-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: 150

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TIM ALONSO

650-***-**** abovaj@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Corporate Real Estate Manager and Lease Transaction Specialist with extensive local, regional and international experience in corporate real estate transactions and facilities management, including a record of top production and results for project completion as a proactive multi-task manager in fast paced environments and an individual contributor reporting to executive levels.

* Skilled Contract Negotiator * Strategic Consulting and Deal Analysis

* Execution of Corporate Goals and Vision * Manage Complex Transactions

* Global Commercial Real Estate Experience * Expert Manager of Brokerage Firms and Legal Support Teams

Experience in key markets:

* Paris * Dublin * London * Tokyo

* Bangalore * Gurgaon * Mumbai * Hong Kong

* Sydney * Toronto * Geneva * Singapore

* Stockholm * Copenhagen * Munich * Utrecht

* Brussels * SF Bay Area * Washington DC * New York

* Boston * Miami * Atlanta * Chicago

* St. Louis * Dallas * Houston * Denver

* Los Angeles * Irvine * San Diego * Seattle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SALESFORCE.COM, San Francisco, CA 2005 - 2012

SFDC is a public software company (CRM) that is a global leader in providing on demand cloud computing software services.

Director of Real Estate 2005 - 2006

Organized a new real estate, construction project management, office services and facility team of 40+ staff with a $5 million operating budget that resulted in a stabilized department able to meet the challenges of a rapid phase of growth from 600 to a 2000 global employee base with increasing workplace service demands. Directly negotiated all leasing transactions with a real estate footprint expansion from 236K sf to over 600K sf involving 12 leases, 25 executive suite locations worldwide and $130M in contract obligations that effectively meet the challenge of securing dynamic environments to attract and retain top talent in core business districts. Transaction highlights include:

* San Francisco: One Market Plaza, $38M, 5 year term, 95,789` sq ft

* San Mateo: 900 Concar, $29.8M, 7 year term, 114,268` sq ft

* New York: 145 East 45th Street $11M, 10 year term, 15,750` sq ft

* Dublin, Ireland: Darling Park, $10M, 5 year term, 12,037` sq ft

Vice President of Leasing 2007 - 2010

Transitioned to a specialized focus in global real estate transactions after establishing workplace services team. Consistently achieved effective real estate outcomes by expert management of brokers, property managers, legal representatives and landlords on multiple global real estate transactions. Gained executive approvals and secured strategic sites where top sales, marketing, operations, finance and engineering talent would gravitate by leveraging in-depth real estate, demographics and fiscal research information on selected targets and negotiating sound market rates and terms on leases that protected the company. During this period managed transactions that accommodated a continuing headcount global growth from 2000 to 8000 employees encompassing another 16 leases, 10 executive suite locations in 582K sq ft and over $350M in total real estate contract obligations. Transaction highlights include:

* San Francisco: One California Street, $66M, 10 year term, 144,043` sq ft

* San Francisco: The Landmark at One Market, $95M, 10 year term, 226,892` sq ft

* San Francisco: 123 Mission Street, $35M, 10 year term, 112,635` sq ft

* Toronto, Canada: Waterpark Plaza, $12M, 5 year term, 66,729` sq ft

* Paris, France: 7 Place D`Iena, $10M, 6 year term, 15,726` sq ft

* London, UK (Staines): Lotus Park, $18M, 12 year term, 19,600` sq ft

* Geneva, Switzerland: Lake Geneva Center, $12M, 10 year term, 18,060` sq ft

* Tokyo, Japan: Roppongi Hills Tower, $60M, 6 year term, 46,729` sq ft

* Singapore, Singapore: Suntec Tower 2, $11M, 6 year term, 20,194` sq ft

* Stockholm, Sweden: Master Samuelsgatan, $2M, 5 year term, 3,508` sq ft

Vice President, Real Estate and Development-HQ 2010 - 2012

Key project contributor for San Francisco HQ campus site selection and evaluation team as lead real estate negotiator on purchase and sale transaction by effectively representing company to landlords, the real estate brokerage community, developers and city officials, conducting in-depth discussions, meetings and negotiations, touring viable potential site solutions with C-Suite executives, conducting employee feedback meetings and developing a final recommendation site shortlist.

* In November 2010, completed a 14 acre land transaction in the Mission Bay district on entitled property for $278.5M to build a campus headquarters. In 2011, responsible for the land asset management and participated in multiple development meetings with city officials, community associations, architects, project consultants and staff project team. In 2012, the campus project implementation was postponed.

CALLISMA, INC, Palo Alto, CA 1999 - 2005

A 5 year start-up network engineering consulting company purchased by SBC Communications Inc. (now AT&T) that provided complex network solutions for emerging companies.

Director of Real Estate and Facilities

* Executed a corporate strategy to position company for a public offering. Negotiated an interim office solution in a professional executive suite setting and conducted aggressive HQ site selection process that secured a highly visible Palo Alto location ready for occupancy within 9 months. In addition, within one year added over 12 field sales offices by managing all real estate lease negotiations, architect designs, general contractor work, furniture systems installation and all facility move-in processes.

* As company expanded, secured needed space requirements and managed company network of offices of over 66,000 square feet with $25M in total lease obligations in 15 markets of Class A office facilities that supported the rapid hiring of top quality network engineering consulting talent. After 4 years, the company retained over 200 high level consultants working in Fortune 100 firms, which resulted in Callisma being successfully acquired by SBC Communications.

ALL COVERED, INC, Redwood City, CA 2003 - 2005

A network consulting company with over 30 locations in US. Acquired in 2011 by Konica Minolta USA.

Real Estate Leasing and Facility Consultant

* Saved over $3M in bottom line facility annual budgets by successfully managing a right sizing effort for struggling company through negotiating effective termination of multiple non-productive leases in 16 locations shedding 83K square feet, subletting unwanted offices to new tenants, and relocating headquarters out of a difficult lease with closed office environment to premiere location in a high-tech environment with better market terms and open workplace conditions.

* Retained as consultant and managed over 50 lease contracts with $9M in total lease obligations. Aggressively promoted lease termination strategy by convincing landlords that a mutual benefit would be achieved by taking a one year rent settlement with fees plus remarketing fees (equal to what a landlord would receive under bankruptcy rules) in order to keep the company solvent.

EDUCATION

BA Liberal Arts, San Francisco State University

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member, Corenet Global Corporate Real Estate Association

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Windows, Excel, PowerPoint

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