James R. Browning

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Acworth, GA 30102

678-***-****

ad26yf@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

I am an accomplished construction manager and development manager with a consistent profit and loss history of achievement in operations management in serving clients in a wide variety of residential and commercial construction projects. I am strong strategic planning, problem recovery, and project management skills, a passion for learning accountable leadership and bottom line performance. I am recognized for integrity and innovation, relationship management, the ability to manage projects that leave increased operating results, revenues and contributed value for employers, customers and shareholders.

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023- 2024 Adams Homes Douglasville, GA

Site Superintendent

Residential construction of new homes on large septic lots.

Construction of new homes from start to finish.

Grading and setting of houses on lots with difficult topography.

90 day building times from poured slab stage of homes.

2022- 2023 Campbell Development Phoenix, AZ

Site Superintendent

Demolition 50,000 square feet of asphalt, removal of existing dry and wet utilities, and two existing service garages.

Construction of a 50,000 square foot service and parts building (48 lifts).

Block exterior construction (24 foot in height).

All coordination while other service buildings, parts building and dealership still in operation.

Managed contracts, schedules, materials, quality and inspections.

2022 Threecore Sarasota, FL

Site Superintendent

Supervised all phases of the ground up construction of a one story 17,000 square foot storage facility at a location that was already operating. Coordination with their General Manager on when construction will affect the companies business. Tilt Wall construction. Managed contracts, schedules, materials, quality and inspections. Creating a relationship with the owner, contractors and municipality.

2014- 2022 Freelance

Professional Contracts

Performed under a contract to perform work in Georgia and Florida with multiple companies in varies fields of construction. Will discuss in detail.

2013- 2014 Seats Oats Group Atlanta, GA

Developer Representative

Represented Atlanta based developer on a project in Port Aransas, Texas (Mustang Island) on the Gulf of Mexico.

Managed the construction of developing new phases of residential and commercial building lots. This included management of engineer, cost analysis, analysis of construction contracts and construction schedule.

Managed Texas based General Contractor in the construction of a 15-unit condominium building. This included running a weekly construction meeting on progress and issues, working through issues with the architect, coordination with engineer to meet wind and storm requirements for insurance and quality control walks.

2004- 2013 Heritage Residential Atlanta, GA

Owner and President

Managed all phases of a residential production building companies. My companies built in Douglas, Paulding, Cobb, North Fulton, South Fulton and Bartow Counties.

Communities built in by my residential building companies included Anneewakee Trails, Barrett Chase, Cottage Cove, Highland Falls, Evans Mill, Miller’s Pond, Ivey Meadow, Park at Cedar Crest, Senators Ridge, Carter Grove Plantation, Pembroke Hill and Eagles Crest.

Created building efficiencies through design and pricing to get sales prices to $50 per square foot in some communities.

Worked out of real-estate debit with financial institutions during the housing slow down. Was able to do so with out filling for bankruptcy or lawsuit with my lending financial institutions.

Produced sales revenues of $37,000,00 over the nine years of building homes in Atlanta, which equates to well over 300 homes. The reaming couple of years were spent navigating out of debt on lots and homes.

Six custom homes were also built ranging from $700,000 to $1,500,000. This is not included in the revenues of $37,000,000 listed above.

1997-2004 Morrison Homes Atlanta, GA

2003-2004

Land Resources Manager, Project Manager

Managed land resources of west side of Atlanta communities.

Managed all management companies in active communities.

Development of property owned by Morrison.

Due diligence of property under contract to purchase.

Acquisition of property.

Managed relationships with Development Partners.

Managed relationships with Real Estate Brokers.

2001-2003

Area Construction Manager

Managed 12 communities on the west side of Atlanta.

Implemented Morrison Homes policies and procedures during the acquisition of South life Homes.

Implementation of SAP. Atlanta construction was run by two Area Construction Managers, I managed the west side of town.

Implemented 18-week construction schedule.

Increased customer satisfaction rating last year of 86% willing to refer (this has increased over 10% from prior years).

Reduced money spent in subdivision overhead by half, since 2001.

Created policies for making trade partners responsible in their ownership in the home building process.

1998-2001

Builder

Trained two assistant builders. Both became Builders the following year.

Reduced construction schedule by 30 days.

Managed through terrible topography at Senator's Ridge, while minimizing cost.

Maintained budgets with minimal extra cost (made trade partners responsible for their mistakes).

Created and managed a one week building of a Habitat for Humanity home in Canton.

1998-1998

Builder II

Managed back end of construction schedule.

Managed all walk through lists prior to closing.

Learned various styles of management.

1997-1998

Customer Service Representative

Managed the completion of all work performed on the 60 day, 11 month, and 22 month reviews.

1996-1997 J.R. Browning Construction, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA

President

Renovations, decks, porches, and fences.

Managed and maintained all facets of the business.

1993-1996 Homes By Ken Butera, Inc. Snellville, GA

Carpenter

Carpenter on framing crew

Built decks and porches on all houses under construction.

1993 Menards Crystal Lake, IL

Sales representative, Millwork

CAD drawings and layouts kitchen cabinets.

Ordered Crestline and Anderson windows and doors.

EDUCATION

1993-1997 DeKalb College Atlanta, GA

Business Administration.

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