Jeff Szalkowski

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Rochester, NY ***17

585-***-****

ady8sh@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

Experienced Facility/Property Manager. Commercial/Residential, with 25 years of experience managing large scale Class A office, manufacturing, college facilities & housing, apartment complexes, retail malls & health care organizations. Supervise & manage, buildings & grounds staff, Superintendents, EVS Managers, specialized trades, office personnel, custodial, sub-contractors & vendors. Maintain excellent tenant/landlord, customer, student/family & community relations with a very diverse group of professional clientele in all of the above environments.

Ready to take on any existing or newly developing projects with or without substantial complexities, in any field that may interest me and benefit you, where as my life experience will contribute to making a difference while accomplishing your mission even if it may be outside the box of the realm of my documented experience. Open to temporary leading to permanent assignments.

Professional Experience

Temporary/out of town Sodexho Corporation @ Weinberg Campus 2700 N. Forest Rd.

09/2012 Getzville, NY

Manager of Facilities Engineering

900,000 sf total space at a skilled care, independent & assisted senior living community on 75 acres. Also 706 independent and assisted living apartments, physical therapy center with gym, spa, pool, available to nonresidents, theater & several other amenities, entailing all facets of high quality senior care living & of mechanical, environmental health, safety & facilities engineering management. My team consists of a mechanical staff of 8. 55 Environmental Services (EVS) personnel, 3 EVS supervisors, a working foreman, Environmental Health & Safety Manager, Assistant Facilities Manager, Office Administrative Assistant & 22 contracted vendors. Work daily with the Dietary & Food Services team.

2010-2014 Self-employment (home improvements) Self-improvement,

Independent course studies, physical training, travel, volunteering, semi-

retirement, family. Ready for work.

2006-2009 Herkimer County Community College Herkimer NY

Assistant Director of Facilities and Operations

This position was created for the restructuring the maintenance department for the newly acquired College Housing Corporation, along with assisting the Director of Facilities with daily operations and maintenance/repairs of the College buildings/grounds & several on-going, year round scheduled events. Full responsibility of Housing’s 240 - 4 bedroom, furnished apartments, summer camps, develop bid specifications & manage capital improvement projects including the clerking of the 12 million dollar Library addition/renovation. Created a master maintenance plan for the Housing Corporation. Created Green initiatives that gained media attention and solicitation of our green initiative achievements from other prominent college campuses in NYS. Special event planning & implementation. Developed & managed a multitude of on-going campus capital improvement projects, building inspections, mechanical troubleshooting & supervision of Union trades, student employees, including community service jobs.

1985-2005 Beckenstein Enterprises (183 Eastern Parkway Realty Corp.) East Hartford CT.

Senior Property Manager (same employer below different locations)

Assisted with the sale and transfer of The Hartford’s North Eastern Platinum Sales & Service, Processing Center in N.Y. Promoted & transferred to Springfield, MA. To restructure, improve all residential & commercial properties, customer relations, occupancy, and late rents, negotiate leases, hire new maintenance staff & manage a 760,000 SF mixed use office, industrial & manufacturing, retail business complex including a 100,000 sf, highly secured environmentally controlled medical supply warehouse for Bay State Hospital. Increased revenues by 30% and achieved a 90 % occupancy rate from 60% within 8 months. Oversee the maintenance & management of a separate 350 unit apartment complex. Conducted comprehensive engineering/structural building inspections of all company owned properties, & eventually prepared for sale due to Mr. Robert Beckenstein’s (owner) passing.

1985-2005 Beckenstein Enterprises New Hartford, NY (location)

Senior Property Manager & Company Facilities Advisor

Base managed 100k sf Hartford Insurance North East Platinum Sales & Service Center. Performing region wide remedial staff managerial & maintenance, property, facilities & customer/tenant relations within a 1.9 msf diverse portfolio. Provide reports on all property functions, activities & needs. Train, coach, counsel & evaluate staff performance. Make presentations to staff, management & administration. Developed proactive master maintenance & preventive maintenance programs including fleet vehicles, landscape & construction equipment. Enforce high standards of cleanliness, environmental health & safety, energy conservation & management.

Plan; write specifications, coordinate, direct, review architectural drawings, for the development & implementation of multiple capital projects, to assure contract compliance & optimum return on investments. Conduct screenings, interviews & hiring’s for staff & management. Coordinate & evaluate all maintenance & managerial functions of newly acquired properties from development to occupancy & operations. Perform other specialized duties as requested by the owner.

Commended achievements pursued on my own initiatives beyond expectations. Attain PILOT, NYS Economic Development incentives, NYSERDA grants & energy enhancement savings, design/install EMS-energy management systems & computerized work order/preventative maintenance systems, increase occupancy rates by increasing company public awareness through simple free community Public Relations. Maintain the functionality of a college library during an extensive 2 year remodel, renovation/addition, successfully shuffling 175,000 books, fully operational offices, classrooms & personnel during the construction period saving the college $255,000 in anticipated expenditures. Started a campus wide Green Club that gained media attention and a NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation grant to install a food compost site. Organized community weekend Fall and Spring Park clean up days with student & staff volunteers. Organized a college staff, classic rock band that performed for the colleges 4th of July celebration and for local charitable fund raising events. Arranged through the NYS Dept. of Corrections to hire select inmates to paint college properties, saving thousands of dollars. Negotiate through Human Technologies Corp. a local Mental Health agency that employs developmentally disabled people to perform summer cleaning of all housing properties. Redesigned the exterior landscape, housing complex signage (new logo), building aesthetics that prompted a new housing brochure that resulted in full occupancy with a waiting list. Guided the Weinberg campus through a flawless comprehensive NYS Dept. of Health inspection within my first 2 months of employment, with no prior heath care organization experience.

MOHAWK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE UTICA, N.Y.

( AOS ) Associates of Occupational Studies. Trades skills, HVAC and Business Management.

U.S. ARMY. 3 yrs. Active, 4 yrs. Reserves. Combat Engineer/instructor & CDECSOG, Combat Development Experimentation Command Special Operation Group. Basic to advanced leadership courses, (OCS) Officers Candidate School.

Honor Graduate BCT (basic combat training) Honor Graduate AIT (advanced individual training) Ranked # 3 OCS (officer candidate school)

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