Facilities Management Professional

JOHN H. SHIPE

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H: 951-***-**** C: 714-***-**** Email: *******@***.***

Facilities Management Professional

Over 20 years as a Facilities Manager providing exceptional customer service, construction/remodeling expertise, lease negotiation/monitoring/servicing, full maintenance and all work environment management for large multi location companies. Especially skilled at providing solutions for all types of facilities related issues. Noted for my excellent organizational skills.

SKILLS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Delivered over 10 years of Facilities Management expertise as Vice President, Corporate Facilities at Quiksilver, headquartered in Huntington Beach. 1800 employees located in multiple office, distribution and warehouse buildings at 3 distinctly different locations.

Created/monitored/utilized various organization policies, programs and procedures for the facilities operations including corporate capital projects.

Central figure for all lease negotiations, landlord interaction, construction /remodeling projects, governmental interaction, environmental compliance and space planning of over 1.5 million square feet of buildings.

Provided direction/coaching/responsibility to 10 direct reports including job descriptions, evaluations and training. Provided direction to more than 50 outside vendors in construction, real estate and law.

Partnering with SCE/SDGE and trash/recycling companies to institute various energy/environmental programs. Slashed electrical lighting bills in half and recycling most all waste products, providing over $250,000 in annual cost savings/income.

Created/maintained 3 department annual budgets totaling over $13 million. Never over budget in 10 years.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President, Corporate Facilities, Quiksilver …Huntington Beach, CA….Oct 1999 to Dec 2009

Managed Facilities Services, Office Services and Security Depts.

Consultant, B. Barry & Associates…Pasadena, CA… …Jan 1999 to Oct 1999 Industrial Engineering, Space Planning

Corporate Plant Engineer, Harte Hanks Communications…Brea, CA……Jan 1985 to March 1998

Plant Engineer

CERTIFICATIONS, TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Graduate, Facilities Management Program, University of California, Riverside. …. 1991 to 1994

Certified Plant Engineer, active, Association of Facilities Engineers (AFE)

Certified Facilities Manager, renewable, IFMA

National Registry of Environmental Professionals, active, NREP

General Contractor, active license, State of California

JOHN H. SHIPE

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Member, Board of Directors, Huntington Beach Chamber of Commerce, representing Quiksilver

Representative member from Quiksilver for various political and fund raising events.

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Project.

TurboCad and AutoCad computer drawing.

Proficient in reading all types of Architectural and Engineering drawings.

REFERENCES

Extensive references in all categories.

Additional recommendations can be found on “Linkedin.com”.

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