BiggerPockets

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY:

Performance-oriented professional with 12 years of experience managing and motivating people, including start-ups and high growth businesses. Strong management, leadership by example, sales, listening, communication, negotiation, paralegal, legal research, computer, technical, business planning, strategic planning and analysis, accounting, human resources and project management skills.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies
Business Administration and Legal Studies (162 semester hours)
Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
4.0 GPA Highest Honors Graduate (Summa Cum Laude)
May 2009

Certificate Courses: Legal Investigations and Alternative Dispute Resolution

MILITARY SERVICE:

United States Marine Corps
Honorable Discharge
June 1993 - June 1997

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Managing Member, Urban Equity Group, LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada
2003 - 2006
Founded this organization to profit from all aspects of distressed real estate. Responsible for all contract negotiation, private equity financing and repayment to investors, strategic planning, operations, analysis, document preparation, budgets, and financial statements. Employed eight people.

President, National Foreclosure Prevention Agency, Las Vegas, Nevada
2003 - 2005
Founded this organization as a not-for-profit company to help distressed homeowners negotiate loan modification agreements with financial institutions in appreciating real estate markets in order to stay in their homes. Additionally, this organization was positioned to refer (UEG) clients that needed short-term financing or wanted to sell, which created exceptional relationships, goodwill and opportunities for profitabile acquisitions.

Branch Manager/Loan Officer, Morgan Financial, Inc., Portland, Oregon
2001 - 2003
Supervised and trained loan officers and processors. Canvassed buyers and sellers, builders, realtors, and investors for all types of mortgage and creative out of the box financing.

Facilities/Operations Manager, Switch & Data Facilities, Inc., Portland, Oregon
2000
Responsible for overseeing all vendors working in the facility, contract negotiation, site security, site technicians in a carrier nuetral telecommunications co-location facility. Anaylzed trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.

Regional Field Service Manager, Rhythms NetConnections, Inc., Portland, Oregon
1999 - 2000
Responsible for supervising and training field and facilities technicians covering 40 co-located Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) sites in Oregon and Washington. Oversaw all
contract installation and maintenance work performed, customer complaints and repairs for the first (DSL) company to have a national footprint.

Switch/Field Technician, Intermedia Communications, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina
1998 - 1999
Responsible for all installation, maintenance and repair of all telecommunications central office equipment, including resolving customer complaints.

Construction Splicer, Pacific Bell, Inc., San Mateo, California
1997 - 1998
Responsible for all new outside plant telecommunications facilities construction and repair.

Outside Plant Field Engineer, UNDC, Inc., Sacramento, California
May 1997 - September 1997
This was a short term contract position to Pacific Bell where I was responsible for the design of new telecommunications facilities within an approved budget.

REFERENCES:

Mark Smith (916) 439-2606

Dan Costigan (702) 460-4524

Douglas McCabe (503) 314-3331

Peter Delayo (702) 498-9146

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