WALTER JOHNSON



WALTER JOHNSON

6112 Marina Pacifica Drive South

Long Beach California, 90803

(562) 397-0976 Email: Hojosails@

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

An accomplished senior level construction service professional with a proven track record of producing results, reducing costs, streamlining operations and building effective teams

Key competencies include:

Business development, alternative energy, construction management, and project management; Experience with retail, office, mixed use, industrial, apartment, condominium, podium, high rise structures, single family tract housing and renewable energy.

Design experience with suburban and urban master planned communities, marketing, sales, leasing, finance, property management, DRE processing, risk management; Experience with applying Integrated Project Delivery, Building Information Modeling, LEAN construction techniques and the LEED Certification Process.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

B.S. Finance and Real Estate - California State University, Long Beach

California Real Estate Sales License

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vice President of Preconstruction

SASCO – Fullerton Calif. 2008 – 2/2010

SASCO is a large, privately owned, union, electrical design build contractor with offices strategically placed along the West Coast.

Job function:

• Collaborated and re-crafted the company’s strategic plan to explain ‘Why SASCO”.

• Provided long range business intelligence on emerging projects of significance. (Hospitals, schools, convention centers and airports).

• Created a system to strategically track opportunities and manage relationships to gain a competitive advantage.

• Established a renewable energy group; sought private financing and strategic partners to position the company for the installation of renewable energy projects.

• Strategically placed SASCO in the position to win design build work.

Director of Development

Metro Housing Partners - Long Beach, CA 2007 – 2008

Metro Housing Partners was a privately held partnership in collaboration with Trimark Partners LLC, Golden Boy Partners (Oscar de La Hoya), and CarVal Investors.

Metro Housing Partners L.P. was dedicated to creating progressive communities in underserved markets throughout California and the Southwest.

Job function:

Assisted in acquisition, entitlement, project management, construction management, plan development, set project budgets, schedules, and job cost reports; contract management, DRE processing, marketing, sales, team building, and the start-up of the company’s facilities and operation.

• Established the company through a ground breaking featuring Oscar commencing grading driving an excavator; event was carried by all of the major television networks.

• Through creative collaboration with the civil engineer and the city; reduced the infrastructure and grading costs of our Tierra Del Rey townhome site.

Project Manager, Sr. Project Manager, Director.

Lennar Urban - Irvine, CA 2004 – 2007

Lennar Urban, a division of Lennar Homes of California, focused on urban development, type five, podium and high rise (type one) construction throughout California and the West.

Experience included:

• Start-up of L.A. Division: assembled project teams, set accounting and operations standards, schedules, budgets, and job cost reports;

• Managed Lennar’s third party joint ventures for land and vertical development;

• Collaborated with the marketing team and venture partners on product development

Accomplishment:

• Entitlement (Fig Central) – mixed use development site consisting of 2 high-rises towers; 700 homes and 250,000 square feet of community serving retail through the RDA and Specific Plan and perfected the entitlement in less than 6 months.

• Through the collaborative efforts of the pre-construction team, developed a sequencing plan which compressed the project schedule and saved costs.

Additional Professional Experience

General Manager, Director

Hilltop Ventures – Signal Hill, CA 2002 – 2004

General Manager

Pacific Research and Strategies – Long Beach, CA 2001 – 2002

Marketing Director – General Manager Isthmus Corporation – Long Beach, CA 1995 – 2001 Sceptre Development Corporation 1989 – 1995 Windover Realty Corporation 1987 – 1989 IDM Corporation 1983 – 1987

Objective Seeking a position where I can utilize my skills in an atmosphere which offers personal growth and development.

PERSONAL

Health: Excellent

Hobbies: Sailboat racing.

Member of Balboa Yacht Club

References furnished upon request.

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