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Name : Roy Myers II
Industry Type : Home Builders
City & State : Gibbstown, NJ
Job Title Director of Construction Services
Relocation Preferences : East Coast
Objective : I have been a cost-containment expert and purchasing leader for over a decade and have delivered massive improvements to the bottom-line for my last three employers, all prominent leaders in residential and commercial development.

My career history demonstrates a consistent ability to manage complex projects while simultaneously architecting business continuity and business process enhancements. I would eagerly welcome a challenging mandate and hope I have stimulated your interest.

I hope you deem this application worthy of further exploration and look forward to your feedback.

Please look at my Linked in profile also.
I would like to grow and help your company.
Purchasing is fun.
Resume :  
ROY MYERS II
Project Management & Purchasing Leader856/625-1972
Excellence in New Project Start-Up roymyers[at]comcast.net
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Expertise Summary
Plan, organize, and supervise construction projects with spans of controls involving purchasing, scheduling and subcontractor management
Building, developing internal teams and vendor relationships
Developing Processes with national acount reps, end users and sales teams to define new product requirements and work with product development to document in specifications
MS Excel power-user, daily use of Hypen/Build Pro, OPS, Onsite, Access Data Bases, AS 400, UCS and JD Edward Software

Highlights of Contributions
Completed over 25 community housing projects; average single home value: $400K; average multi-home values ($1.5M -- 6 units); at any one time, project managed construction portfolios in the $20M range
Proven multitasking and leadership competencies; interprets regulatory protocols & plans, purchases materials and negotiates commodity products; manages and schedules multiple home building projects with ownership scope for end-user satisfaction; delivers above- average customer-satisfaction ratings consistently
Saved employers hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by 'getting it right the first time' and reducing costs by unbundeling vendor quotes to achieve economies of scale


CAREER HISTORY
BERKSHIRE PROPERTY ADVISORS (Stopped all capital Projects)Jan. 2008 March 2010
Mid Atlantic Project Manager
Scope: New Region start up. Lead capital improvement, diligence and rehab projects from Boston, MA to Philadelphia, PA. Mentoring Maintenance team at each property on process enhancements.
Controls: 914 unit rehab project consisting of garden style and town homes totaling$18 million in capital improvements in Boston. 180 unit rehab project consisting of garden styles totaling $8 million in capital improvements in Philadelphia. 302 unit high rise rehab project with parking garage totaling $12 million in capital improvements in Philadelphia.
Subject Matter Expertise: New Region start up. Lead capital improvement, diligence and rehab projects from Boston, MA to Philadelphia, PA. Mentoring Maintenance team at each property on process enhancements.
Delivering corporate business plan changes to multiple teams with a positive flare. Developing department relationships within company while having fun working together towards profitability.
Major Bottom-Line Impacting Achievements
Scopes of Work Establish scopes of work for unit redevelopment by visualization and then staging unit for acceptance of products before renovation starts. Net result less cycle time and costly variances.
Process Developed change order policy and vendor hiring procedure to control vendor turnover and added cost.


LEVITT AND SONS (Filed Chapter 11)Nov. 2006 Dec 2007
Director of Construction Services
Scope: New division start up encompassing: (South Carolina). Manage retrenchment and cost-reduction initiatives while developing high-appeal communities.
Formulates established rebates for national product usage, implemented a vendor hiring process to identify quality vendors (involves interviews and on-site evaluations). Set up a vendor rating system to coach our vendors to improve quality. Reduced number of options offered in design centers concentrating on the most popular Adult Living Communities options and structured option selling prices to maximize returns. Conducts monthly meetings with design, construction, customer care, sales and vendors to improve quality and appeal.
Controls: Directs two teams and an architect; design center team consists of 1 design center manager and 2 designers and purchasing team consists of 1 purchasing analyst, 1 purchasing agent and 1 contract administrator.
Subject Matter Expertise: Vendor contract negotiations, supply chain management, community buy out. Redlines plans for value engineering and generates value-added 'best building practice' protocols.
Major Bottom-Line Impacting Achievements
Cost Reduction -- achieved a 12.75% cost reduction in an 8-month period by tightening up controls thereby realizing over $500K greater profitability. Set up an on-line plan room through a third-party supplier and shifted reproduction costs to vendors at annual values >$100K; additional benefits of new system permitted more change-tracking control and more accurate allocations of costs.
Organization Development -- Senior VP of Supply Chain Management/Purchasing and Company President acclaimed SC as the national model in recognition of its massive operational improvement.
Main Project -- set up construction services department for Traditions South Carolina, a 10,000-lot planned master community in Bluffton SC.
RICHMOND AMERICAN HOMESMarch 2004 - November 2006
Director of Purchasing
Scope: New division start up encompassing: (NJ,DE,PA). Optimized vendor base by state. Managed contracts and contracts-with-addendum(s) portfolio of over 500 and 1000. Portfolio involved over 42,000 options on 12 basic home models.
Controls: Senior negotiator and planner. Recruited, trained and directed a team of 6-10 (minimum of 1 estimator, 1 architectural consultant, 3 buyers and 3 purchasing coordinators). Managed house line budgets, architectural plan development and estimating team.
Subject Matter Expertise: Developing and implementing the centralization of purchasing, estimating, architecture, and design centers. Defining financial and operational internal controls (SOX) and implementing internal peer reviews to insure control compliances.

Major Bottom-Line Impacting Achievements
Cost of Construction Reduction -- accomplished a three-percent cost reduction for 2004 and 2005 in the context of materials and fuel costs at record highs; this $500K+ average annual value was accomplished through conceiving and executing a volume-based vendor rebate program, establishing operations in tax-reduced enterprise zones and segmenting purchasing by state (NJ, DE, PA) to optimize lowest-cost, best-schedule decision-making.

Conducted weekly development walk-throughs and devised numerous process improvement solutions; for example, implemented a prefabricated exterior wall framing solution replacing a far more expensive poured concrete process; optimized stud placements in non-bearing walls; and, optimized a number of pre-fabrication processes.

Operations -- co-authored enterprises purchasing manual; developed new hire mentoring program to reduce training costs; consolidated vendors to concentrate on economy-of-scale opportunities; instituted a number of purchasing department process improvements based on value engineering (comparative analysis of various materials, processes and designs to reduce costs) concepts as applied to construction.

Manage Township relations including introducing and prototyping new materials & products, permits and inspections; directed customer relations and oversaw change and customization orders including re-estimating and re-pricing.

RYAN HOMES April 1997 - March 2004
Divisional Costing Manager (2001-2004)
Scope: Purchasing and costing leader for settlement division engaged in building on average 400 homes per year.
Subject Matter Expert: UCS Costing System.
Controls: Senior subcontractor recruiter.
Major Bottom-Line Impacting Achievements
Delivered GPMs of between 22 and 32% during each year of tenure.
Monitored variances so closely that final annual averages were less than one percent.
Optimized Accounts Payable to assure a 30-day pay-cycle (to avoid interest charges) while extending payment schedules to up to 90 days to maximize cash flow.
Special Assignments Manager (2000-2001)
Subject Matter Expert: Feasibility analyses for potential new communities and permit acquisition.
Project Manager (1998-2000)
Subject Matter Expert: Scheduled and supervised single- and multi-family communities (30 to 40 homes under construction at a time). Served as an instructor of supervisor training classes.
Supervisor (1997-1998)
Subject Matter Expert: Quality Control; OSHA Safety Enforcement; honors: Rookie of the Year (1997).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Education: Bachelors of Business Administration (1997), major: Finance, minor: Management Information Systems, Philadelphia University.
Additional Training: Numerous conferences, seminars, symposia and workshops on a wide range of residential construction-related topics including construction developments, sales, community relations, planning, regulatory compliance and marketing.
Available Upon Request: References.






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