April Gowen
League City
Summary
Results-driven professional with extensive experience in coordinating new home setups. Expertise in effective communication, time management, and document control, ensuring seamless collaboration across departments and timely project execution.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
New Homes Starts Coordinator
Ashton Woods Homes - Houston
Houston
08.2020 - 02.2026
- Cross department collaboration for new community set up and documents
- Collaborate and disperse necessary documents with outside vendors for new community setup
- Document review
- Research and establish budgets for new communities
- Verified billing records to maintain financial integrity and accuracy.
- Collaborated with developers and review companies to facilitate new community setup
- Data entry to add each specific home to the system for processing company wide
- Collaboration with outside vendors for documents related to each specific home company wide
- Prepare and submit documents to architectural committees for approval of each specific home company wide
- Obtain approvals from architectural committees, disperse to sales and field staff
- Prepared and submitted permitting documents to cities or counties for each home company wide.
- Obtain approvals for permits and disperse to field and outside vendors
- Document control of adding all documents to appropriate files for each specific home company wide
- Researched and coordinated budgets for payments to architectural committees, permitting offices, and MUD districts for each home
- New water account set up for each home company wide
- Follow company business plan ensuring homes start on time and goals are met
- Prepare and conduct weekly meeting for new home starts schedule and discuss any issues
- Collaborate with departments and vendors to solve issues to ensure seamless workflow
- Prepare and disperse weekly report of homes starting to all office staff, sales staff, field staff and all vendors
Senior Release Coordinator
Perry Homes
Houston
12.2012 - 12.2019
- Supervise team for sending out all documentation and plans to the field for new homes starting
- Conducted weekly team meetings for training and issue resolution
- Provided training to new release coordinators to ensure effective onboarding.
- Entered data to integrate new homes into processing system
- Collaborate with outside vendors for documents necessary for each specific home in my division
- Prepare documents and submit to architectural committee for each specific home in my division
- Obtain architectural committee approval and disperse to sales and field staff
- Prepare documents and submit to cities or counties for permitting accordingly for each home in my division
- Obtain permit approvals and disperse to field staff
Education
Some College (No Degree) - General Studies
College of The Mainland
Texas City, TXSkills
- Permitting processes
- Document control
- Project Support
- Budget planning
- Accounts reconciliation
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- MS office
- Multitasking and organization
- Time management
- Adaptability
- Cross-department collaboration
- Effective communication
- Verbal communication
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Discretion and confidentiality
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
New Homes Starts Coordinator
Ashton Woods Homes - Houston
08.2020 - 02.2026
Senior Release Coordinator
Perry Homes
12.2012 - 12.2019
Some College (No Degree) - General Studies
College of The Mainland