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Blake C. Bautz, MBA

Summary

Extremely organized Operations Manager with high attention to detail and extensive track record of driving operational efficiency across assets, optimizing processes, enhancing NOI, and leading leasing and marketing training within the multifamily industry. My extensive college athletics career and immersive work history has provided me with invaluable skills such as resiliency, adaptability, communicatory efficiency, and relationship management. These abilities have enabled me to deliver significant contributions to company success while navigating complex, interdepartmental, high-stakes problems.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Operational Success Manager

The Collier Companies
06.2025 - Current
  • Conduct in-depth community assessments to uncover operational, digital, financial, and retention challenges across student-housing and conventional portfolio assets.
  • Analyze monthly financials including GPR, Rent Roll, delinquency, and expense reports to identify gaps and implement corrective action.
  • Develop and execute strategic action plans to improve occupancy, boost NOI, and elevate overall asset performance.
  • Restructure, train, and lead on-site teams to drive accountability, enhance efficiency and consistency, and align with organizational goals.
  • Travel extensively to assets across the portfolio, overseeing daily operations and ensuring successful implementation of improvement initiatives.

Regional Leasing and Marketing Specialist

Thompson Thrift Development
05.2023 - 06.2025
  • Lead marketing efforts for 13 Class A multifamily lease-up properties (~3,800 units) across diverse Southeast markets. Execute GTM start up strategies, build & nurture lead pipelines, competitor analysis/market surveys, and pre-lease new developments to 5%+ occupancy before hand-off.
  • Oversee monthly digital marketing audits; ensuring ILS lead tracking, property website content & traffic, paid ad copy/digital marketing content is up-to-date, track and optimize website SEO and PPC campaign performance.
  • Prepare complex marketing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data from Yardi CRM, Social Media Analytics, ILS vendor spend, PPC reports, and AI leasing software.
  • On-board and train all sales, marketing & leasing operations and platforms to every on-site team member.
  • Selected to 2025 TT Future Managers Program—Selected in 2024 & 2025 as a Summer Intern Mentor.

Social Media Marketing Intern

Greenlane Holdings Inc
11.2022 - 05.2023
  • Track, browsing session, data, bounce rates, conversion rates, cost per conversion etc. through Google Analytics.
  • Increased website sessions by 39%, session duration by 80%, and facilitated handfuls of Ecommerce purchases.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA

University of Central Oklahoma- Jackson College of Graduate Studies
Edmond, OK
05.2024

Bachelor of Business Administration - Marketing

University of Central Oklahoma- College of Business
Edmond, OK
05.2022

Skills

  • Yardi
  • Entrata
  • Multifamily Operations
  • Google Analytics
  • Sales and Marketing Training/CRM
  • Excel
  • Pay-Per Click/ SEO
  • Budget Management
  • Branding
  • Project management
  • Market planning and execution

Hobbies and Interests

Investment Strategies, Coaching, Research, Sports, Traveling

Timeline

Operational Success Manager

The Collier Companies
06.2025 - Current

Regional Leasing and Marketing Specialist

Thompson Thrift Development
05.2023 - 06.2025

Social Media Marketing Intern

Greenlane Holdings Inc
11.2022 - 05.2023

Master of Business Administration - MBA

University of Central Oklahoma- Jackson College of Graduate Studies

Bachelor of Business Administration - Marketing

University of Central Oklahoma- College of Business