Kellie McIvor
Brecksville
Summary
Experienced leader with dynamic background in guiding teams and bringing complex real estate projects across the finish line. Excels in aligning efforts with evolving organizational goals, pro-active problem solving, and exploring innovative ways to hurdle market barriers. Known for bringing order to chaos. Committed to building excellent, collaborative teams; and, kindness.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice-President of Acquisitions
Redwood Living
01.2014 - Current
- Identify, acquire, and entitle land comprising one-third of the company’s current portfolio (5,499 CO'ed homes, with an additional 605 homes in the company's pipeline)
- Captain effective cross-disciplinary teams in Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana markets
- Create, manage, and audit early stage funding and AIA budgets; execute cost safeguards to more effectively steward company funds
- Establish fruitful relationships with government and private real estate leaders, consistently generating invitations to do business together again
- Helmed new market penetration in Iowa and Illinois
- Innovated best practices, including drafting its first professional services MSA form; instituting its original vendor on-boarding process; creating the first iterations of the TOK process; spearheading its first interior finish update to better align with a new market; drafting its first standardized scope of work for due diligence vendors; and, publishing its first acquisitions guide.
Consultant
Atwell
11.2008 - 01.2014
- Developed and led the document production and title remediation program for the national renewable energy and natural gas right-of-way programs
- Collaborated with field, survey, legal, and title teams to deliver airtight, enforceable agreements
- Identified, troubleshot, and remedied with lenders complex title issues for projects which included up to 220 discrete landowners
Development Manager
Heartland Developers
01.2007 - 02.2008
- Closed over $7M in government and private loans
- Ensured compliance with loan repayment, draw, release, and equity requirements
- Created and maintained six non-profit entities and 30 for-profit entities; ensured boards’, members’, and partners’ compliance with organizational documents, joint development agreements, loan documents, and other restrictions of record
- Ran six homeowners’ associations with annual operating budgets totaling $1 million; created the HOAs' start-up and annual operating budgets
- Revised company’s form purchase agreement to give company greater control over the purchase process, lower its post-closing tax liability, and stronger protection against buyer withdrawal
- Created the first non-vertically phased mid-rise condominium in Ohio by closely analyzing the new Ohio condominium law and creating buy-in from outside counsel, title company, and engineer; netted $65K construction cost savings
Assistant Planning and Entitlement Manager
Pulte Homes of Ohio
05.2004 - 01.2007
- Managed over $120 million in land sales contracts encompassing 5,926 sublots
- Managed over $4.6 million in deposit money, tracking all deposit concerns, including creating escrow accounts, and releasing and retrieving monies
- Facilitated 21 timely land closings by accurately interpreting and administering contracts, clearing title, recording lot splits, and verifying settlement statements
- Entitled ten new communities/phases in Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain, Summit, and Medina counties
- Worked with Trustees and Zoning Inspectors to create and pass developer-friendly planning code revisions
- Ran 14 homeowners’ associations with annual operating budgets totaling $3.4 million; created start-up budgets for five new associations
- Trained Sales and Construction personnel on zoning, land development, homeowners’ association, and permitting concerns so that all departments shared a command of the community and could set proper expectations for prospective purchasers
- Innovated best practices, including creating a tracking system for pre-acquisition, instituting a contract audit form, crafting an overall takedown and development schedule for new acquisitions, and drafting new language for HOA documents to increase responsiveness to both government and market demands
Education
M.P.A. -
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio08.1999
J.D. -
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio05.1996
Bachelor of Arts -
Heidelberg College
05.1991
Skills
- Collaborating with interdisciplinary stakeholders to develop responsive acquisition strategies
- Creating effective, invested, cross-functional teams
- Cultivating third-party commitment to Redwood Core Values
- Complex problem solving
- Conscientious project management
Timeline
Vice-President of Acquisitions
Redwood Living
01.2014 - Current
Consultant
Atwell
11.2008 - 01.2014
Development Manager
Heartland Developers
01.2007 - 02.2008
Assistant Planning and Entitlement Manager
Pulte Homes of Ohio
05.2004 - 01.2007
M.P.A. -
Cleveland State University
J.D. -
Case Western Reserve University
Bachelor of Arts -
Heidelberg College
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