Kerri LaFever
Boise,ID
Summary
Facilities management professional with strong track record in ensuring efficient operations and safety compliance. Skilled in project management, budgeting, and vendor relations. Known for fostering teamwork and adapting to changing needs to achieve optimal results. Dependable in maintaining and improving facilities to support organizational goals. Trusted partner to senior leadership with strength in vendor relationships, capital projects, and cross-functional collaboration.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Critical Facilities Manager
T-Mobile
Remote, ID
11.2021 - 01.2026
- Managed end-to-end facilities operations for a large property portfolio supporting employees across office, operational, and critical data center spaces. Understand the meaning of no down time in the critical facilities space.
- Ran on multimillion-dollar operating and capital expense budgets, driving cost efficiency without compromising service quality
- Partnered with teams on office space remodels, refresh and uplifts
- Direct contract negotiations and vendor strategy; improving performance and reducing spending
- Oversaw building compliance, safety programs, and emergency preparations to ensure operational continuity
- Managed soft services and critical systems equipment vendors
- Developed and implemented preventative maintenance schedules to enhance performance.
- Efficient response time to reactive maintenance and client concerns
- Achieved consecutive months meeting or surpassing KPI targets
Facilities Manager
T-Mobile
Meridian, ID
04.2014 - 11.2021
- Complex facility projects delivered from planning through execution, on time and within budget
- Implemented preventive maintenance programs that increased asset reliability and reduced reactive work
- Oversaw annual operating budget, vendor contracts and invoices
- Oversaw safety programs and emergency preparations to ensure compliance was met
- Managed a large team of facilities coordinators, janitorial, landscapers, security, cafeteria onsite
- Provided training for new employees
Residential Construction Specialist
LaFever Construction
Idaho
01.2010 - 01.2021
- Met with clients to discuss projects and timelines
- Excellent knowledge of blueprint reading
- Built vendor schedules based on RFP
- Maintained high quality standards during the construction process
- Knowledge of Yardi
- Set up Ghant charts to track job progress
- Oversaw invoices and budget on multiple projects at once
Education
Boise State University
Boise, ID05.1993
Skills
- Excellent vendor management relationship skills
- Customer service focused
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; courteous, polite, and respectful Proficient in MS Office Suite (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- CMMS expert
- Organized and efficient while always being prompt and prepared Excel at independent work while focused on teamwork for the result
- Trustworthy, dependable, hard worker from start to finish with high attention to detail
- Confident in building business relationships through premium customer service, quality work, sound advice, and professional results
- Vendor and Contract Management
- Budget and Cost Control
- Capital Projects, CapEx Budgets, OpEx Budgets
- Environmental Health, Safety and Compliance
Certification
IFMA Project Management Course Spring 2025
Sigma Six Yellow Belt Certification Fall 2023
Timeline
Critical Facilities Manager
T-Mobile
11.2021 - 01.2026
Facilities Manager
T-Mobile
04.2014 - 11.2021
Residential Construction Specialist
LaFever Construction
01.2010 - 01.2021
Boise State University
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Project (Planner), Power BI and Tableau, WebCtrl BMS system
- Corrigo CMMS expert: Work orders, invoice and vendor management, asset management and reporting