Michael Woods
San Antonio,Texas
Summary
I am a self-starter, results-driven, and process-oriented executive of a multimillion dollar residential and commercial construction company. My background is centered around strengthening compliance; team building; improving processes; and elevating output, quality, customer satisfaction and employee morale to all-time bests. Relied upon to drive company profitability regardless of supply chain challenges, vendor issues, market strains, and/or internal obstacles.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Vice President of Construction
Beazer Homes
08.2023 - Current
- Lead all aspects of residential construction across multiple communities, ensuring homes are delivered on time, on budget, and to quality standards while managing field teams and maintaining safety compliance.
- Partner with land, sales, design, customer care, and finance teams to align construction goals with broader business objectives and ensure smooth community execution.
- Collaborate with purchasing to review bids, evaluate trade partners, develop scopes of work, and support contract negotiations, ensuring field-level feasibility and cost efficiency.
- Monitor construction budgets, job cost variances, and purchasing controls to drive financial accountability and identify opportunities for savings through value engineering.
- Drive standardization, process efficiency, and quality assurance across all projects, implementing best practices and supporting new technologies or systems.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop construction leaders while fostering a culture of accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.
Vice President of Operations & Sales
JLP Builders
11.2022 - Current
- Maximize profits through establishing company’s business plan, achieving forecasts, and ensuring customer satisfaction;
- Identify and research the various dynamics of the market as well as all potential land opportunities consistent with the Company’s growth and land strategy;
- Overall responsibility for recruitment, hiring, staff development, work scheduling, evaluation, discipline, salary recommendations, terminations, and retention of staff;
- Obtain and evaluate all documents/data required for bidding including specifications, scopes of work, architectural documents, site plans, soils reports, community guidelines and other pertinent documents that effect vertical costs of construction;
- Negotiate all contracts to cover all requirements, eliminate all overlaps, and to achieve the best price possible;
- Schedules, develops, coaches, counsels, trains, and directs sales personnel;
- Keep ownership informed by reviewing and analyzing special reports, summarizing information, and identifying trends.
Director of Operatios
JLP Builders
07.2020 - 10.2022
- Leads the Construction, Procurement, and Warranty team to achieve the strategic goals of the company, establishes the strategic direction of the company along with the owner, ensure financial and operational goals are established and achieved;
- Ensure consistency of execution in the construction process, monitors construction costs, evaluates and improves product design, develops a culture of continuous improvement, ensures projects are completed on time/budget without compromising quality.
Director of Business Development
Weston Dean Custom Homes
07.2019 - 07.2020
- Work with the executive team to evaluate new market oppourtunities and identify, evaluate, and implement process improvement;
- Manage Service Specialist team
- Manage all IT related items including troubleshooting, new hire setup, SEO rankings, marketing, survey monkey, etc.;
- Manage the design process precontract.
Purchasing Manager
Weston Dean Custom Homes
03.2018 - 07.2019
- Manage contractor base to ensure the company has stable, competitive, high-quality trade partners to support the required production level;
- Maintain scopes of work to set expectations for trade partners, and train Project Managers to enforce them;
- Manage 3rd party warranty administrator and move in coordinators;
- Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer/supplier power.
Purchasing Manager
Scott Felder
01.2017 - 03.2018
- Maintain and implement construction proformas/budgets for each project;
- Structure and negotiate contracts with suppliers;
- Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer/supplier power;
- Orchestrate steps needed to assemble new communities.
Construction Manager
Scott Felder
08.2015 - 01.2017
- Schedule projects in logical steps and budget time required to meet deadlines;
- Determine labor requirements and dispatch workers to construction sites;
- Inspect and review projects to monitor compliance with building safety codes, and other regulations.
Finance Analyst
Bexar County
03.2014 - 08.2015
- Manages County portfolio ($1.2 billion) and County cash flow;
- Manages financials for the Community Venue Program HOT/MOT taxes;
- Works with the financial advisors and bond counsel assigned for County bond issuances;
- Wrote the FY 2015 investment strategy and economic outlook;
- Prepares and manages County capital budgets
- Monitors and analyzes department spending for quarterly estimates;
- Prepares capital contracts for approval by Commissioners Court.
Construction Manager
Lennar Homes
03.2013 - 03.2014
- Schedule projects in logical steps and budget time required to meet deadlines;
- Determine labor requirements and dispatch workers to construction sites;
- Inspect and review projects to monitor compliance with building safety codes and other regulations.
Education
MS Human Resource Development -
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX12-2021
BBA Finance -
University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, TX05-2012
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Team Building
- Working with Diversity
- Finance
- Interpersonal & Communication Skills
- Residential & Commercial New Construction
- Warranty Service
Certification
County Investment Officer April 2014
Timeline
Vice President of Construction
Beazer Homes
08.2023 - Current
Vice President of Operations & Sales
JLP Builders
11.2022 - Current
Director of Operatios
JLP Builders
07.2020 - 10.2022
Director of Business Development
Weston Dean Custom Homes
07.2019 - 07.2020
Purchasing Manager
Weston Dean Custom Homes
03.2018 - 07.2019
Purchasing Manager
Scott Felder
01.2017 - 03.2018
Construction Manager
Scott Felder
08.2015 - 01.2017
Finance Analyst
Bexar County
03.2014 - 08.2015
Construction Manager
Lennar Homes
03.2013 - 03.2014
MS Human Resource Development -
Texas A&M University
BBA Finance -
University of the Incarnate Word
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