Stewart Richards

• Facilitating a multi-million dollar renovation, entailing of; exterior paint, interior paint, flooring, lighting, and addition of memory care.
• Vendor relations and negotiation
• Monitor, diagnose and repair property areas such as cooling towers, geothermal heat pumps, boilers, laundry machines and main dietary kitchen appliances.
• Established and documented protocols for preventive maintenance procedures, contracts and data logging of property assets.
• Property cap-ex forecasting and reports.
• Implemented emergency response plans and procedure binders, evacuation plans and fire drills.
• Managed a team of technicians, providing training and mentoring to ensure prompt, safe and effective service.

Fulfilled Regional Role for a portfolio of 7 properties. Duties include walking properties and ensuring all logs are up to date, safety zones are in place, make ready units meet or exceed Weidner standards, and all aspects of maintenance are being upheld and managed through preventative maintenance scheduling.

• Prepare budgets on property level and assemble capital improvement lists and bids for my portfolio.
• Supervised employee performance, attendance, and safety to complete yearly evaluations.
• Create, update and schedule all turns and work orders in Yardi.
• I achieved “Certified Mentor” and take in “service in training recruits” to mentor and train correct skills and maintenance techniques over a period of 6 months.
• Started in 2011 as lead tech for Sonoma Landing Apartments, where I was quickly promoted to property supervisor. After that I took on a new acquisition Flats at San Tan Apartments in the capacity of Maintenance Manager. This is a very fast paced property with twenty plus unit make readies a month. Once familiar with the property I became a Certified Mentor to pass my knowledge on, and help associates build talent. Lastly, I've been part of the regional team and focal point for the east valley.

• Responsible for all aspects Maintenance, this includes water main repair, Clubhouse floor finish, painting carpentry.
• Responsible for park owned rehab units, installing floors, cabinets and drywall. Repairing plumbing water mains and septic systems
• Up held turn deadlines while doing rehabs and updates.
• Responsible for multiple high use pools, and ensuring they stay crystal clear and safe at all times. Maintained amenities such as shuffle board courts and base ball diamonds for sister parks.
• Generated and completed work orders, implemented the transition of paper to computer based work orders.
• Vendor relations were were established by myself and I also assisted pricing negotiations.

• Responsible for all maintenance and daily upkeep for a larger split property.
• I designed an upgrade package to help produce revenue on newly leased units. This took our average rents from $780 a month to $1075. All upgrades were paid for within the first 6 months of the lease.
• Assembled a special projects team from sister properties. This dynamic group got together for a week each quarter to assist with jobs that were too large or daunting for onsite staff. We often completed jobs such as refrigerant conversions, large welding jobs, as well as mold or water intrusion.

• Identified repair needs and major maintenance concerns, communicated issues to management.
• Responded immediately to calls from personnel to clean up spills and wet floors.
• Maintained cleanliness of restrooms by washing down and properly sanitizing walls, floors and toilets.
• Used power scrubbing and waxing machines to scrub and polish floors.
• Maintained floor cleaning and waxing equipment. As well as all safety corners.