PROFILE

K. Aubrey Hope

Education UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA GEORGETOWN, GUYANA Bachelors - Marketing/ Management 1971 NORWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE, LONDON, ENGLAND Major in Management and Marketing towards Bachelors. 1968 Skills  Thirty years of direct involvement providing technical assistance and conceptualizing, planning, developing and implementing diverse marketing and management strategies for small contractors.  Developed overall cost awareness and production control for contractors while monitoring and supervising staff productivity.  Developed and implemented strategies for start-up construction companies.  Provided expert assistance in conflict resolution with contractors.  Monitor and enforced compliance to achieve established goals.  Provide contractor monitoring and competency assessments. Experience WILLIAMS & HOPE CORPORATION MANSFIELD, TEXAS CEO/CHAIRMAN 1993-PRESENT Providing management-consulting services to small construction firms. These services include the effective methods to market their services and integrating management information systems into the day-to-day operation. Provides Project Management Services to contractors. Including monitoring services assistance in conflict resolution and monitoring of performance and compliance. SCDP, INC., MIAMI, FLORIDA, FT. WORTH, TX. , Principal/ Chief Technical Advisor 1996-Present Responsible for administrating the technical assessment on each small contractor participating in the Ft. Worth, TX., Wastewater Program. These responsibilities include evaluating the level of technical capability of the contractor for which surety bonding is recommended. Maintaining on-going communications with each SCDP contractor that is awarded a contract in the program, in order to monitor their performance and to facilitate conflict resolution on performance issues. CONTRACTORS RESOURCE CENTER, INC. MIAMI, FLORIDA Director of Marketing/Consultant 1995-1997 Contracted as Director of Marketing and Programs Development. Responsibilities included developing formal education programs for contractors. Developing marketing strategy to develop management and marketing support for contractors in the Tri-County area. Design and present special projects� criteria to government agencies. Provide counseling, guidance and other technical assistance to minority contractors. ADOBE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA VP- Operations & Management Coordinator/Consultant 1996-1998 Contracted as Management Coordinator and Operations Manager to develop and implement operation strategies for company. Provide technical assistance to establish company Line of Credit and Bonding capability. Trained the owners to focus the marketing energies to the best possible market segment. Monitored all new contracts and provided Total Quality Management direction for each project. Changed the management styles and personnel to reflect the company�s objectives. HARD J. CONTRACTORS & ENGINEERS, INC. MIAMI, FLORIDA Consultant/Marketing 1995- 1997 Contracted as a business development consultant to develop new business opportunities with the Florida Department of Transportation, and Florida Turnpike. Responsibilities included investigating new projects before the firm considers submitting a bid proposal, without abandoning the company�s original management goals. Evaluating the logistics and project profitability before bid consideration. Conduct on-going review and analyses in order to identify and target M/WBE subcontractors. BROKEN ARROW CONSTRUCTION, INC DAVIE, FLORIDA Project Administrator/Consultant 1995-1996 Provided technical assistance and other project management support. Managed the Seminole Tribe Museum construction project. Implemented management systems that created two divisions in the company for diversification. The company increased its gross revenue from $700,000 to $4,000,000 within the first twelve months.

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