This BrandYourself profile is automatically optimized to show up high in Google Joe Easton
"Now bless thyself. Thou mettest with things dying, I with things newborn." --Winter's Tale, Act III, scene iii
Qualifications Profile ¨ Key Strengths: Broad and detailed experience in management and administration, real estate development, construction and finance, including LIHTC and market developments; property tax administration, business processes and techniques, institutional finance processes, techniques, and analysis; personnel management, business development, and crisis management. Exceptional ability to work independently and within small groups. Creative, innovative, and flexible, able to find ways to stretch budgets to meet needs. Strong communication and negotiating skills. ¨ Administration: Managed administrative and financial processes for several entities. Experience in: Director of an essential public facility through crisis and transition. Compiling data and writing reports for presentation to boards, owners and government entities. Creating and maintaining detailed records for tracking and statement purposes. Written draft policies and procedures for administration and Board approval. Conceiving, developing and securing buy-in from community and participants for a wide variety of public events. Coordinating and promoting the many threads required for successful launches of new events and projects. ¨ Management: Ensuring exceptional performance on a tight budget. Analysis and executive judgment of financial needs and future performance. Negotiating and managing contracts for advantageous pricing agreements. Supervising personnel, both part-time and full-time paid and large numbers of volunteers. Coordination of processes and timelines, meeting target dates and events. ¨ Real Estate Development: Entrepreneurial effort as a developer of commercial and residential real estate, in addition to a major public project. Served as own construction manager. Acute participation in the required public processes. Detailed experience in State and Federal grant programs. ¨ Accomplishments: Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Montana. Secured approval for major real estate subdivision. Guided a $30million organization through crisis. Created financial viability for groups, firms and entities. Track record of improving financial status, image and visibility for each group. Designed and implemented a number of innovations to improve all facets of an oper