To find an organization that recognizes my passion for quality, safety and customer satifaction. I am a proven leader with 17 years experience and want to continue growing with the right company
TOM BRICK
Dynamic, motivated professional with 15+ years of executive level experience in Homebuilding, Training, Customer Care, Employee and Trade Partner Relationships, Post Construction Analysis, New Building Science Technology, and Green Building Materials.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Mission oriented with excellent qualifications in strategic planning combined with comprehensive knowledge of management, organizational development, and enterprise-wide process improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions under pressure and provide effective executive leadership.
• Continuously increase company productivity and performance rates while simultaneously achieving and maintaining high morale levels across the board with increased quality of life and decreased employee turnover rates.
• Excellent team building and leadership skills; able to persuade others to come together to achieve common goals in a highly cooperative manner while ensuring all team members participate and provide input.
• Consistently achieve established goals, adjust plans and procedures to handle unexpected problems and/or changes, successfully facilitate conflict management and communicate effectively with diverse groups of people.
• Computer proficient in Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP; Microsoft Office Suite: MS Word, PowerPoint—some knowledge of Excel; Internet Explorer.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CORPORATE VP, CONSTRUCTION July 2005-March 2008
& QUALITY INITITAIVE PROGRAMS
KIMBALL HILL HOMES Houston, TX
Major U.S. homebuilder with a reputation for creating affordable housing with style and quality; company builds an average of 4,000 new homes per year throughout a 9-state region that includes California, Florida and Texas.
• Provided executive oversight and direction for improving every aspect of the homebuilding process by analyzing and identifying strategic and operations needs and issues.
• Designed, developed and managed the company’s Quest for Excellence (Q4E) programs – responsive action plans, process improvement programs and training initiatives that increased productivity and performance.
• Established annual Customer Care Manager Conferences and quarterly Q4E Regional Director Conferences to review past department performance, establish standardized training, work processes and goals.
• Annual/quarterly conferences also introduced new ideas, tools for meeting goals and helped move the company into a single, seamless entity with common goals; previously Best Practices/issue resolutions were not shared.
• Successfully reduced cycle time without compromising quality, reduced employee turnover and increased retention of quality minded associates.
• Taught building science and long term sustainable building practices to operational teams and company associates nationwide; presented to the industry at large through builder conferences, tradeshows and national councils.
• Rolled out a national standardized computer construction scheduling program; helped develop and provided training in the software that enabled field operators to provide data for company status reports.
• Established a national material qualification program that qualified materials for compatibility, sustainability and level of use / practicality for the company (e.g. company-wide, regionally, or not at all).
• Designed, wrote and implemented an intensive 3-phase construction training program that encompassed classroom, online, and in-field studies / coursework; generally standardized but unique to each region’s building needs.
• Created and administered a knowledge placement verifier test that allowed individualization of levels for the 3-phase construction training program for each associate, based on their test scores.
• Member of the National Housing Quality Council – participated on the Quality Experts Council for Green Build applications such as Geothermal, Wind, Solar & Rain Water Capturing, and Solar Attic Breeze.
• Member of the International Code Council (ICC) through the Kimball Hill University that reviewed existing building codes and made recommendations to local code officials on interpretations/meanings.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Deputy Commander for Operations, United States Air Force. (Ret.)
 Provided oversight for operations at a classified R&D facility; supervised several hundred military and civilian contractors/personnel and managed a multi-billion dollar facility for several years.
• Co-Founder – Project Opportunity.
 A national, nonprofit organization that partnered with Special Olympics and Habitat for Humanity; managed Project Opportunity operations for 7 years including funding, project management, budget control, training curriculum, vendor and donor liaison and build management.
 Project Opportunity provided training in life skills and residential construction to 2,000+ Special Olympics athletes who then used those skills to participate in the construction and completion of 27 homes designed for Habitat for Humanity families with special financial or physical needs – many of the homes were built to ADA standards.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN COMMUNICATION
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT FULLERTON Fullerton, CA
ASSOCIATE OF ARTS OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN BUSINESS
CITY COLLEGE OF CHICAGO USAF, Germany
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
• Principles of Building Science from Advanced Energy
• OSAH Safety Instructor/Job Site Risk Analysis
• Certified NAHB Green Build Verifier
• LEED Green Rater Program (currently enrolled)
• Master Builder Certification Program
• Water Intrusion/Mold Remediation
• Indoor Air Quality & Infrared (IR) technology
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