Austin Brooks

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Associate Director Savills

  • Education

    • Michigan state university

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor of arts advertising
  • Experience

    • Star trax events

      Jun 2006 - Jan 2008
      Valet parker

      Valet parked vehicles at private events and ensured the safety of their vehicles while they were unattended. I coordinated with management to schedule workers for events and managed them to ensure everything was being handled correctly.

    • Leftos.com

      Jun 2009 - Aug 2009
      Advertising intern

      • Tasked to increase website traffic for social media startup.• Placed newspaper and magazine ads, as well as postings on third party websites such as Yahoo Answers and Craigslist, to drive traffic to site.• Initiated ideas, including social chat portal, to increase site activity; utilized www.compete.com to evaluate effectiveness of strategic changes and initiatives.• Increased site visits 70% in 2 months.

    • Prizelogic

      May 2010 - Jun 2010
      Customer service intern

      • Partnered with 7-member team on month-long project to resolve printing issue with 7-Eleven, Inc. promotional items.• Employed database to verify current codes, request new codes, log consumer email addresses, and document actions.• Trained new team members on database, automated messaging system, and customer service procedures.• Reviewed over 200 emails daily to verify promotional codes, send consumers new codes, and identify potential fraud; achieved goal to reduce email backlog to single digits each day. Show less

    • Harris marketing group

      Jun 2010 - Aug 2011
      Account services intern

      • Tackled prospecting efforts for Jaguar Platinum Access Program, focusing on New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami markets.• Scrutinized 30-page list of prospects to update contact information; explored LinkedIn, Jigsaw, and other avenues to locate potential contacts.• Targeted opportunities and contacted Chief Marketing Officers to schedule appointments with Account Manager.• Utilized both automobile and product knowledge to answer customer service inquiries and route to appropriate resolution.• Tracked task status and documented actions, progress, and recommended improvements; trained replacement to ensure support continuity for Account Manager and clients.• Added 50 verified contacts; helped secure 57% conversion rate for confirmed appointments. Show less

    • The bradley co.

      Feb 2013 - Apr 2014
      Account executive & sales representative

      • Managed all social activity on the companies Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts.• Created a brand new website using HTML & Adobe Photoshop for a subsidiary within The Bradley Company• Managed an existing site created for DTE Energy by updating the product photos, removing sold out items, and sending email blasts to customer purchasing products.• Prospected for new clients to purchase corporate branding.• Attracted new customer to the check side of the business and increased sales at the DTE store.• Turned prospects into clients and sold numerous amounts of promotional products. Show less

    • Team detroit

      Apr 2014 - Jun 2015
      Assistant account executive

      • Manage quarterly campaigns and one-offs in a timely fashion for Ford FCSD global division.• Communicate daily with multiple clients, both domestic and international, to assure that all projects are being created correctly.• Ran multiple weekly meetings with both client and team members to go over the status of items in production and updates on future projects.• Maintain budgets and timelines for all assigned projects and assure that the team is working within the allotted time and allowance given to each job.• Created project briefs before meeting with team members to start new projects and go over the details required per client requests. Show less

    • Quicken loans

      Jul 2015 - Nov 2018

      • Underwrite and approve/deny refinance and purchase transactions for clients.• Assess risk management based on client’s income, FICO, debt liabilities, judgments / tax liens, employment and Real Estate Owned.• Manage an average of 90 clients a month and over 100 loans closed per month while maintaining efficiency and quality.• Built outstanding client satisfaction and a sense of urgency with all clients. • Assess and approve the credit and public records side of a loan process using QL mortgage system.• Help co-workers with any difficulties or questions they have while working on a loan.• Complete multiple reports on a daily basis and prepare the end of the month reporting’s for the team.• Acquire new skills from my leaders that help me with my every day agenda.• Use 3rd party companies to aide in the approval process of particular loans that I am reviewing.

      • Executive Underwriter

        Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
      • Senior Underwriter

        May 2017 - Feb 2018
      • Underwriter

        Mar 2016 - May 2017
      • Operations Specialist

        Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
    • Newmark

      Nov 2018 - Apr 2022
      Associate - commercial real estate
    • Savills

      Apr 2022 - now
      Associate director - commercial real estate

      • Specializes in corporate tenant representation / end user and capital markets structure for real estate finance. • Represents tenants in the Detroit area as well as across the United State but also work with larger companies on their multi-market space requirements on a local to international basis. • Expertise in representing a variety of tenants with all aspects of their portfolio needs, including but not limited to lease negotiations/restructuring, relocation's, renewals, expansions, contractions, acquisitions, subleases and sales. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Michigan real estate license

      State of michigan