Experience

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  Citibank na

  Dec 2002 - Aug 2003

  Financial associate
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  Tottenville commons, llc

  Aug 2003 - Jun 2006

  Lease administrator and manager

  Responsible for abstraction and monthly billing for all tenants for NNN leases. Maintained up to date records for insurance audits and CAM audits, including all billable CAM expenses and correct insurance certificates. Responsible for twice yearly real estate tax and yearly CAM reconciliations. Worked with accountant to use Quickbooks to maintain current financial records for shopping center. Worked with attorneys to enforce leases, including being responsible for all legal proceedings and providing correct records for these proceedings. Building manager responsibilities included working with tenants, dealing with problems and complaints on a regular basis. Expeditor for Tottenville Commons. Worked with tenants to obtain all proper sign-offs. Scheduled inspections, renewed permits and renewed Temporary Certificate of Occupancy for 4 buildings in shopping center. Show less

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  Ncc

  Aug 2003 - Jun 2006

  Filing representative

  Experienced in both commercial and residential development. Worked with architects, engineers and subcontractors to aid in efficient building of homes. Worked at NYC Department of Buildings to obtain all necessary approvals and Certificates of Occupancy. Responsibilities include pulling permits, subdividing property, working with City Planning Commission and removing violations. Obtained all sign offs including plumbing, electrical, construction and highway. Represent company at Dept. of Building hearings and all construction inspections. Worked with lenders to obtain proper documents for construction loans. Helped obtain tax abatements for home owners. Managed office using Quickbooks software. Responsible for insurance audits. Show less

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  Foot locker, inc

  Jun 2006 - Aug 2007

  Lease administrator

  Responsible for Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker and Champs Sports leases and amendments, approximately 700 locations; Virginia and Florida as well as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Interpreted lease language to confirm expenses properly billed by landlords. Worked with Lease Payables department to insure all leases are paid correctly and all lease compliance issues are handled on time. Used Real Estate Manager to abstract all documents. Reviewed work of other Lease Administrators. Show less

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  Foot locker, inc.

  Aug 2007 - Apr 2013

  Construction Database Manager. Communicate and work with Legal Department, Lease Administration Department and Construction Department to disperse information regarding new construction deals and real estate deals. Responsibilities include working independently to issue weekly and monthly reports using Excel and Access. Responsible for scheduling construction deadlines and helping the construction department meet them. Strong attention to detail allows for finding financial and scheduling conflicts with construction projects. Use lease administration skills to review leases to ensure Construction Department remains in compliance with requirements. Show less Continue with responsibilities of Lease Administrator. New responsibilities include drafting termination notices, option letters and default notices. Coordinate and assist in managing the collection of construction allowances within the Lease Administration Department. Assign and track the processing of rent reduction deals within the Lease Administration Group. Assist in the managing of exercising of all lease options and terminations. Review reports from district managers to confirm landlords are in compliance with occupancy levels at malls. Show less

  • Construction Database Manager

    Jan 2012 - Apr 2013

  • Senior Lease Administrator

    Aug 2007 - Jan 2012
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  Tumi

  Apr 2013 - now

  • Manage all elements of the lease negotiations for new stores, renewals, closures and remodels for the retail outlets for Samsonite Company Stores and support the Vice President of Real Estate for Tumi, Inc in this work for retail full priced, outlets and airport stores.• Develop and maintain relationships with landlords, developers, brokers, lawyers and consultants.• Review and analyze store fleet lease transactions on a quarterly basis, including upcoming renewals to assess current market conditions, financial and non-financial implications, and recommend solutions.• Calculate the financial impact of real estate deals on pro forma basis and present at real estate committee.• Work closely with the accounting team to understand P&L impact of new stores and renewals and that both are budgeted correctly.• Help to improve the profitability of the store fleet by recommending options to improve rent economics, build out costs, operating performance, and size.• Provide insights and recommendations to senior leadership at real estate committee on market analysis and performance metrics.• Collaborate with construction team, store operations team and store repair and maintenance team to ensure seamless execution of real estate strategies and to integrate into broader business planning, taking financial impact into consideration.• Partner with outside counsel on document negotiation for leases and amendments. Show less • Responsible for lease administration function of 250 Tumi full price, outlet, travel retail and office locations in North America. Previously responsible for Europe and Asia.• Analize data in leases to identify risks for tenant such as operational requirements, option and kick out rights.• Analize data in leases to identify Landlord’s failure to comply with leases such has reimbursement of tenant allowances, errors in billing Co-Tenancy rights and repair and maintenance obligations. • Assisted in the re-negotiation of the entire portfolio during COVID by providing key dates, rental amounts, lease termination rights and 2019 P&L to create a master tracking document to assist during lease negotiations and future fleet review.• Manage $45 million in annual rent and additional rent. Responsible for reviewing & auditing all monthly tenant invoices and year end reconciliations.• Responsible for sales reporting and percentage rent payments.• Collected $8 million in outstanding tenant allowance from 2013 – present.• Abstract an average of 50 lease documents a year.• Validated all data as Tumi moved from one lease administration system to another in preparation for the IFRS requirements, including creation of reports in both systems to validate data, entering and tracking errors into the database and managing temporary help brought on for the project. • Experienced in using Lucernex, CoStar and Real Estate Manager to abstract lease documents.• Assist Vice President of Real Estate and real estate broker in managing real estate pipeline report and fleet review pipeline for monthly real estate meetings to help deliver long term expected results, sales and profitability. Assist Vice President of Real Estate and outside counsel in negating lease terms. Show less

  • Senior Manager - Real Estate

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Manager - Lease Administration

    Apr 2013 - now