Dwight Harris, Jr

Qualifications

Bachelor’s & Master’s Degree

Industry-specific Experience:

Related Work Experience: 15 years
Management: 11 years
Real Estate Acquisition, Development & Sales: 8 years
Single-Family Construction: 7 years
Consulting/HERS Rating/Architectural Design & Drafting: 7 years
Systems Development & Process Improvement: 5 years
Multi-Family Construction: 3 years

Professional Interests

Accounting
Architecture & Design
Energy Efficiency
Financial Analysis
Land Acquisition, Planning & Development
Real Estate
Strategic Planning
Systems Development

Professional Experience

Purchasing & Systems Manager - EG Home LLC

March 2019 - Present

• Management

  • Recruit, select, train, and manage personnel and establish standard operating procedures for purchasing, estimating, architectural and design departments.

• Purchasing

  • Write, maintain and perform closed-loop review of all project budgets/cost codes. Write and/or review all purchase orders. Approve invoices and research field VPOS.

  • Write and maintain standard specifications and scopes of work. Oversee all purchasing, estimating (takeoffs & custom pricing), subcontracting, and negotiating.

  • Set and maintain master pricing for sales and design. Analyze option take-rate and profitability.

• Design

  • Develop new products (Options, house plans, and elevations) for single-family detached (1600-5000SF) and single-family attached (fourplex and duplex).

  • Draw marketing floorplans, master construction blueprints and details, and lot specific plans in CAD software for contracting/permitting. Calculate and specify wind bracing details. Produce interior and exterior renderings for marketing.

  • Designed and built (EG Home’s first) 2800 SF design center with new and streamlined product offering.

  • Designed EG Home’s first Energy Star Certified homes, trained construction staff on new process and specifications, and built two 100% certified Energy Star Certified subdivisions (detached single-family)

• Systems

  • Developed and implemented the systems, software, and procedures necessary to sustainably grow annual closings from <20 closings per year to 100+ per year.

    • Developed and implemented a purchase order system for all suppliers and sub-contractors with automatic online payment processing.

    • Developed and implemented an integrated sales and selection platform for accurate price controls, sales analysis, reporting and cross-departmental communication.

    • Transferred accounting platforms from QuickBooks to industry-specific job-based accounting software.

    • Developed a dynamic and integrated construction schedule used for all projects with online scheduling of subcontractors and trained project managers and site supervisors on its use.

    • Coordinate and run weekly project meetings between sales, selections, purchasing and construction teams.

  • Pre-Construction process (contract signing to job-start) reduced to 41 days, which includes: all customer selections, drawing custom lot-specific blueprints, truss design, building permit submission/receipt and writing all purchase orders.

Project Manager - Johnnycake Mountain Associates, Inc

October 2013 - March 2019

• Land acquisitions: perform land use and financial analysis, and negotiate purchase agreements. Develop concept land planning, environmental, utility system, and title analysis for single-family residential, multifamily and light commercial/mixed-use properties.

• Planning and design: obtain subdivision approvals, special permits, building permits, etc.; experience with mixed-use, multifamily, cluster and conservation developments, and standard single-family subdivisions.

• Development: Build roads, shared driveways, utilities, etc.

• Design and develop residential architectural construction documents (in CAD). Direct and provide design criteria for outside architects and engineers for multi-family and commercial projects.

• Manage design-build operations for single-family home construction. Negotiate contracts and manage trades. Sole Licensed Realtor for all sales/negotiations.

• Consultant to outside builders on how to meet code changes in the 2015 IECC; certify homes as Energy Star/Zero Energy Ready/Indoor airPLUS.

Operations Manager // Process Improvement Manager - F. W. Webb Company (HVAC/Plumbing supply)

January 2010 - October 2013

• Managed forty-seven employees of a wholesale distribution business in Hartford, CT and oversaw day-to-day operations across all departments.

• Drove $30 million in annual revenue while meeting operational budget constraints.

• Managed customer account pricing matrices.

• Regional representative for CT and RI on the IT Best Practices Committee.