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Doug Shipman

He is a Global Resort Development And Construction Executive, Worked with Castle and Cooke for 2 year as a Executive Vice President, 1 year at QualityBuilt.com as a CEO, Currently employed with Discovery Land Company as a Vice President

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: Business, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Management
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Baker’s Bay Golf & Ocean Club
Position: Vice President of Land Development / General Manager
Time period: January 2005 - December 2009
Description: Oversee 140+ onsite contractors and construction personnel to monitor and direct development and construction activities; lead team of up to 175 development personnel, accounting, and development managers Led design of development including, engineering and construction teams to implement all civil improvements and completed $70M infrastructure including water and wastewater treatment and power generating plants operational by 2009.Coordinated the completion of the Environmental Impact Assessment; managed design development and construction of all infrastructure, residences, resort plans. Recovered rare and valuable native plants and species. Obtained government entitlements and all project approvals in only 11 months; by 2009 the marina, the marketing center, the Inn, the plant nursery and all infrastructure projects were operational.
Primary communication with ownership/partners to ensure that the design, budgets and execution of delivery were completed and exceeded expectations.

Employer: Castle and Cooke
Position: Executive Vice President of Real Estate and Island Operations
Time period: January 2003 - December 2005
Description: Oversaw all aspects of islands development and operations which included utilities, domestic water, water wells, wastewater treatment plants, irrigation brackish and R-1 water as well as all resort and island operations staff.Directed the development planning, site development, home and resort construction and residential facilities including hotel additions and remodel, staff living facilities, apartments and plantation homes.Coordinated the development entitlements and approvals during the development planning process.
Implemented future development planning processes to expand the revenue stream with hundreds of millions of dollars in potential revenue; created sustainability plans and processes for the island.Allocated, budgeted, managed and forecasted $110M annual operating budget.

Employer: QualityBuilt.com
Position: Chief Executive Officer
Time period: January 2002 - December 2003
Description: Quality Built provides third-party quality assurance services to the nation’s builders. Quality Built has been the primary building science defense consultant in 2,000+ litigation cases, provided quality assurance for 90,000+ units and reduced builder risk by $1.5B dollars. More information available at www.qualitybuilt.com.Recruited to increase the company’s capability and data acquisition capacity in order to obtain national contracts with the top 100 homebuilders. Increased the company’s potential data capacity more than 5,000% by converting the company from Access systems to SQL servers.Implemented assertive recruiting and training programs which doubled the size of the team and resulted in an increase in billings and client projects by more than 30%

Employer: Sunrise Company
Position: Division President / Corporate Senior Vice President
Time period: January 1998 - December 2002
Description: In charge of all aspects of 640 acre Indian Ridge Country Club from development, resort operations, to HOA set-up; this project included 36 holes of golf, a 22Ks.f. health spa and sports complex and 44K s.f. clubhouse; this project received the National Housing Quality Silver Award in 2000 – awarded to less than 1% Created, developed and implemented company’s quality systems and TQM processes; ensured standards and documentation were in compliance with ISO9000. Developed quarterly construction quality and defect measurement system to improve project quality, manage liability and control risk; improved standards led to $8M savings in insurance premiums over a 6-year period.Led team to achieve $1.1M sales per employee ratio at Indian Ridge with realized profits of 25%+.Established streamlined development operational procedures such as integrated scheduling systems, auto-pay, hand-held status updating, design studio catalogs, sales and start reports, project summaries and business tracking and delivery systems to owners.Lead the corporate operations to include quality systems management, risk management, liability limitation, insurance claims and legal case management; led team of more than 500+ personnel

Employer: Del Webb Corporation
Position: Vice President of Construction Operations
Time period: January 1996 - December 1998
Description: Developed the company’s Quality Systems Review (QSR) for trades’ contractor qualification which was based on ISO9000 standards; ensured all divisions and subcontractors managed quality systems.Achieved an annual pre-tax profit of $24M at Terravita – the highest achieved profit to-date for a single project.Conceived and organized in-house products trade show exclusively for Del Webb, this expo held at the Phoenix Convention Center served as a large-scale focus group to measure customer needs and wants versus trends.

Employer: Sunrise Company
Position: Vice President of Operations
Time period: January 1979 - December 1996
Description: In charge of all aspects of 640 acre Indian Ridge Country Club from development, resort operations, to HOA set-up; this project included 36 holes of golf, a 22Ks.f. health spa and sports complex and 44K s.f. clubhouse; this project received the National Housing Quality Silver Award in 2000 – awarded to less than 1% Created, developed and implemented company’s quality systems and TQM processes; ensured standards and documentation were in compliance with ISO9000. Developed quarterly construction quality and defect measurement system to improve project quality, manage liability and control risk; improved standards led to $8M savings in insurance premiums over a 6-year period.Led team to achieve $1.1M sales per employee ratio at Indian Ridge with realized profits of 25%+.Established streamlined development operational procedures such as integrated scheduling systems, auto-pay, hand-held status updating, design studio catalogs, sales and start reports, project summaries and business tracking and delivery systems to owners.Lead the corporate operations to include quality systems management, risk management, liability limitation, insurance claims and legal case management; led team of more than 500+ personnel

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: Articles: A Quality Journey (10/2000) and Community Focus (10/1999) Professional Builder Magazine, Sunrise Company, Quality, Stability and Teamwork (3/1999) and Build Your Own Labor (5/2002), Builder/Architect Magazine

INFORMATION

Memberships: Urban Land Institute.
American Society of Quality.
National Association of Quality and Participation.
Member, Board of Directors for Building Horizons.
Desert Chapter Building Industry Association.
Awards: National Housing Quality Award, Gold Nugget, Star Award, Mame Award, National Sales and Marketing Council, Quality Built Leadership Award, American Concrete Institute Award of Merit for best practices in residential concrete.

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    Developers are having difficulty obtaining Construction Loans, Take Out Loans, and locating Equity Partners to complete their projects. Through DFS network of Private Investors and Funds we get Projects Funded and back on track

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  • Joe Harris

    Civil Engineering graduate from University of Delaware with MBA from Loyola College with an extensive background and civil engineering experience in project management.