John Di Cecco is appointing to Leslie Harris as the vice-president of AMAR Friends Foundation, Welcome Aboard.

S. Leslie Harris 

OBJECTIVE: My objective is to return to the San Fransico Bay Area in the Commercial Real Estate industry.

Experience: 20+ years in the commercial real estate industry.

1989–2005      Commercial Property Management

General Manager & Portfolio Manager Retail Shopping Centers

• Increased the size of portfolio under management for small start up third party management company from 60,000 sf to over 1MM sf.

• Created annual budgets for centers ranging from 25,000 sf to 600,000 sf.

• Provided 5 year projections for income and expenses.

• Consistently surpassed performance goals, increasing NOI on all centers by controlling expenses, administering rent increases pursuant to lease agreements and maintaining collections at 95% to 100%.

• Maintained excellent professional relationships with merchants, individually and collectively via regular merchant meetings.

• Negotiated contracts and ensured top performance from service providers.

• Daily interaction with institutional and private investor clients.

• Supervised consumer marketing campaigns and event coordination.

• Provided highly acclaimed monthy financial and narrative reports to investors and corporate entities.

2005 - 2008     Independent Consultant     Baja California, Mexico.

• Successfully raised in excess of $1MM from investors for residential development.

• Arranged and participated in presentations to investors.

• Obtained escrow agreements for various projects.

• Served as Director of Sales for two luxury residential developments.

• Achieved 70% sales of the projects.

• Created and implemented marketing campaign for targeted U.S. Market.

• Member of Board of Directors and consultant for AMAR, Retirement Communities Association.

• Managing rental properties.

• Served as president of HOA for 3 years.

• BECA Board Member – raising funds to provide scholarships for local children.

• Continuing research for AMAR- Liason between U.S. retirement development operators and Mexican developers.

• Created operating procedures, promoted and managed local restaurant, increasing traffic and resulting revenues by 50%Assisting Executive Director of L.A. Trust for Childrens Health with coordinating and providing audit information in electronic format to auditors.  Interfacing  with various organizations within the school district in the planning of conferences.

Presently Consultant/Volunteer Baja California, Mexico