Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Portland

Dynamic, results-driven Team Leader for a high-performing Keller Williams Market Center of 150 agents. Expert at driving agent growth, fostering leadership development, and cultivating a culture of excellence. Proven ability to recruit, train, and retain top talent while maximizing profitability and agent success.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead all aspects of Market Center operations, focused on agent growth, leadership development, and profitability.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain high-performing real estate agents; drive weekly recruitment initiatives to expand market share.
• Deliver one-on-one consulting, training, and business development support to agents, with special focus on the top 20% to boost productivity and retention.
• Oversee staff hiring, leadership, and development; ensure all team members are properly trained and held accountable to high performance standards.
• Implement the Operating Principal’s (OP) vision and leverage Keller Williams Growth Initiative tools to achieve key metrics for appointments, recruits, and profitability.
• Promote a strong learning-based environment by providing access to top-tier training and educational opportunities for all associates.
• Lead regular meetings to foster collaboration and shared vision.
• Research competition and develop effective marketing strategies to enhance Market Center positioning.
• Maintain a positive, empowering, and people-first culture that challenges associates to reach their potential while providing a supportive atmosphere.

Team Leader & Coach

Ask Alby Coaching

Created and facilitated the 12-week "Rewrite Your Life" (RYL) and the 12-week Introvert Mastery programs based on ACT (Acceptance & Commitment
Therapy) and NLP principles supporting marginalized individuals in overcoming anxiety and depression and gaining personal and professional confidence through awareness, defusion, and reframing their limiting beliefs.

Coach, Public Speaker, Corporate Development

Conduent

Program manager of the 2021-22 Leadership Development program including content creation, facilitation, and coaching over 500 leaders globally incorporating the DDI learning platform and modules. Globally certified to facilitate all levels of DDI leadership development content. Responsible for a positive financial impact of over $400,000 as a result of increased team engagement and efficiency.

Global Senior Program Manager (Leadership Development)

Led numerous high-profile, mission-critical, global implementations as a PMP, including building new physical sites and employee ramp-up for global clients. Successfully led global initiatives in 2020 and 2021, supporting the Annual Enrollment Period AEP) seasonal staffing ramp-up projects, onboarding over 3,000 new hires for healthcare clients.
Successfully, led a global, company-wide, IT initiative to implement a critical software solution to over 1,000 frontline employees. 
Consistently managed people and resources for complex projects involving globally distributed, cross-functional teams.

Global Senior Project Manager

Alby Associates, Inc.

Served as a consultant for construction, real estate, technical colleges, hospitals, and small business.
Responsible for developing the framework for complex Federal compliance. Created educational curricula for various institutions. The role also encompassed project management, coaching, and overseeing residential construction projects.
Responsible for fostering B2B and vendor relation-ships, and the development of process maps, SOPs, and technical documentation.

Consultant | Construction Project Manager

Holland Graphics

Led a team responsible for all aspects of publication including content procurement, writing, editing, graphic design, layout, and coordinating editorial content for three trade newspapers with monthly circulation of over 80,000 subscribers.

Managing Editor | Writer

Alby is a visionary leader with extensive and diverse experience in real estate, education, and leadership development. His own transformative journey fuels his passion for creating a culture where individuals can thrive.

With a proven track record of developing inspiration programs, Alby has lead numerous impactful initiatives including a 12-month leadership development program, and a 12-week "Rewrite Your Life" course designed to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to thrive through personal and professional development. Most recently, he created and implemented a 12-week "Introvert Mastery" program focused on supporting introverts in their personal and professional lives with leadership skills and positive mental health habits for success. This comprehensive program, developed from a needs assessment, incorporates adult learning principles and offers a range of resources to foster personal and professional growth.

As a captivating speaker, author, and coach, Alby's Introvert Mastery and Rewrite Your Life (RYL) programs empower participants to unlock their full potential through powerful strategies and tools. His work challenges societal stigmas, promotes mental well-being, and supports a culture of inclusivity.

Alby Heredia, PMP®

GEODIS

Responsible for managing across all organizations to yield the successful launch of new business, as well as provide leadership within Project Finance to ensure team success. Drive project profitability and ensure project timelines, budget, internal financial metrics, and customer expectations are met.

• Develops pricing and cost estimate standards in collaboration with Business Development and
Solutions Teams.
• Guides the cross-functional work-streams to protect the economics of new business from lead
generation to steady state operations.
• Directs the reporting of new business economics relative to plan, analyzes key drivers, issues,
and opportunities.
• Strategic partner with workstreams to improve on the economics of new business until the
account meets or exceeds steady state results.
• Manages performance of key metrics for the business to measure growth, profitability,
expense control and productivity.
• Drives key financial decisions using analytical approaches and modeling.
• Leads the development of innovative, high value-added financial information to leadership for
strategic decision making, as well as financial performance summaries, reports, and
presentations.
• Generates and implements recommendations to drive increasingly efficient and
impactful processes to support the needs of the business.

Director - Project Finance

PhyNet Dermatology LLC

Responsible for leading supply chain strategy to support organizational procure to pay goals, including overseeing processes, sourcing, pricing, contracts, rebates and vendor relationships. Assisted other departments with sales tax expertise, ERP administration & development, project management, and co-leading clinical remodel projects.
•	Saved 50% in clinical labor hours directly connected to time it takes to create medical supply requisitions. Developed reporting that improved clinical time spent on managing requisitions and supply purchases.
•	Implemented Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solution with company’s medical & surgical suppliers that saved numerous clinical and accounting labor hours associated with receiving, and processing vendor invoices.
•	Improved 2022 Projected Net Income by $510,000 by renegotiating supply contracts and restructuring rebate programs.
•	Decreased AP Expenditures $17,000 in 2021 by implementing EFT system to pay vendors and reimburse employees via ACH.

Director Supply Chain Management

Olympia Orthopaedic Associates

Responsibilities included leadership of accounting and financial operations, banking relationships, contracting, insurance, risk management, real estate development, IT operations, supply chain and facilities management for this medical specialty practice. Reported to the CEO. 
•	Implemented new financial systems and controls that identified $1.5M in historical accounting and reporting errors.
•	Saved $750,000 over a three-year period by renegotiating numerous supply chain vendor agreements and employee health benefit plan with more favorable pricing and terms.
•	Improved bottom-line results by investing excess cash.
•	Increased revenues 4% annually by negotiating improved payor reimbursement contracts.
•	Managed contracts and purchasing process by reviewing, executing and negotiating terms & conditions. Administered renewals and monitored compliance.
•	Directed construction project for a new 50,000 sq. ft. clinical and administration office building.
•	Led $500,000 IT infrastructure overhaul project.
•	Implemented group purchasing (GPO) strategies resulting in 10-40% savings.

Director of Finance/VP of Infrastructure

Delta Dental of Washington

Directed all financial operations for this non-profit corporation that provides dental insurance coverage for employers. Managed insurance industry regulatory filings and administered the operations and development of the accounting ERP system. Served as the project manager for all finance related projects. Led a team of 10 accountants. 
•	Cut annual labor expenses by over $85,000 by replacing a manual expense reporting system with an automated online reporting platform.
•	Implemented a new financial reporting and analytics software application. 
•	Successfully led accounting ERP upgrade project.
•	Implemented an online bill payment system.
•	Gained the company’s admission into the state’s Healthcare.gov insurance exchange.

Finance Manager

USI Kibble & Prentice

Recruited to manage all finance operations across the four office locations that made up the Northwest Region for this privately held insurance brokerage firm. Served as a member of the company’s Operations Committee, working in collaboration with the executive management team on communication, leadership and facilitation of the corporate strategic goals. Managed 11 accountants. 
•	Advised and worked with IT to consolidate multiple business systems.
•	Led a team that consistently ranked as the top regional accounting department across the nation for five consecutive years. 
•	Reduced the month-end closing time from 14 to five business days.
•	Saved 60 labor hours per month by designing and implementing an automated invoicing process.

Regional Corporate Controller

Zones, Inc.

Directed a staff of 2 Senior Accountants and 3 Staff Accountants for this publicly traded company.  Responsibilities included corporate accounting, preparation of financial statements, account reconciliations, managing all external audits, state sales tax compliance and reporting program (22 states), assisting external tax accountants with preparing corporate income tax returns, corporate licensing and corporate fixed asset management.  Directly assisted with development and monitoring of organizations internal controls.  Documented Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requirements.  Assisted in preparing and reviewing SEC quarterly (10Q) and annual (10K) reports.
•	Led clean up of balance sheet by fully reconciling all GL account ledgers.
•	Designed, developed and monitored sales tax compliance program. 
•	Led implementation of new sales tax return compliance software application.

Financial Reporting & State Tax Manager

US Navy

Aviation Maintenance Administration

A dynamic, entrepreneurial spirited and results-oriented finance professional with 20+ years of broad range experience in leading finance teams, financial reporting, planning and analysis. Develops ways to continuously improve financial and operational processes that contribute to bottom-line improvements and organizational growth. 

An outdoor enthusiast who enjoys competing in triathlons; finishing the Ironman distance three times, numerous half ironman’s and half marathons. In addition to swim, bike and run; enjoys hiking and snowshoeing. The joys at home include spending time with family, cooking, music, reading and woodworking.

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