John Kray

Background

About John Kray

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Over 20 years experience as high performance team leader with extensive management and product development experience with particular expertise in: • Effective leadership with ability to uncover and develop business opportunities in support of strategic goals of organizations. • Innovative product planning, development and implementation to support bottom line business objectives. • Analytical and organizational skills for prompt identification and solutions to complex problems. • Building and retaining high performance cross-functional teams to support corporate growth and product development. • Project management at the multi million-dollar level from conception to implementation consistently on schedule and within budget. • Highly effective communication to build and foster lasting relationships that enhance business opportunities. • Decisive leadership prioritizing problem resolution for service delivery and technical team to ensure goal alignment with time frame and funding parameters. ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS • Planned and led start up of Property Restoration office in Middletown, PA. Developed budget and infrastructure, staffed and marketed the initiative. In 3 years the office revenues exceeded $3M and is fully staffed and functional with 10 trained people and over 100 pieces of equipment. •Led initiative to reduce production workforce turnover. Implemented regular meetings, reviews, performance standards and incentives. Resulted in a 50% decrease in turnover in 18-month period. Specialties: Business development, strategic planning, contract negotiation, subcontractor management, project management, operations management, team building, hiring and training, conflict resolution, estimating, budget planning and implementation, process improvement, consulting, cost vs budget planning and management.