Project Manager looking for role in Real Estate

[Alex Kenneth Swindell]

Hello! 

My name is Alex Swindell. I am currently looking for a role in which I serve a team or investor and  can continue my real estate investing education by utilizing the skills and experience I currently have. 

My  Professional Background: 

     When I graduated form university, I landed a job as a Staffing/Sales Manager. After a short time, I knew that this role wasn't for me and started doing some internal investigation. I became passionate about real estate and over the course of the last five years, I have worked towards a career where I could learn the skills to be successful in real estate investing. I sought out a career in project management. However, I didn't have the qualifications to get in the door and at the time, finding a job wasn't easy. I got similar feedback from a few different interviews -  'you don't have the relevant experience'. To break my way into a role where I could become a Project Manager, I took a job as an electrical trainee. I did that for a few months until I was laid off due to COVID. I began to interview again and found a position with the company which I currently work for as a Field Coordinator for a utility scale solar manufacturer. I told the interviewer the first time we spoke on the phone that what I wanted was to be a Project Manager. He assured me that this could lead to that role within the company. I took the job and six months later was promoted to an Assistant Project Manager. That is my current role and I have been doing it for the last two years. I have ran a project as a project manager, managed budgets, instructed incoming Assistant Project Managers and trained them for their role, managed subcontractors, tracked project deliverables from start to finish, and worked on contract revisions. I have been on teams which aimed to role out new software which would be the new standard for streamlined communication internally. I have learned a lot about company internal organization, stakeholder management both internal and external, change orders, file structures, contract negotiations, record keeping, risk mitigation, and more. 

Whilst in my role as an APM, I have also started other work with a partner and close friend of mine of the last 20 years. We have the same objective: an early retirement via real estate. We have done research and performed property analysis on single and multi family properties across the United States, market analysis,  identified and started to work towards a creative investment opportunity with a vacant lot in the Sacramento, CA area in which we intended to place a tiny house. I've learned about building up a team, sourcing deals, rehabbing property, creative financing, and more. 

I want to continue my education in real estate in pursuit of my highest goals.  If you have any suggestions as to roles that may be a good fit given the above information, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it. 

Thanks and Regards,

Alex Swindell