JOHN S. WINDISH
Vice President
Property Management

John Windish joined Alexander Summer, L.L.C. in March of 2006 as Vice President of Property Management. Mr. Windish is a versatile, broadly accomplished real estate professional with substantial experience managing both residential and commercial properties and a successful record of achievement at leading New Jersey construction and real estate development companies and managing blue-chip properties for diversified development companies.

Prior to joining Alexander Summer, L.L.C., Mr. Windish was most recently employed as a Property Manager with M. Alfieri Property Management Company, where he was responsible for the complete management of 1.2 million square feet of mid-rise multi tenanted office, flex and single-tenant buildings. His responsibilities at Alfieri included tenant build-outs, staffing, training, contract negotiations, preventative maintenance programs, budgets and tenant relations and retention. While with Alfieri, Mr. Windish brought 4 new buildings on line, on schedule, and with minimal problems, negotiated maintenance and service contracts and hired and trained building staff and fine-tuned all building systems, and expanded bidding by outside contractors, reducing contracted costs.

Prior to joining M. Alfieri Property Management Company, Mr. Windish was Director of Facilities/Engineering at Popular Club Plan (a division of J Crew Group, Inc.), where he was fully accountable for all aspects of corporate headquarters facilities operations including production setup and flows, two distribution centers, and 10 stores located from Rhode Island through southern New Jersey. Mr. Windish was responsible for all contracts relating to HVAC equipment, cleaning personnel, physical plant maintenance, garbage removal/recycling and landscaping. Accomplishments included the following:

  • Developed and implemented an annual budget of $1.2 million for just over one million square feet of warehousing space and 187,000 square feet of New York/New Jersey corporate offices through a staff of 20 and an office staff of 12.

  • Negotiated the leases for several stores, and coordinated their build outs. Also, renegotiate renewal leases for existing locations, and built two stores in Connecticut and one in Rhode Island, bringing them in onetime and within budget.

  • Project Manager for a 369,000 square foot, $7 million warehouse build out, including the installation and troubleshooting of a Rapistan 2000 fully computerized sorting telemarketing center.

  • In recognition of strong negotiating skills and the ability to creatively source for new items, we asked to take over the functions of the Director of Purchasing for 8 months until a permanent replacement could come on board.

  • To reduce the incidence of accidents and material damage instituted a fork lift training and safety program for all warehouse personnel. The program was credited with reducing damage from $12,000 per month to less than $1,000.

  • Thoroughly versed in all aspects of compliance with NEC, NFPA, BOCA, OSHA and ADA codes and regulations.


Mr. Windish holds a B.S. in Business Administration from William Paterson College, a Certificate in Applied Electronics from RET Electronic School, and is a BOMA RPA Candidate.

 

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