Juan L Cano

VP Corporate Facilities Operations

Spring, TX 77379
Cell: (214) 347-2230
Cano_Juan@hotmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/juancano

Corporate Real Estate

Professional Summary
Successful professional with 20+ years experience in Corporate Operations and Facilities
Management. Proven track record of consistently exceeding corporate objectives through:
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Hands-on team leadership

Accountable performance management
Aggressive cost reduction focus
Intense results-based performance mgt

Corporate aligned strategic planning

Comprehensive supplier management
Client-need focused outsourcing
Project management leadership

Differentiator: I work best under pressure, tackling difficult situations, and building strong/focused
teams. I take pride in being relied on to always do the right thing, doing the thing right, and doing
what I say.
Professional Experience
CBRE
2014- 2015
Managing Director
Delivering Facility Management services across a 16.5 MSF portfolio, $210 M budget.
Short stay due to personal situations. Willing to discuss.
EDMC
2009 2014
Vice President Real Estate Operations
Directed & implemented Operations staff & solutions for a 7.2 MSF portfolio, $85 M spend
Slashed facility management costs by 21%.
o Extreme focus on committed deliverables.
Improved customer satisfaction from 61% to 91%.
o Intense dedication to customer communications/listening
Led Project Management team with approximately $90 M annual spend with 97% on-time
delivery
o Managing with accountability for results
SBM SITE SERVICES, LLC
2006 2009
Executive Vice President Business Development
Increased corporate revenue by 40% over year end 2006
o Focused Sales team to select strategic markets & aggressive penetration
o Prioritizing resources on highest impact opportunities
Awarded the largest single account in SBMs history with global software leader, approx.
13MSF.
NORTEL NETWORKS CORPORATION
1999 2005
Director Real Estate Global Operations
Leading delivery of facility management operations of a 21 MSF portfolio, approximately $500M
spend through 50 countries.

Drastically reduced facility management costs by 37%.

o Feverishly tackling waste through Pareto analysis
Successfully designed & restructured independent global Facilities Operations into a single
integrated organization.
o Implemented global centralization & consistency (not identicality, adapting to local
cultures)
Developed and executed a global Corporate Real Estate strategy deemed world class by
E&Y

NORTEL NETWORKS CORPORATION

1996-1998
Director Real Estate U.S. Operations
Spearheaded the strategic CRE Operations direction across a 5 MSF portfolio in 160 locations.
Created and implemented Real Estates Mercury Principle, a collaborative Supplier
Management system establishing a network of Key Strategic Suppliers in a unique
cooperative environment
Reduced overhead management costs by 50%
o Laser focused outsourcing of non-strategic functions and reducing overhead
headcount by approximately 70%.
Earned the Presidents Award of Excellence.
PRIOR HISTORY
NORTEL NETWORKS CORPORATION
Latin American Operations Director of Facilities
Director of Manufacturing Plant Manager
Industrial Engineering Manager
STROMBERG-CARLSON INC., Lake Mary, Florida
Supervisor, Industrial Engineering
WALT DISNEY WORLD CO, Orlando, Florida
Industrial Engineer
EDUCATION:
Rollins College; Winter Park, Florida
Graduate School of Business
Masters of Science in Management

University of South Florida; Tampa, Florida

School of Engineering
Bachelors in Industrial Engineering Technology

Personal:
Bilingual - fluent in English & Spanish
Married, four children, two step children
Enjoy traveling, crafting
Participate in mission work to impoverished regions