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Steven T. McGee
Founder, President and CEO
Steve has a long history of pulling together the
right group of consultants to meet each client’s
unique needs. Personally, Steve is an internationally
recognized expert in improving operational and core
business processes for land developers, home builders,
general contractors, specialty trades, and manufacturers.
Steve has an extensive background in operations audits,
strategic planning, engineering and improving the
core business processes of companies.
In addition to the private sector, Steve has also
been engaged with a number of municipalities to help
them streamline processes and improve consistency
of delivery. He has also been hired by a combination
of home builder associations and municipalities to
improve how these groups interact during the plan
submittal and inspection processes.
Steve’s diverse experience enables him to
see and guide organizations on the best way to set
up or improve processes across multiple companies
or entities. The combined experiences enable Steve
to set up the right project teams to meet the unique
needs of each client. An important part of his philosophy
is to pull in the right consultants (including from
other firms when necessary) for highest benefit to
the client.
Steve has served extensively on the Board of the
National Association of Home Builders, has contributed
to key NAHB manuals, and been published extensively
in Professional Builder and Builder magazines. He
is also a sought-after public speaker thanks to his
depth of knowledge on leading trends and practices
and quick wit.
Kurt Christy
Vice President of Operations
Kurt brings to the table a unique combination of
skills, having worked for major national home builder
(Kaufman and Broad), a commercial general contracting
firm, as well as gaining invaluable experience with
an Internet start up company serving the residential
remodeling industry. These unique skills sets are
a perfect compliment to running the day to day operations
of our growing organization. Kurt holds a Bachelor
of Science degree in Industrial Engineering with
an emphasis in construction management.
Jay Mitra
Chief Technology Officer
Technology is a critical part of our business and
having Jay at the helm ensures we will continue to
offer the best technical services and support to
our clients. Jay’s technical background include time
at Boeing where he worked on aerospace programs,
as well as in the banking industry where he was involved
with computer programming, application development,
and hardware/software maintenance. He has also consulted
with various companies around the country, performing
client/server development, internal research and
development.
Max Thomas
Vice President
Max Thomas brings more than 30 years of home building
leadership and real estate experience to the team.
He is an expert in turning around the financial results
of under-performing companies or divisions. His background
includes a decade as a division manager for Highland
Homes in Austin, Texas. He’s also held senior management
positions at Trammell Crow Residential and Wood Brothers
Homes, as well as owned his own consulting company
specializing in feasibility and market analysis for
developers and investors.
Max holds an MBA in Finance and is a Certified Public
Accountant. He is a member of the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, The Texas Society
of Certified Public Accountants, Texas Real Estate
Broker, National Association of Home Builders and
the Texas Association of Home Builders.
Scott Waldrop
Senior Project Director
Scott has an extensive background in I/T solutions
that serve business strategy. He received his original
business training through Harvard University while
employed by IBM Corporation where he held several
leading positions in hardware and system solutions
groups.
Scott’s success at IBM led to serving in the
role of Chief Information Officer for several large
healthcare organizations in addition to being president
of the national IBM healthcare users group. As Corporate
Vice President of a Fortune 50 company, he was responsible
for integration of an average of one business acquisition
per week into the parent corporation. Scott has also
served in executive roles with public software companies
including the position of Chief Operating Officer.
Scott’s business training enabled him to focus
on ensuring that the business processes were served
by the I/T strategy rather than having the I/T solutions
drive the business operation. He has been recognized
numerous times as an information technology leader
including his organization's selection as the Information
Week© "I/T Organization of the Year."
For the past six years, Scott has been specializing
as a consultant in turn-around management focusing
primarily in the manufacturing and home building
industries. He has utilized his extensive business
background to assist companies in identifying areas
of profit leakage and quality deficits and in developing
well defined processes and procedures to capture
and maintain operational efficiencies.
Cliff Wangerin
Senior Field Consultant
Cliff has more than 19 years of residential and
light commercial construction industry experience,
including new construction, customer service, and
job cost estimating. Developed and implemented computerized
construction scheduling, and led the training program.
Implemented customer service programs which improved
rankings by 20% in 1.5 years.
Gene Freeman
Senior Project Director
Gene has had an upwardly mobile professional life
including a career in the U.S. Navy and several successful
positions in the corporate world. As a consultant
and Project Director Mr. Freeman has led many successful
projects in manufacturing, construction, distribution
and varied retail/wholesale businesses. He has designed,
developed and implemented complete organizational,
operational and financial control systems for many
different businesses. He has helped clients to manage
organizational change, increase productivity and
reduce costs. Gene is a highly effective communicator
with excellent facilitation skills; he connects with
others at all levels of organizations and sincerely
enjoys the challenge of working with people. Gene
has a Masters degree in Management, a BS in Spanish
Literature and has native fluency in Spanish and
is very comfortable in most foreign cultures.
Bob Williamson
Financial Analyst
Bob has 18 years of operations management, financial
management, and reengineering experience in manufacturing,
construction, and corporate environments. His success
is based on an emphasis of achieving savings without
changing the quality of the product or service. Bob's
focus is on re-engineering under-performing clients
in a Consultant role. Bob possesses strong interpersonal
and motivational skills and a unique ability to discover
innovative ways to insure success and empower coworkers.
Bob's career highlights include General Manager for
a major commercial printing company, as well as Plant
Manager, Controller and Plant Accountant roles. Bob
has spearheaded start-up plants as well as relocated
and consolidated facilities. Bob's record of accomplishment
shows that companies he has worked with have saved
hundreds of thousands of dollars because of his efforts.
The bottom line is his area of expertise. Bob Williamson
has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.
John M. Stephens
Project Director
John has nine plus years of recent consulting experience
backed by a financial and operations career. John
has served in numerous positions including Controller/CFO,
Senior Vice President of Operations, Vice President
of Reengineering Services, and Chief Operating Officer.
As a consultant, John has successfully improved profitability
for over 55 clients and attained highest satisfaction
ratings from clients for project results. Clients
were in manufacturing, construction/real estate development,
service, transportation, and distribution industries.
John work includes designing Activity Based Costing
(ABC) system tied to operations and using the ABC
approach tied to MRP/JIT to improve gross margins
by product and by customer. John also does a fair
amount of work on tying pricing strategies to standard
costs for labor, materials, and burden by activity
center and line item. Additionally, John is experienced
in: process re-engineering, business analysis, business
financing, management training, information systems
analysis, and SEC audits for clients. John holds
an MBA in Finance and is a Certified Public Accountant.
For more information about Unify International please
email customerservice@unifyinternational.com
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