Hi S***r, I’m J***e, an HR recruiter at StrategyBrain. I came across your profile and was impressed by your leadership as Owner of P***s and your decades of pre-construction and project management experience at A***l. We’re partnering with S***s to fill a Director of Pre-Construction Services role in Fort Lauderdale, and your background in budgeting, value engineering and design-build aligns really well. Would you be open to a brief conversation to learn more about this opportunity?

Hi S***r, Thanks for your interest. Here’s a quick overview of the Director of Pre-Construction Services role in Fort Lauderdale: Key Responsibilities • Lead all pre-construction efforts,budget development, value engineering and feasibility studies,to set projects up for success. • Build and manage detailed estimates, prepare cost analyses and negotiate change orders to protect margins. • Partner closely with architects, engineers and clients to define scope, align on design-build objectives and establish realistic schedules. • Mentor and guide a team of project managers and estimation specialists, driving consistent processes and best practices across pre-construction. • Support business development by lending technical expertise to proposals, qualifying opportunities and preparing prequalification documentation. Team Structure You’d head the Fort Lauderdale pre-construction group, reporting to the VP of Operations, and collaborate daily with our in-house architects/designers, engineering partners and field leadership. Your core team includes senior estimators, project managers and support staff,about 5,7 direct reports,within a broader 100+-person design-build organization. I’d love to hear how this aligns with what you’re looking for next. Are there particular challenges or growth areas in your current role that you’re hoping to address in your next opportunity?

Hi S***r, It sounds like you’re ready to zero in on pre-construction strategy and guide a dedicated team,exactly what this Director of Pre-Construction Services role at S***s is built around. Here’s how we’d set you up for success: 1. Pure Pre-Construction Focus • You’ll own the full spectrum of pre-construction: feasibility studies, budgeting, value engineering and change-order negotiations,no HR hats required. • You’ll establish and refine best-practice frameworks and estimation processes that scale across our commercial and larger residential design-build portfolio. 2. Leadership & Mentorship • You’ll lead a team of 5,7 senior estimators and project managers, reporting to the VP of Operations, with direct impact on a 100+-person, innovation-driven organization. • You’ll develop training programs, host regular technical workshops, and champion continuous improvement so your team grows alongside you. 3. Bigger, More Complex Projects • You’ll collaborate daily with in-house architects, engineers and field leadership on mid- to high-rise, institutional and specialty projects that far exceed the size and complexity of a smaller shop. • You’ll also support business development by shaping proposals and prequalification packages for opportunities in the $10M,$100M+ range. 4. Growth & Resources • You’ll have access to cutting-edge estimating software, a robust tech stack and dedicated business-development support. • Competitive salary, performance bonus and professional development budgets are in place to ensure you,and your team,thrive. Does this align with what you’re looking for? I’d love to answer any questions you have or walk you through sample projects and career-path options at S***s.

Hi S***r, Great questions,here’s how we see your first 6,12 months shaping up: 1. Top Priorities • Audit and enhance our current estimating processes and templates to tighten margin forecasting. • Lead pre‐construction for three key mid/high‐rise projects in our Fort Lauderdale pipeline,a downtown mixed‐use tower, a beachfront residential high‐rise and a mid‐rise institutional building,driving budgets, value-engineering workshops and scope alignment. • Establish clear communication rhythms with architects, engineers and field teams to lock in schedules, budgets and risk‐mitigation plans. • Build out your team’s capabilities through training programs, technical workshops and rollout of standardized best‐practice frameworks by month six. 2. Biggest Challenges • Accelerating accurate estimates under increasingly tight design‐to‐bid timelines. • Integrating new cost‐tracking software into our established tech stack and workflows. • Balancing evolving design scopes with budget constraints and maintaining stakeholder alignment as projects develop. 3. Success Metrics • Estimate accuracy: target <5% variance between pre‐construction budgets and final bid. • On‐time delivery: hitting all internal milestones for cost models, value-engineering reports and proposal submissions. • Margin protection and improvement through effective change‐order negotiations. • Team performance: measurable productivity gains, adoption of your best‐practice standards and positive feedback from peers/clients. • Proposal win rate: aiming for a 15,20% uplift on our mid/high-rise bids year-over-year. You’ll be stepping into active detailed‐estimate phases on those three marquee projects, so you’ll have immediate impact shaping budgets, scopes and client presentations. Let me know if you’d like to dive deeper into any of these projects or metrics,and when you’d be available for a follow-up call.

Hi S***r, Here’s a bit more color on the beachfront residential high-rise and our cost-tracking rollout: 1. Beachfront Residential High-Rise • Design Stage: We’re moving from Schematic Design into early Design Development (around 30,40% complete). • Budget Range: Roughly $80M,$95M, including site work, amenities and high-end finishes. • Team Size: You’ll have a core pre-construction team of about 6,7 people (1 PM, 2 senior estimators, 1 value-engineering specialist, 1 scheduler and 1 BIM/model coordinator), plus dedicated support from our in-house architects and engineers. 2. Cost-Tracking Software Rollout • Platform: We’re standardizing on a new cloud-based cost-tracking module that ties into our existing estimating and project-management tools. • Timeline: Pilot launches in Q1,your team will kick it off in month 1,2,followed by full integration across all South Florida projects by the end of month 5,6. • Your Role: You’ll help refine workflows, train the pre-construction staff and ensure real-time budget visibility feeds directly into our value-engineering and change-order process. Let me know if you’d like to see a brief demo of the cost platform or dive deeper into the project’s scope and deliverables. I’m happy to set up a call at your convenience.

Hi S***r, Great questions,let’s get you on a 30-minute demo next week so you can see the cost-tracking module in action. It pushes real-time spend and forecast data straight into our value-engineering dashboards, and we’ve built native connectors to sync with P***e and export/import cost logs in B***0. I’ll bring in our technical lead to walk through the API mapping, data flows and validation steps. On the beachfront tower, a few key site logistics and permit drivers are shaping our DD packages: • Coastal resilience requirements,elevated podium design, hurricane-rated glazing and floodproofing strategies mandated by the local coastal commission. • Geotech findings,high water table and sandy soils require deep foundation piles and ground improvement; we’ve already completed borings and are running pile-layout value-engineering options. • Permitting status,applications with Florida DEP and the city are in review, and our civil/structural scopes reflect those resilience specs and FEMA flood-zone constraints. I can share the geotech summary and permit-package snapshots during the demo. Would Wednesday at 10:00 AM or Thursday at 2:00 PM work for you? Let me know what fits your schedule. Cheers, J***e