Derek Baker

About Derek Baker

I am a homebuilding executive with 27 years experience with both public and private home builders. I started as a Construction Manager and worked my way through every operational position within the company to Division President.• Expert at developing and cultivating long-term business and consumer relationships while ensuring high retention success and service as an interface within the local community.• Extensive customer relations expertise, coupled with a solid proficiency in identifying clients\' financial goals and objectives.• Confident negotiator, adept at contractual agreements and customer communications to build loyal long term business relationships, and grow revenue resulting in considerable profit margins. • Able to perform resilient probing, listening, analytical, problem solving and decision making dexterity to effectively uncover and determine complex customer and employee issues.• Excellent ability to control compliance issues; investigating, resolving complaints, and govern problems.

Experience

1. Area President

   M/I Homes, Inc.

   Feb 2016 — Present · Austin, TX, US

Education

• Central Washington University

  BA, Communications

  1992 — 1994

Skills

• Recruiting
• Residential Homes
• Real Estate Development
• Construction Management
• Negotiation
• Entitlements
• Land Acquisition
• Land Development
• Real Estate
• Construction
• Homebuilding
• Single Family Homes
• Management
• Sales
• Contract Negotiation
• Team Leadership
• Due Diligence
• Leadership
• Property Management
• New Home Sales