Richard Brunst

About Richard Brunst

A professional with experience working across functions, business units, and subsidiaries to solve facilities and real estate challenges across global portfolios. Successfully lead or partner with cross-functional teams to create and optimize strategies, business cases, processes, and tools in support of business objectives.Past projects include multi-site strategic planning leading to a $400M+ capital project approval, acting as a technical subject matter expert in the design and execution of a site selection tool, and influencing business partners to include facilities in various business-critical processes to drive a total life-cycle outcome for their facilities and real estate solutions.Finds and generates value by working on various facilities and real estate teams solving complex problems, with the freedom to propose a solution, test the proposed solution, modify the solution based on findings, and repeat until the desired state is achieved. This has looked different in various roles, from large-scale real estate and occupancy planning wherein I developed real estate or facilities solutions for thousands of office, industrial, and specialized space end users, to working with software engineers to develop a site selection tool for Boeing Global Services for work placement decisions.

Experience

1. Director, National Real Estate

   PwC

   Apr 2023 — Present · Colorado Springs, CO, US

   Leads and coordinates a highly-responsive and results-driven team of industry professionals focused on the effective and strategic utilization of PwC space resources across the US and Mexico. Ensures proper management of firm space through the development and implementation of space-related policies and metrics, driven by a variety of data sources, across a 5.7M Sq. Ft. portfolio.Proactively identify and recommend initiatives that focus on workplace effectiveness, including qualitative and quantitative analysis to improve the end-user experience across tactical and strategic timelines. Serves as product owner for a variety of space management technologies and systems.

Education

• Auburn University Harbert College of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance, General

  2017 — 2019

• Brigham Young University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Facility and Property Management

  2008 — 2015

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Social Media
• Microsoft Excel
• Public Speaking
• Powerpoint
• Customer Service
• Microsoft Word
• Event Planning
• Marketing
• Research
• Photoshop
• Leadership
• Social Media Marketing
• Marketing Strategy
• Public Relations
• Editing
• Teamwork
• Facebook
• Sales