Smooth Operators Search

Executive search for world class veterans to run small and medium businesses across America. We specialize in senior operations and sales leaders for SMBs. General Manager is our favorite role to place.

We specialize in recruiting hard operations roles in real estate, construction, home services, manufacturing, transportation, proptech and construction tech.

Founder

Christmas Air Conditioning & Heating

Change lives through the trades.  Create smiles.  Do it every day.

Owner

Bart's Heating & Air

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We make it easy to buy and sell home services and projects online - for homeowners and home pros alike.

Founder and CEO

Operators Guild

Member

Smart City Apartment Locating

Lead the day to day and strategic vision/execution for Smart City including all sales, marketing, finance and technology.  Full revenue and P&L responsibility reporting to the CEO and board.

Chief Operating Officer

WeWork

Senior leader for the Mountain West and Texas regions leading a cross functional team of nearly 300.   

-> Full revenue and P&L responsibility for over $220M+ in revenue, 

-> $200M+ in Capital and OPEX.  

-> Grew the regions over 20X in 2+ years from 2 locations to nearly 50.

Helped lead the launch of several new markets including Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Boulder, SLC, Vegas, Phoenix, Nashville, Kansas City and Charlotte.  This included the full GTM plan, site selection, team building and overall launch and operations.

Helped champion the Veteran's in Residence program in partnership with Bunker Labs growing it from its first locations in Denver and Austin to over 20 cities across the country.

VP & General Manager | Texas & Mountain West Territories

Texas Territory GM for one of the coolest companies on earth.

General Manager | Texas Territory

Helping others make a life not just a living by delivering amazing workspaces and communities efficiently. 

 I lead all the fun stuff at WeWork in the Southern US namely business operations, facilities, hospitality, billing, IT, security, P&L and anything else that our teams need.

Head of Operations  | Southern U.S.

Army National Guard

HIMARS Platoon Sergeant for Alpha Battery, 4/133 Field Artillery located in New Braunfels, TX. My platoon provided devastating munitions to destroy our adversaries and support our troops on the ground.

I have shot over 100 rockets in both garrison and combat situations. I led a team of approximately 24 personnel in any situation. I was a senior advisor to our platoon leader and commissioned officers.

HIMARS Platoon Sergeant

Brigade Operations NCOIC for the 71st Theater IO Group.  I help employ the key tenants of information operation (IO) in a tactical manner for units of all sizes and in any location.  

I lead planning and operations for a large unit with multiple field teams deployed for IO, OPSEC and other MI supporting missions worldwide.

The key facets of IO are described as the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities.  

I help our troops and allies influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own.

Group Tactical Information Operations (IO) Leader

- Trained, taught and mentored 16-100 leadership students for Warrior Leaders Course/Primary Leadership Development Course.  30 per class, 13 classes per year

     - Evaluated student performance in technical subjects and leadership skills

     - Conducted developmental counseling, conflict resolution, and mitigate risk through composite risk management.

Army Certified Leadership Instructor

Redleg Property Group

Redleg was acquired in April 2017 by a Private Equity backed Real Estate company.  

Achieved ~5000% growth in 2016 before we were acquired in early 2017.

I founded and launched Redleg Property Group with my partner Jon Chasse.  I led Operations, Technology and Marketing along with the overall vision for the company.  We were a full service real estate firm that helped investors through the entire investment process from acquiring properties, renovating them, leasing them, managing them and finally selling them.  

We focused on residential rental portfolios and small multifamily properties.  We have strong experience helping out of state investors as they enter the DFW market.

Managing Director

Lockheed Martin

I lead a team of 20 represented craftsmen (IBEW & IAM unions) who maintain and repair manufacturing equipment and infrastructure supporting the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter production line. My team maintains assets totaling over $1.8 billion in a building over one mile in length equaling approximately 2.65 Million square feet. 

Since starting the position I have:

 - Increased Preventive Maintenance Work Orders completed on time from a low of 33% to a weekly average of over 93% for my team. Additionally, I assisted my peers in achieving the same high PM completion standard expected by our manager (92% +).
 
 - Instrumental in the evolution of the organization serving as a key leader between union stewards and management. I have implemented several written policies and standards to help improve morale, consistency and accountability. 
 a. One such example was implementing a work plan for technicians that support production on weekends. Previously, their role was reactionary only. I filtered through our deferred maintenance backlog and created job plans for them to work while waiting for trouble calls. In result I helped decrease our PM backlog by over 80%, work order backlog by over 50% and increased work completion on the weekends by an astounding 2000%.
 
 - Improved work order assignment from approximately a 72 hour suspense to a same day turnaround

 - Created a Maintenance Supervisor quick reference guide for POCs, skills, references and documents needed to be successful; this was adopted and standardized for use by all Facilities leadership
 
 - Lead and manage (2) rotational positions where leadership program participants get a chance to experience real leadership challenges and roles in maintenance. 

As a team we also: 

 - Assign and process work through Maximo, with my team completing over 3000+ PMs and over 2000+ reactive maintenance work orders annually.

Trained/certified in the following disciplines: Confined space; Lock out Tag out (LOTO); Arc Flash;

Multi-Functional Facilities Supervisor

Highly selective two-year rotational program for early career high potential professionals focusing on operations, supply chain, and quality in a manufacturing environment.

Completed rotations as:

     1. Littoral Combat Ship Sustainment Program Deputy

     2. Combat Systems Engineering Development Site Operations Engineer & Facility Supervisor

     3. Environment Safety & Health Project Manager

     4. F-35 Equipment Maintenance Supervisor

Operations Leadership Development Program


I am service oriented by nature, it's innate (get it? In – Nate, it's in me, my name is Nate, oh forget it). 

Huge fan of corny jokes, veterans and entrepreneurs. Always love to hear the story behind the person, place or business.

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