Telephone:510.853.0158

e-mail:j.calkins@jcalkins.org

Address5910 Hoffman Ln.

Fair Oaks, CA 95628

 

 

Twenty-five years experience in the valuation, acquisition, disposition, development management, project manager, and asset/operations management aspects of real property for corporations, holding companies, developers, wireless and wired telecommunications, public and private utilities.

 

Extensive experience acquiring land use entitlements (permits) for industrial, commercial, and residential development. Experience includes project management of entitlement acquisition programs for multi-site / multi-jurisdictional industrial and commercial projects.

 

A broad range of experience as a project advocate and public spokesperson for commercial and industrial real property projects. Numerous presentations to neighborhood groups, zoning administrators, planning commissions, city councils, county commissions, and corporate management groups.  Qualified as an Expert Witness in real property value, (condemnation and value diminution) Superior Court, State of California.

 

An in-depth knowledge and experience with a-typical real property interest, i.e.; aviation easements, navigation easements, pier-head & wharf-head rights, operating rail road right-of-way, non-operating railroad right-of-way,  utility transmission corridors,  sub-surface property rights, roads and highways. 

 

Education, Certificates, Special Proficiencies

 

1985 University of San Francisco, core curriculum completed BS     

Economics – No Degree Obtained

1987 State of California Real Estate Appraisal License General (expired)

1987 All courses completed and exams passed, 5 years specialty experience rated towards MAI designation by Appraisal Institute

1992 Microsoft Excel & Word proficiency certificates Peralta Community College.

1999 Sprint PCS – Property Specialist Certificate

2012 Santa Monica College – Certificate Recycling / Resource Management (18 units)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

 

   1/2010 - Current  Self Employed – Ojai, CA

Real Estate Research   

§    Performing field research for real estate appraisers and real estate econometric firms in the Ventura and Los Angeles County markets.

 

   6/2009 – 1/2010CES Communications – Los Angeles , CA               

   Zoning Specialist – Employee

·         Obtain Use Permits for wireless telecommunications facilities in the greater Los Angeles Orange County area. Directly responsible for researching appropriate process, completing all forms and supplemental application material, interact with City, County, and State Planning Staffs during processing and making all Public presentations at Planning Commission and City Council meetings.

 

    7/2006 –  6/2009  Self Employed – Wichita, Kansas

Director Strategic Resources    –  Contractor to Healy Biodiesel Inc.

§    Performing feedstock acquisition and enterprise expansion duties for Healy Biodiesel Inc. on an independent contractor basis.

 

  7/2005 –  7/2006  FMHC Corp., Pleasant Hill, CA

Site Acquisition Consultant   –  Contractor to T-Mobile

§    Performing the site issue and cure plan functions for Operations Division Management, and the site identification and procurement functions (leasing and zoning) for on-air-site cure or alternate candidate solution. This project consist of a 27 site portfolio in the Demolition / Relocation Group within the Operations Division of T-Mobile, San Francisco MTA. Sites within the portfolio are ones where the landlord has requested that the site be moved to accommodate redevelopment of the property, out right termination of T-Mobile site lease, RF Engineering requested site relocations, Operations Division requested moves for better business terms, and temporary wireless sites for special events. Sites within this portfolio tend to be complex deployments often requiring the placement of temporary facilities to accommodate demolition and construction while simultaneously negotiating for placement of the site on the re-constructed improvements or sites where a 90 day notice to vacate has been received in a jurisdiction that requires 12 months to permit a site.

 

2003 – 7/2005BMS Communications Inc., Simi Valley, CA

Director Site Acquisition  & Entitlements

§    Member of the Company Leadership Team. Oversee and direct the daily functions of a 3 person zoning team and 5 person site acquisition team in the deployment of full cell sites, right-of-way sites, and distributed antenna systems. Service spectrum on full cell sites ranged from search ring issuance to building permit issuance. Right-of-way and distributed antenna systems service spectrum included search ring to on-air. Portfolio includes 275 sites in 7 Counties and 2 markets within the state of California.

§    Job responsibilities include project bid formulation, job bidding documentation, formulation, and presentation. Daily interaction with multiple wireless service providers management teams and deployment groups.

§    Performed special duties as Zoning Expeditor providing procedure review, process         consulting, and public presentations for difficult jurisdictions. Also performed special duties as the Compliance Manager (NEPA, Towair, CEQUA) functions for specific wireless service providers.

 

2002 – 2003Pyramid Network Services, Burbank, CA

    Site Acquisition Consultant – Contractor to AT&T Wireless

§    Performed the site location function, selected candidate lease function, zoning application functions, and zoning hearing attendance for fifteen sites over a seven month period

§    Performed special duties as Zoning Expeditors providing procedure review and process consulting for other consultants and consulting firms. Provided land use entitlement function only on fourteen sites within Pyramid Networks portfolio.

2000 – 2002West Valley Engineering,               Pleasanton, CA

Property Specialist – Contractor to Sprint PCS

§    Perform functions of Property Specialist, site management from lease to building permit issuance, for Los Angeles area sites, averaging three sites to the construction function per month over an eighteen month time frame. 

§       Performed special duties as zoning tracker and procedure reviewer for all Los Angeles sites, included weekly deployment meetings with zoning expediters on contract to Sprint PCS, contract planning firms, contract firm managers, and Sprint PCS SDM level management.

§    Assigned on merit to provide site acquisition and planning functions for several high profile sites including the Beverly Hills Hotel, Earthlink buildings in Pasadena, and Boeing Aircraft in Long Beach.

 

1998– 2000Lafayette, CA      

     Real Estate Consultant and Appraiser

§    Obtain Use Permits for microwave relay facilities, Alameda and Sonoma Counties, CA.

§    Right-Of-Way appraisal and acquisition for public utilities and telecommunications facilities.

§    Real property appraisals, commercial and industrial properties, California and Nevada. Licensed General Real Estate Appraiser, CA (expired)

§    Qualified Expert Witness, real estate value (condemnation), Alameda, Contra Costa,  Marin County Superior Courts, and Federal District Court

 

1996–1998PlanCom Inc.,Pleasanton, CA

Land Use Planner

§   Obtain Use Permits & Building permits for 32 telecommunications sites in San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Alameda, and Marin Counties.  Total responsibility for making land use entitlement application, public hearing presentation, neighborhood out-reach presentations, and client tracking in-put, through the permit issuance phase.

§   Projects included properties located within the jurisdiction of the California Coastal Commission and Federal Marine Mammal Preserve – Monterey Bay.

§   Assisted site acquisition representative with a 7-site package for sites located on Municipal properties, Oakland, CA..

§   Obtained Use Permits for microwave relay tower in Sonoma County. Obtained Use Permits for microwave relay site (roof-top) City of Piedmont,  and City of Oakland, CA.

 

1993–1996JM Consulting Group, San Francisco, CA

Land Use Planner

§   Obtain Use Permits & Building permits for 25 telecommunications sites in San     Mateo, Sonoma, and Marin Counties.  Total responsibility for making land use entitlement application,  public hearing presentation, neighborhood out-reach presentations, and client tracking in-put, through the permit issuance phase.

 

  1981– 1993  Real Estate Consultant, San Francisco, CA

  Real Estate Consultant and Appraiser  

§    Real property appraisals, $1 million to $20 million range, residential tract development, commercial and industrial properties, in California and Nevada, mortgage lending purposes. Reports were complete narrative appraisals with all aspects of data collection, analysis, and conclusions personally performed.  Clients included San Francisco Federal Savings and Loan, Bank of America, Equitable Insurance, Pacific Bank,  and Prudential Insurance.

§    Real property appraisals, $10 to $50 million range, high density residential, commercial and industrial properties, in California, investment portfolio management purposes. Reports were complete narrative appraisals with all aspects of data collection, analysis, and conclusions personally performed.  Prudential Insurance, Western Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, and pension fund advisors.

§    Real property appraisals, $1 to $20 million range, residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural properties, in California and Nevada, right-of-way acquisition or disposition purposes. Reports were complete narrative appraisals with all aspects of data collection, analysis, and conclusions personally performed of the full or partial property interest acquired or disposed.  Typical assignments included appraisal and/or acquisition of linier rights-of-way for energy pipelines, high voltage electrical transmission, fiber optic cable, roads and highways, navigation, and aviation purposes.  Clients included those with Condemnation Rights and those without, such as Chevron Pipelines, Stan-Pac Pipelines, Tosco Refinery, PG&E, County of Contra Costa, City of Oakland, City of Salinas, County of Alameda, County of Marin, Golden Gate Transit District, City of Pittsburg Redevelopment Agency, Union Pacific Railroad, Western Pacific Railroad, Caltrans, and the Northwest Pacific Railroad.

§    Real property appraisals, reviews, and consulting, collateral properties of troubled banks and savings and loan institutions.  Clients included the United States Department of Justice, San Francisco Federal Savings and Loan, Golden Gate Bank, and Trans Pacific Bank.

§    Qualified Expert Witness, real estate value, condemnation and specific performance actions, Alameda County, Contra Costa County,  Marin County Superior Courts.