Andrea Tsakanikas – A vision in crew logistics management
Having a vision and executing on it requires one to go a step beyond just deciding to launch a new business from an idea. With many years as a Management Consultant Andrea Tsakanikas has worked with a variety of companies to vet and qualify their teams, rebrand their services, simplify their processes and procedures to increase their organization’s bottom line.
Andrea Tsakanikas, the Founder of CrewFacilities.com, a management consultant, property and facility management advisor and seasoned marketing and business development consultant. The knowledge and experience that she has gained while working in different verticals enriched her entrepreneurial skills, resulting in the founding of CrewFacilities.com.
Since 2007, she has been a management consultant for the travel and facility projects. During her career, she has demonstrated exemplary skills in diverse realms like:
- Property Management
- Strategic Planning
- Contract Negotiation
- Marketing and Business Development
- Sales
- Process Management
- Team Building
- Real Estate Development
- Management Advisor
- Corporate Housing
- Crew Logistics
- Resort and Hotel Management
- Oil Field Housing
- Workforce Housing
- Remote Lodging Management
- Facilities Management
- Trainer
- Lean Property Management
- Property Management Software Implementations
- Re-branding
- Owner’s Representation
- Lease-ups
- Distressed Projects, and
- Centralized Property Management.
She has handled numerous projects such as multi-family apartments, national bulk home real estate portfolios, work force lodging, vacation rental investment properties, and remote facilities. She has proved her capabilities in the follow roles:
- Chief Operating Officer, Crew Logistics/Remote Lodging Company
- President/Founder, Property Management Entity
- VP of Operations, Financial Institution
- VP of Operations, Corporate Lodging Company
- Worked for corporations, owner/operators, national management companies corporate lodging organizations, REITs and developers
- Advisor for real estate management corporations, helped setting up management divisions, centralizing national management corporations.
While handling these roles successfully, she has also authored a Rental and Procedures Manual for the real estate trade and several industry publications and ‘How to’ manuals for real estate professionals. She offers classes and online courses addressing the rental She founded CrewFacilities.com with an aim to manage, control and reduce personnel lodging expenditures for organizations with mobile work forces across North America.
A need for a solution equaled the founding of CrewFacilities.com
Andrea Tsakanikas has been in the property and facility management industry the majority of her career. Consulting for Real Estate Investment Trusts, Investment Funds, Corporations, Management Companies, etc.
Most recently she has managed portfolios of workforce housing. She saw a need to focus on managing the client side of travel. With a main goal to reduce their company’s personnel travel expenditures. And to offer outsourced management for their group travel and logistics, via a single hub.
Attaining “Boots on the ground” & facility management expertise offers a helpful perspective in managing the clients’ side of lodging. Initially she focused specifically in the oilfield industry with partners and branched out on her own as a WOMEN OWNED/MINORITY BUS ENTERPRISE working with many different industry clients with groups traveling. Thereby CrewFacilities.com was born.
