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Ana Karen Meza Corona - CRE Analyst

Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Compensation range discussed: $1,500 - $2,000

LinkedIn Profile | email: kareng_mc@live.com | Phone: +52 55 3200 1265

Schedule Availability (EST): 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Summary

Architect with 8+ years of experience in real estate development and investment analysis, structuring large-scale multifamily and mixed-use projects. Brings direct US market exposure through asset management at Hasta Capital, managing properties across Atlanta, Florida, and Houston, Texas. Balancing financial analysis and design expertise, prepares comprehensive investment memos, feasibility studies, and financial summaries for internal committees and investors, as well as for external brokers like CBRE during commercial asset evaluations. Proficient in translating complex financial data into high-quality client presentations using PowerPoint, Canva, and Adobe Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign). Highly proactive, collaborating to design an AI-driven market research workflow using Claude to extract and organize real estate data for marketing strategies. Her technical scope includes Yardi, Excel, AutoCAD, and Revit, with additional corporate experience supporting hospitality projects for Hyatt and SBE.

Meet Ana

This video from our screening interview provides a look into Ana's background and experience:

Candidate Snapshot

US-based Real Estate Experience

• Direct US Market Asset Management: Currently serves as a Development Associate at Hasta Capital, taking ownership of underwriting, due diligence, and financial modeling for a ~$500M USD multifamily portfolio. All managed properties for this role are directly located within the US, spanning Atlanta, Florida, and Houston, Texas.

• US Corporate Standards Alignment: Operates under US-centric investment structures and processes, routinely communicating investment strategies and reporting monthly project tracking metrics to international stakeholders, including a major fund based in Singapore (GIC).

Real Estate Documentation Development

• Investment & Feasibility Analysis: Possesses direct experience building financial models and analyzing project feasibility, translating complex data into clear materials for institutional clients, including documentation prepared for external brokers like CBRE.

• Corporate Presentations: Routinely prepares comprehensive investment memos, financial summaries, and presentations for internal committees and investors.

• Deal Package & Due Diligence Familiarity: Fully familiar with the structural inputs required for commercial real estate due diligence, seamlessly translating complex financial models into high-quality, visually clean corporate materials and presentations.

Commercial Real Estate Expertise

• 8+ Years of Investment Analysis: Accumulated +8 years of professional experience in real estate development and investment analysis. Leads financial modeling, feasibility analysis, and budget tracking, managing developments exceeding $1B USD in total value across Hasta Capital, CCLA Group, and Be Grand.

• Hospitality & Mixed-Use Exposure: Applied corporate baselines and design standards while coordinating real estate developments for major hospitality brands, including Hyatt and SBE.

• Cost Efficiency & KPIs: Monitored project risks, cash flows, and baseline budgets. Proactively led value engineering initiatives that achieved ~$25K USD in cost savings versus approved budgets and negotiated consultant agreements that generated ~4% savings against baseline budgets.

AI Integration & Market Research

• AI-Assisted Workflow Optimization: Proactively identified a bottleneck in manual market research and leveraged Claude to design a structured data organization tool. This system categorizes raw real estate data (pricing, amenities, locations) from local listing sites, drastically optimizing the firm's marketing strategies and investment analysis workflow.

Education

• Construction Economics and Management | The Bartlett School of Architecture (2023)

• Bachelor of Arts in Architecture | Universidad Iberoamericana (2017)

Tools & Technologies

• Real Estate & Data: Yardi, Advanced Excel (Financial modeling, cash flow tracking).

• Design & Presentation: Canva, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Architecture & Engineering: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, MS Project.

• AI Tools: Claude, ChatGPT.

Key Qualifications & Highlights

• The Architect-Finance Hybrid: Uniquely combines an architectural design background with deep financial acumen. Originally operating in project management, she proactively absorbed the responsibilities of the investment team during high-volume periods. Independently executed complex financial models, due diligence, and underwriting to prevent delays, developing a rare dual-expertise that guarantees both aesthetic precision and rigorous data accuracy in marketing materials.

• Proactive Operational Problem-Solving: Demonstrates a distinct "owner's mindset" by anticipating bottlenecks and executing cross-departmental solutions. When contractor payments were delayed by the finance department, she took immediate initiative to master the Yardi platform, directly processing checks, payment downloads, and bank instruction cards to ensure seamless project continuity.

• Tech-Driven Process Improvement: Directly addresses the need for process elevation by integrating AI into traditional real estate workflows. Collaborated in conceptualizing a market research methodology using Claude that aggregates, structures, and analyzes raw property data to power data-driven marketing strategies and investment decisions.

• Institutional Stakeholder Management: Highly capable of managing complex institutional relationships and reporting. Successfully led monthly portfolio reviews, prepared investment memos, and structured development updates for major global funds, operating entirely in fluent English to align with rigorous international and US corporate standards.

Screening Interview - Key observations

• Cross-Border Deliverables: Expanded on her experience producing commercial real estate documents, clarifying that prepared materials for brokers (including CBRE) who were evaluating specific commercial assets in Mexico, such as properties in Cuernavaca.

• Self-Assessed Strengths: Feels most comfortable operating in hands-on, cross-functional environments where she can take direct ownership of a project's execution. Specifically thrives when building complex financial models or conceptualizing tech-driven workflows to maintain project momentum.

• Operational Dislikes: Expressed frustration when her deliverables were stalled by other departments (such as delayed approvals or responses from finance and investment teams), which historically drove her to step out of her defined role to complete the delayed tasks herself.

• Proactivity & Process Improvement (Competencies): Demonstrated a strong focus on technical initiative and workflow optimization, mentioning that proactively designed an AI-assisted market research platform using Claude. This system organizes real estate listings from local databases (like Inmuebles24) and automatically categorizes the properties by zones, amenities, and pricing to systematically feed the firm's marketing strategies.

• Compensation Alignment & Queries: Confirmed full availability for the required 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST schedule. While transparently noting that her initial salary expectations were higher than the discussed range, she explicitly accepts the terms because the 100% remote structure perfectly fits her current priorities. Her only remaining query was regarding the exact timeline and next steps in the hiring process.