Background

I've sat in the seat I now consult for.

Seven years inside a ~1,200-lot production builder — purchasing, underwriting, and the ERP and reporting systems that run the business. That's the difference between a consultant who has implemented software and one who has closed houses with it.

Arnaud Durand

Construction ERP & Data Consultant · Orlando, FL

MBA-trained builder operator. ERP migration lead, purchasing and underwriting owner, KPI-systems builder — now available for independent consulting engagements.

Construction ERP implementation & migration

Purchasing, estimating & cost structures

Lifecycle KPI systems & executive reporting

Data warehousing & dashboard infrastructure

Underwriting, proformas & scenario modeling

Land, community & absorption analysis

Experience

Where the judgment comes from.

Operations Manager — Acquisitions, Finance & Underwriting

2022 — Present

Brite Homes · Central Florida development group (~1,200 lots / 1,000+ completions)

Direct the purchasing and analytics teams — vendor pricing strategy, bid evaluation, and the cost assumptions underwriting runs on.
Built and run the full lifecycle KPI system (lot → plan → construction → closing) and the analytics infrastructure over 1,000+ completed homes.
Prepare executive investment reports — deal economics, sensitivity analyses, return profiles — for senior leadership.

Purchasing & Operations Analyst

2019 — 2022

Brite Homes

Led the ERP migration: data architecture, vendor onboarding, plan/option configuration, and operational + financial validation.
Owned purchasing and operational cost structures across ~1,200 lots — scopes, cost codes, plan-option structures, vendor pricing.
Built analytics reporting (Power BI, Excel) for job cost trends, schedule adherence, and vendor performance.

Founder / Investor

2021 — 2026

AD Homes & Consulting · Florida

Founded and led an SFR investment business completing $6M+ in transactions.
Underwrote deals end-to-end and managed vendors, timelines, budgets, and delivery hands-on.

Real Estate Business Developer

2015 — 2016

France Florida Invest LLC · Orlando, FL

Supported acquisitions, underwriting inputs, investor communications, and property operations.

Education & languages

MBA — Finance & Operations & Technology Management

Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College · GPA 3.86

BA — International Business

Rollins College · Winter Park, FL

Bilingual

French / English

Toolkit

Construction management ERPs — implementation, migration, configuration
BigQuery / cloud data warehousing & SQL
Power BI & custom web dashboards
Excel & VBA financial modeling
Proformas, underwriting & scenario analysis
AI data analysts on warehouse data

Next step

The fastest way to evaluate me is a conversation.

Thirty minutes on your systems and reporting. You'll know quickly whether the builder fluency is real — that's the point.

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