Joel Rivera

Managing a home improvement center in Park Slope, Brooklyn, for 12 years taught me so much about plumbing, electrical, carpentry, locksmithing, and so much more. It was also my first introduction to employee management, which was exponentially more difficult but gave me the “tools” I needed to build up my knowledge base for the next transition to facilities manager at Great Performances, a corporate dining/event planning company primarily based here in New York City. That was my first taste of facilities management and I learned the ins and outs from the standpoint of a 200-person production kitchen. After seeing an opening at NYCEDC, I hoped that my experience and everything I’d learned over the years would be a good addition to the Corporate Services team.

I had the pleasure of coming to NYCEDC in late February 2021. Recently, I've been working on a variety of projects across the boroughs, from Hunts Point, to Bathgate, to the Brooklyn Army Terminal in Sunset Park.