United States
I have spent most of my working career building homes and also developing land. This is further described by information in the job descriptions. Over the years I've had the privilege of working with some great people with whom we built over 10,000 homes, developed thousands of homesites and built a really great company to work at - Essex Homes Southeast, Inc. On a personal note, I am married and have four children. I have been married to Trina since December 1994. Trina and I met while she was in the process of selecting a homebuilder to build her a new home. I think we both knew right away that we had found who we would marry. Together we had two children and she helped to raise my two children from my previous marriage.
The company currently is developing land for building rentals which will be internally owned and lots which will be used to build single family homes. The company also invests as a partner with other developers in similar type of projects.
Managed the divisions which Stanley Martin acquired in when it purchased the assets of Essex Homes on February 24, 2020. Worked with Division Presidents and the VP of Land Acquisition to support homebuilding activities and land acquisition.
CEO for Essex Homes Southeast. In it's early years, Essex built 25-30 homes per year. Starting in 1999, Essex began developing management structures which would enable it to grow to where in 2019 it built 867 homes in 4 major markets and was the 60th largest homebuilder in the US. During this period I had the pleasure of working with many great and talented people and created a company that people wanted to work for. Three key strengths to Essex were its good corporate culture, its financial stability, and its operational systems. Essex had a cohesive culture that allowed for outsize success while protecting family values and giving back to the community. Among many financial successes, were that throughout the years, including the great recession, Essex was continuously profitable and did not lay off anyone because of the recession. The operational systems for starting homes and projecting financial results were highly developed and much more sophisticated than a typical mid-sized builder would have.