Jerry has been a lifelong Evansville resident except for his time spent at Vanderbilt and Purdue Universities where he studied Engineering and earned his BS degree in Construction Management and Technology. Jerry spent 15 years in the commercial construction business, ten of those years as a partner at Empire Contractors, Inc. He has been actively involved in commercial real estate since 1997 working previously as the head of commercial services for Prudential Prime Locations, Realtors. Jerry has been actively involved in the community through the years serving on many boards and committees. He was a ten-year member of the Evansville Utility Board and formerly a ten-year member of the Evansville Boys and Girls Club Board. Jerry has served or is currently still serving on the Boards of several local businesses. Jerry is active in all areas of commercial real estate brokerage but specializes in new commercial development work, office buildings and industrial sales and leasing. Jerry remains close with the local building industry and has a good grasp of site development issues, construction costs, tenant improvement costs, building code issues, local zoning, and drainage issues, etc. Jerry is a member of the Indiana & National Association of Realtors and the Indiana Commercial Board of Realtors. He holds an Indiana Brokers license as well as his Evansville-Vanderburgh County Commercial Builders license and Unlimited Roofers license.