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Jim Rodgers

JIM RODGERS
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
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SUMMERY

Jim Rodgers is a Building Designer and General Contractor with a proven record of accomplishments in design development, planning, management, contract documents, and contract construction administration. He has extensive experience in construction management, project procurement and delivery for up-scale residential and commercial building projects. Jim is proficient in the use and management of CAD software applications. He is recognized for his strong leadership, team building, and client relations. Jim is consistently successful in managing projects on time and within budget while producing award winning designs. He is driven by passion for innovation and excellence.

He has over two decades of experience designing award-winning projects. He has earned numerous national awards from renowned organizations such as the American Institute of Building Design and the American Residential Design Awards Program. Jim's work has appeared in national magazine publications including Florida Design Magazine.

As owner of the company, he manages the design, estimating, and construction. He received his education in architectural drafting and design from Brick Computer Science Institute and continues his educational studies through annual architectural courses at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

He received his design certification through the National Council of Building Design in 2000 and his contractors license in 2006. Jim Rodgers is currently a member of the American Institute of Building Design (AIBD).


Jim has a precisionist style, and is a systematic thinker who tends to follow procedures in both personal and business life. As a precisionist, Jim is extremely precise and attentive to detail to all things. Being extremely conscientious, Jim is
meticulously organized and painstakingly requires accuracy in his work and maintains the highest level of standards and professionalism. His collaboration is intense, his promises are kept and his reputation is impeccable.

EDUCATION

BRICK COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Architectural Drafting & Design
President of the Student Body Council

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Principles of Architecture
The Architectural Imagination

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL
Contract Law

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes
Wind and Hurricane Mitigation Design

CONSTRUCTION ESTIMATING INSTITUTE
Estimating Residential Construction

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jim is from Philadelphia and relocated to Boca Raton, Florida where he was employed five years at the award winning renowned architectural firm of Rex Nichols Architect, where he gained his formal training and experience, before launching JDR Design & Construction Inc. in Boca Raton, Florida in 1999. While employed with Rex Nichols, Jim developed a deep passion for the tropical architectural style after studying the history of Architect's, Addison Mizner, and Murice Fatio, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of tropical architecture for Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and south Florida during the boom years of the 1920s. While employed at Rex Nichols, Architect, Jim had the honor and privilege of working on several muilti-million dollar ultra-high-end luxury ocean front estate home projects and the historic Mizner Administration building project that was designed and built by Addison Mizner in 1925 to house the artisans from Europe who worked on the famous Boca Raton Hotel & Club. The prominent Mizner building was restored, enlarged, and won an award of excellence for historic preservation from the American Institute of Architects.


JDR DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION INC.
1999 - PRESENT, NOLENSVILLE, TN

Responsible for client contract negotiations, project programming, design, design coordination of structural, electrical and mechanical systems, construction documents, estimating, bidding, construction contract negotiation, sub-contractor selection, construction administration. Designed over 1,300 projects in the states of Florida, New Jersey, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Rhode Islnad.


COMMERCIAL DESIGN PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Physician Offices - 2 Story Veterinary Hospital - 2 Story 10k sf Office Building - Penthouse Office Suites - 5k sf Retail Store - Resturant Tenant Improvements - Renovation to Super Market - Manufacturing - Warehouse Offices - Health and Fitness Facility - Nail and Hair Salons - Beach Front Common Area for Marriott Hotel - 5k sf Tenant Improvement for a Slot Casino - Tenant Improvement for Storage Pro Offices - 188k sf Commercial Storage Warehouse Facility

GENERAL CONTRACTING

Responsible for all aspects of managing and running a residential design and construction firm from project inception to construction completion, Including client contract negotiations, sub-contract negotiations, project programming, feasibility studies, building design packages, project estimating, project bidding, permitting processes, construction administration, and site supervision.


BUILD PROJECT EXPERIENCE


Demolition of (5) 15,000 sf commercial buildings
Several up-scale residential remodel and speculative home
projects ranging in budget from $300k to $2 million

REX NICHOLS, ARCHITECT
1995 - 1999, BOCA RATON, FL


Project manager /Drafting apprentice for ultra-high end luxury residential projects. Responsibilities included, preliminary design packages, construction documents, and construction administration for projects ranging from developer speculative homes to private intracoastal and ocean front estate homes with construction budgets that ranged from $3 million to $55 million.


GETINGE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
1991 - 1995, LAKEWOOD, NJ


Responsible for preparation of large scale autoclave steam sterilizer site specific placement layouts for sales and marketing plan packages.


LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS


NATIONAL COUNCIL OF BUILDING DESIGNER
CERTIFICATION (NCBDC)

Certification Number - 10-224
2000 - Present

STATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS
AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION

General Contracting License
License Number - CBC1254442
2006 - Present

STATE OF TENNESSEE
BOARD FOR LICENSING CONTRACTORS

General Contracting License
License Number - BC-A 71331
2017 - Present

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / ORGANIZATIONS

American Institute of Building Design (AIBD)
National Council of Building Designer Certification (CPBD)
American Institute of Architects (Assoc. AIA)
National Institute of Building Science
Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes
U.S. National Cad Standards
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

BUILDING CODE PROFICIENCY

International Residential Building Code
International Building Code
Florida Building Code

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

JDR Design Group Inc. receives 2014 & 2015 Best of Brentwood, TN Awards Program in the Professional, Scientific, and
Technical Services Category

JDR Design Group Inc. receives
two National Awards by the (ARDA)
American Residential Design Awards for the categories of
Renovations and Outdoor Living Spaces

PUBLICATIONS

Residential project published in the national
publication of Florida Design Magazine


AWARD WINNING
PROJECT EXPERIENCE