Founded in 1979, the company was formed by a group of businessmen in Nashville. Founder Joe M Rogers cut his teeth in construction building hospitals all over the world, sold his firm, and after the non-compete, started the company. He was a well rounded man, involved in Republican National politics, Finance Chairman for Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign in 1984, then appointed Ambassador to France! Another board member, Jack Massy, took several companies public and was heavily involved in the healthcare industry.

From the beginning, this was an Employee-owned company so all senior people had stock. Their focus was Nashville and middle-Tennessee. Higher profile projects include the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Symphony Hall which was built in 2006. Commercial projects include a lot of schools, universities, public/private buildings, and more.

There was a significant flood event in May of 2010. Even the football stadium had several feet of water. Most of the downtown buildings near the river flooded. They had just finished the Symphony Center in 2006 and now it was flooded, damaging a lot of high-end equipment and some of the beautiful finishes. The Symphony called on a Saturday and the company mobilized. It took several months to restore everything, lots of night crews, very challenging. Matt McCall said that probably every contractor in Nashville has a similar story. The community really came together, FEMA was involved, too.

Matt’s favorite Syscon report is what they call the Profit Projection Report that was built just for them. As the Chief Financial Officer, this is a very important report for Matt. In the company’s model, the PM’s have to manage their jobs, but also have strong Estimating skills while acting as the lead person dealing with the client which means cost to complete and budget reporting is critical. S100C has some limitations, so special billing reports were also created.

Matt’s favorite part of his job is the people he gets to work with; really good people. The next day they were celebrating a Superintendent who had been there for 30 years! He is proud of their focus on serving the client and supporting each other.