Jack Poindexter

Jack Poindexter is a builder to his core, who has amassed a tremendous amount of experience working on projects in all DPR’s core markets. He helped complete the first solar cell manufacturing facility in Georgia and served as project executive for some of our largest projects. He also led Self-Perform Work (SPW) in the Northwest, helping to build, expand and scale our capabilities across the region and now brings that expertise to the Leadership Team in his role as DPR’s Northwest (NW) Regional Leader. Our NW Region includes offices in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Seattle, where Jack helps support and empower project teams, serves customers, contributes to DPR’s strategic direction and helps individuals develop and grow with the company.

Jack gained his powerful work ethic early on, doing odd jobs at age 13 and working full time for a landscaping professional every summer in high school. In college, he played football for Brown while majoring in biology. Premed courses helped him realize he no longer wanted to be a doctor and around the same time a friend introduced him to DPR. Tapping into his inner builder, Jack researched the company, fell in love with the culture and applied for just one job when he graduated. Fortunately, he got that job, found his place at DPR and never looked back.

A lifelong learner, Jack sees failures as opportunities to figure out what went wrong and to make progress. He sees value in taking calculated risks on new things like robotics or prefabrication, and in always improving our processes and people practices. He believes in pushing boundaries when there is a benefit to doing so. Jack loves that DPR is a place for builders and is passionate about leveraging our strengths to build life-changing facilities and bring high value to customers. By figuring out the details and paying attention to the little things that create world-class results, Jack looks towards the future and builds upon the things that others have done before him.

Jack is as passionate about his family as he is about his work. His weekends are generally spent going to his daughters’ sporting events, but he has a lot of interests ranging from renovating old houses to watching and participating in sports. Just before COVID-19 he got into running long distances and completed a 50k.

• Favorite DPR core value: Ever Forward, we continue to drive self-initiated improvements and take advantage of every opportunity to provide more value to our customers.
• What you love about construction: I love that we create tangible outcomes and build projects that matter in the world. It is incredibly satisfying to deliver a hospital that will help children and their families or build a facility that intends to develop lifesaving drugs.
• Desired superpower: The ability to rewind the day to do multiple things in parallel. Hermione did something like this in Harry Potter. (I have kids who used to LOVE HP.) There are so many things I want to do, connections I want to make, people I want to spend time with that it is sometimes hard to manage. I am passionate about what I do but also passionate about my family and it feels like there is never enough time to do it all.
• Your hero: My mother. We struggled when I was in High School and she often worked 3 jobs, sometimes 2 shifts for 2 companies in a day to make ends meet. Yet she always had time to go to my games or make dinner or even get the odd time off to spend time with me. She had incredible strength, and she never let a day go by without telling us how much she believed in us. Plenty of times in my life I remember her words in uncertain times. She also had high expectations of us and taught us to have high expectations of ourselves. Lastly, she instilled in us that we should take care of others, as well as ourselves. Even when she didn’t have much, she would contribute to the lives of others whether financial support or making breakfast or providing housing for kids I knew growing up.
• Word to the wise: Make sure to have a long view whether it be at work or in life. It’s easy to fall into the trap of “right now” but if you have a vision further in the future, you can build for that with shorter term strategies and tactics to get there. The best companies (like DPR) are always pursuing “who they want to be when they grow up.” We make decisions based on a much longer timeline of success instead of quarterly results always being the number one driver of decisions. This applies to us as individuals as well.