Jane Snell

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About Jane Snell

JANE SNELL-SIMPSON is both a specialist and problem-solver in the construction industry. With over 24 years of construction management experience she is the President of JS-1 Construction, a family-owned and operated South Florida business. Jane found inspiration to reinvent her business in an unusual place. She was helping friends who operate a nonprofit that aids people with physical disabilities. She realized that as people age, their homes need to function differently. Homes have a life cycle. As a homeowner, your life changes and your home should change, too. Today Jane’s company focuses on empowering senior citizens and people with disabilities to remain in the homes they love. As her knowledge in this area of home renovation has grown, Jane has become a consultant to businesses that are renovating or seeking to make their facilities more accessible to the public. Numerous construction projects throughout the United States along with management positions with large corporations (such as: WCI Communities, Adelphia Communications, Qwest Communications, Kwame Building Group) afforded Jane to gain knowledge, experience, expertise, and industry relationships to navigate the channels and actively work with homeowners to facilitate the entire construction process. Co-owners Jane and her husband Peter Simpson created a division of JS-1 called ASAP Shutter in 2003, and soon gained a reputation for honesty and reliability in an industry fraught with unscrupulous contractors. ASAP Shutter became both a local manufacturer and installer of the popular HT100 accordion shutter. That industry began to wane around 2007 when other products became available to protect houses and the Sunshine State was hit with fewer hurricanes. CREDENTIALS Certified Aging in Place Specialist (CAPS) B.S, Construction Engineering, Florida A&M University Minors, Architecture and Civil Engineering Licenses Florida State Certified General Contractor, CGC#1507781 Florida Cert Underground & Excavation Contractor, CUC1224267 Florida Real Estate Sale Associate, SL#3036227 Executive Certificate in Project Management, Florida Atlantic University Goldman Sachs Small Businesses Alumni The Jim Moran Institute For Global Entrepreneurship Alumni AWARDS One of South Florida’s 25 Most Influential & Prominent Black Women in Business for 2011 AFFILIATIONS National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Public Policy Chairwoman Advisory Board, Community of Caring Center of Palm Beach County Committee Member: Arthritis Foundation, South Florida