Contact Information

Justin Blackburn
Chief Executive Officer
512-576-0636
Justin@TrinityConstructors.com

Justin leads the firm’s sales and strategic efforts. He started his career in the construction industry as an emergency response technician for one of the largest disaster restoration contractors in the country. As a field technician Justin learned what is required in repairing homes or commercial buildings following a natural disaster. Working with large commercial and institutional clients, Justin quickly discovered that speed and quality are the key components in the completion of any successful project. After managing projects in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Justin became a National Project Manager and was assigned to New Orleans to oversee the restoration of several large commercial projects after damage from Hurricane Katrina, completing over $70M in contracts.

Justin’s desire to stay in one place after years of consistent travel resulted in focusing his sights on Central Texas commercial construction. He began working with fast paced, multi-location retail and restaurant clients who valued not only the quality of the work performed, but the intensity his experience brought to their projects. After several years as a Project Executive for a national general contractor, Justin founded Trinity Constructors in 2014 with a focus of servicing mid-level commercial construction clients.

Justin continues to enjoy the aggressive nature of the Texas construction market and the exciting new concepts that approach the firm every day looking for a fair priced, high quality and efficient construction process. Justin is dedicated to ensuring each-and-every client receives service above their expectations.

A private pilot, Justin can be found flying volunteer missions for organizations Angel Flight and Pilots and Paws with his wife Kelli in his time away from Trinity.

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can accomplish today.”

Matt Sanders
Director of Operations
Austin, TX
Matt@TrinityConstructors.com

Matt was born and raised in Bakersfield, which people there called “The Little Texas of California”. His first job was working on ranches and feedlots starting at ten years old and going through graduation from high school. After graduating at the top of his class, he received a scholarship to Arizona State University for academics and track, but instead, he chose to join the United States Air Force. His parents were less than thrilled, but Matt wanted the challenge. He was trained as a combat medic in the pararescue squad, and this had an important impact on how Matt sees himself and those around him that is still in effect today. Matt is a team player, period.

After leaving the Air Force as a staff sergeant, Matt wanted another challenge. He moved to LA and worked as in the LA County Paramedic Corp for a decade in some of toughest neighborhoods, working alongside some great professionals and seeing both the best and worst in people. On the side, Matt started working in a commercial cabinet shop, and he found a lot of satisfaction in the precision required and the end result of a job complete.

Family called Matt to Texas, and he accepted a position as a production manager in a high end residential and commercial millwork company in Austin. Matt’s ability to lead was immediately realized, and for the next five years, he coordinated the completion of countless projects across Austin, many downtown and at such notable sites such as the Frost Building and the Driskill Hotel. When his company was hired by Trinity Constructors to complete a difficult project, Matt’s ability to lead others and overcome challenging obstacles was immediately recognized, and he was recruited to work for Trinity and lead the charge on some of our most demanding projects.

Matt is a senior leader, both on the jobsite and to his friends and family around him. He takes time to mentor those who need advice, feed those who are hungry, and support those who need help.

“A problem is just another wonderful opportunity for a solution.”

Don Ortiz
Director of Finance
don@trinityconstructors.com

Don grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he attended high school. During his senior year of high school, he began working part-time for a local home builder. Upon graduation he worked for the home builder for 4 years, until the bottom dropped out of the Albuquerque housing industry.

Don then focused his attention on a higher education to attain his four-year degree from the University of New Mexico. Don graduated with Bachelor of Business Administration with a focus on accounting. Shortly after he moved to Denver, and was quickly promoted from an accountant, senior accountant, and financial analyst, working for real estate and development companies. In 2005 he joined one of the largest restoration contractors in the country as their Controller. It was at this company when he first met Justin Blackburn. They were an integral part of the company’s explosive growth.

Justin then focused his sites on Central Texas’ commercial construction industry while Don stayed with the restoration constructor for 10 years. Don then took a position with a large independent Audio-Visual company, initially as their Controller and then gaining a promotion to Vice President of Finance.

Don and Justin kept in touch over the years, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, while most companies were cutting staff Justin decided to strengthen Trinity Constructors accounting and finance functions and hired Don.

Don’s professional philosophy is simple – if you can gain success by working hard, imagine what you can accomplish by working even harder.

Don and his partner Lygia enjoy an active lifestyle and spending as much time with their three adult children as possible.

“The sky is not my limit….I am”

Kelli Blackburn
Director of Business Administration
Kelli@TrinityConstructors.com

Kelli grew up in Colorado but made Texas her home as fast as she could. After attending the University of Colorado, she went into the corporate world of insurance before starting a career in health care. Performing duties ranging from patient care to diagnostics to unit management, she gained skills that are beneficial and sought after in many business forums. As such, she was recruited out of the hospital setting into the human resource sector of a prominent urgent care company in Austin, Texas.

She spent the next few years learning the HR world and climbing the ranks. She then was courted by a worldwide managed services provider to consult and manage the statement of work program for a major computer company. After a few years, the opportunity arose for Kelli to join forces with the Trinity team and she could not pass that up. Her positive attitude and energetic personality are only two of the many key traits that assist her in managing the day-to-day in our office. Her organizational skills, attention to details and commitment to procedure ensure that the office runs smoothly.

You can find Kelli enjoying time with her horse, Ginger, on the weekends. She and her husband Justin are committed fur parents to Whiskey and Berlin and you can almost always find a foster pup or two running around their house.

“Either run the day or the day runs you.”

Eric Chaney
Construction Manager
eric@trinityconstructors.com

Eric Chaney was born and raised in Southern California and spent much of his childhood there. His family relocated to Colorado during his high school years to find a better quality of life and get out of the hectic California atmosphere. He finished high school in Colorado and went right to work with a company in Denver that manufactures and distributed fishhooks. Over 19 years with the company, he held many roles in manufacturing, logistics and eventually was brought onto the Sales and Product management staff. During his time as a sales manager, he learned the core values of business, he used his background and previous knowledge of how the entire company worked to his advantage and grew OEM sales for the company.

Along this path, Eric met his wife and they now have two kids together. They enjoyed Colorado but ultimately wanted to find a better place to raise their kids. Texas’ values, leadership, and good work ethic among its residents ultimately brought them to the Lonestar state. “We wanted our kids to grow up in a place that shares the same family values as we have.”

Now calling Texas home, Eric took a position as Construction Manager for Trinity Constructors. Using his experience in manufacturing, logistics, schedule attainment, and sales, Eric has shifted his focus to construction and is happy to be part of the team.

“There are no points for second place.”

James Wood
Construction Manager
james@trinityconstructors.com

James started out in the field as a project superintendent and worked his way up the ranks to senior superintendent, project manager and estimator.

Over the years, he has taken several courses including time management, structural failures, quality control and various assemblies for roofing products. With this knowledge, James is has become an expert on the jobsite.

In his downtime, he likes to play golf, play APA tournament pool and bay fishing.

Jasper Hallam
Construction Manager
jasper@trinityconstructors.com

Jasper is currently a Project Engineer, and says he is proud to work at Trinity Constructors. Jasper was born in Carson City, Nevada where he graduated high school in 1991. Afterwards, he set out to further his education at the University of Phoenix in business management. Subsequently he gained his real estate license and began a successful period selling real estate. During the time in real estate, Jasper began to realize that his true passion was construction. Focusing his efforts to that end, he began a rewarding 10-year journey with increasing responsibility in the residential remodeling industry.

Jasper has many talents, two of which are custom flooring and leatherworks. He states, merging his crafis with his trade is what sets him apart from his colleagues in constrution.

“Stay positive, work hard and make it happen”

Barry Parrish
Construction Manager
barry@trinityconstructors.com

Barry was born and raised in the Houston area. Immediately after graduating high school, he decided he wanted to visit new places, meet new people, and do what he could to make a difference in the world, so he joined the United States Marine Corps. While in the Marines, Barry’s Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) was a hybrid drafting, land surveying, and construction management role, and he was stationed in Camp Pendleton, CA.

Just over a year into is enlistment, 9/11 happened, and after more than a year of deployment preparations, his unit was deployed to the Middle East, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In Iraq, his role was to locate, secure, and setup stretches of road for aircraft to land, refuel, and resupply for their combat missions.

With the knowledge and skills gained in the Marines, Barry decided to return home, to Houston, and take his talents to the Oil and Gas industry. He started out working on offshore construction vessels in the Gulf of Mexico, developing subsea drilling leases for the major oil companies operating in the area, and eventually worked his way up to a project management role.

Always eager to take on new challenges, he decided to move on to residential construction as a construction manager. There, he learned the process of ground up construction, which he found quite enjoyable and rewarding, delivering a high quality product to new homeowners.

Barry became interested in commercial builds, desiring to be a well-rounded builder. Shortly afterwards, coming onboard with Trinity Constructors, with whom, he shared the same values of high quality, on-time, and budget conscious construction.

In Barry’s free time, he stays busy with his kids school, sports, and recreational activities, and enjoys taking weekend family road trips.

“Semper Fi”