Our Team
Parrish Construction is able to maintain our level of quality and service because we employ a team of professionals dedicated to sharing their expertise and achieving customer satisfaction with each and every project completion.
Our team, in alphabetical order: click for photos and biographies.
1. Eric Balstad – Certified Kitchen Designer
3. Teresa Jones – Business Manager
4. Annette Parrish – Vice President
7. Stacy Smith – Lead Cabinetmaker
8. Tom Van Bourgondien – Lead Carpenter
9. Bill Wegner – Production Manager
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Eric Balstad – Certified Kitchen Designer Eric received his B.A. in Drawing and Printmaking from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After college, Eric became a freelance cabinetmaker, using his design skills for a builder. In 1970 he became a Master Cabinetmaker, after interviewing with R.C., our Founder. Today he is our kitchen and bath design specialist (CKD). He raised two sons all the way to Eagle Scout (now in college), and spent 15 years as an active Scout leader.Back to Top |
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Fred Bivrell – Designer Fred earned his degree in Architecture and Fine Arts from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. He has spent 16 years in the field of commercial, residential and corporate building, both interior and exterior environments. He has used his skills with Jimmy Carter’s charity Christmas in April, designing and implementing repair in homes of the needy. Back to Top |
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Teresa Jones, Business Manager Teresa brings us 22 years experience in administration and accounting. She’s helped a variety of businesses from movie theaters to mortgage companies. She has an A.A.S. from Salt Lake City Community College in Accounting and Credit Finance. She’s also our Notary Public. She was born and raised in Utah and has only recently moved to Boulder County to be near family. “My hobby is my family,” she says. Back to Top |
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Annette Parrish – Vice President Annette, one of those rarest of species, a Colorado native, went east to Nebraska to earn her degree in Office Administration. She worked 12 years as a medical office administrator before beginning a career as a Fine Artist. A self-taught landscape painter who now explores the medium of glass, she ran her own studio for five years before joining the Parrish team. Annette is active in all aspects of company operations. Back to Top |
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Larry Parrish – President, CR, CGR, CAPS, GACP Larry received his degree in electrical engineering at The University of Colorado at Boulder, and spent several years at Rockwell as a Senior Electrical Engineer. However, throughout high school and college he worked as a carpenter for his dad, R.C, our founder. In 1979 he had an opportunity to return to Parrish, working up to project manager, and then in 1988 bought the firm when R.C retired. Outside interests include travel, photography, and scuba diving (often combined). Larry is the company’s foremost ‘whimsicalist’ and keeps things top notch, but lubricated with good humor, which any good engineer knows – eases friction. He has earned a number of industry certifications and has been active in two local Boulder Valley Rotary International Clubs since 1990. Back to Top |
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R.C. Parrish – Founder A Texas drought in 1952 brought R.C., our founder, up to Boulder County, Colorado. After three crop failures, he figured a change was in order and his uncle told him to come use his cabinetry and building skills at the Rocky Flats plant. Both of his grandfathers and some of his great uncles had taught him cabinetry work and he calls it his “first love”. R.C. moved over to the University cabinet shop as soon as he could, and then in 1969 began PAR Builders as his own cabinet shop. However, a very pleased Boulder client, an ophthalmologist, insisted he start offering building services, too—and a symbiotic relationship started: exceptional work brought lots of referrals via word of mouth. Despite being retired since 1988, R.C. keeps up his involvement with Rotary International, which he really believes in. Back to Top |
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Stacy Smith – Lead Cabinetmaker Stacy Smith studied college-level cabinetmaking for two years in Vermont, then apprenticed for six years. He has now been with us for 16 years and recalls how he had his job at Parrish before he had a place to live in Boulder. Interviewed on Friday after arriving in town, started at six a.m. on Monday, and spent the weekend in-between camping while apartment hunting! He recently built his own home in the foothills, where he ice skates on his own homemade rink. You can take the boy out of Vermont…. Back to Top |
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Tom Van Bourgondien – Lead Carpenter “Tom V”, as he’s known, loves working with his hands and has done so for 25 years in New York, Hawaii and Colorado. He loves the tangibility of seeing what you have made arise out of nothing, and the satisfaction derived from doing it well. He’s a self-admitted computer geek/film dilettante and bookworm of major proportions. Back to Top |
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Bill Wegner, Production Manager Bill has been helping families build and remodel their homes for over 30 years. He attended college at the University of Minnesota. Bill worked initially as a framing and finish carpenter and then progressed into project management, business operations, design consulting and sales. His community service work has included Habitat for Humanity, Volunteers of America, and he is on the board of his HOA. Personal interests include family time, fly-fishing and remodeling his home. Back to Top |
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