Parker Associates is a professional organization providing marketing and sales consulting services to both public and private real estate and resort developers, homebuilders and investors.  Initially established by David Parker and Charlie Clark in 1982 as Clark Parker Associates, and modified to Parker Associates in 1990, the combined organizations have served over 300 clients in 30 states and 15 countries.  In addition to Dr. David F. Parker, Parker Associates includes Vice Presidents Chris Parker and Stephen Parker, and Senior Associates Jon McClow, David Owen, and Don Waltz.  Office support members include Judy Larrabee and Mike Remo.

Dr. David F. Parker:    Over the past four decades, David Parker has been responsible for a wide range of management, development and marketing innovations in the real estate industry as corporate executive, planner, teacher, author and consultant.  His skills have been applied to projects in Europe, the Middle East, Central America and the Caribbean as well as in many parts of the United States and his native Canada.   All have received David Parker’s distinctive blend of academic knowledge and development management experience, combined with his focus on consumer characteristics as the key to generating optimum marketing results.

Prior to 1982, David Parker’s career included marketing private housing in the British new city of Milton Keynes; directing planning and initial development of Sadat City in Egypt; president and CEO of development for Audubon New Community outside Buffalo, NY; development of New York State’s planning programming-budgeting system; and in 1959 named “National Builder of the Year” by Canada’s National Builder Magazine.

Dr. Parker holds a master’s degree in urban planning from Michigan State University and a doctoral degree from the State University of New York at Albany. Memberships include American Institute of Certified Planners, National Association of Home Builders Institute of Residential Marketing and National Council On Seniors Housing, Urban Land Institute Council on Community Development, Southeast Resort Real Estate Council and Jacksonville Mayor’s Commission on Housing.  He has authored dozens of articles on marketing, planning, budgeting and management.  Parker has authored three books:  Marketing New Homes and Selling New Homes (National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D. C. 1989), and, in 1999, the second edition of Marketing New Homes, available from the NAHB bookstore in Washington, D. C.

J. Chris Parker:  Chris Parker joined Parker Associates in 1990 and became a Vice President and partner in the firm in 1995.  Under the tutelage of Dr. David F. Parker, Chris has emerged as an innovator and leader in advanced real estate market research and marketing and has mastered and augmented methodological techniques proven to aid clients in making informed real estate development, planning and marketing decisions.  Since joining Parker Associates, Chris has participated in, directed, and completed nearly 500 studies for private and public entities including land developers, landowners, residential and commercial builders, financial institutions, city and state government agencies and the U.S. Department of the Navy.

Chris’s experience ranges from single and multi-family residential market studies, large land marketing and development feasibility analysis, to DRI and HUD application research and reporting, and strategic development and marketing planning.  Additionally Chris has specialized in defining consumer trends, characteristics and preferences through a range of scientific survey mediums.

Chris has written several articles on consumer research methodology, development and marketing and sales issues.

Before joining Parker Associates, Chris held management positions with Marriott Corporation and with Arvida Corporation at Sawgrass, as well as was a corporate executive with the Tournament Players Association professional golf tour during the late 1980s.  Chris is a member of the Northeast Florida Builders Association and the National Association of Home Builders and currently is working towards completion of his MIRM designation (Member of the Institute of Residential Marketing) as well as a licensed Florida Real Estate salesman.

David W. B. Parker:  David "The Younger" began his company, PTC Computer Solutions (www.ptccomputersolutions.com) in 1996 providing Internet services, web development, web hosting, web consulting, technology consulting, network support, online marketing, e-commerce, intranet, mico-marketing, search engine optimization, blogging, social networking, flash, java, graphics design, logo and brand development, as well as a number of other services to the Jacksonville, North Florida, national, and international small and medium sized business clients they have had through the years.  David quickly established himself as an important addition to the Parker Associates group of companies supporting the office and its needs for technology and partnering to work with Parker Associates as warranted.  His ability to handle large and complex spreadsheets and research-reporting has made him invaluable in our ability to provide for a great number of our reporting products.  He has been involved in many studies through the years and most notably the Financial Market Analyses and research rich studies Parker Associates is so highly recommended for.  David's background is one rich in technology and database support and he can be relied on to help provide for all the needs of our data rich product deliverables.

David has written a number of articles on consumer research methodology, marketing and sales, advertising and public relations issues as well as many articles on the use of technologies and intranet connected communities through the years in such publications as Seniors Housing News and Tech Builder among others.

Since obtaining his Bachelor in Engineering Sciences from the University of Florida in 1989, David went out to test the engineering waters with Ingall's Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi where he discovered his flare for computer technologies.  He returned to complete a second Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 1992 before proceeding to work with such companies as CitiGroup and Aetna.  He continued to develop his mastery of database services and launched his PTC Computer Solutions company in Jacksonville in 1996, the only internet provider of its kind at the time and still surviving today as the remaining innovator from that time period on the Internet in Jacksonville.  Though much of his work has been Internet related through the years, his talents in producing the online newsletter for Parker Associates and other clients as well as developing intensive blog and data driven sites has landed his company in the Jacksonville Business Journal's Top Web Designers list repeatedly.  David is and has been a member of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce since 1996.

With the completion of his Master's Degree in Business specializing in IT-Project Management, David brings a whole new level of project support and operations support to Parker Associates.  If you are in need of any IT services or have any complex report structures you need completed, David and Parker Associates can handle them.