Envision Homes Team
Please click on the name of a Southern California team member to read a short biography. (Additional support staff not listed.)
Don Valdez : Construction Process Manager
Don began his career in San Diego County and has been a part of the building industry since 1977. Building custom homes has been his passion for more than 30 years. He personally inspects every component of your new home, from the foundation to the finishing touches. Don says, "I believe it is this careful attention to detail that turns a house into a home."
His experience is vast. Over the years he has supervised the construction of custom homes in San Diego, Del Mar, La Jolla, Escondido, El Cajon, French Valley and Fairbanks Ranch. The homes had a wide range of difficulty, from level slab on grade conventional foundations in Escondido to three story cliff hanging homes built on 72 foot deep caissons and grade beams in Del Mar. Some of the custom features built into the homes have been wine cellars, home theaters, saunas, steam showers, waterfalls, tennis courts, solar systems and state of the art electronics.
Raymond Melendez : Director of Sales & Design
Raymond has a wide variety of expertise and plays a prominant role in both sales and design for Envision Homes.
Jane Wisslead : Purchasing
Jane works very closely with Envision Homes' trade partners, vendors and suppliers to ensure that the building process proceeds smoothly for each and every home.
Ed Smith : Sales Consultant
Ed has extensive work experience that covered a range of activities but all had a common thread -- interacting with and helping people. After earning a Business Degree with an emphasis in Marketing, he held sales and sales management positions in corporate America. He also was involved in Christian ministry - managing, building and remodeling facilities, teaching and counseling.
In recent years, he has been involved in business consulting and the real estate industry - commercial, industrial, residential and land development. The business consulting always included fixing problem areas - often involving people issues.
His position with Envision Homes includes working with property owners that are searching for a builder and fire survivors who lost their homes and contents in the 2007 wild fires. He enjoys helping them work through the process developed by Envision Homes.