Parker Enterprises

Parker Enterprises - Family of Businesses is a provider of electrical engineering, construction and consulting professional services for both private and public clients nationwide. It was founded in 2008 by Karl Parker. There are three main locations in Toledo, Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio and Houston, Texas with corporate headquarters established in Toledo, Ohio.
Executive Leadership Team of Parker Enterprises, LLC.
*Karl A. Parker, Sr., President and CEO
*Coleena Ali, Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
*Donnell Cathey, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
*Sandra Bibbs, Vice President of Administration
*Natacia Parker, Vice President and General Manager of Construction Services
Family of Businesses
* - Business Strategy, Green & Sustainability
*22nd Century Learning Institute - Enterprise Wide Business Education
**Courses include: Strategic Planning Development, Sustainability Leadership, Lean Six Sigma, Change Leadership, Sales Leadership, Supply Chain Leadership, Finance 101, Talent Management, Project Management, Problem Solving Skills and Construction Estimating
* - Electrical Technical Training
*Parker & Associates - Engineering Design; Program & Project Management
** Provides full service electrical solutions provider that provides electrical engineering, consulting and construction services for industrial, commercial and residential market segments.
*Parker Distribution Services - Industrial, Medical, and Construction Supplies
*Parker Electrical Contracting Solutions - Industrial, Commercial, Residential
The InnoTrans Group
As a division of Parker Enterprises, The InnoTrans Group was formed as an "innovative business improvement firm" that provide consultation to businesses to institute change within the company's structure. It focuses on developing resources and strategy while improving processes by putting proven functional tools to work. Some of the tools that they employ are 5S, TQM (Total Quality Management), value stream mapping, Management Information Systems (dashboards), Balanced Scorecards BCS (scorecards) and the groundbreaking PBC Methodology to fix the real problems.
Edward M. Parker Electrical Academy (EMP)
In March 2008, the Edward M. Parker Electrical Academy was created in honor of Karl's brother.
This academy is a Department of Labor approved apprenticeship program that offers an electrical curriculum in order for students to acquire the necessary skills to obtain employment in the electrical and emerging alternative energy industries. Classes are held at the Frederick Douglass Community Association in Toledo, Ohio
With completion of the curriculum, graduates can obtain a Pre-Apprenticeship Certificate,a 2-Year Residential Journeyman Electrical Construction License, a 4-year General Journeyman Electrical Construction License or Photovoltaic Entry Level Certificate of Knowledge Certificate.
Instrumentation and Process Control Certification (IPCC)
In conjunction with Whits Technical Training Institute (WTTI), the academy offers the Instrumentation Control Certification. It is a nine month program that upon successful completion allows participants the opportunity to work in the manufacturing and process control industry with starting pay around $50-$80K.
Students are trained to:
*Install and maintain the process and manufacturing of instrumented monitoring, alarm and control systems
*Setup data bases for trending device performance
*Provide data analysis that will support proactive maintenance
*Work with reliability engineering to utilize the functionality of all devices
Legal Compliance
On January 4, 2010, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, filed, in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, a FRIVOLOUS civil complaint "against Defendant Parker Enterprises, LLC and Defendant Karl A. Parker for Defendants' violations of Ohio's Prevailing Wage Law, R.C. 4115.03 through 4115.16 and Ohio Adm. Code 4101:9-4-01 to 4101:9-4-28, on the University of Toledo's Scott Park Campus Concession Stand Project . . . ." Ohio's Prevailing Wage Law, like the federal Davis-Bacon Act, generally requires that contractors who perform work on state-funded public improvement construction projects pay their laborers, workers, and mechanics a minimum wage rate approximating the wages paid to union employees in the same work classification. The crux of Local 8's complaint is that Parker Enterprises, LLC and Karl Parker misclassified and underpaid their employees who performed work on the UT Scott Park Project. In response to Local 8's complaint, Parker Enterprises, LLC and Karl Parker denied that they violated the Prevailing Wage Law. This matter is still pending. Trial is scheduled to take place n January 2012.

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