Ryan Murphy:
CLASS OF 1991
Birmingham High SchoolClass of 1991
Van nuys, CA
University of MississippiClass of 2000
Oxford, MS
St. Pauls Lutheran SchoolClass of 1987
Aurora, IL
John Gates Elementary SchoolClass of 1985
Aurora, IL
Ryan's Story
Life
After High School I joined the Marine Corps and served as an armed driver for dignitaries in Japan for 2 years. After my tour in Japan I moved to Newport RI for a 1 year prep school before attending the University of Mississippi where I majored in Business and minored in Computer networking and marketing.
I was injured in a training accident at Ole Miss in which I ruptured 13 discs in my back, suffered compression fractures, and tore ligaments in my shoulders, right hip and both knees. The Marine Corps decided that I should retire! At the time of my injury I was engaged to wed a former Miss Missouri. We are still great friends and have started spending more time with each other. God only knows what the future brings!
I then relocated to Chagrin Falls Ohio (if you ever go to Cleveland it is a must see)! There I worked for an automation company as a project manager. After working there for only a year and a half a head-hunter relocated me to Tampa Florida.
Tampa is an awesome city for the social birds and I LOVED IT! I worked at a large Development company as project manager for Eckerd Drug Stores (CVS), Publix Grocery Stores, Home Depot, and others. My favorite project is to be the TT (Tampa Tower) which I was involved in the property acquisitions, design of the tower, and all of the budgeting. The "TT" is to be a 200 Million dollar tower facing Tampa ...Expand for more
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Then as my desires in construction continued to grow I was invited to visit South Texas (North Mexico). Although there is little in comparison to the social life of Tampa Florida South Texas (McAllen, Brownsville, South Padre Island) is expected to double in population in the next 15 years to nearly 3 Million people. Here I own a construction materials manufacturing company with 3 other partners. Our business is very successful and I'm quite proud of our accomplishments. We have currently applied for permits to build 2 additional facilities one North of Dallas and one in the Sara Sota Florida area.
Since moving to Texas in February of 2004 I have also become project manager of a large housing development. (Layout lots, roads, recreation areas, drainage, etc.) It is about one thousand acres containing just shy of 3,000 home lots. I plan on committing to this project for 3 years and then we'll see what life throws me.
For the time being I would consider myself a successful Real Estate Investor focused on enjoying life. I have traveled to all but 6 states in the US and plan to knock them out in the next year. I have been to numerous countries. I have yet to travel to Europe, but I'm sure I'll hit it soon!
School
Attended Birmingham High School 1987-1991
Attended Military Prep School 1995-1996
Attended University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) 1996-2000
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