In 1983, John A. Hockey began his career in construction working as
a Project Manager in the Real Estate & Construction Division of
the IBM Corporation, Inc., based in Tarrytown, New York. This
experience gave me the ability to understand the construction process
from initial meetings with the client, in this case representatives of
various divisions of IBM, to the final punch list of
a construction process. Having been involved in the selection of the
architect, management of the design process, management of
the construction process and commissioning of the building, it was an
experience that I would not have traded for the world. After
leaving IBM, I went to work with one of the very same contractors that
I had hired to do work for us while as an employee of IBM. That
company was Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Inc., a large national
commercial construction company. John A. Hockey purchased Caliber
Contracting, Inc., in 2006.