Our Team
 
Waterford Companies works with an extensive group of quality professionals to insure your satisfaction.  Our company's Officers and Directors include the following individuals:
 
 
 
Michael W. Miller
Founder, Director, President
 
Michael has been President since 1987 and has over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry including acquisition, development and construction of residential, office, commercial and industrial properties. Work experience includes developments in Texas, Arizona and Florida.  Prior to forming the Waterford Companies, Michael served as President of a large publicly traded land development company in Southwest Florida, Punta Gorda Isles, Inc.  Community involvement includes serving on various Venice Boards such as YMCA, Venice-Nokomis Rotary, Manatee Community College Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Special Olympics and many other community fundraisers.
Georgia L. Miller
Vice President/Director of Business and Community Developement
 
Georgia has over 16 years experience in various fields of team training and management. Her primary emphasis is to maintain "Waterford Companies" as a positive contributor to the Venice community. Her responsibilities are to manage Business marketing promotions and IT support.
Tim D. Miller
 Vice President/ Director of Commercial Sales
 
Tim has over 30 years experience in various fields of endeavor with primary emphasis in business fianancing, product development, commercial and portfolio management. previous positions include President of Oxford Financial Services, Inc. and TSM Financial Group, Inc. providing over $600 million of financing and acquisition capital to businesses. He also served as Senior Vice President of Thomas S. Monaghan, Inc. which included activities in commercial real estate developement, mergers and acquistions. Tim joined the Waterford Companies in 1997 to assist with the growth and developement of various corporations.
Marc P. Smith
Vice President of Construction
 
Marc has been with Waterford Companies for over 19 years and is responsible for all construction activity. Previous employment includes training and development from a national homebuilder. Marc holds a Florida General Contractor's License and is qualified to construct residential, commercial, office and industrial projects.
Jayne E. Parrish
Vice President of Sales/ Broker

Jayne joined the Waterford Companies over 20 years ago. Her responsibilities include the day to day operations of sales, management, contract administration and home and condominium association management. Jayne holds a Multiple Florida Real Estate Brokers License, Community Association Managers License and a Florida Mortgage Brokers License.
 
 
Claudia Bilbrey
Marketing Director/ Design Coordinator/ Broker/Sales
Claudia joined Waterford in 1999 as a member of the Sales Team. She brought with her 30 plus years of business management and sales experience. She was vice president of McGillan Inc. She was also Retail manager and on the management development team for Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores. Claudia Attended classes at Manatee Community College from 1989 to 1991 as a student in Marketing and business management.  She recieved her Brokers/Sales License in 2000. She has attended fine art and decorative art classes since 1979.
Claudia is resposible for marketing materials and updating the website for the company.
She also meets with clients to help them with the interior design
selections for their new home or remodling projects.

  
Obadiah Swafford, AIA
Vice President - Waterford Architectural Design Group,Inc.
Obadiah joined Waterford Companies in 2005. After receiving
his Masters of Architecture from the University of Arizonia, he
practiced in Indiana where he worked on large projects for
universities, private and public schools. Notable projects include
Students Activities Center for IU at South Bend, Student Center
and Dining Hall at St. Mary's University, Math and Science
building at Culver Military Academy. He then went on to be an
Assistant Professor of Architecture at Louisana Tech University.
   Since joining Waterford Companies he has lead the effort in
creating high-quality design and construction documents. His
effort helps support the overall mission of Waterford Companies
to provide high-quality communities and developments to serve Venice and Southwest Florida.

 Robin Altmann 
   Controller
Robin has been a part of the Waterford team since 2004 and has
over 20 years of business and accounting experience. After
graduating from Indiana University with a degree in Business
Administration and recieving her CPA designation, she spent
several years on the audit staff of a CPA firm before moving on to
manage the accounting operations for the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago. From there she went on to serve
as Controller for a Northwest Healthcare organization, where she
remained until relocating to Florida and joining Waterford.
     She currently oversees the activities of the accounting and
finance area, as well as managing many of the administrative and
personnel functions for the company.  
James Rich
 Property Manager
James joined Waterford Companies,Inc. in the spring of 2006 after
graduating from Cornell University. Since joing Waterford, he has
worked in the Commercial Real Estate Division of Waterford
Companies assisting in marketing, leasing and currently is the
Property Manager. He is Licensed real estate sales associate and
is working toward his CCIM.