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ALUMNI PROFILE<\/b><\/p>\n
Jesica Galloway Johnson \u201916 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> By\u00a0John Eby<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> As an engineer on a Clemson construction project, Johnson is fulfilling a lifelong dream<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> \u201cI\u2019m going to go here, <\/span>and I\u2019m going to build something here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s what a young Jesica Galloway Johnson \u201916 told her father, owner and CEO of David Galloway Builders, when they came to Clemson from nearby Walhalla for football games.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPapa used to drive us around town when we were little and say, \u2018You know, I built this,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cIn Walhalla, or Seneca or Clemson, I can take you to neighborhoods that my family has built, apartments that they\u2019ve built, and I think, \u2018There\u2019s a piece of Galloway sitting there.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Her decision to pursue construction science and management at Clemson put her on a path that few other women were on, a reality she understood from the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEven back in the summers working with my father, I would say, \u2018Hey, why do no women do this?\u2019 The answer was, \u2018They just don\u2019t,\u2019\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n As an undergraduate, Johnson became active in the Clemson University Construction Women group, serving in multiple leadership roles including president. She says she drew inspiration from her mother and from Christine Piper, a former professor in the Nieri Family Department of Construction Science and Management.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c[Piper] portrayed herself and carried herself in a way that I learned from,\u201d Johnson remembers, adding that Piper modeled how to respond to gender-based stereotypes.<\/span><\/p>\n After graduation, Johnson worked for Skanska USA Building on major projects in and around Atlanta, such as the Concourse T Expansion at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport and the Mercedes-Benz USA headquarters in Sandy Springs, Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n After three years at Skanska, she took a position with Holder Construction Group, which has managed several Clemson projects, including the new Daniel Hall renovation and expansion. When Johnson was initially tasked with preconstruction purchasing for the project, she saw a chance to return to Clemson. A phone call with Derek Bindewald \u201914, also a CSM graduate, opened the door.<\/p>\n \u201cI was slated to come and manage this project, and [as] we were building the team, we were struggling to find an engineer,\u201d Bindewald recounts. \u201cJesi and I discussed her transitioning to join the on-site team, and within an hour I\u2019m getting calls from our leadership saying, \u2018How do you feel about Jesi coming to the project?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI was switched over to operations and was headed to Clemson,\u201d Johnson says.<\/span><\/p>\n For both alumni, working at their alma mater is a special experience.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe can hear the band practicing every afternoon from our trailer,\u201d Bindewald says. \u201cIn the afternoons when we\u2019re bogged down with things, we\u2019ll just poke our head out for a little bit, get a breath of fresh air and hear \u2018Tiger Rag.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n For Johnson, this project is a promise kept to her dad.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I got the opportunity, it just brought all that back,\u201d she says. \u201cI get kind of emotional talking about it because it\u2019s literally a dream come true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> As an engineer on a Clemson construction project, Jesica Johnson is fulfilling a lifelong dream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[159,717,817,2083,2827,2828,2829],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","category-my-clemson","tag-alumni","tag-clemson-university-construction-women-group","tag-construction","tag-nieri-family-department-of-construction-science-and-management","tag-summer-2022","tag-summer-2022-alumni-profile","tag-summer-2022-alumni-profiles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/Jeica-Johnson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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