{"id":694,"date":"2017-02-16T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twincitieseast.certapro.com\/?post_type=our-team&#038;p=694"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T18:44:45","slug":"jake-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"our-team","link":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/our-team\/jake-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Get To Know: Jake<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-737 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1197\/2017\/02\/jake2.png\" alt=\"Jake Schwartz, Team Member\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1197\/2017\/02\/jake2-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1197\/2017\/02\/jake2-480x321.png 480w, https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1197\/2017\/02\/jake2-360x241.png 360w, https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1197\/2017\/02\/jake2-240x161.png 240w, https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1197\/2017\/02\/jake2-272x182.png 272w, https:\/\/pub-9fc1f065f07e441b8f35365c774f09ae.r2.dev\/uploads\/sites\/1197\/2017\/02\/jake2.png 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was born on a snowy December day in downtown Saint Paul at United Hospital.\u00a0 Like many, moving has been a theme throughout my life.\u00a0 I started in Andover, then New Brighton, then White Bear Lake, then Charlotte, NC, then Chicago, IL, then back to Charlotte, NC, then Indianapolis, IN for high school.\u00a0 In high school I spent most of my free time playing sports football, basketball, wrestling, track and field especially.\u00a0 Upon graduation I moved back to frigid Minnesota to attended the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul where I studied Entrepreneurship.\u00a0 Since graduation I\u2019ve lived in Maplewood, Little Canada, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights and most recently Inver Grove Heights!\u00a0 Its safe to say I\u2019ve gotten used to decorating new spaces!\u00a0 I have three wonderful children Leo born 2013, Max born 2015 and Ike born 2017.\u00a0 In my free time I still enjoy sports of all kinds including golf, hunting\/fishing, snow skiing and volleyball.\u00a0 My favorite time of the year is fall and love to cook.\u00a0 BBQ ribs, homemade Neapolitan pizza and a delicious smash burger are some of the family favorites.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to getting married October 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 2026!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Commercial Estimator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary Responsibilities<\/strong><strong>: <\/strong>Business Planning, Hiring, Commercial Estimating, In House Training<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tenure at CertaPro:\u00a0<\/strong>Started in 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education:\u00a0<\/strong>BA in Entrepreneurship &#8211;\u00a0University of Saint Thomas &#8211; Go Tommies!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite Food:\u00a0<\/strong>Anything Cajun or Creole<\/p>\n<p><strong>Likes:\u00a0<\/strong>Snow\/Water Skiing, The Dallas Cowboys, Golf (Most Sports Really), Great Food, Hunting, Tailgating, Crisp Cool Air, Camp Fires, New Orleans, Dogs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dislikes:\u00a0<\/strong>The heel of a Loaf of Bread, Root Beer, Excuses, All Coffee Related Things<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting Fact\/Talent:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I can make the muscles in my feet cramp on demand<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ask me about:\u00a0<\/strong>My Family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get To Know: Jake I was born on a snowy December day in downtown Saint Paul at United Hospital.\u00a0 Like many, moving has been a theme throughout my life.\u00a0 I started in Andover, then New Brighton, then White Bear Lake, then Charlotte, NC, then Chicago, IL, then back to Charlotte, NC, then Indianapolis, IN for<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/our-team\/jake-schwartz\/\">Read the full article <em class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":1,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","our-team","type-our-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-team\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our-team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-team\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/twincitieseast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}