San Antonio Construction News • SEP 2020
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Going with the flow
Industry FOLKS Sheri Krueger Senior Associate
Ridout Barrett San Antonio, TX
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an Antonio is all Sheri has ever known. Living and growing up in San Antonio has always felt like a “little, big town” to her. She spent her elementary school days at Holy Spirit Catholic School and finished her high school years at Ursuline Academy. “I didn’t experience the traditional college life. I attended Hallmark University for my associate degree about a year after graduating high school. Twenty years later, I had the brilliant idea to go back for my bachelor’s degree. I attended and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wayland Baptist University with a Bachelor of Applied Science with an accounting concentration. I have always loved numbers. I’ve known since high school that this was what I wanted to do. It also helped that I had a grandmother and mother that were in the bookkeeping/accounting field.” As a single mom, Sheri obtained her degree strictly online allowing her the flexibility to raise her daughter Emily who is now 18. Emily enjoys working with special needs individuals, but due to the current situation in our world right now, she is finding it very difficult to pursue employment in that field. After graduating with her associate’s degree, Sheri was able to get her foot in the door when she went to work with her mom at the subcontracting firm she worked for. She has worked for general contractors, subcontractors and in manufacturing. In all, she has worked in the construction industry for 19 years. At Ridout Barrett, the core part of
my job is assisting clients with their bookkeeping needs by making sure everything is being properly reported and that their in-house financials are as accurate as possible, assisting them with their accounting software needs/issues, sales tax reporting, and payroll tax reporting. She also prepares financial statements, business tax returns and personal tax returns. “I am the “go to” on three accounting programs and I oversee/maintain the electronic filing program that we use for our payroll tax reporting. “I enjoy working with the clients; it allows me to still “work” in the industry but not in a full time manner. I also like teaching. I am always more than happy and willing to impart my knowledge and experiences with clients and fellow employees. Working in this field for 25-plus years has shown and taught me a lot.” Lynda Land, Sheri’s department manager, is her work mentor. “Over the past seven years she has always taken the time to help me, teach me and encourage me to push myself outside my working limits. There isn’t anything I can’t go to her about. She is my sounding board for when I just need to talk things through in order to make sure my train of thought is on the right track and she is there for me on a personal level as well.” - cmw
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Kenny Sauer, owner of KPS Services LLC
enny Sauer and KPKC Services LLC, d/b/a KPS Services LLC celebrated 15 years in business in 2019. Now in its 16th year of business, Sauer formed the company in 2004 after getting out of the paint business. When KPS first opened, they started out doing little odd jobs and then moved into remodeling houses and building buildings. From there, the company took off. Sauer recalls doing 33 churches in one summer. “We did the entire Stone Oak golf course in ’09 and all the fence around it. I had about 100 guys on that job. If you recall in ’09, there were like 50plus days of 105 degrees. We were all dying out there on that job.” Now with the COVID pandemic on the forefront, the company has shifted back to residential as more and more people are spending more time at home. Rooms are being added on to make office space within the home, along with bathrooms and kitchens being remodeled and updated. All in all, KPS performs about 25-30 percent commercial work. In addition to
home remodels, they are seeing a lot of office layout changes with requests to tear out walls or add walls to make offices either larger or smaller. KPS, like many other small businesses, has seen its ups and downs. This year with the interruptions of COVID is no different. “We had a lot projects lined up for February and March, many had to be put on the back burner,” says Sauer. KPS Services LLS does consulting, construction and completion work performing everything from sitework to ground up construction, total interior finish-out, remodels, homes to office buildings, home kitchens to restaurants and the list goes on serving San Antonio and the small communities surrounding the Alamo City such as Schertz, Cibolo, Selma, Converse, New Braunfels, La Vernia and Boerne. “Give us a call and we’ll help get done whatever you need done on your house or commercial building,” concludes Sauer. KPS Services LLC is a small general contracting firm specializing in additions and remodels. -cmw
