Washington Outdoor Lighting was founded with purpose of offering our clients a handcrafted Wow! Outdoor Lighting Experience! To do this we learned that it all has to start with our people. The core passion of Washington Outdoor Lighting is making goals and dreams a reality. This is pursed internally by providing our employees with as many tools as possible to grow professionally and personally. This is pursed externally by helping our clients fully see and experience their properties true value at night. We believe our people create our culture, our culture creates our brand and our brand creates our buisness. This all begins with our core values that we work hard to live by everyday.
WASHINGTON OUTDOOR LIGHTING
CORE VALUES
QUALITY:
We are a company that puts quality first. When faced with a decision, quality trumps time and convenience. It trumps money whenever possible. Quality will be reflected in everything we do.
SIMPLICITY:
We make business simple. We will be easy to find, easily accessible and quick to respond to our clients and to each other.
SERVICE:
Human interaction is when our brand becomes real. Service will shine most in these interactions. We will ask ourselves “How can I help?” In all human interactions.
INTEGRITY:
We are transparent, honest and ethical in all of our interactions with employees, clients, consumers and vendors. We will have the difficult conversations when necessary.
WORK HARD, BE NICE:
Washington Outdoor Lighting was built through hard work. This will always be the core of what is expected on a daily basis. We have learned that hard work is muted if you’re a jerk. So don’t be one!
OUR TEAM
Kyle McKelvy
GENERAL MANAGER, DESIGN & SALES MANAGER, CO-FOUNDER
Leah McKelvy
CONTROLLER, CO-FOUNDER
Kyle and Leah have always had a strong passion to build companies that make an impact for our employees and our clients. They feel blessed that they found the outdoor lighting industry 11 years ago as it has given them the platform to impact the lives of many employees and also deliver that WOW! Moment for countless clients. Having built a successful sister company Oregon Outdoor Lighting over the past decade they felt called along with Leah’s brother Jacob to open Washington Outdoor Lighting. This team has a combined experience of 29 years in the industry. Kyle and Leah believe that our people create our culture, our culture creates our brand and our brand creates our company. They feel that the success of anything we do starts with our people and work to find ways serve our people so they can serve our clients.
JACOB COVERT
OPERATIONS MANAGER
Entrepreneurship is in Jacobs blood. As the son of a serial entrepreneur Jacob always knew he would own his own company. Having worked with Kyle and Leah at our sister company Oregon Outdoor Lighting for 7 years he jumped at the chance to be a Co-Founder with Washington Outdoor Lighting. For Jacob owning a company is about building a winning culture and seeing employees reach their personal and professional goals. He enjoys the execution of a perfectly install lighting system and the joy it brings to our clients. He has personally installed or overseen the installation of more than 37,000 so you can be confident that as Field Service Manager he will make sure your system in installed the right way.
TYSON CHRISTIE
FIELD SERVICE MANAGER
Tyson’s diverse background in marketing, construction and athletic competition brings a highly valuable skill set to our team. Tyson started for the Northwest University basketball team for 2 years before graduating with a degree in marketing. After college he spent time with many large companies expanding his marketing skills before finding his true passion in the construction industry. He always found it more rewarding to be working with his hands and looks forward to personal interactions he experiences with our clients. Tyson oversee all our large scale projects and always delivers beyond our expectations.
TROY WILLIAMS
DESIGN & SALES CONSULTANT
Troy’s strongest skill set is that he enjoys people. His background includes buying and selling precious metals and also commercial insurance. The one thing that he always noticed was that interacting with clients was always his favorite part. This makes him a great fit for Washington Outdoor Lighting. Between his keen design eye and love of delivering that WOW! moment the first time you see your lights, Troy is always a pleasure to work with.
COURTNEY VILLANUEVA
OFFICE COORDINATOR
Courtney has worked for Washington Outdoor Lighting since day 1. Coming from a customer service background she is a natural people person. Courtney takes pride in providing exceptional and genuine service to all our clients. Hearing our client’s positive feedback is very rewarding to her. If you call she will be the one to answer and does a great job at being the first impression for our company.
