Jeromy Murphy, AIA

ACI Consulting Architects

As a child, Jeromy spent Sunday mornings roaming unaccompanied through the construction site of his church’s new sanctuary. That sanctuary has since been demolished, but the building inspired him to a career in architecture. Raised in southeast Texas, he had an unreasonable fear of hills and sought an education in the Llano Estacado of Lubbock. It was at Texas Tech University where Jeromy met his future wife, Lori, a real architect. After graduating with a Master of Architecture, he moved to Houston, where he discovered that the only job available, which paid slightly better than his previous employment at Pizza Hut but with fewer benefits, was an Independent Contract Provider performing TAS plan reviews and inspection for a little company called American Construction Investigations. It took less than three years for him to swear off accessibility consulting and vow to return to his original passion for architecture. After interminable years of grueling internship, passing nine exams, and working for a few different architects, Jeromy realized that accessibility consulting wasn’t that bad after all.

In 2009, his first professional boss, Henry Hermis Jr, invited him to be a partner at ACI. Today he leads ACI, now ACI Consulting Architects, and has provided ADA/FHA consulting services from as far west as Hawaii and as far east as Saudi Arabia. His hobbies include crafting, brewing beer, reading novels about robots and dragons, and traveling with his wife and two daughters. He plays tenor guitar, mandolin, and a decent fiddle, poorly. He might be a terrible juggler, but his dad jokes are infamous, and he can make 45-minute brownies in 15 minutes. Jeromy and Lori are currently in the process of starting a distillery in the Houston area and hope to make really great whiskey.