Jim’s family was in the tree nursery business since before he was born. His fist job was working in the fields at his family’s nursery in Salem, which his grandfather started in the 1950s and has grown to become one of the biggest tree seedling propagation nurseries in the nation today.

“Everyone in the family worked at that nursery at one time or another. My father, all of my uncles, my cousins…”, Jim explains, “And as nursery owners, we were always being asked to do landscaping work. So all of the men in my family had landscaping businesses at one time or another. You would think that would mean landscaping would be a natural next step. “To the contrary,” explains Jim, “I was always the grunt laborer. I couldn’t wait to get out of that business and do anything but that. So I went to Oregon State to get a degree in business. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I knew I wanted to be a businessman, not work in the dirt.”

But fate has a funny way of coming around sometimes. After college the job at the bank didn’t turn out to be as glamorous as it sounded. And climbing the corporate ladder was taking longer than expected. So after a few years Jim abruptly quit his job and just started up a small lawn care business, mowing lawns for people, until he could find a better job.

To his surprise, that small lawn care business grew quickly and within a few years Jim learned his dreams of being a businessman could be realized with this business and could maybe even be morerewarding than any corporate job he had imagined.

Over the years, his expertise in the field has lead to more than just success at his growing company. Jim has been a speaker at a national industry conference, authored several articles in industry magazines, a business mentor to over a dozen smaller landscape companies throughout the nation, and community volunteer/leader.

Today, Jim still runs and works in the company daily. He is involved with all aspects of operations. He and his wife live in the Sexton Mountain area of Beaverton with their 3 children. On his days off you will probably find him either traveling, at car shows, going to church, singing or just spending time with friends and family.

Donald joined our company in 2016. Donald was born and raised here in Oregon and recently moved to the Portland area, settling down in the Hillsboro area. Donald has a degree in Business Management and comes to our company with 10+ years of experience in the landscaping industry – both in landscape maintenance and landscape construction.

Donald enjoys his off time by playing guitar and writing music. He and his wife also enjoy spending time together with their new son, checking out nice restaurants in the area, playing disc golf and just enjoying the outdoors, often with his Golden Retriever ‘Abbey’ in tow.

Jesus has been with our company for over 13 years now. He has a world of experience in every phase of landscaping and landscape maintenance. He began working for us on one of our lawn care crews, became a crew leader, moved over to our landscape construction crews, became a crew leader in that division and eventually became our top crew leader and has build many of the great landscapes and hardscape jobs you see in our photo gallery. After this position, we promoted up to Maintenance Division Manager in 2020. He is bi-lingual, almost always happy and always goes the extra mile. Our customers routinely say how much they enjoy working with Jesus and how great he is with follow-through and customer service. He spends every day just supervising our maintenance crews and checking on their work (auditing service accounts) to assure quality control.

Jesus lives in Hillsboro, with his wife and 5 kids. He grew up in Mexico but is now proudly an American Citizen. Jesus enjoys his off time by spending time with family, going to church and volunteer work.

No doubt that if you’ve worked with Jesus you’ve noticed his professionalism and passion for what he does. With his mix of great work ethic and positive attitude, we expect Jesus will continue to have a bright future here at Lewis Landscape Services. We’re happy to have him on our management team.

Oscar has been with our company for almost 10 years now. He began working for us on one of our Landscape Enhancement Teams. From there he eventually moved over to our Landscape Construction teams, eventually working his way up to crew leader of our best Construction team. Today Oscar is a Foreman over all of our Landscape Construction teams. He spends his days going between our 4 different construction teams, checking on their jobs, checking for quality control, helping train employees, and assisting our project managers in managing our projects. Oscar is known for his attention to detail and always cheerful attitude. He works very well with our project managers, customers and our Construction crews.

Oscar lives in Beaverton with his wife, one son and one daughter. In his off time he enjoys spending time with family and friends, BBQs and soccer.

Michelle has been with our company since 2015. She started off in our office and transitioned out into the field as a Project Manager in 2020. Don’t let her young looks fool you. Michelle is very astute and her depth of of knowledge in landscaping will surprise you. Michelle has a very good eye and her attention to detail is unmatched. She is well organized and takes care to manage every detail of the projects she manages so that her clients are very happy with the end product. We’ve received a lot of rave reviews about Michelle over the last several years since she’s been managing projects for us.

Michelle lives in Hillsboro and is an avid dog lover. She is a bit of a wine aficionado, loves to travel, loves to try out new food and restaurants, camping and hiking and wins every board game she plays – which she enjoys doing with friends and family.

Antonio has been with our company since 2015. During that time Antonio has held various roles including lead mechanic, shop manager, and now project manager. He has done extensive work in the field with our crews and as support to our crews – making sure they have the right materials and equipment whenever they needed it. Today Antonio works exclusively at meeting with customers, writing up quotes and contracts and managing projects for our customers. Antonio is very friendly and someone everyone gets along with, which makes him a great liaison between our customers and our work crews. Antonio comes to us with a depth of experience in general construction, remodeling and landscaping. Which also helps make him a great choice for a project manager.

Away from work Antonio likes to spend time with family on their farm in Hillsboro. He is also passionate about building and racing cars (on the track, safely – roll cages, helmet, etc.) He has built one of the fastest cars in the area and enjoys showing his car at car shows and taking it to the track a few times each year. Antonio and his wife have 5 kids ranging from 3-19, which takes up a lot of their time, caring for and raising them. When possible, he and his family like to travel – whether it’s to the Oregon coast, camping or Disneyland.