Jeff Parker joined PLC as an executive officer and Chief Technology Officer in June 2018. He brings over 40 years of IT experience and 20 years of funeral and cemetery experience. Mr. Parker began his IT career with IBM in the late 1970s, wrote code to guide the Maverick Missiles in the 1980s, joined his father in the energy industry in the 1990s, and started in the funeral and cemetery business at one of the largest publicly traded death care consolidators in the industry in 1998. Mr. Parker’s 20 years in the industry includes roles such as Manager of Offsite Systems, Manager of Application Development and Director of Information Systems. He was also the principal architect of the software system that currently runs one of the largest public funeral and cemetery businesses in the U.S.