Vayakone Terry is the Director of Corporate Development & Strategy for Morgner Construction Management who is responsible for developing and implementing programs that support the personal and professional growth of each employee and overall company goals and mission. She also manages Morgner’s global branding, which includes identifying strategic partners and initiatives that align with the company’s values to support, invest, and grow its construction/engineering community and the people it serves.
Vayakone manages Morgner’s Professional Development Program, Internship Program, and Business Operations including Marketing, Human Resources, and Field Operations. She currently volunteers to help provide strategy and programming for Los Angeles-based Women’s March Foundation, which in 2016, made a historical movement when it held the 2nd largest Women’s March in the world, attracting close to 1.5 million women and men to downtown Los Angeles.
Vayakone’s prior work in the industry includes serving as Project Information Manager/ Proposal Coordinator for Douglas E. Barnhart Inc. (now Balfour Beatty); Marketing Manager for Seville Construction Services Inc.; Senior Creative Director for the Sax Agency, and Director of Business Operations for SGI Construction Management Inc. She earned a B.A. in Arts/Interior Design from San Diego State University.