Meet the Team - Meridian Windows and Doors Jacksonville

Meet the Jacksonville Team Behind Meridian Windows and Doors Jacksonville

Most window companies in Jacksonville send whoever answers the phone. We don’t work that way. Every Meridian crew member is background-checked, uniformed, and trained to The Garrison Standard before they ever step onto your property. The team below handles window replacement, window installation, and patio door installation across Jacksonville, from Riverside to Mandarin and out toward the Beaches. They’re the reason our 365-Day Done Right Promise stays in writing instead of staying theoretical.

Our People

Elliot Vance, Owner

Elliot founded Meridian Windows and Doors Jacksonville with one rule: nobody signs anything until the price is on paper. He’s been in residential construction since 2009, when Garrison Partners first started holding its crews to The Garrison Standard. Elliot still walks job sites personally on larger replacement projects. His specialty is matching the right glass package to a home’s sun exposure, which in Jacksonville usually means serious low-E coatings on western-facing walls. On weekends you’ll find him fishing off the St. Johns River, usually not catching much.

Marcus D., Lead Technician

Marcus has installed windows in Florida for 14 years, and he’s seen every failure mode a Jacksonville summer can throw at a frame: salt air near the Beaches, afternoon thunderstorms in Arlington, and wood rot in historic homes around Avondale. He holds installation certifications for PGT, CGI, and Therma-Tru products. Marcus handles the most demanding replacement jobs, including second-story window work and patio door conversions where the rough opening needs structural correction. He keeps a printed copy of the install manual in his truck, even for products he’s done a hundred times. Ask him about hurricane impact ratings and you won’t get a sales pitch, just straight numbers.

Lena R., Senior Installer

Lena came to Meridian after years in custom residential glass and door work across northeast Florida. She specializes in precise shimming and flashing details that keep water out during Jacksonville’s worst downpours, because an airtight window still fails if the rough opening weeps. Lena is certified on ES Windows and ECO Window Systems lines and leads our patio door installation crews when jobs involve large multi-panel sliders. She’s the one who will walk you through exactly how the old frame gets pulled without damaging stucco or siding. Off the clock, she rebuilds classic motorcycles, which explains her patience with stuck fasteners.

Darius T., Service Coordinator

Darius is the voice on the phone when you call, including at 2 a.m. when a window loses its seal and you’re staring at a cracked pane. He’s been coordinating construction service crews in Florida for nearly a decade and knows the difference between a job that needs a technician tomorrow and one that needs a board-up right now. Darius schedules every free estimate and makes sure the written price quote goes out before any work is authorized. He grew up in Jacksonville and can tell you which neighborhoods have the oldest frames and the tightest HOA rules. The man answers his line like a person because that’s the whole point: no voicemail loops, no next-business-day callbacks.

One Standard, Every Job

The Garrison Standard isn’t a poster on a wall. It’s a checklist that travels with every crew to every job site in Jacksonville and across Florida. It governs how we remove an old frame without leaving debris in your yard, how we seal and flash rough openings, how we level a sill before the first fastener goes in, and how we clean up when the work is done. We write it into the price before any work starts, and we back the finished installation with our 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something fails within that year, we return for a second visit at no charge. No fine print about labor exclusions, no argument about who touched it last. Every name above answers to that standard, and the owner answers to you.

Written by Elliot Vance, Owner at Meridian Windows and Doors Jacksonville, serving the Jacksonville area since 2009.