About - Division 9 Flooring

Who We Are

Born in the Tenant Improvement sector of commercial building, Division 9 has been proud to leave our mark on many different building and client types in our 20 years in business. We have managed a unique variety of scopes including sanitary wall systems, loading dock ramps, stone countertops, exterior pavers and cladding, handmade staircases and railing systems.

Our clientele includes: facility & property managers, building owners, end users, government agencies, school districts and commercial contractors in the new construction and tenant improvement sectors.

Why We Are Here

Division 9 exists to enrich the experience of our employees, clients and community, by conducting our business sensibly and with absolute integrity, providing a safe and productive workplace, improving our environmental legacy, and constantly improving through increasing knowledge and experience.

Division 9 is committed to our environment. Our comprehensive sustainability program ranges from physical carpet recycling to LEED certified support, and offers our clients best-in-class solutions to the everyday challenges of protecting our environment.

Some call it a trend or a fad. We call it our duty.

What We Care About

STABILITY:
Good business means integrity and honesty as well as profitability.

PEOPLE:
We provide a safe and engaging workplace for the benefit of our employees & their families.

LEGACY:
We infuse the concept “reuse, reduce and recycle” into every decision, no matter how small.

KNOWLEDGE:
We embrace and share new technology, especially that of sustainable and efficient architecture, as well as the wisdom of our experiences.

SUCCESS:
We are a business that adds to the well-being of every employee.

DISTINCTION:
We are a business that acts in our clients’ best interests at all times.

Our Team

Melissa Rossi

President / CEO

Melissa Rossi wrote the company’s first business plan in 2002. Since becoming a partner in 2005, Ms. Rossi has played a critical role in expanding the company and its related operations to multiple lines of business and locations. Ms. Rossi’s background in finance and management for a variety of industries has helped to keep the organization efficient and well-directed during periods of both rapid growth and recession, and a peripheral expertise in information technology has contributed to the development of a finely-tuned infrastructure. Ms. Rossi also created and implemented a corporate stewardship program, infusing the company’s top-level goal of sustainability throughout all operations. As a managing partner, Ms. Rossi led the acquisition and development efforts for two industrial properties, and handles all ongoing property management. In a leadership capacity Ms. Rossi is responsible for $30 million in commercial flooring projects annually, with a staff of over 60 project managers, installers, and support personnel. Ms. Rossi resides in Snohomish, WA with her husband and three daughters. She has been a resident of the greater Seattle area since 1990.

Ed Cifra

Director of Operations

Ed Cifra joined Division 9 in December of 2021. As the Director of Operations, he manages workplace safety and policy. Ed’s primary tenet regarding safety is to mitigate injury and illness by emphasizing prevention through education. In addition, he assesses procedures and implements changes that improve operational efficiency across various departments.

Prior to Division 9 Ed led several companies in leadership roles within the Building Services Industry throughout his 18-year tenure, beginning with building and growing a Seattle-based commercial janitorial startup in 2005. Later, Ed transitioned into commercial flooring maintenance where he streamlined and improved carpet and upholstery cleaning processes by introducing green cleaning techniques, resulting in water savings exceeding tens of thousands of gallons per year.

Ed resides in Kenmore, WA with his wife and daughter. He enjoys his spare time by playing bass guitar, biking, traveling, and attending Seattle Kraken and Mariner’s games.

Jaymee Niemann

Chief Estimator

Jaymee Niemann joined Division 9 in August of 2010. As an employee of Division 9 she has worked in or held a leadership role in nearly all aspects of the business from estimating and project management to accounting and purchasing, providing a unique overview of the business operations.

Prior to working at Division 9 Jaymee held an estimating and project management role at a similar company in Arizona for several years, and worked as a customer service representative for one of our tile vendors out of Phoenix – learning the industry from multiple viewpoints as both contractor and distributor. Estimating was a natural path for her career, growing up reading electrical blueprints and helping with her family’s residential electrical contracting business near Gig Harbor, WA.

Jaymee, along with her husband and two young children, spend their free time attending to their family tree farm, camping and spending time with family & friends, and cheering on the Seahawks.