Welcome to the Mended Oak Store.  I’m Jesse Alexander, a licensed professional engineer in the state of Florida and an ordained pastor. I spend my days working in architectural engineering, and my nights and weekends serving the church and my community as a pastor.

In the summer of 2025, I started Mended Oak Design and Engineering. The launch came after a decade of working in structural engineering with Murray Engineering. During my time there, I signed more than 15,000 structural plans for homes across Northeast Florida. Shortly after celebrating that milestone, while having dinner with my family, I realized that my own children—now grown, beginning careers, and starting families—would struggle to afford the homes I had worked on, most of which were basic, family homes.

That did not sit well with me.

After wrestling with that realization for a few months, I started Mended Oak Design and Engineering with a mission to offer something that might help with the challenge of homeownership. At Mended Oak, I’m working to provide architectural and engineering house plans that people can use to build a house themselves.

I’m a preacher’s kid who grew up in Leesburg, Florida. I've served in ministries and churches in one capacity or another since the 1980s. I married Heather in 1992. She works in the school system.  In addition to our children, we’ve welcomed a few others. We spend our free time enjoying family, exploring Florida, and exercising our high‑energy 1/2 Catahoula Leopard Dog.  We’ve lived on the edge of Jacksonville for the better part of two decades. We love our community and our city and look for ways to be a part of what God is doing here.