McMurr Productions has two general partners, Catherine Murray and Shawn D. McDonald.  Both partners bring experience, talent and drive to ensure success.

Catherine Murray has a multifaceted background to draw upon.  Since 2000, Catherine has dedicated herself to running McMurr Productions and establishing the business in the Tullahoma Community.  Before moving to Tennessee, Catherine worked for Daniel Man Johnson and Mendenhal (DMJM).  DMJM is a support service’s contractor at NASA – Ames Research Center - Moffett Field, California. At Ames, Catherine was the Configuration Management Group  Director.  In the role she supervised twelve individuals and was responsible for the day-to-day operations, duplication equipment procurement and maintenance, and development of Configuration Management- related policy and procedure for the NASA – Ames Research Center engineering community.  Prior to her work at NASA, Catherine served 4 years in the United States Marine Corps, was a supervisor of 25 child care professionals, and was the warehouse supervisor for a copier sales company.

Shawn D. McDonald has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University in California.  For the last 12 years, Shawn has worked for Jacobs Engineering.  The first 11 years was with Jacobs Sverdrup, a subsidiary of Jacobs. Positions held included design engineer, project manager, and group leader.  Shawn transferred to Tullahoma to lead the corporate office initiative to standardize the Accounting and Project Management Business Information Systems across Jacobs Sverdrup.   In March of 2002 Shawn was recruited by the Jacobs Senior Vice-President of Information Systems to Manage the Development of Corporate Business Information Systems for Jacobs worldwide. Shawn has been involved on a part time basis in McMurr Productions since the company’s inception and is responsible for the technology and business side of the company.  In March of 2003 Shawn resigned from Jacobs to devote 100% of her time in the growth of McMurr Productions.