Jason Scott
About Jason
Jason Scott is a Senior Advisor with Stirling’s commercial real estate team and has over forty-six years of experience in all aspects of the industry. He works from the company’s Mobile and Pensacola offices. His emphasis for the past thirty-six years has been commercial property management, investment sales, retail and office leasing, and industrial product.
Beginning his career in commercial construction, Jason worked for Opus Corporation for twenty-one years, gaining extensive experience in construction, project and property management, and leasing of commercial properties.
Before joining Stirling in 2014, Mr. Scott worked with John Toomey & Company for fifteen years and was instrumental in business development and client retention. While there, his focus included third-party managed assets, asset management, leasing, financial reporting, budgeting, and client interface.
Mr. Scott is an active member of ICSC (Innovating Commerce Serving Communities), Retail Brokers Network (RBN), Pensacola Association of Realtors, and NAIOP. He holds broker licenses in both Alabama and Florida.
A lifelong resident of Baldwin County, Jason resides in Lillian, Alabama, with his wife, Kim. They have three grown children.
Rhonda Sharkawy
About Rhonda
Rhonda Sharkawy joined the Stirling team as Development Director, where she was involved in retail ground-up developments and redevelopments. In 2002, she transitioned to the Commercial Brokerage Division as Senior Retail Leasing & Development Executive. For thirty years, she has worked on new retail developments, redevelopments, leasing existing shopping centers, and handling renewal negotiations. In addition, she represents over a dozen national retailers in Louisiana & Mississippi.
After completing a bachelor’s degree at Loyola University in New Orleans, Rhonda earned a master’s degree in Land & Real Estate Development, as well as a master’s in Construction Science from Texas A&M University- College Station.
Rhonda is a highly decorated top producer. She is the first agent in Stirling’s history to receive the Waguespack Award and one of only a handful of women to achieve this honor since it was created in 1964. In 2015-2017, Rhonda was inducted into the New Orleans Association of Realtors Commercial Hall of Fame for the Waguespack Award after being the City’s top producer for five years in a row & the first woman to receive this prestigious honor.
When she is not working, she is with her family & friends enjoying the arts, travel, music, nature and community service boards.
Awards & Recognitions:
Stirling Properties * Top Commercial Producer: 2003-2006, 2008-2013, 2015-2021, 2023-2025. | Most Commercial Transactions: 2003-2025 |
Commercial Real Estate Division (CID) • Hall of Fame: 2015 • Poche Waguespack Award- Top overall across all Commercial Real Estate categories: 2009– 2014 • Top Overall Retail Producer: 2001-2008 & 2015-2025 Commercial Hall of Fame- No special awards permitted 2009-2014 • Nationwide Commercial Award (NAR): 2011 – 2025
Community Honors and Awards * New Orleans City Business • Excellence in Real Estate – 2018 • Ones to Watch, Top Private Companies: 2016 • Power Generation: 2003 Given to young innovative achievers whose success in business & organizations set the pace for the future of our region.
Kylle Shoemaker
About Kylle
Kylle Shoemaker is a commercial real estate broker based in Pensacola, Florida who advises businesses on industrial and office real estate decisions throughout Escambia and Santa Rosa counties and across Northwest Florida. His focus is helping clients reduce cost, manage risk, and make better decisions when they buy, lease, renew, expand, downsize, or relocate.
He works with distributors, suppliers, contractors, service companies, and other businesses that need warehouse, office-warehouse, flex, industrial outdoor storage, yard, or office space. Kylle helps clients define their requirements, identify on and off-market options, compare lease and ownership alternatives, evaluate the true economics of each option, and negotiate from the company’s side of the table.
His work includes site selection, tenant and buyer representation, lease negotiations, lease renewals, relocations, expansions, contractions, acquisitions, and subleases throughout Pensacola and Northwest Florida. Since 2021, Kylle has built a track record advising businesses and property owners on industrial and office transactions throughout Pensacola and Northwest Florida.
Kylle brings a background in high-performance leadership and strategic decision-making to his work with business owners and executives. Before commercial real estate, he spent more than a decade coaching collegiate football, where he was responsible for building teams, developing people, preparing game plans, and making decisions in highly competitive environments. At the University of West Florida, he served as Assistant Coach and Special Teams Coordinator, helping the program reach the 2017 NCAA Division II National Championship game in the fastest rise from program launch to a national title appearance in NCAA history, and later win the 2019 NCAA Division II National Championship.
That experience shapes how Kylle advises clients today: understand the objective, prepare thoroughly, identify risk, evaluate the options, and execute a plan that puts the business in the best position to succeed.
Kylle is also an active member of the Florida Panhandle CCIM District Board, reflecting his continued involvement in the commercial real estate community and commitment to professional development
Lynda Terreson
About Lynda
As a commercial real estate advisor with Stirling Properties in Daphne, Lynda represents Landlords and Tenants across the Gulf South, specializing in retail and office properties for national, regional, and local clients. Her experience includes the sale and leasing of freestanding, inline, and mixed-use commercial assets, with an emphasis on strategic growth, relationship-driven service, and long-term value creation.
Prior to transitioning into commercial real estate, Lynda built her career in Corporate Restaurant Marketing, partnering with both emerging award-winning Fast Casual concepts as well as some of the largest QSR brands in the industry. This background provides her with a unique understanding of franchise operations, consumer-driven real estate, site strategy, and brand expansion.
Lynda earned her Bachelor’s degree from Mississippi State University, is an active member of ICSC, and is licensed in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Melissa S. Warren
About Melissa
Melissa S. Warren, CCIM is a Senior Commercial Real Estate Advisor with Stirling in New Orleans, LA. She has provided clients with industrial, office, retail, and site-selection services since 2001.
On behalf of clients, Melissa conducts real estate investment, market, financial analysis and negotiates purchase and lease contracts. Over the years, she served numerous industrial, medical, and bioscience clients providing them with the services of industrial waterfront and shipyard disposition, industrial park and river terminal land acquisition, ground-up development, and asset disposition. She coordinates transaction due diligence, user decision analysis, and assists clients with planning and zoning matters. She represents financial institutions in the disposition of distressed commercial assets and excess branch disposition.
Ms. Warren’s organizational service includes founding Board Member and President of CREDA Gulf Coast Chapter (the Commercial Real Estate Development Association); National Board Member of CREDA; past Board Member and President of the NOMAR-CID (New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors – Commercial Investment Division); past Board Member of LACDB (the Louisiana Commercial Database), and Board Member of the LASPCA.
Commercial Real Estate professional affiliations include CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member), CREDA (Commercial Real Estate Development Association), ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers), NOMAR-CID, NAIOP (the Commercial Real Estate Development Association), New Orleans CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women); WISTA (Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association); and.
Before joining Stirling, Ms. Warren was a senior real estate advisor for Grubb & Ellis/ Sawyer Commercial in Gulfport, MS. In 2006, she was designated a (CCIM) upon successfully passing the comprehensive final exam and passing the CCIM Institute’s panel judgment for the portfolio of qualifying industry experience.
After Hurricane Katrina, the mayor of Gulfport, MS selected Ms. Warren to co-chair the committee to rebuild Gulfport Harbor’s Jones Park where she helped spearhead fundraising, architectural charettes, and development designs for the rebuilding of the park.
Ms. Warren graduated from Mississippi State University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She holds Louisiana and Mississippi real estate licenses.
