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What is your position within your company?
I am superintendent for KPostCompany, Dallas.

What is the most unusual roofing project you've performed?
I helped install five types of roof systems on one building: polymer-modified bitumen; Spanish tile canopy; three-tab shingles; standing-seam metal; and a corrugated metal barn canopy.

Why did you become involved in the roofing industry?
It was the best paying job available.

What was your first roofing experience?
In 1980, I helped by brother-in-law install a 90-pound SBS polymer-modified bitumen cap sheet on my mom's home.

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
A doctor

What is the most high-tech thing in your house?
A smart phone

List three words that best describe you.
Honest, responsible and integrity

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
The Bahamas

What three condiments always are in your fridge?
Onions, tomatoes and jalapeños

What is your biggest pet peeve?
Stubborn superintendents

What quality do you most like in a person?
Honesty

If you could invite any three people (dead or alive) to dinner, whom would you invite and why?
I would invite my wife, Oralia; daughter, Vannessa; and grandson, Raydon, to spend more quality time with them.

What is the most challenging aspect of your job?
Problem solving

What is your roofing industry involvement?
I work for KPostCompany, which is a member of NRCA; the Midwest Roofing Contractors Association; North Texas Roofing Contractors Association; Regional Hispanic Contractors Association (RHCA); and TEXO, The Construction Association.

People would be surprised to know …
I received a 2011-12 Most Valuable Player award from The Roofing Industry Alliance for Progress. I also was nominated for RHCA's 2009 Construction Worker of the Year Award for the Dallas region, and I was TEXO, The Construction Association's 2010 Specialty Superintendent of the Year.

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