About Us

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2020TDC is a Technology Design Consulting firm for the AEC industry

(Architectural/ Engineering/ Construction).

  After the 1997 Air Traffic Controller hiring freeze, I had not much choices, the only one for me was to work and go back to school. The summer of 1998 I took a job as an apprentice alarm installer at a local fire and security alarm company. I spent a year or more there until I was installing an alarm system at a golf company you may have heard of called Taylor Made. I was so impressed by the company pulling these flat yellow cables (a Belden cable call Media Twist DT350), coiled in HUGE piles in these room they kept calling an MDF. When wiring the main security panel with my little bundles of "wires" in the MDF, this team of cablers were "punching down" cable after, after cable, after cable... I not sure why but I was drawn to it but I aske the foremen if they were hiring... Well that was the beginning and they sent me back to Taylor Made the day I was hired.

I continued in the field and worked myself up through the ranks to project management in the office, (it was a mix of project management and superintendent), and this was for a company called Encompass, the largest service provider in the United States at the time. I enjoyed my 3 years there, the company was great (it seemed), I had a great retirement (in Encompass stock), life was great! 2003 hit and Encompass filed for chapter 7 (I don’t want to get into the details). 

This event eventually brought me to Los Angeles looking for work, I found plenty and with my experience I was grandfathered into the Union, Local 441 Orange County. I spent the next 8 years as either a General Foremen & Site Superintendent. I was eventually promoted to the positions of Project Manager & Service Manager over the next couple years, this is where I started to begin my design-build experience, and when I was introduced to the world of Revit (2014).

I kept wanting to grow and learn more which lead me to apply for and awarded the opportunity to become a Technology Program Manager for Long Beach Unified School District. This because of my experience with design-building security surveillance systems, LBUSD had a larger Safety and Security program they though I would be perfect for, and I was. 

A few years later was deployed to Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to help with the nations largest WLAN program deployment for any school district. Again another program which I was a "hired gun" for wound down but fortunately was also a part of the LAUSD Electronic Document Review Process taskforce which involved drafting process flow(s), protocol(s), and training staff how to use BlueBeam. When LAUSD discussed creating a permanent position for me, I declined. I wasn't ready for my "retirement job" and I still had one more areas of expertise to learn to complete what I later named "The three critical legs, to the perfect Owners Representative" Construction, Owner Representative, and... Engineering/Design, you need to have real life experience working in all of these rolls to be the perfect well rounded Owners Representative.

So I sot out the Engineering world, lived and learned an unbelievable amount. I was humbled by the amount of hard work and dedication every Architect and Engineer/ Designer put in day-in, day-out. I loved it, and with my past experiences I onboarded at 1,000 mph.

The year 2020 was when I made the leap to create 2020TDC. 2020 for, a perfect vision, idea, visualization, concept... TDC for, Technology. Design. Consulting.

The love of what we do, the quality in what we deliver...

"Quality doesn't cost; it pays" - Martin Donenfield 1956.