Who Am I

I began my career in 1983, in San Jose, California after I was discharged from the US Army after volunteering to serve for 2 years. I was hired as a junior construction project manager trainee, with Overland Development, Inc., and was assigned to a sub-division in Gilroy, California. The project consisted of the development of raw land, taking it through the subdivision map process, installing all the improvements and building 135 patio homes. The project was completed 21 weeks ahead of schedule and under budget.

In 9 months, I was promoted to project manager, for the company and given another project in Cupertino, CA. This project consisted of 10 acres of raw land. I managed the subdivision of the project, the improvements and the construction of 10 custom homes on 3/4 acre home sites. This project was finished 12 days ahead of schedule and under budget which became a tenant in my career.

In 1984, I branched out on my own and purchased land in the Sacramento Market. I then started to develop land projects rather than build single homes, on my own. I was the first developer building sub-divisions in what is.known as today as the.pocket area of Sacramento.  During the 1980’s and 90’s I developed over 20 sub-divisions in the pocket area, including 579 apartment units and over 300 lot’s for sale project to custom builders.

I continued to build projects in the Sacramento Valley, when I decided to open, Frontier Communications.  Frontier Communications, was a PacTel cellular agent retail store, and soon began expanding.  Frontier Communications saw rapid growth, throughout the Northern California Market and soon had a foot print, of 11 stores, stretching from Chico to Stockton and into the East Bay Area. Frontier Communications continued to gain market share, in the ever expanding retail cellular market.  In 1992, accepted a buyout offer from AirTouch Cellular (successor to PacTel), for ownership of Frontier Communications.

In 1991, while I continued in Real Estate, I began importing “grey” market video gaming machines onto California Indian Reservations.  As I continued working wleaders throughout California, and necessity being the mother of invention, I began to develop a software/hardware project and Cash Control Accounting Systems was born.  CCAS developed a slot machine/casino accounting software package that would compliment the hardware we had developed, which would put a card reader on a slot machine to track, not only the performance of the machines, but also the money spent, by the player on a session by session basis.  CCAS gained market share and continued Growth through 1999, when California Passed the Indian Gaming Act allowing tribes to legally own and operate casinos in California.  This act legalizing gambling casinos in California, allowed large established companies that held Nevada Gaming Licenses to now legally operate in California.  I continued real estate projects and wound up gaming operations in California; I then moved gaming operations into Texas and South Carolina, where “grey” market gaming was alive and well.  With the tighter regulations that began to appear in the early 2000’s, states began passing restriction’s on “grey market” gaming and by 2003 I had divested myself from gaming entirely.

In March of 2001 I was contract hired by First Data Corporation, (NYSE; FDC) now known as FiServe (NYSE; FI) to assist in the California Acquisition of TASQ Technologies, of Rocklin CA.  FDC had purchased TASQ for 25 million dollars and I was assigned as the lead project manager/owners representative for the purchase of and transfer of TASQ’s assets and IP to FDC. Once the purchase/transfer was complete, I was asked to stay and consult with them, as they split the shipping responsibilities, for the country into 2 sections, from the Mississippi west and east and open a new distribution center in Atlanta, GA.  This acquisition made FDC not only the major processor for most electronic transaction done in the world, but was now a major distributor of POS hardware.

In 2003 through 2012 I maintained several projects in my own real estate portfolio, as well as worked as an owners representative on several large construction projects throughout the entire West Coast of America.  I managed the construction of a Hilton hotel in Southern California, BMW Dealership in Seattle and Toyota, Ford and Chrysler Dealerships from San Diego to Seattle. Additionally I successfully entitled and built a on Water Condominium project on the Sacramento River and built a second podium for future river development.  This project had been denied 2 previous times by Federal Agencies and upon application I was told by the denying agencies the project was dead and could not be built.  I got it approved and constructed during a federal building moratorium.

By 2014, I was building small projects, flipping large custom homes, entitling and building a water front podium condominium project.  With the slow down in the new home market, and having spent 42 years in Northern California building West Coast Projects from Seattle to Los Angeles, I have begun to start slowing down to focus on some ADU projects, limited high quality renovations, Consulting on projects and Expert Witness Work. I bring a wealth of knowledge to a team to maximize sales costs and minimize construction expenses to the greatest benefit to the project.  A cost benefit approach to projects with my experience has lead to many record breaking sales numbers for high-end custom projects.

I have a wealth of knowledge in real estate, as well as project management representing large public corporations and small investment groups in significant projects, whether it is construction related or complete complicated business operations related.   I studied philosophy at Sacramento State University,  I went on to Law School and Graduated with a Juris Doctor Degree (JD) and passed the California Bar on the first attempt.