Career Title: Owner, Southwest Trane
Education:B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Email: Email Gary Career Profile: 1964 – 6 months in a graduate training program of The Trane Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin 1965 – Sales Engineer with Trane in San Francisco 1969 – Working holiday for 2 years including: 6 months as an application engineer for Trane in Australia 2 months as an application engineer for Trane in South Africa 1971 – Sales Engineer/Account Executive with Trane in San Diego and San Francisco 1983 – Sales Manager for Trane in San Francisco 1989 – Owner, Southwest Trane in Albuquerque
Southwest Trane was a Trane franchise responsible for commercial air conditioning. The Company was really 4 businesses with offices in Albuquerque and El Paso serving New Mexico, West Texas and the State of Chihuahua in Mexico. The four businesses were: Air conditioning Service Commercial air conditioning equipment sales Wholesale HVAC parts stores Subcontractor installing building automation systems
2007 – Southwest Trane was sold to Trane
Volunteer/Community Service: Working with middle school students to improve the school dropout rate and improve learning. In 2001, he started a Goal Program, “Choose Your Future”, at a poorly performing middle school in Albuquerque. The purpose of the program is to make the students realize that school is important to a happy future. He brought the program to Escalante Middle School in Durango in 2009.
Personal Interests: Family, golf, fishing and hunting, snow sports, woodworking, photography.