After more than 20 years of keeping the SMART Local 359 JATC office running like a fine-oiled machine, Administrator Pam Lake is ready to retire and hand over the job to recently hired Asbel Hidrogo. Anyone who has walked through the door of the JATC as a student, instructor,...
Arizona native and second-year sheet metal apprentice Tyson Alexander felt a call to serve after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. After attending the University of Arizona on a ROTC scholarship and majoring in History, Alexander became a Marine Corps helicopter pilot...
At three years old, Arizona-native Desiree Zinger visited job sites with her carpenter father and her grandfather who owned an underground piping business. “I think construction runs in our family. By the time I was in high school, I knew I wanted to do something in the...
Soon SMACNA-Arizona contractors will have approximately half a dozen TAB-certified technicians to call upon for the testing, adjust and balancing of a building for its optimum performance. The testing takes place June 12 and 13 at the Homer Dukes Sheet Metal training center in...
SMACNA Arizona is pleased to showcase the following 6 past and present SMACNA Arizona presidents. Pictured are past presidents (l-r) Nick Ganem, Kathy Kingsland, Jim Dinan, John Sapien, Carlos Ramirez and current president Allen Hendrix.