On Lone Star College:
This unpaid board meets officially once a month. Meetings do not include preparing the agenda, interacting with faculty and professors, or any other ground work/ prep work that goes into the meetings.
Additionally, meeting attendance does not include subcommittees, meeting with and handling constituent needs, ancillary events like ground-breakings and business meetings with developers.
Still further, most of the work that goes into the meetings occurs before the meetings, making the actual meetings almost ceremonial.
But to be sure, I was at every major and important meeting where we lowered taxes, address the quality of education and expanded the new university system campus. (HP)
I am proud to have fulfilled my campaign promises from when I first ran. I am proud we are now the 2nd largest CC in TX while still being the cheapest, yet with our value and quality transferring all the way to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc.
I am proud to have fulfilled my campaign promises from when I first ran. I am proud we are now the 2nd largest CC in TX while still being the cheapest, yet with our value and quality transferring all the way to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc.
On South Texas College of Law:
On Precinct Chair:
I was initially appointed to the Precinct Chair as a holdover (after the previous chair moved to Arkansas) until a replacement was found. That replacement stayed on for one term but decided not to continue. Since she had already filed, I ran against her with little opposition. I have been the precinct chair for 518 continuously since then. I have handpicked my replacement from the neighborhood and look forward to her taking over March 2.
On Engineering:
I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
My background and job titles have all included the word engineer because that was the function and title of the task. My opponent is not an engineer and is not informed about the industry.
Fact-- I never called myself a Professional Engineer. To be a licensed professional engineer (PE) in Texas you must pass two exams: The EIT exam (Engineer in Training) and the PE exam. Note, the EIT used to be called the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, or FE and the title EIT does not mean you are in training. It is the prerequisite exam to the later PE exam. You MUST be closed to graduation or have graduated with an engineering degree to take the FE/EIT exam.
Fact--I have met the qualifications to take the PE exam having both passed the EIT and worked in the field for five years.
Fact--Few Mechanical Engineers get their PE in the oil services industries; PEs can sign off on blueprints and drawings and this is most valuable in Civil Engineering and Aerospace Engineering.
My background and job titles have all included the word engineer because that was the function and title of the task. My opponent is not an engineer and is not informed about the industry.
Fact-- I never called myself a Professional Engineer. To be a licensed professional engineer (PE) in Texas you must pass two exams: The EIT exam (Engineer in Training) and the PE exam. Note, the EIT used to be called the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, or FE and the title EIT does not mean you are in training. It is the prerequisite exam to the later PE exam. You MUST be closed to graduation or have graduated with an engineering degree to take the FE/EIT exam.
Fact--I have met the qualifications to take the PE exam having both passed the EIT and worked in the field for five years.
Fact--Few Mechanical Engineers get their PE in the oil services industries; PEs can sign off on blueprints and drawings and this is most valuable in Civil Engineering and Aerospace Engineering.
On my voting Record:
I missed the 2002 Primary and General due to working full time and going to College for Engineering full time in Austin. By 2004, I had streamlined my schedule and gotten back to full grassroots volunteer status. I voted in every other Republican Primary I have been eligible to vote in since turning 18.
