Alumni Career Snapshots

David Ash

Employer

Eaton Commercial LP

Employer  Website

http://www.eatoncontracting.com

Job Title  


Vice President / Partner

Class Year and Major

  BS Home Building-1976

Additional education


N/a

Briefly describe what you do   


Am a mid-size Commercial Builder / Contractor. We perform all types of project delivery to targeted clients. Constantly building relationships.

What other jobs have you had?


Director of Business Development, Special Projects Leader, Marketing Director

What are the key skills, abilities, and personal qualities necessary to succeed in this type of work?  

  • Knowing all aspects of building,
  • Engineering, math
  • Marketing,
  • Communication skills
  • Eye for balance and the arts
  • Personnel management
  • Task scheduling
  • Contract law.

What do you enjoy most about your current position?  


The constant challenge and direct reward of ones own efforts, also the never ending ability to meet and build on new relationships in the industry and market.

Most important/valuable lesson or activity in college that impacted your career ?
Making the effort to get involved with people and interactions, it helped tremendously in helping me find myself and tune my career goals with my personal desires.

What advice for someone entering this field?


Unfortunately TU is not heavy into the applied sciences or engineering fields like it was when I attended, but being a builder or contractor does not mean you have to have a degree in it. I encompasses all aspects of business and I would certainly enter

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