Dominick Porquis

For the past 7 years I’ve had the honor to serve as a Commercial Facility / Maintenance Coordinator at my church. My duties are to provide vision and guidance to 250+ people by providing various trainings and supervision for them and sub-contractors in order to facilitate various projects and building procedures. While employed as a Coordinator / Design Drafter using AutoCAD MEP and Navis Works. This position requires me to coordinate with all construction trades within a 3D world. In other words I help draw buildings in an 3 dimension world before it’s built in real life.
I‘ve lived in Colorado all my life, growing up in Montbello just east of Denver. While attending High school I wasn’t much into going to class as hanging out with friends. I was known as the drunk guy. I’m getting ready to celebrate 23 years of marriage to my high school sweetheart. We had our first child before we were married and our first car after. It was at this point in my life I relized the importance to changing my life around. I stopped the Drugs and Alcohol and strived for my GED. Next I attended a 2 year technical school. With the support of my wife we were able to raise 3 children while I worked 2 jobs and completed school for a career in drafting. Since then I’ve worked for the city of wheatridge, State of Colorado and ran my own business drafting for Architects and Designers. My wife and I were foster parents for 7 years and have had the pleasure of adopting two wonderful children. In 2008 I supported my wife in going back to College for her Masters in Social work. This has been a time of mentoring her as she faced obstacles and discouragement of success. One of the things people would say about me is that I work than play.
That I’m able to stay calm in the storm while having a bull dog attitude to get the job done. Many times I’ve used the words “It’ll look good when it’s done “we’ll at the same time having the thought of failure “what did I get my self into, did I bite off more than I can chew?” It’s at these moments I turn to someone for help. I’ve learned to depend on my friends to help out when I can’t do it alone. My life today is a complete different picture than when I was 21.
My life today would be compared to a suspension bridge with a bunch of guide wires and steel beams. When the fog rolls in I may not be able to see ahead of me but allowing myself to have confidence that the road is safe. I can trust knowing each wire is an event i