My background...

For those that don't know me my name is Paul Ashford Jr., those who know me well refer to me as "Putter", an endearing nickname given to me by my Dad. I was born and raised in Thousand Oaks California. I grew up in a family of Contractors, three of my Uncles and my father all own and run Construction companies specializing mainly in high end residential homes. Most weekends of my youth were spent learning the construction trade or traveling the western states racing motorcycles with my Dad. I was fortunate growing up. I had the opportunity to follow around a great man with a wealth of knowledge to share. Through the years I would learn to build everything from skateboard ramps and motorcycle engines to custom homes and parking structures.

For about the last eight years I have been involved with a few different companies that have broadened my knowledge base and enabled me to become involved in different facets of the construction industry. I worked for The Rock Shop building high end swimming pools and artificial rock waterfalls. The owner of the company, Brian Staben was truly an innovator in the artificial rock world. If the customers could imagine it Brian could make it a reality. I started for Brian as a mason and waterfall builder and would eventually run most of the projects in the field, everything from the most elaborate and extravagant backyards to basic hardscape, there was nothing out of our scope of work. After about five years Brian and his father Frank would open the doors to a new company, Dirt Works Engineering. The new endeavor created endless opportunity for Brian and Frank and inherently I would become involved as things grew. Dirt Works scope of work is extremely broad doing everything from grading house pads, drilling caissons, slope repairs, shoring, natural disaster cleanup, motocross tracks, supercross tracks and emergency contracting for many public and private utility companies. There always seemed to be a new door opening and a new challenge to tackle. There was always a new piece of equipment that needed to be built or an attachment to be built for the equipment we were using. I had the opportunity to operate all kinds of equipment, wheel loaders, dozers, excavators, bobcats, drill rigs and so on. There was always a new project that needed something we didn't already have so we would either fabricate it ourselves or somehow get a hold of whatever we needed to get the job done.

Currently and for about the past 18 months I have been working for JYG Concrete Construction. JYG is a structural concrete company specializing in subterranean and on-grade parking structures. While working for JYG I have been learning all aspects of structural concrete from footings, foundations, slab-on grade, masonry walls and post tension slabs. I am fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to work with many of the best in the industry in their respective disciplines and I hope to take the knowledge I have acquired and apply it to my own projects in the future.