Background
Daniel grew up in South Tucson, four blocks from the Bay 3 yard. Sunnyside High School class of 2021. After a year working in his father's auto shop, he enrolled in the Pima Community College plumbing program in fall 2022 (Marisol's first guest-teaching semester there) and signed on with us as an apprentice for the program's required field hours starting January 2024.
His Pima Community College graduation project was a small greywater system for an instructor's house in Menlo Park, designed and installed under our supervision. The project was the basis for a 12-minute presentation to the program's spring 2024 cohort that's still occasionally referenced.
Credentials
- Pima Plumbing
- Pima Community College · 2-year certificate · 2024.
- Apprentice
- 2024-01 to 2026-02 · ~3,800 documented hours.
- Journeyman
- AZ ROC R-37R journeyman exam · passed 2026-03-14.
- OSHA 10
- since 2024.
What he does
Daniel runs his own greywater stub-out installs since fall 2025 and is now lead on the smaller branched-drain projects (single-source, three-or-four-basin layouts). Pairs with Marisol or Kara on cistern installs for the larger CIS-1 builds. Owns the deburring kit, the PEX expansion tool, and the gold-standard tape measure.
What's next
The five-year plan, openly published as a personal commitment: master plumber exam at year 6 of trade time (anticipated 2030), then a master license held under his own name while staying with the crew. Eventually, Daniel expects to start his own greywater-and-rainwater shop in Sahuarita, where his family is from, after another decade with us.
Read next
- GWY-1 · Greywater — the subsystem he's lead on.
- Greywater installer 2026 role — the path Daniel walked.
- Marisol Reyes — his mentor.