Director Daniel Nunez has nearly four decades of experience in the field. A mechanical inspector II for the state of California, Nunez has concentrated his career within California. He began his apprenticeship with Local 460 in Bakersfield, California in 1967. Having completing his training, Nunez continued working at the Local as an assistant training director. In 1982, he was promoted to the position of training director, a post he held until 1987. After working in the field for five years, he took on the job of coordinator for the Building Trades Apprenticeship Preparation Program. There, he helped train future apprentices in all building trades, covering the basics they would need in their given professions.

Nunez has been a member of IAPMO since 2001, but his connection to the association goes back to those days with Local 460. “I sat in on a lot of IAPMO committees and attended a lot of meetings. We had to know the codes and the latest on the codes,” he recalled. “I was always very aware of IAPMO.”

In the mid-nineties, Nunez transferred to UA 342 and worked in the trade until 2000. During that time, he held positions as job steward, foreman, welder, and pipefitter. Early in 2000, he retired from the pipe trades and went to work for the state of California. Assigned to Area 1, that slice of the state from Oregon to Monterey and from the I-5 to the coastline, Nunez was constantly on the road, a life that had its attractions and its drawbacks. He was recently transferred to the San Luis Obispo region to work on a variety of projects including a $20 million wastewater treatment plant.

Nunez and Rita, his wife of more than forty years, enjoy the central coast. The couple has three adult children: their oldest son, D.J., who is a state inspector in the Los Angeles area; their daughter, Adrienne Tenhet, a third grade teacher; and their youngest son, Carlton, a sales rep for a company that sells specialized medical equipment for athletes. The fact that his family lives in other parts of the state allows Nunez to pursue his favorite pastimes: traveling and visiting his children and four grandchildren.