Leadership

2024-2025

Officers and Directors

President –  Ray Freudenthal, Vanguard Fire Systems

Vice President – Kenton Aikens, P.E., CFPS, Interface Engineering

Secretary/Treasurer – Constantino Mendoza, City of Austin Fire Department

Past President – Gib Watt, Retired

Director – Andre Garabedian, P.E., Garabedian Associates

Director – Robert Kranz, P.E., Meta Platforms

Director – Jeremy McDonald, P.E., City of San Antonio

Director - Scott Ranft, Waxler Fire Protection Engineering

Executive Director – Jeffrey Shapiro, P.E., FSFPE, International Code Consultants


Past Presidents

2000-2002            Jeffrey Shapiro, P.E., FSFPE

2002-2003            Robert Schultz, P.E.

2003-2004            Carl Wren, P.E.

2004-2005            Pete Vallone, P.E.

2005-2006            James Moore, P.E.

2006-2007            Gib Watt

2007-2009            Andre Garabedian, P.E.

2009-2010            Ralph Castillo, P.E.

2010-2011            Whitney Crahen, SET

2011-2012            Michael Shannon, P.E.

2012-2013            Scott Stookey

2013-2014            Amin Tohmaz, P.E.

2014-2015            Gilead Ziemba, P.E.

2015-16, 17-18    Jeremy McDonald, P.E.

2016-2017       Robert Waxler, P.E.

2018-2019           YungWei Tang, P.E.

2019-2020       Joshua Lambert, P.E.

2020-2021           Benjamin Flick, P.E.

2021-2022 Robert Kranz, P.E.

2022-2023 Natasha Albracht

2023-2024 Gib Watt