Making apprenticeship a first-rate path to a degree and a career.
Carl has spent more than 45 years in the construction trades and apprenticeship training. He started as a plumbing apprentice in 1973, worked as a journeyman plumber, and spent twenty years as Director of Training and Chief Executive Officer of the Pipe Trades Training Center for Santa Clara and San Benito Counties (U.A. Local 393). At Eleven Tenths he develops curriculum and program logistics for the Information Infrastructure Pre-Apprenticeship, delivered with Amazon Web Services through host colleges in several states.
Under Carl, the Loyd E. Williams Pipe Trades Training Center earned accreditation as a college from the Council on Occupational Education, an accreditor recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. He then aligned the plumbing apprenticeship, more than 1,000 hours of classroom and lab work plus 9,000 hours on the job, with an Associate of Science degree pathway run with community college partners.
He also worked with the California Apprenticeship Council to define minimum qualifications for the people who teach apprentices.
Minimum qualifications for apprenticeship instructors: California Education Code section 87357, approved by the Academic Senate on November 1, 2017.
