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Andrew Porter
Executive Director, Washington, DC Chapter of NECA
Andrew Porter has embraced his role as the spokesperson for the electrical contracting industry for the past 26 years. As executive director of the Washington, DC Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), Porter has worked to make electrical contracting businesses more successful by fostering relationships within the industry; interacting with organized labor; and providing education on the latest trends and technology.

Porter holds a Masters in Business Administration with a Human Resources Specialty from Virginia Tech and a Senior Professional of Human Resource (SPHR) designation from the Society of Human Resources Management. He used his expertise in this area to help found the Labor Management Cooperative Committee between NECA and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 26 (IBEW), known as the Electrical Alliance in the Washington, DC, suburban Maryland, and Central and Northern Virginia regions. Porter now serves as advisor to the trustees on the committee, bringing perspective from the contractor's world to benefit the industry.

In addition to his involvement in the Electrical Alliance, Porter is a founder and director of the Mid Atlantic Healthcare Cost Containment Coalition; a trustee to the IBEW, Local 26 pension plan as well as advisor to all of the Board of Trustees Local plans; and a founding member of the newly-established Alliance for Excellence in Construction.

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Apprenticeships, Electrical Training

David McCord
Director of JATC, Washington, DC
David McCord has held the position of training director at the JATC in Washington, DC since 1997. In his first year in the position, he developed, coordinated and implemented a new training approach of day school, with electives for Local Union #26 which is used today. He also graduated from the National Training Institute, sponsored by the NJATC.

McCord entered the JATC's residential program, became a member of Local Union #26 and completed the first year of classroom training in 1986. He was accepted to the Inside Electrical Apprenticeship in 1987 and graduated as Valedictorian in 1991. He obtained journeymen's licenses in Montgomery County, MD, Virginia and District of Columbia while in his fourth year of apprenticeship. In 1991, he became an instructor for the JATC. He also worked as a journeyman wireman (Fire Alarm technician). His last project was the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, DC that was over a million square feet.

In 1995, McCord accepted the JATC training coordinator position. His main duties were to increase recruitment and upgrade the hands-on training component of the apprenticeship and coordinate donations, which ultimately exceeded one million dollars.

McCord is a graduate of Prince Georges' College, with a major in biology. He also attended the University of Maryland from 1975 -1977 majoring in music performance. He holds Master electricians licenses in Maryland and Virginia. He has served as Treasurer for the Washington Area Apprenticeship Training Directors Association since 1997 and the National Electrical Training Directors Association since 2000. He served as a delegate at the International Convention in 2001, representing Local Union #26.

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Electrical Contractors/Small Business Owner/Transportation Electrical Work

Joey Tominovich is the President and CEO at Chesapeake Electrical Systems, a full service electrical contractor that services the Washington, DC area. Tominovich graduated from the Washington, DC JATC??s apprenticeship program in 1982 and worked his way up through the ranks of the trade.

In 1993, he started Chesapeake Electrical Systems with a partner and then became the firm??s sole owner in 2002. At CES, Tominovich focuses his electrical expertise on transportation infrastructure electrical work at airports, highways and bridges, and mass transit. His firm has worked at Dulles as the electrical contractor on the new fourth runway completed in 2008; on Frederick Douglas Bridge in Washington, D.C. in 2007; and is currently completing I-495 Capital Beltway HOT lanes in Northern Virginia. The Frederick Douglas Bridge project was named Mid-Atlantic Construction magazine Project of the Year in 2007.

Tominovich serves on the Local 70 Street Light and Traffic Signal Committee since 2007. The Committee develops journeyman traffic signal technicians that serve the entire DC metropolitan area. In 2010, he joined the Labor Management Cooperative Committee, an agreement between the Washington, DC Chapter of NECA and IBEW, Local 26 known as the Electrical Alliance.

He is a Master Electrician in the state of Maryland.

Ralph Neidert
Assistant Director, JATC Washington, DC
Lead Instructor, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training
Ralph Neidert is a Master Electrician in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. He is certified in EPRI Level 1, AC Drives, PLCs, Fundamentals of Instrumentation, cable testing and fault locating and test instruments. Neidert is a National Electrical Training Director Association member. He began as a full time instructor at the JATC in October 1998 and became the assistant director in 2004. He has been a member of the IBEW since 1981.

Recently, Neidert completed the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program (EVITP) to become certified to train-the-trainers who will teach electricians to install, commission and maintain Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE). The EVITP addresses technical requirements, safety imperatives and performance integrity of industry stakeholders. Neidert has an EVSE training lab at the JATC's Lanham, MD facility and is the first to conduct training to for the trainers who will teach licensed journeymen how to install this equipment in the Washington, DC area.