From washing dogs and digging trenches for conduit to managing retail locations and casting metal figurines sold at the Grand Canyon, Collin Parrish has had a lot of jobs. But when he began working as a service subcontractor for a pool company, he fell in love with the industry. A couple years later, he started…
When Daniella Rodriguez was dating her husband, JC, in 2016, she saw how passionate he was about the pool industry. He worked for his father’s company, Silver Springs Pools — and would stretch himself thin. Rodriguez was working as an esthetician but in her free time learned to use Pool Studio to help JC. “My…
JC Rodriguez was uninterested in being involved in his father’s pool business, Silver Springs, in El Paso, Texas. But he eventually started working as a pool designer and “quickly found out the industry ran in my blood,” he says. In addition to designing pools, he’s also worked as a construction supervisor and sales rep for…
Carlos Gonzalez had impressed the folks at Texsun Pools — so much so that when he quit cleaning pools after it conflicted with his college class schedule, they created a new position for him with greater flexibility. Gonzalez was put in charge of fixing all the vac-sweeps for maintenance customers. After that, revenue for cleaner…
The pool and hot tub industry has moved Allen Jerabeck from New York to Florida to California and back. When he graduated college, he joined Poolcorp’s MIT management training program in Jacksonville, Florida. Following that, he went to northern California, continuing his career with Poolcorp as a business development representative. He stayed for five years,…
Brandon Cox’s first job in the pool industry was cleaning filters. His parents, Patrick and Darling Cox, had a pool-cleaning route, and Cox’s main responsibility was washing out the filters once they got home. After a stint building acrylic spas, Cox’s parents joined Hines Pool and Spa in Austin, Texas, as a service technician and…
Alan Wiles was looking to get out of retail when the opportunity to join his sister, Ana Manning, at Manning Pool Service came along. Now he works alongside her, his brother-in-law and his brother. He started as a maintenance technician, and has risen up to salaried maintenance manager. In his role, Wiles says staying up…
After one week on the job, Ian Schatte was hooked. “I fell in love with the pool industry,” Schatte says. He joined Manning Pool Service in 2019, not long after completing his degree in marketing and public relations from the University of Houston. There was a lot of industry knowledge to learn, but Schatte poured…
Eric McDaniel started in the customer service department at Water Tech as a college student in 2008 and worked his way up. “While I was in customer service, I excelled quickly,” McDaniel says, adding that he caught the attention of the company’s director of sales. McDaniel transitioned to the sales department, then two years later…
As the third generation in her family’s business, Amanda Annis grew up in pool retail and service. Her first Ohio Pools & Spas job was sweeping warehouse floors and stocking shelves, and most of her high school years were spent at the sales counter and testing water. Annis left to attend college and returned seven…
Brad Bryson got his feet wet working as a lifeguard for the City of Brampton. In 2004, he was hired as a seasonal lifeguard for PPL Aquatic, Fitness & Spa Group and over the past 17 years has held a variety of positions: recreation coordinator, service technician, new construction technician, division assistant manager, pool consult,…
Reid Schindler started as a design intern for Gohlke Pools in 2005. While attending Oklahoma State University, he accepted a job in design and sales for Claffey Pools in Southlake, Texas, and was hired full time upon completion of his landscape architecture degree. During his eight years at Claffey, Schindler designed and was part of…