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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT sponsored by Hecox Construction Inc. York Neb. danhecoxgmail.com When Dan Hecox current NTCA State Director for Nebraska was just a wee lad he had a penchant for tearing things apart and putting them back together. Junior and high school classes in shop that included building construction welding finish carpentry and draft- ing attracted him like a magnet so much so that after high school graduation he went to Southeast Community College and earned an Associate Degree in Building Construction. His next step after graduating college was to establish a business as a general contractor in 1991 to exercise his passion for finish car- pentry. In 1998 he began working for a management company that owned Pizza Huts which gave him a chance to flex his construction muscles and immerse himself in the world of tile setting. In the 15 years of working on Pizza Huts I traveled around the Midwest working on 30 stores doing everything from minor repairs to full remodels to building the stores Hecox said. These locations needed remodel- ing of the rest- rooms with tile set around sinks and uri- nals and at the time Hecox had not yet set tile. He educated him- self and fell in love with tile setting it was a lot like finish carpentry he said. It required a lot of attention to detail to have it done correctly. After many years of working with his local tile supplier in Lincoln his sales reps questioned him as to why he wasnt setting tile full time. I had never been asked that before and decided it was time to transi- tion to just tile he explained. Over the last three years Hecox has specialized exclusively in tile jumping from his GC commercial restaurant specialty with regional Pizza Hut construction and some residential work to strictly custom showers bathrooms in new residen- tial construction and remodels. Im still listed as a GC but Im no longer 40 TileLetter May 2016