TTSTECHNICAL TRADE SCHOOL
About the School

Field Faculty & Program Team

TTS is built by people who came up through the field. Our curriculum team has worked as apprentices, union journeymen, installers, service technicians, electricians, programmers, developers, sales professionals, project managers, and business owners. That full path matters: students learn how work is planned, performed, tested, documented, and handed off.

Meet the Faculty

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Founder · BAS & HVAC Controls

David Jonas

32 years in HVAC and controls · Former union journeyman pipefitter · Niagara, Niagara Advanced, JCI, Distech, JCI FX, and ASI Controls certifications

David has worked through the full controls lifecycle: installation, service, programming, remote development, sales, project management, and business ownership. His platform experience also includes Carrier 3V/3VS and i-Vu. He leads the field-performance model behind TTS.

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BAS Programming & Systems

Jason Keene

27 years in HVAC and controls · Niagara 4, Niagara Advanced, and Niagara Developer certified

Jason brings deep field and development experience across Siemens, Johnson Controls, KMC, Honeywell, JCI FX, and other BAS platforms. He supports advanced programming, integration, commissioning, and platform-specific curriculum review.

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HVAC & Controls Installation / Service

Michael Blue

UCS field-support team · Installation, service, and controls practice

Michael supports the practical side of TTS from an HVAC and controls installation and service perspective. His role is to keep lessons, lab steps, and troubleshooting stories tied to the realities of tools, access, workmanship, and field verification.

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Electrical & Controls Development

Ethan Merrick

Electrical apprentice-to-journeyman background · Senior controls developer

Ethan progressed through electrical apprenticeship and journeyman work before moving into controls, where he is now a senior developer. He helps connect electrical fundamentals, field installation, controls logic, integration, and software development.

HVAC and electrical program leadership

TTS has identified prospective trade leads for the next two programs: a 35-year union HVAC journeyman whose trade career began in the U.S. Navy, and a 25-year master electrician and former company owner with experience ranging from residential work to data centers. Their public bios and instructor assignments will be added after appointments, credential files, program scope, and required approvals are finalized.

Review the HVAC and refrigeration outline · Review the electrical five-year framework

Qualification and approval status. TTS is assembling and maintaining the occupational-experience and credential records required for each instructional assignment. School and program approvals, instructor eligibility, current credential status, and program availability must be confirmed before regulated delivery. A biography on this page is not a state license, an apprenticeship sponsorship, or authorization for a student to perform regulated work.

How our courses are built

Each course starts with a field task and works backward to the science, drawings, sequence, evidence, safety boundary, and documentation needed to perform it correctly. Instruction can include interactive lessons, browser labs, instructor demonstrations, drawing exercises, practical rubrics, capstones, and supervised OJL. Knowledge testing does not replace hands-on proof where the competency requires physical performance.