By Tillie Davies, Elise Bilodeau, Kristy Kocot, and Celeste Amron<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I first started here, I was asked in my interview if I felt confident working at T.C. Williams. My response was that \u2018I like challenging myself,\u2019\u201d said Mario Yach, one of the building engineers at TC. Yach has been working at the high school for almost nine years, starting in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n Yach initially worked as a part-time custodian for 5 years at a different facility. Before coming to TC, he had 20 years of experience as a skilled mechanical engineer. \u201cWhen I came here, I showed them that I had licenses for boilers and CFC (Air Conditioning), then they hired me at this school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Yach is a busy man. Although teachers and staff run the school, Yach is one of the main reasons the school functions every day. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing what we do here,\u201d Yach said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Without his help, the air conditioning, heating and lights would not run, the bathrooms would not function, the fire alarms would not ring, and other facility systems would not work. Yach said, \u201cWhen the power goes off everything stops working; we have to reset everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Yach comes to work every day with the intentions of making this school a safe and enjoyable place for students to learn. Aside from controlling mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, he also runs a high-tech WebCTRL (control) system that can be viewed from any location. This control system gives him access to set schedules, adjust parameters, and graphically trend the building conditions. \u201cI\u2019m running this [school] from the bottom all the way to the top,\u201d Yach said.<\/span><\/p>\n He schedules his day based on the highest priorities. Yach said, \u201cI schedule my [daily] jobs based on the requests coming. I classify my job based on Priority One, Priority Two, Priority Three because a lot of things need attention right away. Most of the time it\u2019s lighting or plumbing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe work with contractors who help us do our jobs,\u201d said Yach. There is also another building engineer, Ioan Marian, with whom Yach works works. Marian is the evening engineer and works from 11 a.m to 8 p.m. He is new to the TC staff this year. \u201cI love everybody who I work with and I\u2019m pleased to have this job,\u201d said Yach. <\/span><\/p>\n Yach\u2019s advice to students: \u201cYou have to love what you do because then it\u2019s just entertainment.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Tillie Davies, Elise Bilodeau, Kristy Kocot, and Celeste Amron \u201cWhen I first started here, I was asked in my interview if I felt confident…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[29],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/IMG_7395-e1506523099619.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99Jai-6Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2017-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}