Donald Thomas

Owner / Senior Estimator

Founded in 2002, Don Thomas and partner Kerry LeVan opened Ward-Tek Construction, Inc. in Orange County. This would be the second Ward-Tek Construction office to open, working closly alongside its Northern California Office in Belmont, California. 

Donald Thomas began his career in the early 70's, starting concrete labor and a few years later as a concrete finisher. He has been successful in the Insurance Restoration and Construction since 1975.

Donald has continued up the ladder in supervising commercial buildings, apartment complexes, condominiums, and Hotels. He built a relationship within the industry from all his expertise, and becoming the best!  Over the years, worked on several different large projects throughout Southern and Northern California such as:

• House of Blues
• Longs Drugs
• Lucky's Groceries
• Lamppost Pizza
• Ultra Tools
• Park Irvine
• West Coast Gaskets
• LABrie MAnagement
• Q-Flex
• Additional  References upon request

With his talents and respectful construction background, he continued his path reaching his dream by starting his own Restoration Company.  Thirty years later, he continues specializing working with both residential and commercial properties, by his true passion building property back to its pre disaster condition.

Kerry Levan

Owner of Northern Ca. Office / Partner of Southern Ca. Office

Disaster Estimating, and Project Management, Consulting experience by Kerry LeVan CR, ASD, WRT, General Contractor:

• Whittier Earthquake
• Los Angeles Riots
• Laguna Beach Firestorm
• Malibu Firestorm(s)
• Hurricane Iniki (Kauai Hawaii)
• Northridge Earthquake
• Hurricane Georges (San Juan Puerto-Rico)

Extensive estimating & consulting experience which is supported by his certified restorer (RIA) status. He holds CR (certified restorer) through restorationindustry.org and WRT (water restoration technician) and ASD, (Applied structural drying) status through IICRC.ORG. 

Rod Fong

Partner / Legal / Accounting 

Over 18 years in both legal and cost accounting areas of the Insurance Repair Industry.

Leo Gomez

Sr. Estimator / Project Manager

Leo Gomez performs a wide range of project management/Sr. Estimating responsibilities with Ward-Tek Construction. He works closely with our superindent Victor Delgado, to complete a variety of tasks required from conceptual design/build to plan a specific detailed estimate. He is involved with all areas of the restoration/construction process from inception to competition. 

Leo Gomez started in the industry in the early 80's working from labor up to Sr. Estimator. His expertise consists of:

• Carpenter
• Finished carpenter
• Cabinetry
• plumbing
• electrical
• flooring
• concrete
• framer
• foreman
• estimator

He has worked with several jobs over the past thirty years, as well as:

• Northridge Earthquake
• Los Angeles Riots

Certifications:

• IICRC
• Xactimate 25, 26, and 27
• National Center for Healthy Housing
• Bilingual Spanish

Fernando Salazar

Jr. Estimator 

Fernando Salazar has been working with Ward-Tek Construction for the past five years as Jr. Estimator. His qualifications within the industry are:

• Introduction to Engineering, Blue Print reading, and Auto CAD
• Xactimate 25, 27 Estimating
• Estimating repair cost up to 50K for property damage repairs
• coordinating with Insurance representative and home owners
• Prepares invoices, job cost summaries, change orders, and materials selections
• Inspects insured’s homes and evaluates damages and submits repair estimates to the Insurance companies.
• Bilingual Spanish

Jason Thomas

Marketing Manager

With over 10 years in the design, marketing and advertising field, Jason also retains over 20 years of customer service experience which has assisted in generating numerous professional buisness relationships.  With both of these skills, combined with social media marketing, Jason has elevated Ward-Tek's marketing approach for the future.

Esperanza Silvia

Office Manager

Esperanza has handled all of the day to day administrative operations in the Southern California Office for the past 10 years.  She coordinates with the office staff to provide excellent customer services for all of Ward-Tek Construction, Inc's clients.  Espy also works directly with all of Ward-Tek's subcontractors to ensure paperwork is order including contracts, CCB status checks, insurance certificates and lien releases.