Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin started his career in 1972 as a carpenter’s apprentice. He became a journeyman carpenter in 1976 working in the commercial building field. In1978 he was offered a position at the City of Los Angeles as a Residential Building Inspector. In 1980 he went to work as a Residential Combination Inspector for the City of Santa Barbara, where he was later promoted to Inspection Supervisor in 1985. In 1995 he went to work for the City of Ventura as the Senior Plumbing & Mechanical Specialist, and in 2005 he went work as the Building Official for the City of Goleta. In 2010 he retired but continued to work as a Plumbing and Mechanical Code instructor at Ventura Community College since 1997. He is currently a contract plumbing and mechanical plan checker and inspector and provides training programs for residential and commercial inspection agencies ASHI, and CREIA.