Daren McKenzie, Lead Bath & Kitchen Technician

Born and raised in South Burlington, VT and graduating from South Burlington High School in 1981, Daren joined the USAF immediately after school. He later transferred to the Vermont Air National Guard and gave 22 years military service to his country. He retired from the Vermont Air National Guard in Jan. of 2003 as an Egress Systems specialist, after doing a one year tour of active duty as part of Operation Noble Eagle with the 158th Fighter Wing, defending our country after the vicious attacks of 9/11/2001.

Daren brings 16 years experience in the manufacturing sector, where he worked for Bombardier Transportation Inc., a world leader in the transportation industry, where he was instrumental in the successful completion of contracts to build commuter railcars for customers such as, New York City Transit authority, New Jersey Transit, Amtrak, Seattle Transit, Walt Disney Co. He started out there as a production employee and was quickly promoted to a technician in the manufacturing engineering dept. There he continued to excel and was promoted to Supervisor, Technical Services (mechanical). He also took temporary assignments as Production Supervisor twice to bring his expertise directly to the production floor.

Needing a change, Daren started a construction company of his own in 2002 and for three years he managed the day to day operations of a small company, building custom homes, additions, remodeling and modular home construction. Daren joined the DreamMaker Bath & Kitchen team in Feb. 2005 and was promoted to Lead Technician in the fall of that year.