TJ BUILT - Key Persons

Jim is a native of Wilmette, Illinois. With a passion for muscle cars, Jim first pursued a career in automotive restoration. He is currently rebuilding an American muscle car. Fascination with automotive restoration pulled Jim westward to enroll and earn technical certificates at the Wyoming Technical Institute -Laramie-. Continuing westward to Carmel, California where his maternal grandparents settled, Jim converted his skills with building cars to building homes. Jim with great passion developed next level skillsets to construct home assemblies at the highest level within the industry. Jim has three sons Ian, Harrison, and Rowan who each have earned the prestigious level of Eagle Scout. Jim's devotion to scouting in Marin is seldomly matched, he's earned the prestigious Wood Badge for leadership.

Tom is a Marin native, whose family arrived in California during California's Gold Rush. Fine building comes from Tom's earliest influencers, his family. Tom's grandfather Joseph Warton and father George Warton founded Warton Lamp Manufacturing -San Francisco- in the 1930's. Tom's mother Arlene studied fine painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Organization, planning, and constructing combined with creative beauty have become the hallmark of Tom's best practices in construction. Tom earned his degree in Business, Management, & Economics at the State University of New York -Saratoga-. Formative years were spent in Mill Valley, graduated Tamalpais High School. Tom and Debra raised Catherine and Allison who have since graduated UC Berkeley and UC Davis respectively.