Teacher Profiles

Armando Cobo, CGP, CAPS, CGA
Armando is an award winning residential designer, in Albuquerque, NM and Dallas, TX, with 30 years and over 400 custom home designs and building experience in traditional and contemporary residential design styles. Over the past 20 years, Armando has specialized in Sustainable and Green residential building practices that oversee Design, Implementation and Construction Administration under the Guidelines of the NAHB GBP, GreenBuilt TX, Build G [...]
Bill S. Slease, CGR, GMB, CGB, CAPS, CGP
12 years experience in the Home Building/Land Development business after almost 30 years of experience in the Banking and Commercial Mortgage Banking arena. With an undergraduate degree in Accounting and a MBA in Corporate Finance, my approach to the building business tends to the analytical. My leadership gifts were sharpened during a 4 year tour as an officer in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam era. [...]
Bob Hafer MIRM, CSP
Bob Hafer’s 38 years of experience qualify him as an experienced and knowledgeable new home sales trainer, consultant, speaker and author for the home building industry. He has held positions ranging from new home sales specialist to division and regional president. For over a decade, Bob provided new home sales training, merchandising, and marketing strategy expertise to over 100 homebuilders coast to coast. Hafer has been featured as a su [...]
Donny Mack, CGR, CGB, GMB, CAPS, CSP, CGP
Formal Educational Background: 1982 – Sanford-Fritch High School – Diploma 1982-84 – Frank-Phillips Jr. College – Associates in Science 1984-86 – Texas Tech – Marketing 1990-92 – University of North Texas – BBA in Strategical Management Associations and Affiliations: Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas Voting Director 2003 – Present President – HBA of Greater Dallas – 2008 First Vice-Presid [...]
Ed Harrison, CGB, GMB
U.S. Navy “Seabees”, 1972-1973 Dallas Baptist University, B.S. History, 1980 Dallas Theology Seminary, M.A.B.S., 1992 Dallas Baptist University Distinguished Alumni Award, 1994 Founder, Harrison Homes Custom Builders, 1983-Present Harrison Homes builds custom homes in the $200,000 to $1,000,000 range in southern Dallas County and northern Ellis County. Founder, Triumph Development, Inc. (residential land development in and around the [...]
Paul Evans, CGA, CGP, CGR, GMB
Paul Evans is the Business Development Manager for BMC West. Paul travels around the country for BMC teaching HBA and sales classes. He is well known around the country for his motivational speeches on Customer Service. He has been in the construction industry for over 25 years. In addition to his CGA, CGR, GMB and CGP he is a Licensed General Contractor in 5 different states. For over 8 years he has been an instructor for the NAHB [...]