About Lance
Lance has been with Barton since 2021 serving as a Plumbing Designer at our York office. Lance attended the York Technical Institute (YTI) where he earned an Associate’s degree in Specialized Technology.
When asked what he appreciates most about the ESOP, Lance shared, “I like the camaraderie that the committees bring to the overall feel of an ESOP company.”
Tell us a little about your family/home life.
I enjoy daily life at home with Priscilla, who I’ve been with for 11 years. Home life is working on odds and ends around the house, or just chilling in front of the tv, laying in the hammock, or going for a walk around our East York neighborhood. We have been using the garden that was established with the house since we bought it in 2019. During the growing season we have lots of tomatoes – that we make our own tomato sauce, grape tomatoes, green peppers, cantaloupe, strawberries and the blackberry bush produces hundreds of blackberries each year that we use to make our own smoothies. I have 2 sons from a prior marriage. My oldest lives on his own and another that is in college. Priscillas youngest daughter, almost 21, lives at home and is in the same college as my youngest son.
What’s your hometown?
Although I’ve lived in 4 different states, have moved 15 or so times in my years, grew up in Southern York County – New Freedom, PA, I would say York is my hometown.
What was your first job in engineering like?
Straight out of YTI I worked as a Technical Illustrator for a company using pen and ink on mylar doing hand drawn isometrics ‘on the board’ using French curves and triangles to show all the various parts and pieces of a Mack truck and how they were put together. These mylar drawings were taken to a camera room where they were reduced in size and printed on matte paper that would eventually go into a Mack Truck repair manual along with a parts listing describing each part and piece. Although it was interesting, doing board drafting was not my thing. My schooling at YTI was focused on using AUTOCAD and I wanted to use the knowledge I was taught there. So, I eventually was able to get my foot in the door at the now long-gone A/E firm, St. Onge, Ruff, and Associates as an electrical drafter.
What was the first job you got a physical paycheck?
My first job I got a physical paycheck would be the paperboy route that I had when I was a young teen living in New Freedom, riding my bike, delivering the evening paper, York Dispatch. There was the physical paycheck and in addition to that was the money I made from customers on my route that were ‘Carrier Collect’.
What does being part of an ESOP mean to you?
Being in an ESOP gives a sense of pride.
How does the ESOP impact you the most?
It impacts me the most as I work towards my future retirement.
If I wasn’t a designer, I’d be?
I had an interest of wanting to be a camera operator, whether that’s for sporting events, or for the news, or being that camera guy helping make Hollywood movies. Who knows. I know I wouldn’t want to be in front of the camera but would love to be behind it.
What’s your favorite sport?
Pro football, baseball, ice hockey…. in that order.
I’m seldom without?
My phone.
When I’m not at work I’m doing……
Some exercising at the gym or home chillin’.
Favorite pizza topping?
Don’t have a favorite single topping. I like the combination of toppings that make up a supreme or meat lovers.
What’s on your “stranded on a desert island” playlist?
I mean I’m on an island; I’d have the have some Jimmy Buffett. But in addition, I would have a mix of everything from 90’s Country to 80s-90’s pop/rock and hair metal, to some classic rock – Steve Miller, Pink Floyd.
What’s your hidden talent?
I used to be able to spin a book on my finger.
What’s the one movie you can watch over and over again?
Back to the Future.
What’s on your bucket list?
I would like to go on a hot air balloon ride.
When I go to a cookout I hope there’s __ to eat.
Pulled pork.
What’s your favorite holiday and why?
Halloween. It’s the most fun and least stressful.
Have you ever met your idol or someone famous? If so, who?
Famous people, I have autographs from David Copperfield, Whitey Ford, Mark Martin, and although I didn’t meet him I a pretty good story for the personally signed note to me and autograph from Cal Ripken Jr.