David Bailey - Co-Founder & President

Dave started in the truss industry in 1989 in Edgewater, Maryland working as a truss designer using the Gang-Nail system.  His interest in computers and the truss design software resulted in him being assigned the task of testing new beta versions of the software as they become available.  He managed the implementation of the new MiTek 2000 program at that truss plant in 1994 and continued to manage and maintain all MiTek software installations from that point forward.

In addition to his daily responsibilities as a Truss Designer, Dave also spent time in an IT support role assembling Windows-based PCs and configuring those systems for networked use and running the MiTek software.

With over 29 years of experience in the SBC industry, Dave has trained new employees in truss design techniques as well as the MiTek software itself. He helped with a new truss plant installation, the development and implementation of design standards and practices, and was the IT person who maintained the MiTek software on all designers' PCs.

Dave spent over five years serving as a Design department manager, handling daily design duties, as well as managing a team of truss designers plus a CAD operator. He understands, from personal experience, the challenges a Design Manager faces, trying to balance the number of plans that needed to be quoted or prepared for the shop with managing the designer resources available in a design department.  Dave appreciates the value of having a "half-of-a-designer" available at any given moment when busy times would hit and the design department is stretched too thin.

After a three-and-a-half year break from the building components industry to run the worship ministry at his church as well as serve as the Worship Leader and principal keyboardist, he returned to the components industry in 2007 to start Component Runner with his brother Chip Dean. 

Dave and his family reside in Cohasset, MA

Contact Dave here.