Ray joined Erect-A-Line in 2009 with 19 employees and has grown the company to employ 80.

Ray was the Rexel Electrical Supply Regional Lighting Quotation Manager for Texas and surrounding states, supplying all lighting indoors and outdoors for hospitals, schools, high rises, athletic arenas, and casinos. Before Rexel, Ray was in the C-Store business as a multi-store owner in St Louis, MO.

“It is our goal to be the standard of excellence in our chosen markets by serving our customers with unsurpassed, quality products and service while placing total value on one to one relationships, therefore, we will do everything we can to help our customer be successful.”

He is currently on the Advisory Board of the Dallas County Community College District and a member of the Independent  Steel Alliance and the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Southwest Texas State University and a Master of Fine Arts from Trinity University in San Antonio. He is married to Nicole and the two of them enjoy traveling across the US as well as overseas.