Mr. Serrato left high school and joined the Marine Corps in May 1980. Immediately after boot camp in San Diego, CA, and after his formal training as a heavy equipment operator in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., he decided to complete high school while assigned to an artillery unit in Hawaii and received his high school diploma from St. Louis High School Kaneohe, Hi. While in Hawaii, Mr. Serrato continued to gain heavy equipment operator experience while being deployed to different countries during his West Pac assignments.

After spending a little more than four years in Hawaii as a heavy equipment operator, Mr. Serrato received assignment orders to Camp Lejeune, NC, with 2nd LSBn. While in Camp Lejeune, Mr. Serrato received several recognitions for his performance as a heavy equipment manager and leader, and was thus recommended by his superiors to become a formal school instructor at the Marine Corps Engineer School, a campus for all construction type trades. Soon after, Mr. Serrato received assignment orders to Marine Corps Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., where he immediately received notable marks for his performance, graduating 500 basic heavy equipment operators each year.
Upon gaining five years experience as an instructor, Mr. Serrato was then assigned as a heavy equipment chief and platoon Sgt., in Okinawa, Japan, where he again performed stupendously, receiving written appraisals such as, “doggedly determined” and “never satisfied with status quo.”

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Following his overseas tour in Japan, he returned as a formal school instructor at the Marine Corps Engineer School in Camp Lejeune, NC., where again, Mr. Serrato demonstrated his unsurpassed passion to train students in all levels of training, basic, journeyman, and officers.

Successfully spending another three years in formal schools, Mr. Serrato was then assigned orders to New River Air Station in NC as the Heavy Equipment chief, where he was recommended and selected to attend Campbell University to obtain his baccalaureate degree in education.

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Upon completion of his degree, Mr. Serrato was then assigned as the Education Service Officer for MCLB, Ga, where he opened a fully functional Education and Training Center to train installation personnel to support the Marine Corps’ strategic business plan and maximize combat readiness and sustainability.
Soon after his retirement from the Marine Corps, Mr. Serrato ventured into teaching high school senior level English and freshman Spanish. However, because of his passion to help individuals pursue nontraditional training and education, he called on his friend, Mr. Greg Shields, to help him form his company team in 2002 and now, Mr. Serrato serves as the CEO/President of Serrato Corporation, formally called RMETI, a minority, veteran-owned certified HUB Zone Company with a strong management of military education centers, student counseling, and student assessment experience, including a supported experience in career education, classroom instruction, educational guidance counseling, and vocational instructor experience.

Because of his experience in formal training, his company’s past and current education contracts, his education background, and his experience and understanding working in a training campus that encompasses trade skills such as carpenters, electricians, linemen, welders, heavy equipment operators and mechanics, Mr. Serrato envisions George Washington Carver Piedmont Technical Education Center becoming such a campus that will produce skilled individuals in desperately needed trades, feeding industries who are now in demand for employees with such specialized trade skills. It is Mr. Serrato’s intent that GWC provide individuals with their basic foundational tools so that, through work experience, individuals may build upon the foundation from the vocational venues learned at GWC. Mr. Serrato’s vision for GWC is not just to train or retrain adults, but includes a vision of attracting the younger generation into the trades.

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