Meet the Team - Carver Gate Repair Fort Worth

Meet the Fort Worth Team Behind Carver Gate Repair Fort Worth

Gates in Fort Worth take a beating from the start. Clay soil shifts under the concrete pads, summer heat bakes the control boards inside metal cabinets, and spring storms send tree branches into track rails across Arlington Heights and Wedgwood. The crew we’ve put together here deals with that reality every day. These are the people who show up in a Carver uniform, walk the property with you, quote a written price before anything gets touched, and don’t leave until the gate opens and closes smoothly under its own power.

Our People

Marcus T. – Lead Technician

Marcus has been working on gate operators in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro since 2010, and he’s the first call when a job involves a FAAC or BFT swing operator that’s been ignored for a few seasons. He’s the technician on our crew who rebuilt the most DoorKing control boards in the last five years, which matters in older Fort Worth neighborhoods where those units are common. Marcus keeps a worn copy of the NEC in his truck and has a habit of explaining limit switch adjustments while he’s doing them, so you understand what he found and why it failed. When he’s not chasing a gate motor, he’s restoring a 1987 Camaro in his garage off Camp Bowie and will absolutely talk your ear off about it if prompted.

Elena R. – Senior Installer

Elena came to us from commercial access-control work, which is why she leads most of our larger installations, automatic driveway gates, steel frame builds, and anything involving a loop detector cut into existing concrete. She’s certified on LiftMaster gate systems and has installed more articulating-arm operators than anyone else on our team. Elena is known for leaving a cleaner job site than she found, scrap metal hauled off, conduits labeled, and a walkthrough where she shows you how the manual release works before she leaves. She’s originally from San Antonio and still refuses to admit Fort Worth barbecue is better, which the rest of the crew gives her grief about weekly.

Devon H. – Service Coordinator

Devon is the voice you hear when you call Carver Gate Repair Fort Worth at the number on this page. He’s been dispatching field technicians for over eight years and has a knack for triaging gate problems by asking the right questions: is the motor humming, is the gate sagging, does it start and stop halfway. That’s how he gets the right tech with the right parts loaded onto the truck before the job is even scheduled. Devon carries a printed list of every gate motor brand we service, all nine of them, on a clipboard next to his desk, and he’s the reason our arrival windows actually mean something. He’s also the office dad, there’s always a bag of sunflower seeds on his desk and he will offer you some if you stop by.

Ricky P. – Apprentice

Ricky is three years into the trade and came to us after working residential fencing, so he understands the gate structure before he touches the automation side. He’s learning the diagnostics on Viking and Ghost Controls units and does most of his work alongside Marcus on repair calls. Ricky is the guy you’ll see underneath a cantilever gate checking rollers while the senior tech works out the motor issue. He’s methodical, double-checks his wiring connections before powering anything back up, and carries a small notebook where he writes down every brand-specific procedure he learns. On weekends he’s coaching youth baseball in Burleson, and the patience from that shows up on every call.

One Standard, Every Job

Every person on this team works to the same written standard. That’s the Garrison Standard, and it’s not a poster on the wall. It’s a checklist that covers how we diagnose, how we quote, how we install, and how we clean up when the job is done. For our Fort Worth location, the rules are simple and they don’t change from one technician or one job to the next. You get a written price before work starts. Every repair carries a written guarantee, good for a full year from the date of service, and if the repair fails inside that window, the second visit is free. Our technicians are background-checked and uniformed, so the name on the truck matches the name on the work order. And when you call at 2 a.m. because a gate is stuck open and your dog is eyeing the street, a real person answers, not a voicemail box. Lonnie Burke, the owner behind this location, holds every technician to that standard because he knows a gate that doesn’t close stops being convenience and starts being an open invitation to whatever wanders by.

Written by Lonnie Burke, Owner at Carver Gate Repair Fort Worth, serving Fort Worth since 2008.