Meet Jesse Dunlap
Colorado Licensed Master Electrician · Contractor #8223
In the electrical trade since 1998. Started as an apprentice in Tampa. Ran a crew of 30 on the Tampa International Airport. Spent four years building electrical rooms on hospitals, data centers, and high-rises across Colorado. Now a residential panel and service specialist in the Denver metro.
Today, Dunlap Electric Company focuses on residential panel replacements, service upgrades, subpanels, and transfer switches in the Denver metro area.
Electrical Experience
Twenty-eight years in the electrical trade. Not twenty-eight years since getting a license. Twenty-eight years of actually doing the work, starting from the bottom, on real projects with real consequences. This is the experience that walks through your door when you hire Dunlap Electric.
Where It Started: Tampa, Florida (1998 to 2006)
Jesse started as an apprentice electrician in April 1998 with Tri-City Electrical Contractors in Tampa, Florida, one of the largest electrical contractors in the Southeast. He entered the ABC (Associated Builders and Contractors) apprenticeship program and spent his first three years pulling wire, running conduit, and terminating switchgear on projects including Shriner's Hospital, the University of Tampa, the University of South Florida, and Ellenton Mall.
By his third year he was leading a crew for elevated slab work. That's not normal for an apprentice.
Over the next five years at Tri-City, Jesse held four different positions, each one a step up:
Material ordering, delivery scheduling, RFIs, quality control monitoring across the entire project.
Bid documents, take-offs, vendor quotes, Accubid estimating software. Learning the business side of electrical contracting from inside the office.
Supervised a crew of 16 electricians and apprentices. Worked alongside a CAD operator to develop layout drawings for deck work.
Supervised crews of 30 electricians, apprentices, and laborers on the remote parking garage and administration facility. Ran daily pre-work safety meetings. Coordinated with the general contractor and every other trade on site. Called inspections. Verified timesheets. Managed material and manpower planning. Attended weekly subcontractor meetings covering schedules, RFIs, design issues, and trade conflicts. Kept the project on time and on budget.
Apprentice to superintendent in eight years. That's not a career path that gets handed to you. You earn it by showing up, doing the work right, and being the person other people trust to run the job.
Top: Jesse on a 200-foot tower crane during the Harbour Island project in Tampa. Bottom: On a commercial job site in Colorado.
Commercial Projects in Colorado (2006 to 2009)
Jesse moved to Colorado in 2006 and earned his Colorado Journeyman's License that same year. He spent the next four years with Encore Electric in Englewood, one of the largest electrical contractors in the state, working on commercial projects across Colorado.
These are the projects. The names, the locations, the dollar figures. This is the work.
Operating room rough-in and trim-out. Demo of old electrical equipment. Site lighting. Conduit layout and branch circuitry.
Led the unit rough-in crew. Troubleshooting and commissioning condo units. Ordering material for rough-in crews. Feeder and branch circuit conduit.
Branch wiring, lighting, switchgear and panelboard terminations, underground layout, pulling feeders.
Conduit layout, fire alarm circuitry, switchgear terminations, underground installations.
Core and shell rough-in. Cable tray, panelboards, lighting control panels. Material ordering for the rough-in crew.
Underground layout and installations. Backhoe operation for underground work. Branch circuit conduit.
Building electrical rooms. Pulling feeders. Switchgear and panelboard terminations. Troubleshooting condo units.
On these projects, Jesse built the electrical rooms that power entire buildings. He mounted and connected three-phase transformers, main distribution equipment, and the switchgear that feeds every circuit in the structure. Thousands of amps. The same systems, at a larger scale, that feed power into your home.
Licenses, Training, and Continuing Education
Jesse didn't just get his license and stop learning. The National Electrical Code changes every three years. Equipment changes. Best practices change. Staying current isn't optional if you take the work seriously.
Licenses
- Colorado Master Electrician License
- Colorado Electrical Contractor License #8223
- Colorado Journeyman's License (2006)
- Florida Journeyman's License (2003)
Formal Training
- ABC Apprenticeship Program, Florida Chapter (1998-2002)
- OSHA 10-Hour Safety & Health (2001, 2004, 2007)
- Stepping Up to Supervisor courses (2001, 2004)
- Blueprint Reading, 12 hours (2003)
- UPS/ATS/Generator Systems course (2008)
- Energized Electrical Safety Training (2007)
NEC Code & Continuing Education
- IAEI Grounding & Bonding, Wiring Methods, Theory & Calculations, Code Changes (2018)
- IAEI Analysis of Changes and Wiring Methods (2014)
- IAEI Rocky Mountain Chapter: Soares Grounding & Bonding, 8 hrs + Wiring Methods, 8 hrs (2013)
- IAEI NEC Theory and Calculations (2011)
- NEC 2008 Continuing Education, 16 hrs classroom (Bobo Technologies)
- National Electrical Code, 24 hrs (2006)
- Fire Alarm, 8 hrs (2002)
Equipment Certifications
- Backhoe, track hoe, trencher
- Extendable and fixed-mask forklifts
- Scissor lift, boom lift, vertical tower
- Exothermic welding (Cadweld)
- Powder actuated tools
- Fall protection, hot work
Dunlap Electric Company (2011 to Present)
Jesse earned his Colorado Master Electrician License and Electrical Contractor License in 2011 and started Dunlap Electric Company. After years of building the electrical systems that power hospitals and airports, he brought that same standard of work to residential homes in the Denver metro.
In 2016, the Erie Chamber of Commerce named Dunlap Electric Business of the Year.
Today, Dunlap Electric focuses on four types of work: panel replacements, service changes and upgrades, subpanel installations, and manual transfer switches. Jesse does the work himself. No crew, no subcontractor. The master electrician who gives you the quote is the one who shows up and does the job.
Why That Matters When He Shows Up at Your House
Your electrical service is the main power system for your home. It's where electricity enters and gets distributed to every circuit. A service upgrade or panel replacement is the residential version of the work Jesse spent years doing on hospitals, airports, and high-rises.
The difference is scale. The principles are the same: proper conductor sizing, correct terminations torqued to spec, grounding and bonding done right, code compliance verified by inspection. Jesse learned those principles on $10 million commercial projects. He applies them to your panel.
You can't buy that kind of experience. You have to earn it. Twenty-eight years of earning it is what walks through your door.
What We Install
We install Square D panels. Every job. Reliable arc-fault breakers with fewer nuisance trips. Solid construction that holds up over time. It's what we'd put in our own house.
We've used every major panel brand over the years. We install Square D because it's the one we trust.
Our Warranty
Parts: One year on all electrical parts, starting from the date of final inspection.
Workmanship: We stand behind our installation work. Full warranty terms.
The Person Behind the Work
The credentials prove Jesse can do the work. Want to know who's actually showing up at your house?
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