We Are Your Serene, Green, Auto Repair Team!
"I love Water Star Motors because they are really nice people, they extend themselves to be helpful, are knowledgeable and have high quality of service.")
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"I love Water Star Motors because they are really nice people, they extend themselves to be helpful, are knowledgeable and have high quality of service."
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Henry and Lisa have assembled a team of dedicated and loyal employees who love their work, and are constantly striving to improve their skills through continuing professional education. Be sure to check out the many framed ASE Certification awards hung on the wall in our customer lobby the next time you're in.
Henry is a natural-born mechanic - he started working on Mercedes-Benzes when he was fourteen. His professional experience with Mercedes dates back to 1979, when he started his career by working for a Mercedes dealership in Colorado Springs.
He is a Master Technician for Mercedes & Nissan, and is an ASE Master Technician and Advanced Level One Specialist. Henry's extensive and varied work experience has touched on nearly every foreign model and make - if you have a foreign car, Water Star Motors can fix it! Bring it to Your Serene, Green Auto Repair Team!
Henry is an avid recycler and promoter of sustainable living. Henry also enjoys the culinary arts, fine wine, meditating and travel.
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Wife of Henry and co-creator of Water Star Motors with high integrity and environmentally consciousness.
Does being a ballet major pay-off? Yes! Lisa's experience as a ballet dancer lends grace to what ever she does. Initially, Lisa got her hands dirty under the hood assisting Henry directly with car maintenance. However, now the business has grown to the point where Lisa and Henry have a team of highly trained technicians and service advisors to assist them, enabling Lisa to focus on issues behind the scenes, including directing Water Star Motors' marketing efforts (such as the creation of this web site) and managing the business' finances.
Says Lisa: "It is so good to work with such a great team of hard workers. They are my serene, green, auto repair team."
Lisa is an advocate for sustainable living (let's save our planet one person at a time). She is a great listener, organizer and get-it-done kind of gal. Lisa not only loves to meditate, but she teaches meditation classes.
Service Advisor and part of Water Star Motors' Serene, Green, Auto Repair Team.
Scott joined the Water Star Motors team in the summer of 2005 as a service advisor. Patience, caring and good listening are skills Scott brings with him. He genuinely cares about people and loves teaching them about their cars. Scott has a preventive maintenance philosophy: "Spend a little now on maintenance or a lot later."
Scott's experience in the automotive field includes 12 years as a smog technician in southern California. He has managed various full service shops. After moving to Santa Cruz Scott became a service writer at Sears and soon became the auto center manager.
"Joining the team at Water Star Motors has been refreshing", Scott says, "It is good to be back in an independent auto repair shop. Water Star Motors is a great shop that does excellent work with integrity."
Outside of work Scott enjoys fishing, golfing and keeping sharp with sudoku.
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Technician that Water Star Motors scooped-up in late 2001.
Tim obtained his professional training through the Universal Technical Institute (UTI). He is our resident bit of sunshine, nothing gets him down.
Tim has a natural aptitude for all things mechanical. When he is not at work, you can often find him working on his latest project: building a BSA motorcycle from scratch!
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Technician and part of Water Star Motors' Serene, Green, Auto Repair Team.
Anthony is the newest addition to our team and we are very lucky to have him. This is a man who taught himself Italian so that he could get training and experience at I.P.S.I.A. Ferrari in Maranello, Italy.
Anthony has 20 years professional experience in auto mechanics. He really understands how your car operates. For six years he worked at a Mercedes, BMW, VW and Porsche shop in San Francisco.
He has been heard to say, "I willingly worked many very long days content to be following my dream vocation – repairing cars."
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Special Interests: Restoring, rebuilding and upgrading vintage sports cars. Vintage race enthusiast. Scuba diving and rescue diving as well as snow and water skiing.
Technician, Service Advisor and part of Water Star Motors' Serene, Green, Auto Repair Team.
Dan is the owners’ youngest son and has been working at Water Star Motors since the inception in 1993. Initially he helped after school and then became a full-time employee. Over the years he has been to a number of automotive repair classes.
Dan, like Henry, is a natural born mechanic. He has shown and expressed interest in taking over the family business one day. To help facilitate this he was sent to a week-long service advisor training in Glendale, CA.
Dan is a hard worker and loves keeping inventory up-to date, handling the phones, working on cars, raising his Argentine mastiff (dogo) dog, Mica and transporting our wonderful customers to their homes or places of business.
Technician
Shawn may be our youngest member of our team, but he is an excellent worker.
When asked, "What do you like about working on cars?" He replied, "I just do! I like the challenge each car presents. As I meet each challenge and solve the problems, I get a sense of satisfaction."
Shawn likes working at Water Star Motors because they are honest because of the excellent work environment and the high level of integrity displayed by the company. He helps to keep our shop clean and our customer cars quality controlled.
When not working on cars his hobbies include working on cars, riding dirt bikes and quads,
as well as honing his marksmanship skills.
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Technician, Smog Technician and part of Water Star Motors' Serene, Green, Auto Repair Team.
Harold has been working on cars professionally since 1976. He joined Water Star Motors in May of 2006. When asked, "What do you like about working on cars?" He replied, "I like understanding and applying the new technologies that are used on motor vehicles." We can hardly keep him out of class.
Harold has recently become a Minister of the Universal Life Church. He also enjoys skiing and riding motorcycles.
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Of course, we would be non-existent without you, our customer.
Our customers are the reason we come to work every day. Our goal is your satisfaction and safety of your precious vehicle. We like how you refer us to your friends and family. Thank you!