Personal Achievements:

• 1986 Private Pilot's licenses

• 1987 PADI Scuba Diving certification

• 1988 Awarded two U.S. patents on boring tools and sold licensing rights of several others

• 2003 Appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry as Commissioner to the Texas Residential Construction Commission

• 2003 Appointed by the Texas Supreme Court to the State Bar Board of Directors (public member)

• 2005 Nominated by the Van Zandt Co. Commissioner's Court to fill the unexpired term of a resigning County Judge. (Mickey was unable to accept the appointment as it would have created a conflict of interest due to him serving as a board member on The Texas State Bar Board of Directors).

• 2016 Inducted into the Sons Of The American Revolution (SAR)
  The SAR is a very prestigious national organization of more than 33,000 members that requires applicants to prove documented blood lineage back to a patriot that fought in the American Revolution. “John Morton”; Was Mickey Redwine’s great grandfather to the 5th power, he was a Captain on the Virginia Continental Line; Attached to the 4th Regiment, Prince Edward Co., VA Militia.

• 2017 Nominated and appointed to the Board Of Directors of The Texas Pediatric Society Foundation (TPSF)
  The Texas Pediatric Society has over 3,500 Texas Pediatricians and 200 medical students as members.

• 2017 Featured in the CNBC’s season premier of Blue Collar Millionaires
  See the 2017 Mickey Redwine season premier episode via the above YouTube link on the header of this web page.

• 2017 Completed final construction of his 76 acre private resort "Red Red Wine" aka "Cala Zarca" on the North shore of Lake Travis
  The resort is for the private use by family and friends only. See the "Cala Zarca Resort" website and Face Book page via the above YouTube and Face Book links on the header of this web page.

• 2018 Mickey wrote the lyrics to a song titled "Ice Blue Eyes" that was premiered at the San Antonio, TX Livestock Show and Rodeo by The Bill Ayers Band. The song was featured on their new album and is available on iTunes.

• 2018 Started a new company called "Red Red Wine Productions LLC", this company will produce Law Enforcement related TV programs and documentaries.

• 2021 Mickey was inducted into the Air Force’s Combat Control Team (CCT) as an Honorary Member; being one of only two persons to ever be bestowed with that special honor. The CCT calls in air strikes for all other Special Forces teams when their mission calls for it. They were established in 1953 and are the deadliest, most uniquely trained and most clandestine Special Forces Operators in the history of U.S. warfare. They are scarcely known about because most of their missions have been top secret. They will tell you “There’s no reason to thank us, because we don’t exist. You never saw us, this never happened”. Their training has (5) levels and takes twice as long to complete as that of a Navy SEAL or Delta Force Operator etc. In one typical class, only (7) out of (130) candidates graduated. The CCT’s are truly the elite and best trained of all of the Special Forces Operators. Typically, (1) CCT operator is assigned to other Special Forces groups missions that require air strikes by the U.S. Air Force.

Current and Past Affiliate Organizations:

Life member and annual sponsor of the N.R.A., Lake Travis Power Boat Association (for the benefit of "The Sunshine Kids"), U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Gulf Coast Trenchless Assoc., Associated General Contractors of America, Congressional Cabinet Member for Congressman Jeb Hensarling, Member of the Chairman's Circle for Congressman Jeb Hensarling, Party Delegate District (2) 2004, Honorary Regional Chairman during the 2000 Presidential Election Year, Recipient of Medal of Honor by the Republican Presidential Committee, Member of President's Club and the Branden Carrell Society at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (since 1999), Green Acres Baptist Church, Leadership Donor award from the Boy Scouts of America, Two time Grand Jury Commissioner (Van Zandt County).

Misc. Charities:

• Scottish Rite Hospital for Children

• Boy Scouts of America

• Sunshine Kids

• Jireh Orphenage, Uganda

• Van Zandt County Children's Advocacy Center

• Tyler Children's Advocacy Center

• Blue Santa: Lago Vista, TX

• Young Life

• Patriot Academy (Young Republicans Club)

• Williamson Chapel, CME

• Life Choices (started by the mother of a victim in the Columbine High School incident)

• Various local Texas school groups... Grace Community, Martins Mills, Brownsboro

• Donor to P.E.P. ,Prison Entrepreneurship Program (served as a judge and mentor on a panel that picked soon to be released prisoners to participate in a program where successful businessmen mentor and help prisoners to create business plans and then offer advice and financial help to initiate and monitor their business plan).

• "Women That Soar" sponsor (recognizes and awards women that soar in both professional and charitable organizations). The first lady of Texas, Anita Perry, was awarded this very prestigious award in 2007 after being nominated by Mickey.

• Free Market Foundation (Christian advocates of religious freedom in schools, business, and government)

• Torch of Freedom Foundation

• Texas Pediatric Society Foundation (TPSF)

• Brotherhood Of The Fallen. This is a National organization that financially helps the families of police officers that were murdered in the line of duty.

• In 2021 Mickey sponsored and hosted the first fund raiser for the Combat Control Foundation, a 501(C3). The foundation was formed by retired Combat Control Team (CCT) members (see their BIO above under Personal Achievements). They do much to help their own and the operators families who are in need of grief counseling, housing and housing repair, funeral and memorial services and much more.

Mickey Redwine’s perspective on "Luck" and his "Five Golden Rules" to live by for both your personal and business life:

“Creating Your Own Luck”

By Mickey Redwine

I think that it is important to first understand what luck actually is before you believe in it and subject yourself to its consequences. The definition of luck as it is defined by Dictionary.com is “a combination of circumstances, events, etc. that brings good or ill to a person.”

If you believe in and wait for good luck to happen as defined above, then you are substantially leaving the outcome of your life and career to chance. Continual bad luck, on the other hand, is much more likely of an outcome because you are not intentionally influencing your circumstances. Based on my personal observations; I believe that when you have good luck, it is due to both happenstance and your own positive input.

Whether your positive input is intentional or unintentional, the end result is the same. The positive input working in tandem with happenstance increases the "odds" of good luck.

Instead of creating “luck,” I make a point of creating a future for myself that is destined to be positive. I do this by continually interjecting positive and absolute conditions that are within my control into every aspect of my life.

When you stop creating planned and structured positive outcomes for your future, by default your life is subject to happenstance or so called “luck.”

The "luck” experience that I will share with you was not “luck” at all as many of my competitors prefer to call it. It was a set of circumstances that I spent many years putting into place that was conducive and favorable to my specific goals for my three Telecommunication Companies. This “luck” experience involved an eighteen-million-dollar project that I negotiated. This happened to be the largest single contract that I performed in my career, and was by the way, negotiated and not competitively bid.

In the late 90's I received a call from a large Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) that I had never worked for before. The project entailed building a long-haul underground high duct count Telecommunications system through the cities, suburbs and swamps of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

The project was very large in scope, extremely difficult terrain and came with a very stringent completion date. It entailed placing multiple conduits in a single trench between the cities mentioned above and involved directional boring under numerous rivers that exceeded thousands of feet in length. A few of the bores required boring in excess of a mile. Many of the projects job sites were accessible only by helicopter, boat, air boat or swamp buggy.

The vast experience that I had in underground construction from previously living and working in the New Orleans area for eight years played a key role in my getting the call. Equally important was the reputation that my company had forged in the industry.

The CLEC who called me did extensive due diligence in the areas where the construction was going to take place. I was told by their procurement department that my company’s name kept coming up as the “go to contractor”.

The three premises on which I have built my companies are:

1. To be the best contractor in my field and to be a turnkey solution for the customer.
2. To have the best reputation for quality and follow-thru. with impeccable customer service.
3. Honesty, Integrity and taking care of my employees.

If you consider that to be random luck, then so be it. I call it “Creating Your Own Luck” by setting up and positively influencing your own stage of circumstances and events for success.

The bottom line is… Luck is not a matter of your destiny, its determined by your choices and therefore the residue of preparation. Perpetual good luck is rarely a thing of fate, but rather a return on effort!

My largest customer would call upon my company many times when there had been a fiber optic cable cut. Often, thousands of their customers were left without service and there was not time for them to competitively bid the project out. We would do the work and negotiate the price later; That relationship was based on trust, quality and reliability.

There were also two very large Telecommunication projects throughout Mexico that my company undertook for two different organizations. The projects were each worth millions of dollars in value and were also negotiated contracts.

The above scenarios describe in detail what I mean by “Creating Your Own Luck". Create your business to be what your customers want, need and expect; Then exceed their expectations, and always give them Lagniappe. Lagniappe is a term that I garnered the meaning of and how to apply it when I lived in New Orleans. It means to give the customer something extra!

Do these things diligently, show gratitude, be thankful and appreciative and you will have “Created Your Own Luck.” In other words, you will have designed and put into place circumstances that are conducive and favorable to your own specific goals. Once you have done that you are destined to succeed. Recognize the opportunities that you have set in motion and seize them with a passion.

“Five Golden Rules”

By Mickey Redwine

Advice that is either read by or given to a person verbally is not always heeded; Many people have to “Live It - To Learn It” like I did. For true success in both your personal and business life; Consider the Five Golden Rules that I learned over the years through many of life’s experiences, trials and tribulations.

1. Be self-motivated and a hard pushing perfectionist in both your business and in your personal life.
2. Expect your employees to perform at their full capacity and lead them by example. Many times, our job duties were dangerous and dirty. I never required my employees to do a task that I hadn't done myself.
3. Aways treat your employees with dignity and respect and pay them well for their hard work and loyalty.
4. In addition to being successful in business; be successful in parenthood. Find a work / home life balance. One too many times; I told my 16-year-old Daughter... "I can't honey, I'm snowed under". Then one day she said; "Dad, can I write your epitaph?” I said sure honey, what will it say? She said; “It will say, Snowed Under; For Good This Time". That hit hard!
5. Recognize both your personal and business strengths and your weaknesses. Your strengths are conspicuous and bold. It is your weaknesses that you must flush out and face head on. By doing so, only then will you be able to conquer and expel them in your quest for excellence, success and happiness.