Saturday, March 29, 2014

After semper fi: Thomas Anthony Zampetti’s post-Marine career

Having served in the U.S. Marine Corps until 1970, Thomas Anthony Zampetti embarked on a range of successful career moves. Not long after his retirement from the Marines, Zampetti took up accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, finishing in 1974.

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He would later set off on a career in law enforcement, serving as a New Jersey state trooper fighting organized crime and narcotics trafficking. He would later use his experience in police work to become a licensed private detective. For a time, he worked closely with a high profile attorney, focusing mainly on criminal investigation, before starting an agency on his own, which he would later name TAZ Detective Agency. His time as a detective was shared with his day job, managing a sandblasting company, American Sand Blasting.

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His venture into the sandblasting industry was marked by a pioneering streak in the way sandblasting was applied in restoration, cleaning, and artisan crafts. His company invented the very first portable sand blasters, and was among the first sandblasting companies to be allowed to sandblast inside buildings, paving the way for its foray into designing glass windows for residential and commercial structures.

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His company was also renowned for its work in restoration, which focused on historical and commercial projects. Among the most lauded works the company performed was in removing graffiti from school walls.

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