One of Pompano Beach’s most effective evangelists came to his position in a circuitous way.
Nguyen Tran, the city’s community redevelopment agency director, left Vietnam as a child, about a week before the fall of Saigon in 1975. He and his extended family landed in northern Virginia through the good graces of an Alexandria family who sponsored them; the father of the sponsoring family was a reporter for the Washington Post.
After earning his degree in mechanical engineering from Old Dominion University, Tran relocated to South Florida, building his résumé by excelling at a series of jobs in development and project management, including for Lennar Homes and the city of Delray Beach. Tran has been in his role for more than four years. He discussed the future of Pompano with SFBW.
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