Why was the 2025 Charles Keener Award awarded to Irvin Martinez, our Supervisor of Maintenance at 3221 Connecticut Avenue Apartments?

Because he displays an elevated level of respect, gratitude, and appreciation with our internal and external customers. Irvin consistently shows a warm, welcoming, and kind greeting for everyone he encounters. A superb human being, one of a kind in his Regional Manager’s opinion.

Recently, he experienced an issue with one of his colleagues, instead of making it a big deal negatively, he turned it into an opportunity to establish a greater connection with his team to build a better relationship based upon communication and trust.

A true champion! Despite adversity he keeps his composure, he is a poised professional.

Irvin supports four additional properties in addition to his three in D.C. during the rolling on-call schedule.

Recently, Irvin provided on-call support to all seven D.C. properties during office hours and after hours by himself. He never complained once. His only wish was to have better communication.

Irvin is trustworthy and can be relied upon to always do the right thing.

His spirit and easy-going personality make it so easy to work with and build a rapport with him. 

Every engineer designs a blueprint that is used to provide the details and specifications for every project. Irvin is our blueprint as he sets the standard high. Irvin pays homage to what the Charles E. Keener award recipient stands for. Someone that is authentic, selfless, humble, appreciative, supportive, kind, generous, trustworthy, dependable, and reliable.

Irvin, congratulations and thank you!

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