Roy Zaborowski

​Roy Zaborowski is a founding member of Blitz Home Builders and serves as President.  On our builds, Roy works as a general volunteer, team, or house leader.  He is also active on the Search and Planning teams and monitors the activities of all the groups to keep a consistent approach to our efforts.  Besides BHB projects, Roy has worked with his local Phoenix affiliate of Habitat for Humanity as a team leader and has worked with other Habitat projects. Altogether, he has built more than 30 homes.  Now retired, Roy has over 30 years of engineering experience as a hardware and systems engineer at Honeywell’s commercial aviation division where he lead new product development.  As part of his work, he was able to travel to England, France, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, and Uzbekistan.  Besides BHB, he is active with the Arizona Science Lab, an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers program to provide hands-on STEM workshops for 4th through 8th grade students.  In an average year, he works with over 1500 students.  He also manages the facilities for his church, implementing both short and long term projects to maintain and develop the campus.  Together with his wife Barbara, they have two children and two grand-daughters.  To relax, he enjoys movies, performing arts, and meeting and working with new friends.