{"id":1354,"date":"2022-12-30T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/?post_type=our-team&#038;p=1354"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:21:14","slug":"steve-west","status":"publish","type":"our-team","link":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/our-team\/steve-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Lexington area with my wife and two pet dogs, Mia and Milo. Prior to becoming a CertaPro Painters\u00ae franchisee, I worked at Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown where I learned the importance of systems and customer satisfaction. After leaving Toyota, with a passion for systems and helping others, I became a Lean Manufacturing Consultant helping companies such as Ford, GM, Delphi, ZF Industries, American Greetings and other companies improve their processes.<\/p>\n<p>When not supporting CertaPro Painters\u00ae of Lexington\u2019s customers and staff, my family and I enjoy spending time at the beach, attending local sporting events and supporting our local church family.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been blessed to put together a team of professional painters that are passionate about their work and take great pride in each job while exceeding our customer\u2019s expectations. Our goal at CertaPro Painters\u00ae of Louisville-East is to provide our customers with an extraordinary experience from beginning to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Lexington area with my wife and two pet dogs, Mia and Milo. Prior to becoming a CertaPro Painters\u00ae franchisee, I worked at Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown where I learned the importance of systems and customer satisfaction. After leaving Toyota, with a passion for systems and helping others, I became a<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/our-team\/steve-west\/\">Read the full article <em class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1,"menu_order":2,"template":"","categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","our-team","type-our-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-team"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-team\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our-team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our-team\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/certapro.com\/louisville-east\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}