Board of Directors & Officers

Charles “Chuck” Lundin grew up in University Park and Dallas TX, Graduated from UT Arlington and earned an MBA from the University of Dallas Graduate School of Management specializing in Management Information Systems. Chuck worked at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in systems and operations, Contractor for Collins Radio, and Texas Instruments in Corporate Systems. Chuck was a supervisor at Texas Instruments and completed a MBA. After graduation he started his own technical training and consulting business which he operated successfully for 12 years until 9/11/2001 when he began teaching Computer Sciences at Richland College and at Collin College.
Chuck was a Scout Master in Richardson TX for 20 years and attended adult training that included the completion of the Wood Badge leadership training. He was called back to serve in leadership training capacity with the program later and volunteered to conduct national leadership training for older scouts at Golden Acorn week-long training camps. Chuck served in leadership role in a church sponsored singles club and was elected to role of President in the 250 member organization. This is where he met his wife Liz.   After moving to Garland, he was elected to the School Board at Good Shepherd Catholic school and was also appointed to the Parish Finance Council.
Chuck volunteered and was elected a director for Firewheel Farms No. 2 in 2006 and has worked with three presidents (Karen Wydra, Russell Dickson, and Charlie Johnson). He served continuously until 2019 when he chose to step aside to make room for a new director (Lorraine Revelle was elected).  Chuck stepped up again to serve to complete the term of Steve Tharp following his resignation. During his time as director, Chuck worked with the Board of Directors to promote community events, establish collection policies, redesign the association’s website in 2007 (undergoing revision now by Lorraine Revelle), redesigned the association’s chart of accounts, guided the implementation of an online accounting service so that all directors and officers could conveniently see financial status, improved budgeting, encouraged association membership with the CAI (Community Association Institute -  a professional organization for home owners associations), implemented methods to collect assessment fees online to simplify the annual process, helped guide establishment of Officers different from Directors, helped develop proposals for improving the association’s CCRs, and oversaw submission of required financial and organizational reports to the State of Texas and to the IRS.  
During his time with Firewheel, Chuck and Liz’s three kids graduated from Garland ISD and went on to college, then one to the Army as a Medic, and one to the Navy in Communications, and the youngest studying advanced programming after graduating in Computer Science with a minor in Math.  Chuck also volunteers with an international charitable organization known as St. Vincent de Paul to help needy and homeless people.
Chuck’s experience working with Firewheel led him to complete an Associate Degree in Real Estate at Collin College in 2020. He plans to take the Texas Real Estate exam this year.