Trang came to the United States from Vietnam at fifteen, sponsored by a Sacramento church. As the family — her parents, both teachers in Vietnam, and her two younger sisters — worked to learn English, adjust to a new culture, and earn their degrees, Trang worked alongside her parents to help support the household and build the family's foundation in their new country. That early experience of contributing to something larger than herself still shapes how she approaches every project today.
She picked civil engineering after seeing a campus pamphlet that described the field as a way to build the things communities actually need — water, sewer, housing. Three decades later, that mission has grown to include the digital infrastructure communities increasingly depend on — but the through-line is the same: get the right things planned, approved, and built.
What sets TNT apart is something most consultants can't claim: real, deep experience on both sides of the table. Trang has worked as a county engineer at the Sacramento landfill, an Acting Town Engineer in Los Gatos, a project manager at HMH, a community development manager at Shea, a division director at Pulte, and a division VP at Richmond American — before founding TNT.
That public-and-private path is the reason agencies pick up the phone, and why builders trust her to call balls and strikes honestly. Many of the people she works with today, she's known for more than 30 years. In land development and large-infrastructure work, that's not a footnote — it's the whole game.
Today, the same regulatory paths, utility coordination, and agency relationships that delivered residential master plans across Northern California are being applied to a new generation of work — including TNT's current engagement on a 99 MW off-grid data center campus in San Jose. The verticals are different; the discipline is the same.
