About
Tenzo Labs is operated by Tim Chopoorian—a builder, business owner, and perpetual student who has spent thirty-plus years starting and running companies across manufacturing, construction, and technology. He prefers building things to talking about them.
Tim holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Southern Methodist University. He has been designing relational databases since R:BASE in the 1980s, building with Ruby on Rails since 2008, and running businesses since founding his first company halfway through college in 1986.
His perspective on quality and operations was shaped by early exposure to W. Edwards Deming’s work and years of implementing statistical process control in real businesses—the kind of lessons that stick with you whether you want them to or not.
Professional History
Originally a technology consulting practice, now the holding company for a portfolio of software ventures built with Ruby on Rails and AI capabilities.
Current focus: designing, building, and operating purpose-built applications for small businesses. Leveraging large language models to work at a pace that was previously impossible for a solo developer.
Active ventures include Tenzo Books (SMB accounting), Tenzo Studios (photo commerce), and Snug Harbor Logistics (IoT monitoring).
Provided maintenance, renovation, and construction services to the multifamily residential real estate market. Clients were property management companies with large portfolios of apartment complexes.
Completed over $23 million in projects across more than a dozen states over ten years. Typical work included roofing, siding, painting, concrete, carpentry, HVAC, and interior renovation.
Founded in college. Grew into a manufacturing company known for quality four-color process screen printing on textiles, providing contract services to marketing firms, ad agencies, and corporations throughout the southwest.
15 employees produced and shipped over 500,000 imprinted garments per year for companies including American Airlines, HBO, Starbucks, World Wildlife Fund, Exxon, and Texas Instruments.
An emphasis on continuous process improvement and automation of production, scheduling, and shipping yielded above-average efficiencies as measured by gross profit per employee within the industry.
Sold in 1998. The company continues to operate successfully.
Education
B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, Texas