Meet Roger Mason

By Roger Mason

Roger Louis Mason was inspired by his granddaughter, Rachel, to found a mountain history museum group in 2015. Roger is a fourth generation Santa Cruz Mountain resident whose family settled in the Skyland community in the 1870’s.

Great grandparents on both sides of the family lived and farmed on Stetson Road. Roger grew up and worked on the family fruit farm, and he also worked in construction with his father. Roger graduated from San Jose State University with an Industrial Engineering degree and a Business minor.

After college he worked at the GE Nuclear Division in San Jose as a mechanical designer, then managed the Fuel Design Unit until he left in 1988 to manage a design group at Syntex Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto. In 2002 Roche Pharmaceuticals acquired Syntex and Roger continued working as a construction project manager until he left in 2010 to manage his own construction company.

Currently Roger continues working as a general contractor, owns the Mason-Taylor Ranch an organic fruit farm and is involved with the Loma Prieta Museum.