PHTA Certified CPO Instructor since 2017. 14 years in the swimming pool industry. Still on pool decks every week.
Samuel Holmes has been in the swimming pool industry since 2012 and a PHTA Certified CPO Instructor since 2017. He built and sold two pool service and remodel companies from scratch, most recently The Aqua Academy in Bend, Oregon, a warehouse operation with a fleet of service trucks and a full technician team, which he sold in May 2024. Read the reviews, a good chunk of them mention him by name.
Today he runs CPO PRO out of Las Vegas, consulting with commercial facility managers on staff training and operations, and walking homeowners through remodels and new builds from a maintenance-forward perspective, the kind of guidance that saves people from inheriting a pool they cannot reasonably operate.
Most CPO classes are taught by people who have not run a pool in a decade. Samuel is still on pool decks every week, diagnosing equipment, running chemistry, fixing what the last person did wrong. He teaches the PHTA CPO course across the United States and to English-speaking facilities internationally, and when he teaches on-site, he makes it personal: he walks your actual pool with your actual staff, so the certification transfers to how your team operates on Monday morning.