When I started at VANQUISH in October 2019, I didn’t know what a substation was.
I came from retail—selling shoes, clothes, and everything a girl could possibly want. I wasn’t an engineer. I wasn’t from the industry. I didn’t even know what those “telephone pole” things were called. All I had was a laptop, a folder full of fence photos, and a gut instinct that things could look better.
No roadmap. No manual. Just the willingness to figure it out.
And one job that changed everything.
Enter: Mallard Creek.
It was completed in 2020, just months after I joined the company.
I was still a “Sales Coordinator” back then—fresh-faced and scrappy, learning to Photoshop bird poop off gates and sweep concrete thresholds pixel by pixel. That was how I contributed: by cleaning up the story in the margins. Making our fences look the way they deserved to look.
But Mallard Creek didn’t need the magic.
The sky showed up blue.
The brush line looked like it had been landscaped for the shot.
The fence run was clean—butter, really.
And that V-Channel? Forget it. Showroom quality.
There’s one photo burned in my brain: a corner cover, perfectly angled from the ground, sunlight hitting the powder coat like it was lighting a stage.
I think Mallard was one of the first jobs where we laser-cut our name into the cover.
And in that moment, it felt like VANQUISH’s name was in lights.
I didn’t know the spec.
I didn’t know the scope.
I assumed it was built for animal protection—but that wasn’t what mattered to me.
What mattered was what it looked like.
What it felt like.
And how proud I was to be associated with something so precise, so quietly perfect, so VANQUISH.
Because this was the job where I fell in love.
Not with fencing in general—with our fences.
The kind that don’t need retouching.
The kind that don’t need a caption.
The kind that show up, hold their own, and say everything without explanation.
What Mallard Creek taught me:
That perfection doesn’t have to be loud.
That real pride shows up in the brush line.
In the gate alignment.
In the way the corner cover was cut—not just right, but on purpose.
This was the job that quietly redefined what VANQUISH was in my eyes.
And it set the standard for everything I’ve touched since.
Not because I built it.
But because it built me.
We’ve done plenty of beautiful installs since Mallard Creek.
But that one?
That one’s my first love.