General Manager at Tru Mark Athletic Field Marker
Sioux City, Iowa Area
General Manager at Tru Mark Athletic Field Marker
Sioux City, Iowa Area
Small business entrepreneur using web technology to market our product lines. Investor in startup businesses (Green Planet Farms, organic soy isolate producer, Husker Ag, ethanol producer) as well as promoter of community and economic development. Helping our community to prepare for the future through teaching transformational learning skills developed by Rick Smyre, President of the Communities of the Future, http://www.communitiesofthefuture.org.
Making connections inside and outside the community, marketing on the web, new product development, desktop and network operations.
(Sporting Goods industry)
2005 — Present (4 years)
(Sporting Goods industry)
May 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)
Small business owner manufacturing and distributing athletic field marking equipment and supplies. Also General Manager of http://www.WaterTightCase.com which is a online retailer of OtterBox Products.
(Sporting Goods industry)
May 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)
(Sporting Goods industry)
2002 — 2008 (6 years)
(Computer & Network Security industry)
September 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 9 months)
Installed and maintained networks, PCs and servers in small business client operations
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
October 1978 — August 2000 (21 years 11 months)
Multitude roles in advancing leadership positions, beginning as computer programmer, acquisition project officer, branch and division chief, commander twice, staff positions at unified command and HQ USAF.
(Farming industry)
January 1967 — February 1974 (7 years 2 months)
Livestock and row crop operations to include center pivot irrigation.
MS , Systems Management , 1982 — 1984
BS , Engineering, Computer Science , 1975 — 1978
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Computer Science and Engineering Alumni
Secondary , College Prep , 1969 — 1972
Exercising, outdoors activities, jogging, riding a bike, coach youth baseball, reading nonfiction, biography, and leadership books