Daved Kuns

CEO/Owner at Prostar Industries, LLC

Location: Visalia, California Area
Industry: Apparel & Fashion

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Daved Kuns's Overview

Current

CEO/Owner at Prostar Industries, LLC
Special Projects Director - COO at Gale Kuns Ministries, Inc. - The Grace Homes

Past

Owner at Rocket Merchandise
Owner at Tour Issue Golf
Owner at GigaFrag.net

Director of Technology at Exeter Public Schools
Partner at Pacific ISP

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Life should be fun... live everyday to get the most you can from it.

Most of my experience comes from a variety of different markets.

From the IT field to computer gaming and web design to apparel design and clothing lines I truly enjoy starting up ventures to watch them grow.

I love networking with people on a variety of projects...

Specialties

IT, network design, application design, website structure and design, non-profit management, grant writing, project management, screen printing applications, merchandise solutions, apparel design, business model design, venture acquisition, work-flow efficiency, business consulting, marketing plan development and implementation, and more blah blah blah --- just ask me! I love to talk.

CEO/Owner

Prostar Industries, LLC

Apparel & Fashion industry

April 2008 – Present (4 years 3 months) Visalia, California Area

Prostar Industries is contract screen printing and custom merch company based in Visalia CA.

In 2008, in addition to servicing our local community and business needs, ProStar Industries has been providing the same great service and printing to our contract customers!

We offer great printing, reliable service and competitive pricing to enable the brokers and design houses to deliver a superb and reasonably priced product on time every time.

Our state of the art equipment can deliver thousands of shirts daily and there is no job too big or too small.

Prostar Industries has now moved to a contract basis only - serving print brokers, large corporations and online design houses.

Our facility has grown by 500% in 2011, stay with us for some exciting times!

Prostar Industries also serves as a vocational training facility for at-risk teens. We train and supervise teens, helping to develop responsible attitudes. The teens earn community service credit by helping inventory incoming and outgoing orders.

Prostar Industries, LLC is the parent company to pretty much all of my ventures and starts. The umbrella corp for everything we do...

Special Projects Director - COO

Gale Kuns Ministries, Inc. - The Grace Homes

January 1986 – Present (26 years 6 months) Visalia, California Area

Serves as Chief Operating Officer of the agency: manages all aspects of the agency including its activities and the relationships between the agency and its Board of Directors, guests, employees, community, government and industry.

Coordinates and administers the agency’s policies. Helps to develops operating policies and procedures and monitors the work of all department managers.

Implements and monitors the budget, monitors the quality of the agency’s products and services and ensures maximum efficiency.

Secures and protects the agency’s assets, including facilities and equipment.

Owner

Rocket Merchandise

2008 – 2011 (3 years) Visalia, California Area

Fact #1: Everybody wears T-shirts.

Fact #2: Bands typically make more money selling merch than they do CDs.

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RocketMerch is a full-service merch screen printing company who specializes in creating unique branding products and advertising specialty specifically for the music and entertainment industry.

We specialize in high volume and contract screen-printing.

RocketMerch can be a complete merchandising solution for you; handling everything from manufacturing and warehousing to online sales and fulfillment.

We are an energetic cutting edge company with a commitment to excellent products and services.

Because our background is rooted in the music and gaming industries, we have an uncanny knowledge of business promotions and how to create and/or provide successful merch solutions for all your concepts.

Our orders range from 50 to 100,000 pieces or more.

This company was merged with Prostar Industries, LLC in 2011 to consolidate services.

Owner

Tour Issue Golf

2008 – February 2011 (3 years)

TourIssue Golf is an exciting new line of golf apparel and accessories designed for the fashion conscious golfer.

Break from the mold - be tour issued...

Owner

GigaFrag.net

2000 – 2008 (8 years) Visalia, California Area

only the best and largest on LAN computer video gaming events ever on the west coast.

Gigafrag events were attended from all across the US.

Our events attracted professional cyber-athletes and their teams to come and compete in our LAN events.

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Director of Technology

Exeter Public Schools

1996 – 1999 (3 years) Exeter, CA

Oversaw all areas of technology for both High School and Elementary districts.

Network Administrator - Support LAN/WAN between entire district and each site location. Reported to district business manager and superintendent of schools directly.

Plan, purchase, install and manage all routers/switches/file servers/e-mail servers/print servers/SQL servers/firewall in a mixed NetWare/Microsoft environment.

Developed and manage school site technicians and trouble ticket system.

Partner

Pacific ISP

1995 – 1999 (4 years)

locally partnered ISP, offering web hosting, e-commerce applications and web design. more

met some great friends and ate a ton of pizza late at night. good times.

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golf, motocross, golf, clothing design, golf, eating healthy, golf, computer and console gaming, golf, investing and stock market, creating opportunity... did I mention golf?

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