Objective
Contribute my upscale team building, sales, marketing and management skills towards the success and growth of your organization.
I love developing businesses and mentoring employees and developing customer driven, “whatever it takes attitudes” while meeting and exceeding the customers' needs. This previous culture produced a 256th ranking on the “Inc. 500” list for the fastest growing, privately held businesses in the USA.
I have always loved Boating and the Marine Industry and hope you have an opening for me.
Experience
2004 - Current BadLands Entertainment Complex - 605 N. Williams St. (M-33), Rose City, MI 48654
www.badlandsentertainmentcomplex.com
General Manager
*Owner and operator of an “Up-North” Michigan “ATV, Quad & Snowmobiling” resort consisting of Lodging, a Restaurant, Automated Bowling Center & Night Club/Banquet Hall/Special Events Center
*Manage Lodging operations - booking, housekeeping, maintenance and marketing
*Management over a “full menu” restaurant providing breakfast through “high-end” dinner & on/off site banquet catering
*Maintain competitive automated bowling pin-setter/scoring systems & lane conditions
* Bowling, Dart & Pool League development & management
* Night Club entertainment & “special events” planner, promoter & coordination
*Computer Network, Software & Database Administrator - (2) networks with (8) computers & all peripheral equipment
*Web site development/maintenance and media marketing for entire (4) business “Entertainment Complex”
1987-2003 Questron Corporation – Auburn Hills, MI
Executive V.P. / Sales & Marketing / Project Manager / Engineer
*Start-up of a “highly successful business” which placed 246th (nationally) on the INC-500 list for privately held business growth over a five year period
*Sold, Project Managed and implemented advanced custom PLC/Computer based automation control design, build and troubleshooting for systems encompassing factory automation, R&D, Robotics, information & networking system solutions
*Designed, achieved & maintained ISO/QS-9000 system certification of the business by Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
*Featured in "Corporate Detroit" magazine highlighting the Company’s success (article reprint available)
*Responsible for $7M annual sales with 90+ employees
*Sold business interests to partner and purchased an “Entertainment Complex” business in Northern Michigan
6/85-2/87 Awesome Concepts, Inc. - Lake Orion, MI
Consultant
Self employed consultant and systems designer to the “Original Equipment Manufacturing” community. Applications varied widely and included R&D prototype systems for many new high technology production / information and scientific processes.
2/81-5/85 Logitek, Inc. - Troy, MI
Designer and Project Manager. Worked on projects in the fields of:
*Multi-axes servo systems
*ASCII and report generation
*Special technical applications
*Gauge and tooling design and build
Promoted to Chief Engineer in charge of all time and material projects including responsibilities for all quoted and special applications projects.
Education
Lamphere High School, Madison Heights, MI
Courses – Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Architecture, Data Processing, Mathematics
Ferris State University, Electrical Engineering (did not complete due to fast growth job I had)
Certification
ISO 9000 Lead Auditor
Society of Automotive Engineers
Engineering Society of Detroit
ASQC Member
Freemason Lodge #386 West Branch
Rose City / Lupton Chamber of Commerce
Ogemaw Hills Bike Week Committee
Commodore - Lake Orion Boat Club
Detroit Yacht Club Member
Harley Owners Group Member
Skils
Highly experienced in Sales & Marketing to large corporations, Quality Control Systems (certified ISO/QS-9000 Lead Auditor), Engineering, Estimating, Staffing and Large-scale Project Management; including Automotive Body Shop installation & logistics management.
Strong knowledge of Controls Applications for a “very wide variety” of SIC’s (HVAC, R&D and traditional) utilizing integration & information systems such as:
*IBM based & Microsoft Networking products and server technologies
*Skilled with “Microsoft Office” products including – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Access, Etc., Visio & AutoCad
*Rockwell Automation (Allen Bradley), Honeywell, Mitsubishi, G&L, Modicon & Square “D” PLC’s
*Rockwell (A-B), Honeywell, Indramat, Emerson & G.E. Servos/VFDS
*Custom electrical control designs & programming for information systems and automated production lines
I have owned and captained a cabin cruiser all over most of the Great Lakes and always been around water and boating. It is my desire to find a job where I can be around and involved with these elements.