Getting to Know Me
Beginnings
The youngest of four kids, I was born in Boulder, Colorado to a college professor and the consummate “household management professional.” I credit my dad with instilling me with an innate sense of curiosity, and my mom with creating a great sense of family and home life.
Culture
My family moved around the country during my formative years – from Colorado to Kansas, then to Hawaii, back to Kansas, on to upstate New York, and finally to Minnesota – all before the age of 12. While enjoying settling down in Minnesota, I picked up a certain wanderlust from all this moving, and now I love to travel and visit other lands and cultures.
Life Experience
I married young, got a degree in Aerospace Engineering and had two great daughters, now grown. Kids of course, will give you life experiences that you never dreamed of when you were a kid yourself!
My main leisure time activity during my senior year of college was as an auto racing mechanic. After I graduated from college, I became a test engineer at one of the few high-speed wind tunnel laboratories in the world.
I followed my work in the aerospace industry with work on a technologically leading edge medical catheter that removed blood clots with the same principles of fluid mechanics used to drive the wind tunnels where I'd worked before.
Eventually I put my career expertise in project management into several years’ service in the information technology field. I gained not only expertise in the computer consulting industry, but also in the various industries of each of myclients.
Finally, I'm a self-taught fine jewelry designer and sales professional. Curiously enough, I find that jewelry design takes me right back to my engineering roots!
Business
I've coupled the richness of my life experience with a wide range of business experience. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering, I started work in one of the few high speed wind tunnel facilities in the world. There, I had a chance to work on commercial and military programs for clients on three continents.
After ten years in the aerospace & defense industry, I jumped to the medical device industry, again working on leading edge – some say bleeding edge – interventional technology used in saving lives.
Following several years managing catheter, pacemaker lead, and synthetic blood vessel R&D and manufacturing projects, I turned my business talents to the Information Technology consulting arena. Here, I put my skills to work in several different industries, managing projects for clients that included restaurants, banking, direct marketing, medical clinics, and county government.
During the later years of my career in industry, I discovered a dormant interest in business and entrepreneurship and founded companies in the sporting goods manufacturing and luxury goods retail sectors.
These latest entrepreneurial endeavors awoke my passion for marketing.
Well Rounded
I'm a well-rounded guy. I've been called a renaissance man by many of my associates. These days, I spend my spare time trout fishing in the local Wisconsin and Minnesota streams, and studying fine mechanical watches.
My wife Lisa and I love to travel, especially to Mexico and the Caribbean. European destinations are also on our short list of places to visit.
A common thread throughout all of my interests is a love of reading and writing. Being a pretty linear guy, when I get interested in something, the first thing I do is read everything I can find about it. Then I gets physically involved, trying various aspects of the activity. Ultimately I write about my experiences in the newsletters I edit and in the blogs I maintains.
I find myself endlessly curious. Research comes naturally to me. I feel like it fits me like a glove. Its what I’d be doing on my own anyway, to satisfy my diverse interests in trout fishing, modern and vintage mechanical watches, gemstones, photography, travel to foreign cultures, and the pursuit of the perfect beach.
Beginnings
The youngest of four kids, I was born in Boulder, Colorado to a college professor and the consummate “household management professional.” I credit my dad with instilling me with an innate sense of curiosity, and my mom with creating a great sense of family and home life.
Culture
My family moved around the country during my formative years – from Colorado to Kansas, then to Hawaii, back to Kansas, on to upstate New York, and finally to Minnesota – all before the age of 12. While enjoying settling down in Minnesota, I picked up a certain wanderlust from all this moving, and now I love to travel and visit other lands and cultures.
Life Experience
I married young, got a degree in Aerospace Engineering and had two great daughters, now grown. Kids of course, will give you life experiences that you never dreamed of when you were a kid yourself!
My main leisure time activity during my senior year of college was as an auto racing mechanic. After I graduated from college, I became a test engineer at one of the few high-speed wind tunnel laboratories in the world.
I followed my work in the aerospace industry with work on a technologically leading edge medical catheter that removed blood clots with the same principles of fluid mechanics used to drive the wind tunnels where I'd worked before.
Eventually I put my career expertise in project management into several years’ service in the information technology field. I gained not only expertise in the computer consulting industry, but also in the various industries of each of myclients.
Finally, I'm a self-taught fine jewelry designer and sales professional. Curiously enough, I find that jewelry design takes me right back to my engineering roots!
Business
I've coupled the richness of my life experience with a wide range of business experience. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering, I started work in one of the few high speed wind tunnel facilities in the world. There, I had a chance to work on commercial and military programs for clients on three continents.
After ten years in the aerospace & defense industry, I jumped to the medical device industry, again working on leading edge – some say bleeding edge – interventional technology used in saving lives.
Following several years managing catheter, pacemaker lead, and synthetic blood vessel R&D and manufacturing projects, I turned my business talents to the Information Technology consulting arena. Here, I put my skills to work in several different industries, managing projects for clients that included restaurants, banking, direct marketing, medical clinics, and county government.
During the later years of my career in industry, I discovered a dormant interest in business and entrepreneurship and founded companies in the sporting goods manufacturing and luxury goods retail sectors.
These latest entrepreneurial endeavors awoke my passion for marketing.
Well Rounded
I'm a well-rounded guy. I've been called a renaissance man by many of my associates. These days, I spend my spare time trout fishing in the local Wisconsin and Minnesota streams, and studying fine mechanical watches.
My wife Lisa and I love to travel, especially to Mexico and the Caribbean. European destinations are also on our short list of places to visit.
A common thread throughout all of my interests is a love of reading and writing. Being a pretty linear guy, when I get interested in something, the first thing I do is read everything I can find about it. Then I gets physically involved, trying various aspects of the activity. Ultimately I write about my experiences in the newsletters I edit and in the blogs I maintains.
I find myself endlessly curious. Research comes naturally to me. I feel like it fits me like a glove. Its what I’d be doing on my own anyway, to satisfy my diverse interests in trout fishing, modern and vintage mechanical watches, gemstones, photography, travel to foreign cultures, and the pursuit of the perfect beach.