Experience

The Vancouver Trolley Company/Westcoast Tours

• entertainer/coach driver

  • May 2016 - Present

  it's not a job, it's the most satisfying thing I have done in my career. .... and they pay me for it . It has been the icing on a very technically oriented sales and management career. There really isn't much I can't do. it's not a job, it's the most satisfying thing I have done in my career. .... and they pay me for it . It has been the icing on a very technically oriented sales and management career. There really isn't much I can't do.



Kodak graphic comunications

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing

• Remote support engineer

  • May 2006 - Apr 2009

  Taking advantage of more than 20 years of hands on field experience this positon provided rapid remote technical support from a centralized call centre. The transition from attending multiple locations daily while managing a territory to attending the same location every day was both difficult and exciting During the economic recession of 2008 I as one of the 4500 people that Kodak had to divest themselves of. I was offered an International position then but by the time the hiring process was complete the project died and the process ended. We parted on good terms. Show less



Power Trux transport

• operation manager for the Overwaitea/Save On contract

  • May 2004 - Apr 2006

  the engrained values of my many years as a territory manager in the graphics and reproduction world took me from the relaxing position of driver, for which I had applied for, to taking over the operation for the contract we nearly lost. I was recruited by Kodak at about the time we had earned the preferred contractor position and nearly tripled annual revenues. Having taken the Overwaitea contract to our best possible position , I felt satisfied and returned to the industry I had thrived in. I remain on good terms with the owner Rick Gagne Show less



Agfa Graphics Canada

• Product sales support specialist

  • 1999 - 2004

  I was responsible for supporting both press rooms and prepress rooms during one of the most dynamic and tumultuous technological times in the graphic reproduction industry. Advances begat advances and keeping pace was extremely challenging. At the end of my tenure I had become the 'go to guy' for our visible-light plate technologies and ancillary products. Western Canada became my responsibility for technical support. Agfa changed to a central support model out of California and some very talented people and myself where released with packages Show less



Anitec Image Technologies

• Technical Sales Support Representative

  • 1986 - 1997

  From tray film processing to the Leaf Digital Camera back. A new man alone in a new territory in a new profession in a new city, the challenges were significant. As Anitec acquired companies and merged technologies I had to grow my personal skill set from analogue prepress products, into the pressroom and its plate technologies and onward to the industry benchmark digital camera , scanning technologies and the Iris proofing technologies. I was hired as a contractual obligation to a large corporate account and grew the territory until I became the top sales earner per capita in Canada. In advance of Kodak acquiring Anitec I was restructured for the first time in my career. I couldn't comprehend that it wasn't personal. Show less