Experience

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  Entertainment Concepts, Inc

  • President

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  Entertainment Concepts, Inc

  • Mount Prospect IL

  • President

    • Apr 1984 - Present
    • Mount Prospect IL

    Peter directs the firm's current operations which are dedicated to the family entertainment industry. His involvement in entertainment industry projects precedes the more than thirty nine years he has directed Entertainment Concepts, Inc. (formerly Peter F. Olesen and Associates, Inc.). His prior experience included concept development, feasibility studies, business plans and related work for a number of proposed theme park concepts, including Canada's Wonderland.ECI has performed more than 650 entertainment industry projects , including development of concept and master plans, feasibility studies, business plans, final design and preparation of construction plans and specifications for theme parks, indoor and outdoor family entertainment centers, go-kart tracks, miniature golf courses and related projects located in 46 states and numerous foreign countries.Recent FECs include LA Speedzone in California,, Frankies Fun Parks in NC and SC, Funtrackers in Corpus Christi TX, Helios Center in Danang Vietnam, Fort Frenzy in Fort Dodge IA, Zoomers Amusement Park in Fort Myers FL, Tree Top Family Adventure in Birmingham AL, Action City in Eau Claire WI, Lucky Jack's in Traverse City MI, Wonder Mountain in Bey ME, Adventure Park in Lubbock TX And C.J. Barrymore's in Hall Township MI.The firm also provided design and construction engineering services for more than 1100 civil engineering projects including major toll roads, interstate freeways, local roads and municipal projects. In addition the firm also served industrial, commercial and residential development clients in the development of concept plans, site evaluations, feasibility and traffic studies, business plans, municipal projects and stormwater management plans.

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  Peter F. Olesen and Associates, Inc.

  • Mount Prospect, Illinois

  • President

    • Apr 1984 - Sep 2009
    • Mount Prospect, Illinois

    Responsible for all design and administrative operations of the firm, plus marketing and seminar presentations. See the description above under Entertainment Concepts, Inc.

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  Ciorba, Group, Inc.

  • Schaumburg, Illinois

  • Executive Vice President

    • Oct 1972 - Mar 1984
    • Schaumburg, Illinois

    Directed engineering and marketing operations for home office and satellite offices in Arizona, Florida and Ohio. Projects included design of Interstate highways, toll roads, primary highways and streets, traffic engineering, municipal projects, private industry clients and theme parks in US and Canada. Directed construction engineering services on the reconstruction of Edens Expressway under traffic and many toll road and IDOT widening and resurfacing projects.

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  Knoerle Bender Stone & Associates, Inc.

  • Chicago, Illinois

  • Chief Transportation Engineer

    • Jan 1963 - Oct 1972
    • Chicago, Illinois

    Responsible for all highway design operations for Chicago office of national civil engineering firm. Projects included directing the design of The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority's 69 mile East-West Tollway from Aurora to Rock Island (I-88), Peoria -Kansas City Toll Road Feasibility Study, numerous interchanges between ISTHA and IDOT Interstate and State marked routes, numerous toll plaza designs and various toll road widening projects. Developed interstate and state highway projects in Illinois and Iowa. Worked on Toll road projects in Kansa and Louisiana.