Experience

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  Gledhill Nursery, Inc.

  • Chairman

    • Jan 1976 - Present

    - General management and co-owner of the company- Landscape design, construction, and operations management- Repeatedly recognized through newspaper articles, magazines, television, "PM Magazine" TV series

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  Perino's Garden Center

  • Landscape Company Manager

    • 1967 - 1975

    - Manager of landscape department- Landscape design- Landscape construction- Landscape operations

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  Aurora Properties

  • Draftsman

    • 1965 - 1967

    - General drafting- Illustrations- Building permit filings- Swimming pool construction and sales

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  US Navy

  • U.S. Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, CA / Vietnam

  • Draftsman 2nd Class (DM2)

    • 1961 - Dec 1965
    • U.S. Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, CA / Vietnam

    - Active duty, 1964-65- Veteran, Vietnam War, 1965- Served aboard the USS Estes- Wrote, edited, & illustrated company newsletter- Shipboard assignments in Vietnam- Drafting- Base landscape operations, U.S. Naval Amphibious Base, Coronado, CA - Honorable Discharge, 1965

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  Eli Hedley's Island Trade Store

  • Huntington Beach, CA

  • Decorator, Construction Assistant

    • Jun 1962 - Nov 1965
    • Huntington Beach, CA

    Designed and constructed Polynesian-atmosphere projects, including hotels, restaurants, residences, and other projects.

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  Disneyland Resort

  • Anaheim, CA

  • Ride Operator

    • May 1959 - Jun 1962
    • Anaheim, CA

    - Drove guests, in an English canal boat replica, through fairy tale scenes in the "StorybrookLand" attraction, narrating the stories about each scene.- Drove guests and V.I.P.s, in a 1901 Oldsmobile replica, along "Main Street, USA," narrating the theme park attractions.