Experience

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  Decorated Apparel Expo, Inc

  • President

    • 1997 - Present

    The Decorated Apparel Expo is a trade show for screen printers, embroiderers, Direct-to-garment printers and other apparel decorating professionals.

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  SMR Software, Inc

  • Grand Rapids, MN

  • President

    • 1989 - Present
    • Grand Rapids, MN

    SMR Software evolved from the proprietary business management software I had written to run Northwind's day-to-day operations and a 1989 article for Stitches Magazine I was writing on embroidery pricing. When a primitive spreadsheet proved unable to handle the math operations of pricing multi...

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  Northwind Screen Printing & Embroidery

  • Grand Rapids, MN

  • Owner

    • 1983 - 1998
    • Grand Rapids, MN

    Northwind - and it's original retail store: 'The Shirt Affair'​ was a chain of screen printing and embroidery shops in Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Shirt Affair boasted the first computerized embroidery machine in Northern Minnesota in 1985 and by the Mid-1990's the North...

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  WEBC- A.M. 560

  • Duluth, Minnesota Area

  • Transmitter Engineer / Broadcast talent

    • 1977 - 1979
    • Duluth, Minnesota Area

    Assistant engineering position combined with on-air personality work. Gave me extra income working my way through school and the status of carrying the first cell phone anybody in the college had ever seen when I was on-call :) Was frequently farmed out to perform remote record hops and rented ou...

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  Kirby Company

  • Burnsville, MN

  • Repair Technician / sales

    • 1973 - 1976
    • Burnsville, MN

    First job at the age of 15 - I answered an ad in the local paper looking for 'young, enthusiastic, go-getters.'​ Sounded like I was signing on to the 'Mod Squad,'​ ended up learning vacuum cleaner repair and sales skills. If you've ever heard about all the stunts, drills and o...

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  WYOO U100 AM-FM Twin Cities Boogie Station

  • Eagan, MN

  • Research

    • 1974 - 1975
    • Eagan, MN

    Ever watch WKRP in Cincinnati? That's tame compared to what happens when the greatest talents in Twin Cities radio come together at a station that changed it's format in the middle of a broadcast day, live at the Minnesota State Fair, and had no misconceptions that it might one day need t...