Career Background
- College career he attended
- Purdue University for Mechanical Engineering
- Michigan State for his MBA
- University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
- As you will here his career has been one of leadership through change with some great opportunities
- Most recently he is at Butler University
- Executive Director focusing on organizational learning and professional development
Highlights:
- Mechanical engineering at Purdue
- Meeting his match in college
- Getting bored in a narrow focused job
- Learning the importance of sales early on
- Taking advice on going to Michigan State
- Filling the void with the MBA program
- Hybrid Electric vehicle contest
- "So what is the goal of this competition?"
- Increasing his negotiation skills
- "Tell me about the vehicle"
- Getting bored vs. getting stretched
- Some spirited conversations
- Being recruited by Bright Point
- Having an entrepreneurial spirit
- Refurbished phones and computers, being early to the game
- Keeping in touch with your network
- Filled the vacuum when it was needed
- Seeing the pattern before it shows itself
- Northern Michigan
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