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My style is less formal – hey this is a personal webpage.  But I also want to let you know what my professional background is.  So first I will share the normal resume material and then I will give you a little more personal background. 

I came to DMACC from the Department of Homeland Security where I was the Iowa training manager for airport security since its inception after 9/11.  Prior to 9/11, I was the Global Operations Training Manager for a German firm that made paper packaging machines.  I enjoyed several years teaching as an Assistant Professor of International Business at Southern Utah University.  And prior to that, I served in management positions with Nissan in Tennessee and Franklin Covey in Tokyo, Japan.  But through all those experiences, I have learned that teaching is the most rewarding occupation.

I was born in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, and inherited genes that bled Green and Yellow. Go Brett!! (I mean Packers)

I became a ski patroller at 16;  my heart is really in the mountains.  So I ran away at age 18 to head out to the mountains out in Utah and to BYU.  Go Cougs! 

After serving as a missionary for two years in Japan,  I returned to Wisconsin mid-winter, but the cold got to me.  I boarded a plane during a blizzard in Chicago wound up in Hawaii - penniless with nothing but a trumpet, a backpack, and the thermal underwear that was beginning to really irritate me.

While attending school at BYU-Hawaii on Oahu’s North Shore, I discovered that there was something even better than skiing (and it wasn’t surfing – nor was it economics).  You can meet her in Student Accounts in Building 1.  

But like Dorothy in Oz, we discovered there is no place like home.  We moved back to Wisconsin, with an expanded family of 5. 

9/11 put me out of a job, but it gave me one as well and brought me to Iowa.  Both Yolanda and I are happy to be at DMACC – it’s AWESOME!  Teaching is great – not as much $green$, but I have discovered that life ain’t always greener in someone else’s swamp.  I can’t imagine doing anything else than what I am doing now;  I am having a ball!! 

I love economics – maybe I need a life.