Chad Knuth Email & Phone Number

United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I run and maintain a successful wedding and event disc jockey company. I opened the company back in 2012 once returning from my tour in Afghanistan with the US Army. My wife and I have designed and built the foundation of the company. From logo, website design, sales, marketing, building the contract, setting pricing, keeping track of deposits and contracts. Setting up meetings with clients meeting with them to answer any questions they may have in person or over the phone. Our first year in business I DJed 27 by myself. I quickly saw that we needed to hire and train some employees. I hired a friend I met in the industry and 4 others that have never DJed before I trained all of them and provided them with the tools and equipment to perform the job. Our second year in business we did 57 weddings, 17 ceremonies, 10 parties and 5 events. I collaborated with venues prior to the event. I coordinate all things involving music from start to the finish. We perform all MC announcements for all events. I manage all the equipment inventory, repair, maintenance and troubleshooting. I have experience with deescalating conformation with staff and customers. With everything we have done we have tried to keep as much as we can inhouse I learn from mistakes and utilize the tools I have. I maintain and organize music and keep track of what the hits are. I look out in a crowd and can figure out what people want to hear and can keep the crowd going.

United States

Henry Schein Equipment service technician /CIT 2016-Present I Start my day with scheduled calls. I then drive to each call and perform repair, troubleshoot, maintenance or installation of equipment depending on the nature of the call. I Install repair and maintain dental equipment everything from cabinets, delivery units, lights, track lights, dental chairs, vacuum systems both dry and wet, compressors, Nitrous and oxygen systems, Inter oral x-rays, Panoramic 2D-3D Dental CT, sterilizers, Ceric AC units, Prime mill, Prime scanners, low voltage exposure buttons. I started as a technician with no experience in the dental industry and learned how to navigate necessary repairs and have since been in leadership roles such as lead technician on projects. I work well with the team but also solo when needed. I’m x-ray certified and perform Minnesota calibrations and fill out paperwork 2579, Q101 and Q102’s. Every day I go into an office and reassure the customer that we will get their equipment up and running. Once the repair is complete, I show the customer that the equipment is working again. Once installs are complete, I demo the equipment and explain how the new equipment works. I have repaired pans from Sirona, Acteon, Planmeca, Kavo, Gendex and Instrumentarium. I have since taken on the role mentor and I am now training new technicians.CITI install set up and test servers, WatchGuard and ruckus. I run kill disk on customer computers that are to be decommissioned. I perform data backup, data migration and setting up emails. I have performed cerci updates both loading the new systems and replacing the ram and hard drive. I have replaced and tested graphics cards in the pc. I have knowledge on dental sensors both intraoral and 3D. I install a new operating system when necessary. I led 3 henry stein technicians on a 9 computer install. I set up and test 3 shape trios computers, moves, carts and laptops.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I was a salesman selling grease, oils, Hydraulic fluids and aerosols. I made it to the hall of fame level 5 and won many awards with the company. I did over $350,000 in sales a year. Every day I would drive to and cold call new costumes that I researched the night before. I was able to use an ice breaker and talk with people I have never met before. I would then demo and sell the products I was trained on. I was self-managed keeping track of customers and locations. I built and grew my territory opening new accounts and keeping customers happy. I would perform inventory with current customers and order supplies needed. I tested oils and fuels. I would then go over the results with the customer. I set up and maintained 2 automatic diesel fuels treatment centers. I performed all my order entries using paper at first and then by putting them on the computer. Later in my career they moved all product information, videos and ordering to the Apple iPad. I was expected to not only maintain but also grow customer accounts. I still have customers calling me still today to order more products and I always get them in touch with the right people.

Squad formations, tactical movements, weapon knowledge, weapon disassembly, weapon reassembly, weapon cleaning, M16, M4, 249, 240 bravo, 50 caliber machine gun, Marc 19 fully automatic grenade launcher, M9, AT-4, Iron sights, CCO. Knowledge and certification on grenades claymores, hand to hand combat, room and building clearing. Building and maintaining hasty fighting positions, marching, first aid, combat lifesaver, land navigation, Drivers safety and preventive maintenance checks performed on HMMWV and M35. Range safety and understanding for all weapons and equipment.I would best describe this experience as the school of hard knocks. I grew from a young man to man learning many lessons on my feet. I joined at 18 right out of high school and never looked back. I joined to serve, protect and help people. Everyday was a new adventure perfecting and honing the skills from the day before. Training was in a class setting once we understood the objective we would take the skill to the range to learn and practice first hand. Sometimes training was under fire and I had to think on your feet with all the skills I gained from the training. All our skills were tested not only physically but also mentality. I was put in leadership roles and responsible for other soldiers. Knowing at all times where people were and making sure they made it to set locations on time.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Halon tech duties including driving the forklift, moving nonflammable gas tanks, weighing tanks, testing nonflammable gas 1211, 1301, emptying and consolidating 1211, 1301 and Novak, disabling, dismantling old tanks, hazardous good shipping of nonflammable gas and filtering of 1211 and 1301I started out as a halon tech and was promoted to warehouse manager within a year with the company. My duties included cleaning the shop, organizing bullets filled with non-flammable gas, ordering shipping supplies, managing timecards, maintaining orders in the warehouse, setting schedules, loading trucks, creating bills of landings for shipments and safely packaging nonflammable gas for shipping. I created an excel file to keep track of all products in the warehouse that include location, weight and status. I would fill orders for customers. I attended and set up for many NFPA trade shows and ran a booth. After I would follow up with customers calling around to find and purchase 1211 and 1301. I would also order parts and perform repairs on halon pumps and rebuild them when needed. After repairs were completed, I would test and maintain all equipment in the warehouse.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Duties that included preventive maintenance on equipment. Repairing and maintaining forklifts and bobcats. I repaired machinery replacing bearings and motors. filling propane tanks, troubleshooting machine breakdowns electrical and mechanical, rebuilding used equipment, driving a bobcat, and performing electrical and plumbing repairs in the building. Work performed with PVC, torch, Stick welding, Tig welding, acids and magnesium. Cleaning out the hide pieces stuck in tandems. Making repairs on the fly to get machine operators up and running again.