Chardon is an employee-owned service company that delivers clean, environmentally-responsible water treatment and systems management for our clients. As a water treatment company with years of experience with Boilers, Cooling Towers, Loops, and Legionella testing, Chardon can meet all of your water treatment needs. Since 1965, our focus has been to provide high-quality, dependable water treatment services for industries such as Auto, Brewery, Distillery, Food, Health Care, Plastics, HVAC, etc.. We work with you to design and implement a customized program, with guaranteed results. Our office & research center is located in the Columbus, OH area. We are able to offer superior water treatment services to companies in a 13 state area.System Development: A trained Chardon salesperson will evaluate your system and determine the correct amount of service and product needed to make your system run smoothly and efficiently. Program Design: We will design a water treatment program based on the System Evaluation and your specific needs and wants. An outline of your service schedule and billing program will be designed to specification. Master Service: A uniformed service tech will arrive at your facility in a Chardon mobile lab. Each visit includes inspection of system, standard water testing, and consultation with designated contact to describe findings and discuss corrective actions that may be needed. Remote Communication: Our Support Staff can monitor your system 24 hours a day to enhance reliability, shorten response time and identify situations before they become problems.Technical Back-up: Our tech support team evaluates Service Analysis Reports from your facility and works on R&D. If an emergency arises, a member of the team will be at your facility within hours to address it.Education: Whether at your facility or through one of our scheduled seminars, we will educate you to take the mystery out of water treatment and make you a more knowledgeable buyer.

Consulting work for printing industry and printing adjacent opportunities. Also did Independent contracting work with Empire Today and various 1099 opportunities including contract work with Lindco Corporation.

Serve as vendor member of PIAS advisory board.Serve as chairman of membership committee.

• Secured 1,000,000 pound per year client for company within 2 months of return.• Resumed former account base responsibility of 1.5 million while building training package.• Regained all business at $500,000 account that had been lost in my absence.

Fully embraced the dream of being an independent small business owner that could bring value to the industry that I love and to those printers that chose to work with me as clients.• Start-up company that secured business at 2 Fortune 500 packaging firms for consumable supplies.• Secured business in excess of 90,000 pounds of product from single client within first year.• Developed training package for clients tailored to their specific market niche.

Technical Sales territory management responsibility for Middle Tennessee and South Central Kentucky.• Top ten Sales Professionals in the Prisco Global organization by the Prisco Executive Committee for 10 years.• Multi-year Prisco President’s Club Member• Printing Industry Association of the South Board Member• Selected as founding member of Prisco Wide Format Training Team• Largest single equipment transaction in DevTech (Prisco Equipment Division) history

* Managed development and launch of company website with independent programmer* Created and published company’s monthly newsletter* Developed and presented business partnership proposals for Fortune 500 companies* Provided necessary performance criteria to Chemical Engineer for formulation on products for resell* Designed and implemented systems to allow autonomous data based decisions using standard management tools and process predictability troubleshooting skills

• Implemented safety programs with individual ownership for Lockout/Tag-Out, Powered Industrial Trucks, Hazardous Communication, and emphasis on sourcing of nonhazardous materials. • Established and managed performance tracking and reporting of key operational and financial metrics.• Facilitated Team development of Standard Operating Procedures and Work Instructions for nine presses.• Implemented budget projection process based on historic production costs resulting in 100% compliance to budget.• Provided budget and performance indicators for offset pressroom, including supplies, consumables, and labor.• Negotiated 28% reduction in consumables costs resulting in $1.8MM savings annually.• Developed and implemented preventative maintenance scheduling, tagging and tracking for critical equipment, integrating autonomous maintenance into daily operator activities, and introducing predictive maintenance• Conducted vendor selection and new equipment commissioning; qualified equipment while forming strong relationships with multiple external vendors.• Worked to “Right-Size” maintenance storeroom parts and materials by implementing JIT program for inventory.• Led Vendor Action Committee that identified raw material and process deficiencies. Committee discoveries instrumental in allowing plant to become first US printer to become ISO Certified. • Improved work flow by implementing cross-training throughout department and created daily work schedule board • Created visual performance boards to encourage competition among department personnel with rewards program. • Worked with Dept Managers to develop plant strategy, plan projects and coordinate resources for PM initiatives.• Successfully managed project for installation of “Sunday M3000” 48 page press and robotic delivery system. Completed project under budgeted start-up/capital expenses allowance by ten percent.