Eric Bickel Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Mo

Offering Solutions in Equipment and Irrigation for the Golf Course and Grounds Industry

O'Fallon, Mo

Midwest Turf specializes in finish grading, quality sod installation, hydro-seeding, and erosion control for commercial and residential properties. My responsibilities include:• Project management• Fostering new business• Maintaining relationships with existing client• Scheduling, prioritizing and logistics • Providing agronomic expertise• Conflict resolution• Team building

• Directing, managing, budgeting, and purchasing as related to the maintenance of the golf course, club grounds, maintenance facilities, and equipment• Project proposals, prioritization, cost forecasting, bidding, coordination, oversight, and completion• Continual thorough communication and coordination with general manager, golf staff, greens committee, board of directors, controller, and general membership• Scouting, monitoring, analyzing, and interpreting all agronomic aspects of the grounds and course• Coordinating all of the above responsibilities to maximize the overall product while providing the highest possible level of satisfaction for the membershipHosted: 2005 Sectional U.S. Open Qualifier, 2006 Heart of America Four Ball, 2007 Watson Challenge, 2009 Regional U.S. Open Qualifier, 2010 U.S. Senior Amateur Qualifier, 2011 Kansas Amateur

Responsibilities:• Managing and scheduling grounds staff• Hiring and training seasonal staff• Assigning daily tasks, course set up, hand watering crews, mowing practices• Monitoring the pump station, irrigation system, and watering times• Scouting insect, disease, and weed levels• Maintaining equipment in mechanics absence Hosted: 2001 Senior Match Play, 2002 Sectional U.S. Open Qualifier, 2001-2002 Taylor Cup

Scottsdale, Arizona

B.S., Horticulture, Agronomy

Activities and Societies: Delta Upsilon Fraternitymajored in Civil Engineering 91 to 94 completed core program

Syngenta Business Institute