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Baraboo, Wi, Us

Reedsburg, Wisconsin, United States

Innovating new ways to use technology in traditional and digital media to reach new audiences and spread the Word of God.

Baraboo, Wi

ReadyWarn is an online version of the Emergency Alert System which allows it’s TV, Radio, print media, and emergency management users to automatically publish severe weather and emergency alert messages to their social media accounts in real-time. It was a balmy summer night years ago when I was first exploring Twitter that I noticed meteorologists posting severe weather warnings to Twitter. This was really cool, but there was a problem. Sometimes they would post and sometimes they wouldn’t. Sometimes they’d get the word out a minute after the alert was issued and sometimes they would be 10 minutes late. And with that, ReadyWarn was born. With a background in broadcasting, computer programming, web service development, and what you would likely call a more than hobby level knowledge of meteorology, I set out to create a system which would allow users to remove the inconsistencies that were present with providing this life saving information. At the same time, we wanted to start a social media conversation for them which they could join in once their more urgent responsibilities had been taken care of. It took a year and a half to fully develop ReadyWarn to be a robust, extremely stable, and easy-to-use system. Today, ReadyWarn has become the standard in the broadcast and emergency management industries for delivering severe weather and emergency alerts to social media platforms. In addition to ReadyWarn, I am also responsible for the creation and development of the Versitell Communications Customer Notification Service which is used by a number of resorts and hotels to automatically notify guests by phone and text message when their room is ready for check-in.

Baraboo, Wi

InVitalShare is a website and mobile app that allows parents of children with food allergies or special care needs to share their child’s vital care information with caregivers. Whether it’s a friend’s parents, the babysitter, grandma and grandpa, the camp counselor, or the school nurse, parents will now have a way to securely and easily share care information with anyone, anywhere.This is my dream job in which I get to combine my passions for business, technology, and philanthropy. If you're looking to be part of something big, let me know. There is an investment opportunity available.

Baraboo, Wi

Trinity Gunshot Alarm System provides immediate, accurate, and reliable gunshot detection for use in schools, businesses, and other facilities. Building occupants, law enforcement, and emergency responders receive the location of a shooter and potential victims within seconds of shots fired. Existing mass notification, mapping, build management, video management, two-way radio, and other networked systems can instantly be used to deliver this critical information to those who need it immediately.

Baraboo, Wi

There aren’t many small towns that still have a local radio and TV station, but Baraboo, Wisconsin does and we are breathing life back into both of them with an amazing team focused on serving the community. We are about more than radio and TV. On any given day, I may help a business design a multifaceted marketing campaign including radio, TV, digital, social media, and print, organize a local fundraiser, produce a live webcast, and fix a piece of equipment… and that’s just before lunch! Then it's on to shooting video for a commercial, editing a cinematic masterpiece, and then off to a meeting to help plan the future of this vibrant and growing area. Oh, and don't forget rebooting things. There's lots of rebooting things.There may be a better way to combine my love of technology, business, broadcasting, and philanthropy, but I haven't found it yet.

Reedsburg, Wi

Sound Devices is an amazing company that is known worldwide for designing, building, selling, and supporting the equipment used to capture audio and video used in the production of the biggest movies, television series, and multimedia productions ever created! As the Director of Technical Services, it was my role to oversee the service repair and customer support operations. With a focus on absolute customer satisfaction and an unwavering desire to ensure that our customers were always able to get their job done, we built upon an already incredible reputation of providing the best products with the best service in the production sound and video markets. Through the implementation of new repair processes, the development of data analytics tools to identify repair trends and opportunities, the creation of an environment where the service and technical support departments worked hand in hand to resolve customer issues, the streamlining of the customer interaction process through the support function, and the planning and roll out of a new European service center, my team and I were able to drastically reduce repair turnaround time by more than 60%, improve the rate of support based resolutions which decreased the number of unnecessary RMAs and replacements, and provide a level of technical support to our customers by phone, email, and social media that unrivaled by any other manufacturer in the industry.

Wisconsin Dells, Wi

America’s Largest Waterpark Resort has more than just a lot of water. It has a lot of technology too. As the Information Systems and Technology Manager, I successfully led a team responsible for providing the technology needs of essentially a small town. With over 1,100 units covering hundreds of acres containing15 to 20 food and beverage outlets, restaurants, and a world class golf course, we maintained not only a large number of servers, workstations, multiple reservations call centers, online reservations platforms, and peripherals on a Cisco powered network in a truly 24x7 environment, we also managed a very large point-of-sale system throughout multiple facilities, a cable TV system and headend which provided on-demand television programming to every unit on the property, administered and repaired a multi-property telephone system with thousands of extensions, and procured and managed a guest wireless internet system which allowed guests to enjoy unprecedented internet access and speeds anywhere throughout our properties all while allowing our convention facilities to support events such as Google training sessions with thousands of concurrent connections. Budgeting, strategic planning, data security, PCI compliance, security awareness training, and network planning and development for existing and new facilities were also a very important aspects of my role.

As the co-General Manager, I was responsible for managing day-to-day business operations including sales, marketing, on-air activities. As the engineer, I oversaw and directed all technical operations and systems including voice, data, audio, and transmission. I was also responsible for the design, constructions, and transition to an entirely new broadcast facility.. This was particularly exciting seeing how I was 21 years old at the time. These were some of the best learning experiences I've ever had.

Ba, Business Management

Ccna, Technology

As, Information Technology