Manage Staff of Sales professionals at the journal. Check everyday operations and client contacts. Strive to improve readership and customer participation in the journal. Participate and manage outdoor shows in various east coast states. Write a monthly column in the magazine and periodically write product reports and field test reports that are printed in the journal.

CEO and president of Bliss Auction Company, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Won numerous awards for advertising and promotion of the auction business. 2004 Won Michigan state championship for auctioneering and again in 2009 won the championship for best floor person. Attended classes to obtain GPPA designation and currently appraise guns ,. sporting goods, complete households, farm equipment and industrial equipment. I presently do most of my auctioneering for sportsman's groups such as NWTF, Ducks unlimited and the Iditarod selling furs at the fur rondy.

Designed and built outdoor cooking equipment for the professional rib circuit. Built cookers that would cook hundreds of pounds of ribs, Chicken or Pork. Our cookers and grills have been bought and sent to many states. We won the Best Ribs in America title with Billy Bones in 1998. We won several titles after that time in the rib circuit. My passion for designing and building these cookers and smokers still tugs at my hears strings from time to time.

Represented various manufacturers in the sporting goods business ie. Luepold scopes, Golden Eagle Firearms, North American Arms, Kolpin Guncase Company , Saginaw Bay Manufacturing, K & E Tackle company just to name a few.