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· Manage three thousand acres forest land, one thousand of which he owns.

· Teach training seminars for band saw mills in Peru-2, Romania-6

· Make Artistic Stone Jewelry/Lapidarian. Owner, New Stone-Age Jewelry. Juried into several Art festivals like Vail Colorado Arts Festival, Botanical Gardens Art Festival (Best of Missouri) in St. Louis.

· 2003-2005 Head of Mission work in South America for Wood-Mizer Ind.

· Started a forest industry machinery manufacturing facility for the Pacific Rim area in mainland China. Found quality local materials suppliers. Designed and outfitted the entire fabrication shop. Lived in China 51 weeks.

· Managed and trained 21 employees.

· Designed and manufactured machinery for sale exclusively in the Pacific Rim area. Started one project for manufacturing a metal cutting band saw for the U.S. and European market.

· Traveled to existing customers for training and repairs throughout China, Indonesia, New Zealand.

· Received extensive manufacturing training in Poland.

· Did product research with saw-blade manufacturers and engineers while in Germany, and ran testing on these products while in China.

· Collaborated with new machinery design in U.S. for Wood-Mizer Ind.

· Made numerous trips to Peru and China to solve problems and give training seminars for Wood-Mizer Ind.

· On the Board of South-East Missouri Audubon Society several years. One year as vice-pres. He was there during application for Non-Profit Reorganization.

· Operated his sawmill and logging operation. Sold 12 sawmills with an average retail price of $26,000 each, for Wood-Mizer Ind.

Chairman of Trustees, Fellowship Baptist church, Lesterville, MO

· With one employee he dismantled a steel building 125’ high, 140’ wide, and 255’ long. Recycled 1.4 million pounds of steel, 75% of which could be sold as used steel beams instead of scrap.

1983-1985 Ozark Transportation Poplar Bluff, MO

Owner/ Operator

· Owned and drove an 18 wheeler flatbed. Hauled steel and lumber mostly.

· Often in Monthly top ten of 85 drivers.

· Operated up to a seven man crew and managed his fleet of equipment.

· His operation could keep a standard sawmill in full production, 8,000 bd. Ft./day.

· Private Pilot with 64 hours and several multi-leg journeys.

Designed and built portable asphalt emulsion plant. 35 HP colloid mill, 35 HP boiler for reaction vessel. Contained in two 40 foot trailers. External tank infrastructure. Engineering by slide rule.

Dozer and Backhoe work.

1976-1977 Jewelry manufacture Taos, NM Manufactured faceted gemstones, Silver and Gold smith, precious metal casting.

Business owner/operator at 14 years old.