My Personal Introduction-who is this guy?
Since I was young, I have been attracted to construction and the building of things. When I was ten, my parents had a house built. Every day after school I pedal myself to the site and I watched our new home being built. Watching the foundation going in and its footings, to the home’s floors than the walls, the roof, the electrical, plumbing, heating etc. and even got payed to help with some of it. And on its completion, I thought to myself, that’s really simple. My first business was in Hydro Seeding, during college and branched out into soil preparation and than Lawn fertilizing, in the very early days of that type of business. Worked on road construction and sewer projects and state highway projects.
As time went on, I branched into small landscaping work and than eventually into a firm of Design/Build projects. Doing projects for municipalities, commercial projects, hospitals, cities and residential, for builders, developer’s excavation contractors and home owners.
I have always had an interest in architecture, planning, urban & rural with city development projects and I have worked in all of it. For my 7th grade science project, in my 64-65 school year, I did a report on Solar Energy and how it would become our future. I was very excited about it, and now having waited some 50+ yrs for it to finally come to fruition.
I am an entrepreneur as well. Over my life I have started some six different businesses, some successful and some that were very good learning experiences. I enjoy building new businesses and creating jobs for others. I have built and flow aircraft from kits. Had a hobby business called Aero Float Flights, first starting with hang gliding off the dunes along lake Michigan, growing into ultralight aircraft construction & sales.
While doing that learned that, if everything is not done to the T, when building these aircraft, it could kill you. But the desire to fly was stronger than that. I have learned that inventing something is the easy part and that marketing is the key behind the success of any idea or business.
All these life experiences and interests have brought me to this point in time, with my LUV for the planet we live on and a great appreciation of mother nature and the way she works.