Fin-Pan Inc.:

1975 - 1976 Designed and built first continuous cement backer-board process.

1976 - 1981 Managed first cement backer-board manufacturing facility which included:

• Training of personnel in operation and safety of equipment Formula and selection of raw materials.
• Manage inventory levels for raw materials and finish goods.
• Receive Customer orders and arrange product transportation.
• Designed and over-seen construction of (3) new processes.
  

Glascrete Inc (Two thirds owner ship):

1981 Asked by Paul Dinkel (owner of Wonder-Board Patent) to locate a manufacturing facility on the west coast due to Fin-Pan Inc’s lack of interest .

Duties included:

• Hiring five engineers to design all new equipment.
• Over seen construction of new process and purchase raw material storage systems.
• Obtain a facility and local building permits.
• Ship equipment to facility Set-up, wiring, plumb and test process for start-up of manufacturing operation.
  

1983 Hire and train personnel in equipment operation and safety. Find a marketing group.

1985 Marketing group needed manufacturing of product in south-east due to costs of shipping.

• Up dated engineering and designed facility for manufacturing cement backer- board.
• We built this equipment in our existing facility.
• Shipped equipment and purchased raw material storage systems to site.
• Set-up, wiring, plumb and tested process for start-up of manufacturing operation.
• Hire and train personnel.

1987 Marketing group needed manufacturing of product in north east due to costs of shipping.

• We built this equipment in our existing facility.
• Shipped equipment and purchased raw material storage systems to site.
• Set- up, wiring, plumb and tested process for start-up of manufacturing operation.
• Hire and train personnel.

1987 - 1989 During this time period a group from different manufacturers of cement backer-board was organized to develop ANSI standards for cement backer-board of which I was a member.

During this same period the soft glass wrapped edge was developed by John Teare for the product Wonder-Board. The needs included:

• Equipment updating.
• Raw material changes.
• Personnel training for new product edge treatment.
  

Sale of Ownership:

1989 I sold my two thirds shares in Glascrete to Custom Building Products Inc.

Custom Building Products Inc.:

1989 - 1999 I managed the cement backer-board operation for Custom Building Products Inc, during this time period their board production grew by 10 times.

1999 - 2001 Another process was located in Indiana.

My non-compete agreement ended and I left Custom Building Products

SelectCrete Inc.:

2001 - 2002 I developed a smooth surface board with a filled wrapped edge.

2002 - 2006 Equipment requirements same amount of production in half the space.

• Design new product process with continuous flow mixing systems.
• Build equipment.
• Locate site acquire operation and building permits.
• Set-up equipment, wiring, plumb and test equipment for product manufacturing start-up.
• Hire and train personnel.