Kurt Petrich

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Kurt Petrich's Problem Solving Skills:

1. used to be a security guard. have setup my own motion detection systems (simple laptop based)
2. putting a company wide certification program together which includes safety items across the company
3. working with packaging fishing lures with non profit with people of disabilities, looking for corporate partners nationwide
4. work with disabled community in training them to work, find work, teach them skills
5. internet keyword research
6. play guitar, synthesizer, compose music on paper and with multitrack recording
7. worked in 3D supporting movie and high end production house graphics teams
8. create marketing copy, research problems that the market has, research keywords
9. created my own note business by purchasing and selling mobile homes (acted as the bank)
10. design, material requirements, purchasing, shop oversight for overhead bridge crane manufacturing
11. website, 2D and 3D graphics, animation
12. degree in mass communications
13. self educated in programming and systems analysis
14. designing speaker for amplifier
15. research and create and implement business lines for non profit
16. have been a patent illustrator as well as a draftsman. also was a commercial sign designer
17. worked with television graphics on air (network television)
18. am very much a problem solver type of person, very much a systems thinker, some would say...obsessive.

Kurt Petrich's Problem Solving Experience:

1. Working with a non profit with disabled people. Have launched TheBestLure.com to sell fishing lures to get disabled people to package the lures. This effort is currently giving the non profit confidence to strike out into larger packaging efforts, in the midwest, mountain states and west coast. Currently in progress.
2. I helped a prison special operations operative with a marketing video. I shot and edited the video. He was trying to get Dupont to be his client because he uses Kevlar as a bulletproof material. In the end he won a $250k contract as a result of this video.
3. Created TheForeclosureBusTour in virginia beach in 2007 or around that time. I was a realtor and had heard that foreclosure tours existed in california. So I put a team together, found and signed up my own sponsors, and then created a website with signup capabilities, integrated it with an 800 phone service for people to call. We got newspaper and TV promotion. Signed up 90 people on 3 bus tours. I would speak and have sponsors speak also during the tours. In the end we had no home buyers, even though everything worked very well. My assessment in the end was that our marketing was targeting people on the front end of the purchase cycle where people are just tire kicking. We shut the operation down, so that I could figure out how to target people closer to the buying end. The site is down now also.
4. I worked with microsoft for 6 years, most of which were as a trainer and channel marketing support person. My sales guy and I travelled around the US and other countries on behalf of Microsoft to build a channel to sell 3D animation software at a fraction of the existing price. This was looked at by outsiders as us being traitors, but in the end, the market went from $60k machines and $50k software to software that you can now buy at very, very cheap prices, and machines that cost only hundreds of dollars.
5. Took a municipal water treatment plant and replaced a refrigerator sized IBM computer with hundreds of sensors, with a PC sized machine. Led the software team in designing and coding the new solution which read sensors every 5 minutes, and summarized data every hour, 24 hours a day. This system ended up being the core of the product now called AutoNet.
6. Wanted to find a way to help poor people buy their own homes. So I purchased used mobile homes for cash for approx $2k-$3k. Then I'd create a note for the buyer to purchase for an affordable monthly amount. The difference between my purchase price and the note price would be my profit. The goal was to sell the note at a 10% discount, but didnt get to this point as I discovered I was spending too much time on the wrong things ...(fixing things that had no value in the homes). It was a very valuable learning experience. Later on I became a realtor, and felt very confident about how financing and underwriters worked, as I had in essence....been an underwriter without knowing it at the time with the mobile homes.
7. I took a crane manufacturer that was drawing each crane design, standardized the most common crane types, programmed the standards in basic, and created a system by where the user inputs the crane specs, and out comes a full list of materials to build the crane along with a set of blueprints with dimensions