Getting to Know Me
Beginnings
The youngest of four kids, Ed was born in Boulder, Colorado to a college professor and the consummate “household management professional.” Ed credits his dad with instilling the innate curiosity he possesses, and his mom with creating a great sense of family and home life.
Culture
Ed’s family moved around the country during his formative years – from Colorado to Kansas, then to Hawaii, back to Kansas, on to upstate New York, and finally to Minnesota – all before the age of 12. While enjoying settling down in Minnesota, Ed picked up wanderlust from all this moving, and now loves to travel and visit other lands and other cultures.
Life Experience
Ed married young, got a degree in Aerospace Engineering and had two great daughters, now grown. Kids of course, will give you life experiences that you never dreamed of when you were a kid yourself!
Ed’s main leisure time activity during his senior year of college was being an auto racing mechanic. Upon graduation from college, he became a test engineer at one of the few high-speed wind tunnel laboratories in the world.
Ed followed his work in the aerospace industry with work on a technologically leading edge medical catheter that removed blood clots with the same principles of fluid mechanics used to drive the wind tunnels where he’d previously worked.
Eventually Ed put his career expertise in project management into several years’ service in the information technology field, gaining not only expertise in the computer consulting industry, but also in the various industries of each of his clients.
Finally, Ed is a self-taught fine jewelry designer and sales professional. Curiously enough, Ed finds that jewelry design takes him right back to his engineering roots!
Business
Ed has coupled the richness of his life experience with a wide range of business experience. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Ed started work in one of the few high speed wind tunnel facilities in the world. Here, he had a chance to work on commercial and military programs for clients on three continents.
After ten years in the aerospace & defense industry, Ed jumped to the medical device industry, again working on leading edge – some say bleeding edge – interventional technology used in saving lives.
Following several years managing catheter, pacemaker lead, and synthetic blood vessel R&D and manufacturing projects, Ed turned his business talents to the Information Technology consulting arena. Here, he put his skills to work in several different industries, managing projects for clients that included restaurants, banking, direct marketing, medical clinics, and county government.
During the later years of his career in industry, Ed discovered a dormant interest in business and entrepreneurship and founded companies in the sporting goods manufacturing and luxury goods retail sectors.
These latest entrepreneurial endeavors awoke Ed’s passion for marketing.
Well Rounded
Ed is a well-rounded guy. He’s been called a renaissance man by many of his associates. These days, he spends his spare time trout fishing in the local Wisconsin and Minnesota streams, and studying fine mechanical watches.
Ed and his wife Lisa love to travel, especially to Mexico and the Caribbean. European destinations are also on the short list of places to visit.
A common thread throughout all of Ed’s interests is a love of reading and writing. Being a pretty linear guy, when Ed gets interested in something, the first thing he does is read everything he can find about it. Then he gets physically involved, trying various aspects of the activity. Ultimately he writes about his experiences in the newsletters he edits and in the blogs he maintains.
Endlessly curious, research comes naturally to Ed. He says it fits him like a glove, and is what he’d be doing on his own anyway, to satisfy his many diverse interests in trout fishing, modern and vintage mechanical watches, gemstones, photography, travel to foreign cultures, and the pursuit of the perfect beach.
Beginnings
The youngest of four kids, Ed was born in Boulder, Colorado to a college professor and the consummate “household management professional.” Ed credits his dad with instilling the innate curiosity he possesses, and his mom with creating a great sense of family and home life.
Culture
Ed’s family moved around the country during his formative years – from Colorado to Kansas, then to Hawaii, back to Kansas, on to upstate New York, and finally to Minnesota – all before the age of 12. While enjoying settling down in Minnesota, Ed picked up wanderlust from all this moving, and now loves to travel and visit other lands and other cultures.
Life Experience
Ed married young, got a degree in Aerospace Engineering and had two great daughters, now grown. Kids of course, will give you life experiences that you never dreamed of when you were a kid yourself!
Ed’s main leisure time activity during his senior year of college was being an auto racing mechanic. Upon graduation from college, he became a test engineer at one of the few high-speed wind tunnel laboratories in the world.
Ed followed his work in the aerospace industry with work on a technologically leading edge medical catheter that removed blood clots with the same principles of fluid mechanics used to drive the wind tunnels where he’d previously worked.
Eventually Ed put his career expertise in project management into several years’ service in the information technology field, gaining not only expertise in the computer consulting industry, but also in the various industries of each of his clients.
Finally, Ed is a self-taught fine jewelry designer and sales professional. Curiously enough, Ed finds that jewelry design takes him right back to his engineering roots!
Business
Ed has coupled the richness of his life experience with a wide range of business experience. With a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Ed started work in one of the few high speed wind tunnel facilities in the world. Here, he had a chance to work on commercial and military programs for clients on three continents.
After ten years in the aerospace & defense industry, Ed jumped to the medical device industry, again working on leading edge – some say bleeding edge – interventional technology used in saving lives.
Following several years managing catheter, pacemaker lead, and synthetic blood vessel R&D and manufacturing projects, Ed turned his business talents to the Information Technology consulting arena. Here, he put his skills to work in several different industries, managing projects for clients that included restaurants, banking, direct marketing, medical clinics, and county government.
During the later years of his career in industry, Ed discovered a dormant interest in business and entrepreneurship and founded companies in the sporting goods manufacturing and luxury goods retail sectors.
These latest entrepreneurial endeavors awoke Ed’s passion for marketing.
Well Rounded
Ed is a well-rounded guy. He’s been called a renaissance man by many of his associates. These days, he spends his spare time trout fishing in the local Wisconsin and Minnesota streams, and studying fine mechanical watches.
Ed and his wife Lisa love to travel, especially to Mexico and the Caribbean. European destinations are also on the short list of places to visit.
A common thread throughout all of Ed’s interests is a love of reading and writing. Being a pretty linear guy, when Ed gets interested in something, the first thing he does is read everything he can find about it. Then he gets physically involved, trying various aspects of the activity. Ultimately he writes about his experiences in the newsletters he edits and in the blogs he maintains.
Endlessly curious, research comes naturally to Ed. He says it fits him like a glove, and is what he’d be doing on his own anyway, to satisfy his many diverse interests in trout fishing, modern and vintage mechanical watches, gemstones, photography, travel to foreign cultures, and the pursuit of the perfect beach.
