About Me

The Nicest Marketing Guy You've Worked With Lately!

Priorities in Life

Faith in God

I am a member of the Redmond United Methodist Church, where I have been Chairman of the Administrative Board and a Sunday School teacher. I also play hand bells in the Church choir, and I'm a member of the "Walk to Emmaus."

Family

Let me introduce you to Anne, Matthew, and Katie.

Work

I have been Vice President of Marketing/Sales at TRIsource, a Seattle company specializing in Windows development services. We not only work hard at TRIsource, we play hard, too. If you don't believe me, check out the Human Bowling Ball Page. Be forewarned that there are some large graphics here.

Everything Else

Including Toastmasters, Goldwing Touring Association, kids soccer teams coaching/officiating, Republican issues, etc.

Proudest Accomplishments

Earned appointment to Naval Academy, but instead chose to go NROTC at Oregon State

Member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, 1974

First Account Executive employee of Andy Marken Public Relations, 1978

Appointed Vice President, US Operations for mbp (largest German software company), 1982

Toastmaster of the Year, District 2 (Seattle, WA), 1991 AND
Toastmaster of the Year, District 2 (Seattle, WA), 1998
AND
Toastmaster of the Year, District 2 (Seattle, WA), 2002-03

	Chairman, Administrative Board, Redmond UMC, 1993-1996
	Winner of District 2 Toastmasters Evaluation Contest, 1997
	Earned Distinguished Toastmaster Award (DTM), 1998 and again in 2005
	Adult Lay Leader of Boy's Chrysalis #30, 2003

My Best Friends

Include:

Jim Hager

Susan Niven

Michael Heavener

Dennis Link

Marty Foulger

My Favorite Foods

	Whatever the current "Special" is
	McDonald's #3 meal
	Steak (medium)
	Grand Slam or Super Slam breakfast at Denny's
	Almost any pastries (but I'm not supposed to have them!)

My Favorite Things to Say

Are known to those around me as "Weltnerisms" and you can check out the entire list of Weltnerisms.

This site was last updated 03/14/07