Subject: MSCTC Advisory Meeting followup
From: Don Stieha <dstieha@gmail.com>
Date: 2/7/2013 10:38 AM
To: Tim Preuss <Tim.Preuss@minnesota.edu>


Good morning Tim
 
Good seeing you again last evening.
I am writing this to you from my personal gmail email account so it is not part of the Titan Machinery realm and can be kept confidential.
 
I appreciate your welcoming John Tassava and spending some time with him.
I have invited him to this meeting several times since moving to Titan and he finally accepted.
 
I belive he would be a great member of the advisory board and since I am getting grayer and grayer, it is time to begin looking for my successor.  (Was it really said long time members smell stale?)
John is the CIO for Titan and does all the hiring for IT related jobs (Support, Help Desk, Networking, Programming, Consulting, ...)
The company probably has over 2000 PC's and phones, plus other related devices such as tablets, etc in over 100 different locations.
We tie into a number of different partner businesses including manufacturers and banks.
We have an additional dozen locations in eastern Europe now that at some point will be brought into our networking fold as well.
We are involved with many different trade groups and organizations at local, state and national levels.
We are involved with many different schools (we have locations in WI, MN, IA, ND, SD, NE, MT, WY, CO and AZ and look to schools in all those states for helping train workforce personnel)
John is a member of the top leadership team at Titan.
So I think John can bring some good input to the table for MSCTC.
 
John did tell me after the meeting he felt good about it and would accept going again in the Fall.
 
I am providing his contact information below and would ask that you include him on the next invite.
I will certainly tell him I provide you with this contact information.  I am just not going to mention the above information.

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Don Stieha
701-541-0523
dstieha@gmail.com
 

John Tassava

CIO

Titan Machinery

644 East Beaton Drive

West Fargo, ND 58078

Phone: 701-356-0130

Fax: 701-356-0139

John.Tassava@titanmachinery.com