Professional Life

Professional Experience:

Petcom- General Manager

I worked for this company as the General Manager of some gas stations and most recently as the International Purchasing and Shipping Manager. I held the General Manager position while living in Jamaica and I was able to do the other position at home in my comfy bed back home in Milwaukee, WI. As the General Manager; I was responsible for the daily operations of two gas stations. It sounds easy but, every pump had a pump attendant. Now that I think about it, it's kinda of like here except each station had over twenty staff members. I also managed the fuel trucks and their weekly transports. The list could go on and on, but I don't want to bore either of us out.

Being the International Shipping and Purchasing Manager, I was in charge of all of the ordering, supplying and shipping of various equipment, to Jamaica. This equipment was for the expansion of all new and existing stations as the company expanded. 

This is one of the stations that I helped manage.

Gustavus Adolphus College- Interim Assistant Director of the Diversity Center and Multicultural Student Programs & Services

If you think that Ashland is small, St. Peter is much smaller. When I moved there, they had demolished the town’s movie theater the summer before. The only thing to do in town, besides campus events, was to go bowling.  I often talk about the fact that St. Peter is one of those towns you’re driving through going 65 mph and then you have to slow down to 25 mph until you get through the town. I joke and say the town has two grocery stores that share the same parking lot. 

I moved to St. Peter because I was offered a position at the Interim Assistant Director of the Diversity Center and Multicultural Student Programs and Services. That’s really a mouthful! Trust and believe there were days when I couldn’t get it right. 

All of the awesome Student and Professional Staff the GAC Diversity Center (2013-2014)

In this position, one of my responsibilities was to be I was in charge of the Mentoring for Student Success Program (MSSP). MSSP was structured to help low socioeconomic status, first-generation and underrepresented students navigate through their college experience. Ask me about the flag in my office. It's connected to this program and has a great story behind it. Here are some of my students from within the program.

 Here is a fun video of some of the fun we had from within the Diversity Center.

Posted by David Jermaine on Monday, January 27, 2014