Rick is Qualtim's Director of IT and has been with Qualtim for over 5 years and brings many years of experience to the IT Team. He was hired to co-lead the implementation of an industry wide learning management system and has contributed to many advanced technologies used by Qualtim customers. Prior to Qualtim Rick serverd in senior IT or management positions for: Madison Area Technical College, Madison Gas & Electric, Munsingwear, Target Stores, Carlson Companies, Fort Howard Paper, Packerland Packing, Greenbrier & Russel and Speche Communications. He was awarded a US Patent while at Speche and Most Innovative IT Employee at Target Stores. Rick has an academic background that includes UW Madison credits in Architecture, Computer Science and Math, an associate degree from MATC in Data Processing (4.0), and recently (with his wife Linda) earned their web developers certificate at MATC (4.0). Rick and his wife Linda are the proud parents of (5), ages 27, 25, 23, 21, 16. Rick's wife Linda and his 3 sons are also in the computer industry. Rick still enjoys learning and mastering new technologies, and developing advanced web solutions.