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Gary Lassin -- grlassin
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Have:Integrity, Honesty, Passion, Coaching, Support, Mentoring, Energy, Excitement, Ice Hockey Drop-Ins Want:People who are a YES to life!
Title:Vice President Home: Houston, TX USA
Company: BirdNest From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Industry Category:Environmental ServicesUniversities: Drexel University Temple University
Industries: Water & Wasterwater, Wireless Technology, Data Aquisition, Interests: Reading, Business, Internet, Ecommerce, Landmark Education, Networking, Mensa, Snowboarding, Ice Hockey, Movies, Photography, Feng Shui, Music,
Experience:
ConsultantAce Designs, Inc.Aug 1990 - Present Management Consulting Industry

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I support Be The Match, formerly the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).  
Click here to read the full story shown on the cover of the Houston Chronicle (picture above). I have been a two-time bone marrow donor for two different unrelated recipients. Click here for a video including footage taken at Sheryl and Joe Sowa's wedding. Sheryl was the recipient of my bone marrow in 1995.

Born: June 1953 and raised in Philadelphia, PA. 
Lived in Bucks County (northern suburb of Philadelphia) from 1973 until I re-married and moved to Houston, TX August 2000.

Hobbies: Reading h Internet h Business h Snowboarding h Playing Ice Hockey h Playing Basketball h Technology

Other Interests: Reiki h Feng Shui h Mensa h Alternative Healing

Family: My wife Arlene and I have five children in a very successfully blended family.

* Chad and Vanessa were engaged and bought a home in Chalfont PA in April 2010. They moved there from New Britain, CT where they lived for the last few years. Chad manages the sign and graphics department at Whole Foods in North Wales, PA and Vanessa works for The Hartford insurance company. Chad is a graduate of Alfred University with a BA in fine arts. He shows his art work and continues to build his portfolio, some of which can be seen at his web site link above. Vanessa is an accomplished photographer and shoots weddings and other events.

* Adam completes veterinary rotations at Michigan State University in May 2010, which followed 32 months of Veterinary School at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies. He will begin a one-year internship at the Center for Specialized Veterinary Care, Westbury, Long Island, NY in June 2010. Adam worked on a variety of large game animals during a 2-week trip to live on a game preserve in Africa in August 2008. Adam graduated from West Virginia University in 2006 with a degree in animal biology.

* Brett graduates with a Juris Doctor degree from the Law School of the University of Texas at Austin May 2010. He lived on the Gold Coast of Australia where he studied international business law for his Fall 2009 semester. Brett will begin work in Oct 2010 at Vinson & Elkins in Houston. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with Honors in Liberal Arts and Government in August 2007.

* Perry lives in Richboro, PA and works as a Freelance Photographer, Videographer, Music Video Director and Digital Technician. After graduating with a BA in Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA in August 2007, Perry worked in Manhattan as a Digital Technician specializing in Digital Photographic Equipment and Digital Photography at VisionOn. He continues to work on many high fashion, cosmetic and magazine cover projects with on location shoots throughout the world. He has worked on location in Austin, Arizona, Nashville, San Francisco, Napa Valley, London and Turks and Caicos. Perry continues to build his photographic and music video portfolio.

* Elissa is living in Dallas and is at UNT, the University of North Texas, Denton, TX studying for her masters degree in Psychology. Elissa graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a major in Psychology in May 2009. She travelled in Israel for 6-weeks during the summer of 2009 and spent her Junior Spring semester in Florence Italy where she learned Italian and had the opportunity to travel throughout Europe.

*Arlene is a professional freelance writer. She writes people features regularly for the Houston Chronicle and the Buzz magazines. Her featured blog is a popular read at the Houston Chronicle's Mom Houston section. In June 2009 Arlene started posting her blog directly to her own site.


I've done a lot of different things in my working life and have been in lot of different industries. If you see anything here that you are involved with and think I might be able to help, send me a note.

Things I've done: newspaper route, carnival ticket sales, retail sporting goods, music store - records and tapes (8-track), waiter, electric blue chair driver (Atlantic City), meats and provisions, smoked fish manufacturing and sales, advertising sales, supermarket chain promotions, industrial packaging sales, safety supplies, janitorial and maintenance supplies, point of purchase displays, visual merchandising manufacturing and distribution, signage and graphics, framing, venture capital, internet incubator, eCommerce, eBay auctions, surplus computer and electronic equipment recycling, small business consulting, software training...WHEW!

Jobs I've held include: employee, salesman, manager, sales manager, vice president, president, CEO, interim CEO, 
senior business development manager, director, director of business development, consultant and independent representative. 





Thank you for visiting and reading my Ryze page. I hope you found something here helpful for you! Please let me know if I can help you in any way. 


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