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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 manages the sign and graphics department at Whole Foods in Glastonbury, CT. He is a graduate of Alfred University in Alfred, NY with a BA in fine arts. Chad continues to build his art portfolio, some of which can be seen at his web site link above.

* Adam completed 32 months of Veterinary School in April at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies. He is now at Michigan State University for his final year of clinicals. Adam took a 2-week trip in August 2008 to a game preserve in Africa where he worked on a variety of large game animals. Adam graduated from West Virginia University in 2006 with a degree in animal biology.

* Brett completed his 2nd year as a Juris Doctor candidate at the Law School of the University of Texas at Austin. He will be taking his Fall 2009 semester in Australia. This summer Brett will be a law clerk in Houston at Vinson & Elkins and at Bracewell & Giuliani. He did this last summer in Houston at Fulbright and Jaworski and at Bracewell & Giuliani. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with Honors in Liberal Arts and Government in August 2007.

* Perry is living in Richboro, PA and is working as a Freelance Photographer 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 worked on many high fashion, cosmetic and magazine cover projects with on location shoots in Nashville, San Francisco, Napa Valley and London. Perry continues to build his photographic portfolio.

* Elissa graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a major in Psychology in May 2009. She is traveling in Israel for 6-weeks and will return after that to Houston. She will start her work towards a masters degree by entering graduate school this fall near Dallas, TX. Elissa 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. 


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Ace Designs, Inc. - Your Total Graphics Resource!

 www.AceDesigns.com

Framing & 3D Shadowboxes h Screen Printing
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Photographic Archives h Fabrication


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