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<br />Resume Rick Harrison <br /> <br />1968 - 1973 <br /> <br />Don C. Geak & Associates Southfield, Michigan <br /> <br />Land Planner. Responsibilities include complete site design mostly comprehensive community planning <br />and PUD's in several States but concentrating on Michigan. I personally designed the site planning of <br />1/3rd of Canton Township land developments. We planned about 400 sites a year -I was responsible for <br />about Yz of those plans. We were the planners for Pulte Homes when they first started in the land <br />development business, as well as Kaufmann Broad (now known as KB Homes). <br /> <br />1973 Robert Arms (Minowitz Manufacturing), Newburgh, New York <br /> <br />Land Developer: In this period, I finished the development of a 68 Unit Apartment development in <br />Newburgh, New York overlooking the Hudson River. There was a 100' drop in the 6 acre site. <br />Responsibilities were to develop final grading, and finish sanitary and storm sewer construction as well <br />as soil stabilization. I began my interest in Civil Engineering, Land Surveying and Land Based Calculations <br />at this time. <br /> <br />1974 -1977 Paul A Ledrer Land Surveying and Civil Engineering, Houston, Texas <br /> <br />Surveying and Civil Engineering Technician: During this period I worked in an apprenticeship program to <br />learn Civil Engineering and Land Surveying. I had developed new methods to convert apartment <br />buildings to condominiums, popular in those days. My duties included analysis of land surveying to <br />determine boundaries, subdivision platting, and civil engineering design. I began my learning of <br />computer programming and developed my own software to speed up the work at this company <br />investing in my own hardware. <br /> <br />1977-1982 Herman Blum Engineers, Dallas Texas <br /> <br />Head of Land Planning: I was responsible for all of the planning, but also took on much of the platting <br />and surveying calculation work. At the time Herman Blum Engineering was the largest engineering firm <br />in Texas serving private development, residential and commercial. It was also during this period that I <br />began marketing software I developed under the name Land Innovation. In 1980, we were contacted <br />by the Vice President of Hewlett Packard to develop software exclusively under their umbrella. By the <br />end of 1982 my income selling software exceeded the compensation I made in planning and I left <br />Hermann Blum to pursue Software Development and Sales full-time. <br /> <br />1982 -1994 Land Innovation, Inc. Maple Grove, Minnesota <br /> <br />I first opened an office in the Dallas Galleria to sell and support Site Computation and Design under Land <br />Innovation, Inc. Sales of the software was brisk and I decided to move to Minnesota and build a home- <br />office overlooking Fish Lake in Maple Grove. The earth-berm passive solar home was designed by me <br />and had a lOkW Bergey Wind Generator. In 1983 we had a Net-Zero home! During this period we sold <br />over $20,000,000 in systems to thousands of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors throughout the USA. As <br />head of the company I was responsible for software development, sales and training. It was also during <br />