Mr. Peter D. Visel

Peter Daniel Visel

5255 Oak Tree Valley Place Paso Robles, CA 93446 (805) 237-2661 Email: peterd@seeword.com

Experience: SeeWord Technology is owned and was founded by Peter Daniel Visel.SeeWord Technology was started as a Value Added Reseller (VAR), providing on-site sales and service for Apple Computer products.
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Mr. Visel served for ten years as the Information Systems Manager, Facilities & Operations Manager, for the world's largest provider of research antibodies, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, with locations in Santa Cruz and Paso Robles, California and Heidelberg, Germany.As the Manager of Information Systems, he provided team guidance and hands on work in a multiplatform environment, which covered not just primary Macintosh OS based computer systems, but also telephony, security and emergency power systems.In addition, he served as Manager, Facilities & Operations for numerous locations within the United States and Germany for Santa Cruz Biotechnology and multiple related businesses at a myriad of locations.He had overall responsibility for acquisition and deployment of computers systems, components, peripherals, storage and management of technical support staff.During his tenure, Mr. Visel retained overall responsibilty for multiple web sites which account for over a million hits every week day, (scbt.com, e-biomed-gmbh.com, san-juan-ranch.com, plus multiple related sites), with implementation and execution of external and internal sites, e-commerce, customer contact and related staff.
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Mr. Visel served as General Manager, User Group Store, Soquel, California, part of the User Group Connection, an organization spun off from Apple Computer, which provided support for Apple affinity groups.He was tasked with the overall responsibility for general management of $10 million/year, start-up, mail-order catalog company marketing to Apple affinity groups.His responsibilities included purchasing of computers, components, peripherals, and managing others who did the same while maintaining relationships with vendors and developed consumer marketing groups.He was ultimately responsible for product selection, pricing, sales training, and motivation and general supervision of sales and warehouse staff, network setup and maintenance.In addition responsible for on-line database maintenance.

Peter Visel was the owner and founder of a part time business, SeeWord Graphics, in Santa Cruz, California during 1986.It started as a hobby and he concentrated on the Desktop Publishing market designing brochures, marketing materials, business helps, for friends and family.The hobby grew as a direct result of techical advancements by Apple Computer his association with companies such as Adobe.Due to his reputation with his peers and support he developed during those years, he felt there was a real need to reorganize the business to a more technical side of desktop publishing and SeeWord Technology was born in the early part of 1990.

During the years 1986 to December 1992 Mr. Visel was working as the senior estimator for Spacious Living Construction and Vice President, Powell Construction Group, Soquel, California, two separate multimillion dollar construction groups.He was responsible for purchasing production materials, establishing and installing computerized estimating, job tracking systems.It was there, that his first love for computer systems began to grow.Following an major earthquake, which hit Santa Cruz, he developed a simplified Excel spreadsheet based system for quickly estimating material needs for residential projects.In addition, with the advent of computerized drafting programs, he found that his initial foray into the drafting field was quickly accepted by the local building departments resulting in expeditious building permit processes.

Previous to this time period, Peter Visel spent 8 years with 84 Lumber Company rising from a salesman/trainee to a District/Regional manager over 17 multi-million dollar lumber, home repair & contractor resale outlets in northern California.He was responsible for all aspects of personnel and store management, profitability, purchasing, developing and maintaining inventory controls to suite each individual store requirement.It was during this time period that Mr. Visel was first introduced to computerized business systems as he managed the transition from an all manual data entry system to a completely computerized system.Although he had been trained in various computer systems in the past, it was during this tenure that he developed a vast appreciation for the capabilities of 1's and 0's.

Travel: Peter is an avid world wide traveller, whether it was for work or pleasure.He has lived, not just in the United States, but spent five years living in Germany and two in Italy.During his life span, his passport has been stamped in over 76 different countries and his size 11 shoes have kicked up the dust in 48 of the United States.It's a small world, after all!

Skills: Extensive experience in multiple ongoing project management, sales training, motivation and presentation, employee management, public speaking, purchasing and business management.

For instance, Peter Visel, information systems manager at Santa Cruz Biotechnology was quoted by TechWeb's Mitch Wagner saying: "It's a very stable system.The G3 servers never go down.The thing has never crashed."That is, as opposed to the PC servers running Windows NT Visel administrates, which he says "need a lot of babying."

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In other board action, Peter Visel was elected Vice President and Cheryl Everett was elected Board Secretary.

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Peter Visel was raised in a large family from the midwest whom believed in serving their country.His father was an aeronautical machinist with the Navy during WWW II.His oldest brother Rob, served with the Marines in Okinawa, second and third oldest brothers served with the Army in Viet Nam, while two of his younger brothers served in the Air Force, one graduating from the AF Academy and spent his career tracking satellites and surveliance (as does his wife-whom outranked him when he retired) and the other, a heavy equipment operator in England.One of his older sisters served as a nurse in the Army, assigned to the US Army Hospital, Augsburg, Germany at the same time Peter was assigned to the HQ, US Army Medical Command, Europe.Peter's wife, Candy, served with the Navy.Current totals: Navy - 2, Marines -1, Air Force - 3, Army - 4.Go Army!

Peter served from 1971 through 1977, had his orders for Viet Nam recinded with the phase-down, and spent the next 6 years in Europe with the Operations and Intelligence Division of the HQ, US Army Medical Command Europe, the Chief Surgeon's Office (Heidelberg, Germany) and a short stint in between HQ commands with the 45th Field Hospital (on the Italian Riviera).He served as a liaison between the State Department and the General Hospital units providing medical care for special foreign nationals (heads of state, etc).He worked on special projects consolidating medical care for the Army and AF in Europe and the Middle East following the end of doctor draft after the Viet Nam conflict ended, and served as the Nuclear Surety Liasion between the Chief Surgeon and the Commander in Chief, US Army Europe, as part of the Nuclear Surety Program, which tracked medical coverage and accessibility for units working with nuclear weapons.

Mr. Visel served for ten years as the Information Systems Manager, Facilities & Operations Manager, for the world's largest provider of research antibodies, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, with locations in Santa Cruz and Paso Robles, California and Heidelberg, Germany.During his tenure, Mr. Visel retained overall responsibilty for all corporate IT operations to include multiple web sites which accounted for over a million hits every day.

In 1990, Peter founded SeeWord Technology, a Value Added Reseller, providing on-site sales and service for Apple Computer products.

Mr. Visel served as part owner and General Manager, User Group Store, Soquel, California, part of the User Group Connection, an organization spun off from Apple Computer, which provided support for Apple affinity groups and developed an online catalog.

Peter Visel was also the owner and founder of a part time business, SeeWord Graphics, in Santa Cruz, California during 1986-1988.It started as a hobby and he concentrated on the Desktop Publishing market designing brochures, marketing materials, business helps, for friends and family.The hobby grew as a direct result of technical advances by Apple Computer and his association with companies such as Adobe.Due to his reputation with his peers and support he developed during those years, he felt there was a real need to reorganize the business to a more technical side of desktop publishing and SeeWord Technology was born in the early part of 1990.

Peter is an avid world wide traveller, whether it was for work or pleasure.He has lived, not just in the United States, but spent five years living in Germany and two in Italy.During his life span, his passport has been stamped in over 76 different countries and his size 11 shoes have kicked up the dust in 48 of the United States.It's a small world, after all!

Mr. Visel recently has been certified by the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals as a Certified Food Safety Manager.

Peter and his wife Candy have raised three daughters and two sons.For hobbies, he enjoys flying, deep sea fishing, construction and traveling.

AACUG Executive Director, Dan Sailers introduced AACUG President, Peter Visel who delivered the opening address and welcome to delegates and guests.
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Peter is former Manager of the User Group Store, and continues his dedicated involvement in his local user group community as President of the Santa Cruz (CA) Mac User Group. Master of Ceremonies, Bob "Dr.Mac" LeVitus, entertained the crowd of enthusiastic user group officers and members with the presentation of awards and his well known wit.Throughout the evening, Planet Hollywood butlers circulated with trays of international hors d'oeuvres, fruits and pastries.

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The User Group Academy would like to see your group in the User Group Academy Awards.It's very easy, and your group deserves the credit and recognition that you've worked so hard for.

Peter ViselmaCruzers of Santa Cruz

Peter has been involved with user groups since first joining in 1986 and promptly became part of the leadership from that point on.He is the current chairman for maCruzers of Santa Cruz and Vice Chairman for Parjaro Valley Mac User Group.Peter was one of the founding members and general manager of the original User Group Store as part of the User Group Connection.He established SeeWord Technology in 1990 as an Apple VAR, and joined one of his clients as the Information Systems and Facilities/ Operations Manager for Santa Cruz Biotechnology, the world's largest provider of research antibodies (and the largest Mac oriented company in Santa Cruz County).Peter has enjoyed evangelizing Macintosh in over 65 different countries.

SeeWord Technology - Apple VAR (Peter Visel)