Rick Kolstad
Senior Technical Consultant
- Strengthsfinder
- Ideation, Strategic, Relator, Maximizer, Futuristic
- Volunteer Organizations
- Treffert Way (Charter) School for the Exceptional Mind
More About Rick
I have been involved with internet ventures and companies since the days when your ISP had to send you floppies to get you on-the-line. These ventures eventually developed into wisnet.com, LLC in 1996. wisnet.com has been producing great web / database driven products, offering great service, harnessing brilliant ideas and creating a strong company culture ever since. In September 2023, our team at wisnet.com officially joined forces with Blue Door Consulting.
My formal education is in mechanical design engineering from Michigan Tech, but my real education has come from mentors, and experience of working with our awesome team and clients. I really enjoy finding solutions and efficiencies for challenges our customers bring to us. In my non-work time, I enjoy fat tire biking, road biking, water skiing, tinkering with old cars, and convertible road trips with my family. My weakness? Taco trucks!
Fun Facts
- First job or most unusual job
- Managing an electronic bulletin board system – TIBBS. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS_software_for_the_Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A ) – My parents were not too happy where people started calling our home phone to connect to the 300-baud modem.
- Guilty pleasure
- Road trips for good tacos, hot dogs, hamburgers, or ice cream.
- Pet peeve
- Seeing someone open their car door and smacking the car next to them. Cars have feelings, too.
- Favorite TV or Movie Character
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Favorite Movie
- Back to the Future
- Foodie or Not
- As long as it is tacos.
- What I Wanted to Be When I Grew Up
- Race car driver
- Some things you may not know about me:
- I write with my left hand and throw with my right hand. I used to think calculator watches were cool – now I know they were awesome! (but I don’t wear watches) Mosaic was my first web browser on a Mac II.
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