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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n1. When did you start working at Fuel and what inspired you to join the company?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I started working at Fuel in the summer of 2011 as employee #9. I worked with our two founders for many years at Amplifon USA, and they reached out to me with an opportunity to join their new company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. What is your professional background?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I graduated from George Fox university in Newberg, Oregon with a degree in Accounting. I stumbled into the hearing aid industry in 1999 via an open accounting position with Sonus, which was then based in Portland, Oregon before being acquired by Amplifon. I spent the next 10 years of my career with Amplifon, moving to Minnesota where I gained great experience as an inside sales rep, then a manager of the inside sales team, then as the director of HearPO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Fun fact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In the mid to late 90s, I was the lead singer of a garage band where we would perform small shows in barns, weddings and college parties. At one wedding, we sang \u2018Better Man\u2019 by Pearl Jam, which was basically a song about a girl who simply settles for a jerk instead of waiting for someone better. We didn\u2019t really pay attention to lyrics then. The groom was a good friend at the time who still hasn\u2019t accepted my Facebook request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. An amusing experience you\u2019ve encountered while working at Fuel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
My first month at Fuel, I was on the phone with a practice administrator whose doctor was out of the office that day. She shared with me that things were just crazy in the office. In a room full of new peers who I would later learn believed that mockery was the best form of training, I asked her whether it was \u201cgood crazy, bad crazy, or \u2018doctor out of the office crazy.\u2019\u201d This immediately generated the kind of snickering you\u2019d expect to hear in a grade school classroom. To this day, six years later, when I make the mistake of using the term \u2018crazy\u2019 in front of those same peers, I am asked to clarify whether I mean good crazy, bad crazy, or \u2018doctor out of the office\u2019 crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Speak now or forever hold your peace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Being able to witness and be a part of the growth of our company\u2026from 9 employees to 90 has been crazy. Good crazy, to be specific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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