Meet The Team

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 10:35 PM

Meet Team SWE!

Here we are at the first company meeting at A Diver's World.

As a bonus the employees are going to enjoy Diving classes and equipment. Hopefully we are successful enough through the years to do more activities like this! The two guys on the right are Nick and Pat... Team ADW

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 10:44 PM

Name: Al

Position: Maintenance & Sales Team
Al makes sure all the water is flowing and at the right levels in the store. He also does the majority of WC, scrubbing, and other such elbow grease. He loves the high-end Stuff.

Personal Tank: 120 SPS dominate Reef.
Favorite Fish: Achilles Tang
Favorite Coral: Acropera

Al is an engineer student during the day, he pays for his reef addiction by working at the store at night!

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 10:56 PM

Name: Scott (AKA Lincoln Log)

Position: Parameter Boss & Assistant Sales Manager
Scott makes sure all the ALK, CA, MAG levels are at full growth levels. He is in charge of the sales floor every Monday and Thursday as well.

Personal Tanks: 178 Mixed Reef, 125 Fish Only
Favorite Fish: Bubba the Argus grouper
Favorite Coral: Millepora

Scott is a full time student. He has a long history of working with animals. Ask him about his days working with elephants!

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:03 PM

Name: Fritz

Position: Company Manager & Assistant Sales Manager
Fritz is in charge of the sales floor most Wednesdays, but his main job is working with vendors and shuffling large piles of paperwork.

Personal Tanks: Building a new SPS system in the basement

Favorite Fish: Fritz Jr.
Favorite Coral: ORA Red Planet.

Fritz dreams of having a HUGE office with a MASSIVE in wall divider-custom-Fish-Only tank within seven years

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:12 PM

Li moves too fast to get a lock on him for a picture...this was the best I could do:

Name: Li

Position: Sales Manager, product development, & Cherry Picker (also in charge of livestock-trade-in)
Li is in-charge of the sales floor every weekend (Friday - Sunday). Li is to credit for SWE having the best selection of Livestock and Drygoods in Minnesota!

Personal Tanks: 180Gal reef, lots of frag tanks, 90ish gal rimless LPS and Clam tank.
Favorite Fish: Diamond Goby Pair
Favorite Coral: echino (really, any coral with $$ on it)

Li lives and breaths reef tanks... he can't get enough. Right now, Li is looking forward to the great deals for new home owners so he can expand his TRP (total reef potential). Li is a founding member.

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:16 PM

Name: Casey

Position: Sales Team

Personal Tanks: 120 Mixed reef
Favorite Fish:
Favorite Coral:

Casey had to step down from his management position because of his goofy schedule working for the airline (Yes, he is the one who is in charge of whether your flight will be on time or not). Casey is a founding member of SWE and enjoys the days he can come in to chat with customers.

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:18 PM

Name: Sara Ribbens

Position: Accountant, personal shopper, party planner

Personal Tank: 29 Biocube mixed reef
Favorite fish: Diamond Goby
Favorite Coral: Florida Ricordea

Even our Bookie has a tank! Now that IS a reef store!

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:25 PM

Name: Mikaela (AKA Bruce)

Position: Sales Team

Personal Tanks:125 Mixed Reef
Favorite Fish: Black Cap Basslet
Favorite Invert: Tunicate

Michaela brings a special twist to Team SWE. She loves filter feeder tanks, live food, and many of the oddball items. Its a welcome change to all the SPS nuts on The Team.

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:34 PM

Name: Tim

Position: Sales Team

Personal Tanks: 75Gal Mixed Reef
Favorite Fish: Powder Brown Tang
Favorite Coral: Pink Birds Nest

Tim is our newest member. He comes from Underwater Adventures (that's the big aquarium up here). Despite working with millions of gallons of water every day, he needs his coral fix. Visit with Tim Thursday mornings if you would like to listen to stories of sharks, alligators and donkey dung, oh my!

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:37 PM

Name: Rain

Position: Sales Team

Personal Tank: 14Gal Biocube
Favorite Fish: Diamond Goby (are you seeing a trend here?)
Favorite Coral: Frogspawn

Rain picks up all the slack. Her love for fish almost equals her love for computers... almost

REEFSTOCK · 04-22-2009, 11:41 PM

There are plenty of other people who deserve to be on this page. Employees that have come and gone, customers who do more than their fair share to help make the dream to build "The Twin Cities Center for Marine Aquariums" come true, and family who bring us meals on busy days. Thank you one and all!

REEFSTOCK · 05-29-2009, 12:12 PM

Check out this cake Mikaela and her mom made for a private party at the store:

REEFSTOCK · 05-29-2009, 12:14 PM

The Green thing is Gumby... Gumby was on sale in the dog section at the wholesalers... I could not resist and put a few around the store. Do you know how many young people today don't know who Gumby is!!!! Sigh.