{"id":2301,"date":"2010-11-01T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.167.124.155\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:25:32","slug":"tca-welcomes-new-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2010\/11\/01\/tca-welcomes-new-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"TCA Welcomes New Employee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TCA increased its staff by nearly 100% effective August 1.<\/p>\n

Mitch Bloomquist, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa native, has joined the Sauter Baty management team as a full-time employee of the TCA. Mitch\u2019s background and training is similar\u00a0to that of Jim and myself in that his education was in architecture. After working for a couple of years at a Cedar Rapids firm, Mitch decided he was up for a bigger challenge and a change in career paths. Mitch wasn\u2019t new to us as he interned for the Mount Vernon City Commission during his summers (working out of our office) while attending Cornell College\u00a0in Mount Vernon. He finished his education at Washington University in Saint Louis.<\/p>\n

We have to un-teach Mitch what he has learned in architecture school and while working for an architect\u00a0but Mitch is a fast learner. What we can\u2019t undo, we\u2019ll see if we can get a few of our contractor members to set him straight. Mitch\u2019s personality, work ethic, and dedication are something we have been looking for the past several years. We like him and we think you will too.<\/p>\n

Increasing our overhead while\u00a0the economy is faltering might be considered a risk but, as one board member put it, that\u2019s why we build\u00a0our reserve. As most of you know, business volume may be down but the amount of work per employee is as high, if not higher, than it was before the slow-down.<\/p>\n

Mitch\u2019s initial responsibilities will\u00a0be the awards programs and publications. Later he will work into meeting planning, committee liaison work, and as he becomes more familiar with the intricacies of Tilt-Up, some technical and member duties. Jim and I will continue to handle golf, wine, coffee and other related responsibilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If your plans this winter include a trip to the World of Concrete, make sure you stop by and meet Mitch. He will be the one doing all the work. He can be reached at our office at 319-895-6911 number or at mbloomquist@tilt-up.org.<\/p>\n

Ed Sauter, Executive Director<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TCA increased its staff by nearly 100% effective August 1. Mitch Bloomquist, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa native, has joined the Sauter Baty management team as a full-time employee of the TCA. Mitch\u2019s background and training Read more…<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,1],"tags":[112,130,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-2301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-from-the-director","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-message-from-the-director","9":"tag-new-employee","10":"tag-tca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7466,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}