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David Drake has gained valuable experience through his
extensive work history. He acquired knowledge regarding sales force management,
pricing strategies, product positioning, inventory control, and market research
through his work with a novelty concession business catering to the state and
county fair markets. While working at McDonnell Douglas, David became fascinated
with manufacturing and the related human resources requirements. His involvement
assembling critical flight hardware provided him with experiences in strategic
business planning, just-in-time manufacturing, and inventory control. The
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Worker's Union prospected
him to volunteer time for union negotiations regarding labor contracts, human
resource management, and public relations. In May 1996, David graduated as a
Dean's Scholar from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of
Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing.
Throughout David's study of business principals he intertwined his student
projects around a product he called The Bed Desk. He invented his product after
rupturing 2 discs in his back so that he could keep up with the demands of an 80
hour scholastic work week where his goal was to gain formal knowledge to create
his products. While nearing graduation David began to form his company around
his flagship invention. Upon the introduction of his product at the 1996
California Book Fair it became "The Grand Prize." David has been continually
winning awards while conceptualizing and designing products both awake and
asleep as a child and adult and has now entered "the hunt" as a product
developer, manufacturer (although his products are all hand-made in the USA),
and marketer. David's dream is to "Build Visions Beyond Boundaries" and create
his products as affordable, high-quality gifts to share with the world.
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