The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 18

Metro Edition The Pes Moines Register Page8B Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Central Iowa Networking Let us know about your good deeds, job changes and community donations. Send information to businessdmreg.com. You should get to People on the Move NEW JOBS mtjm I rr-4 WARREN MCKEE CEO, IRONCLAD SYSTEMS, WEST DES MOINES Budnik Pellegrin Duffy Riley Hogan has joined CBREHubbell Commercial in West Des Moines as a senior associate. Nicholas Pellegrin has joined Ahlers Cooney in Des Moines as an associate attorney. QA Graphics of Ankeny has hired: Amy Friedrichsen, graphic outsourcing Cade Ingle, graphic outsourcing Cindi Turner has joined Shive-Hattery Architecture and Engineering as a project manager.

Jim Ackermann is now regional sales manager for greater Des Moines with Sunset Transportation. Bradley Duffy has joined the Des Moines branch of Per Mar Security Services as general manager of physical security. The Members Group, a Des Moines financial and credit union service, has hired: Kari Budnik, marketing and communications Hillmer Valdez Van Dorn P'J i if I TV Bloom Weikum Decker SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER ternative. I feel best when clients tell me how happy I have made them by simply fixing their computer. What I do to get away from work: I love to play poker with my close group of friends.

I also like to take my two little boys to the local parks and watch movies with them before bed. How I give back to the Its? rsr 1 -Ji Business description: Ironclad Systems LLC is a veteran-owned local business dedicated to providing professional, efficient and affordable service to the greater Des Moines and West Des Moines areas. We offer an extensive variety of services from virus, spyware, and malware removal to wireless and wired networking to software installation and repair. Background: I have two associate's degrees, and I am pursuing a bachelor's degree in information systems security. I have 15 years of experience working with computers and worked as a systems administrator and independent consultant during that time.

In May, I opened my office in the Small Business Development Center's incubator program. I was also in the Iowa National Guard for six years and served a tour of duty as a military police officer in Baghdad, Iraq. Notable achievements: I graduated from ITT Technical Institute in Clive with highest honors and deployed to Iraq for a year, where I met some of my best friends and experienced utter culture shock. I started my company with no savings, loans or investors; every intern Annette Hillmer, fraud detection analyst I Giselle Valdez, fraud detection analyst I Mercedes Van Dorn, project consultant Janelle Weikum, centralized request center representative I Kuehl Moench Ritter This has led many youths to leave for a state with less expensive education. What Iowa can do to attract more people like me: Offer more services similar to the SBDC's incubator program, which teaches young professionals how to start, run and maintain a business and ensure they're not tripped up by taxes or incorporation.

My leadership philosophy: Between my experience as an E-S sergeant and team leader in the Army and owning my own business, I have found that it is imperative to remember your team members and employees are where you used to be. What I would do if I could do something else: I always secretly wanted to be an astronaut. The thought of leaving this world but being able to come back always amazed me. To contact me: Email me at warrenironclad systems.biz, or call (515) 864-8106. We're also on the web at www.ironclad systems.biz.

DwJ PROMOTIONS The Members Group has also promoted: Deb Bloom, fraud detection manager Dan Decker, cards risk unit manager Brandon Kuehl, product development architect Matt Moench, fraud-risk workflow analyst Chandra Ritter, cards education senices manager Wildt Sharpe Cindy Wildt, project consultant II community: I was an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America, am a lifetime member of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and am about to begin work with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa. Words to live by: "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." The best place in central Iowa to entertain clients or colleagues: I went to Fleming's Prime Steak-house for the first time in my life and experienced what can only be described as "food enlightenment." One thing I would change about the Des Moines area: I wish they would stop raising school prices and changing the rules of private colleges. Dave Sharpe has been promoted to manager at Hamilton Juffer Associates LLP. Drake-area helping hands A iTrJ thing I've done has been through slowly working my way to where I am now. Why I do what I do: I was tired of seeing people pay way too much money to big box stores simply because they had no al- These Wells Fargo employees worked on a Drake-area home as part of Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity Rebuilding Together's "Rock the Block" event that began in late September.

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