Background
Just the facts…
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Email john at johnsarnowski.com
Born 1949. Married to Marcia (Felker) Sarnowski for thirty-five years , raised three sons, David, Daniel, and Jacob who have all attended Onalaska schools and enjoyed life here in God’s Country.
B. A. 1970 from Saint Mary's College, Winona Minnesota
Work History
Theologian - Newman Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin 1970-1972 -Started the AVIS Free School on the campus
Sales Manager/Buyer – Western Distributing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1972-1974
Property Manager – Raymond Development Company, Onalaska, Wisconsin 1974-1984 - Managed 350 residential rental units. Worked as the Project Manager on the Center 90 area expansion.
Owner – Great River Systems/MicroAge, La Crosse/Onalaska, Wisconsin 1983-1991- Designed the "Learning Center" concept for systems integrators. Taught courses in Computer Aided-Design, Computer Aided Manufacturing for IBM, Sun and sessions for the IEEE.
Product Manager- Indus MIS, West Salem, Wisconsin 1991-1993 - Designed Imaging Software.
Director, Imaging Products- Northern Micrographics, La Crosse, Wisconsin 1993-Present - Created Imaging conversion systems used in "The Making of America Project" among others.
Owner – Sarney Systems, Onalaska, Wisconsin 1979-Present - Wrote software for Pork Production, Kiln Inventory Systems, Precision ART, Coop Milk Disbursements, Gasoline Wholesaling, and Title Insurance Systems.
NON PROFIT and Consulting Work
First President and co-founder La Crosse Personal Computer User Group
First President and co-founder La Crosse Area Communication Consortium
Former Treasurer / Vice President ClearWater Farm Foundation
Director The ResCarta Foundation, Inc.
Consultant to Fast Cad, Phoenix, Arizona
Consultant to The Trane Company, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Consultant to Hawkins Ash Baptie Certified Accountants, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Consultant to MicroAge Computer Stores, Tempe, Arizona
Formerly Licensed Real Estate Broker in the State of Wisconsin
Formerly Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriages, San Diego County, California
Awards
Awarded the Ideas into Action Award by MicroAge Corporate of Tempe Arizona
Speaker/Presenter/
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "CAD/CAM" conference Chicago, Illinois
IBM "Computer Integrated Manufacturing" Minneapolis, Minnesota
SUN Microsystems "Intelligent Documentation" Madison, Wisconsin
Hewlett-Packard "Office Document Systems" New York, New York
American Library Association "ResCarta" San Diego, California
Internet Librarian "Why Digital will fail and what we can do about it." Monterey, California
Wisconsin Library Association "Imaging A-Z" La Crosse, Wisconsin
OCLC "Digital Archiving" Madison, Wisconsin
University of Minnesota "Creating E-Books:Resources and Issues Involved with Scanning/OCR"
American Library Association "ResCarta"
WEMA 'Hands on XML: A “Tour”of Extensible Markup Language'
Presenter of Continuing Education Courses
Texas Library Association "MAKING
A DIGITAL COLLECTION: A COOKBOOK"
Maine Library Association "Making the Digital Garden Grow"
Special Libraries Association
"Digitization—Open-Source Software for Integrating Digital Collections"
Politics
Write-In candidate for Mayor of Onalaska 2000, garnered 31% of the vote in a three way election after an 18day campaign.
Candidate for State Senate 32 District of Wisconsin
2nd District Alderperson - City of Onalaska 2001-2003
Administrative committee - City of Onalaska 2001-2003
Library Commission, Chair - City of Onalaska 2001-2003
Technology Advisory Commission - City of Onalaska 2001-2003
Judiciary Committee - City of Onalaska 2001-2003
Plan Commission, Chair - City of Onalaska 2001-2003