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About the Owner

	Tom D'Ambrosio has been involved in sales, service and the support of various products and services since his college days,(1973-1977), at Northern Michigan University.  After school he returned to southeast Michigan, where he had grown up and landed a good job at National Lumber Company.  After a severe building down turn in the early 80's, Tom ended up making a career shift by entering into the electronics industry.  At that time, he joined Sharp Electronics Corporation and was appointed Regional Manager in the Retail Systems Division where he successfully built a territory of quality dealers throughout the Midwest.  After traveling extensively for several years he was offered a "stay at home job" as Retail Systems Manager for one of his favorite dealerships, CRS, Inc. of Kalamazoo. There he spent 5+ years selling Cash Registers, computer based Point-of-Sale and Video Surveillance Systems.  He was also very much involved in the everyday management and decision making of that multiple location corporation.  In 1990 however, Tom decided to take a big pay cut and return home to where his heart was, beautiful northern Michigan.  As they say, "A view of the bay is worth a cut in pay".  After becoming an independent contractor at that point in his career, he continued his successful marketing of the same types of electronic systems.  In 1998, Tom built a new home/office in the Houghton Lake area in an effort to more centrally locate himself as he still represents several companies throughout a large part of Michigan. In June of 93', Tom suffered a spinal cord injury which had little effect on his business operations and actually got him more involved in some new activities, as pictured on the left, (competitively riding in the US Air Force Marathon on September 19, 2009). Today, Tom is very actively involved in the sport of handcycling, logging 2000+ miles per season and competing in numerous regional races around the upper Midwest.  Tom also considers himself an activist an advocate for the disabled community and does consulting work relating to accessibility and other disability related issues.
About the Business
	Oak Forest Sales & Consulting LLC, Tom's newest venture, was officially launched during the late summer of 2008 through the gracious and top notch help and guidance of Chuck Nienhius of Michigan Rehabilitation Services,  Mike Vuillemot of the Labelle Entrepreneurial Center at Central Michigan University, Ed Keeter from Keeter Consulting, and also Andrea Graham of Graham Consulting, who put all the marketing materials together for the new project.   After accumulating a wealth of sales experience over many years, Tom has decided to expand his talents and teach basic sales classes which are based upon what he has learned from a host of sources. Some of the course is derived from the book, The Best Seller, written by famous author Ron Willingham. Tom conducts the half day classes for small groups of business students in a casual, fun and interactive setting.  Oak Forest Sales is also a business whereby Tom can possibly represent products from your business in places that your current advertising and marketing schemes are not reaching. One of the very successful products represented by Tom's company is a great emergency preparedness product called the EMERGENTag™. Tom regularly travels the highways and back roads throughout most of Michigan as he calls on businesses of all types and sizes.  Perhaps he can expose your products or services to an all new customer base while professionally representing your company on a mutually beneficial and easy term contract basis?  Tom also has 17+ years of Internet experience and is willing to teach on-line selling and or help you plan and set up your own sales web sites. He can also teach clients how to utilize on-line auction houses like eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, uBid and similar mass sales sites.  Another service offered by Tom's new business is basic computer hardware, software and or Internet training.  Again, small casual interactive groups are Tom's key to teaching clients what they want to learn in a short period of time at a very reasonable cost.  In fact, affordability in today's business atmosphere is a positive factor which applies to all of Oak Forest's service offerings!

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Contact Information

Tom D'Ambrosio
President & CEO

Oak Forest Sales & Consulting LLC
225 Chippendale Drive
Houghton Lake, Michigan  48269-9147

(989) 422-2950
tom@oakforestsales.com