Remodeling Bloggers

Bruce Case started his career with Case in 1996, and is a second-generation member of the Case family to serve on the senior management team. Bruce is President of Case Design/Remodeling, Inc., a leading full-service home improvement organization that includes CaseInstituteofRemodeling.com, an online knowledge database. And he also serves as President of Case Handyman and remodeling a software licensing and franchising firm with more than 100 territories nationwide. Bruce earned an undergraduate degree in Economics and Psychology from Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Business from George Mason University, and has obtained professional certifications in remodeling and green building practices, and in franchising and insurance. He currently resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, daughter, dog and cat.

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Ed Voytovich, a 40-year remodeling veteran, is BPI-certified, a HERS Rater, a licensed home inspector in N.Y. state, and has a Ph.D. in English literature. Most recently he has served as the executive director of the Building Performance Contractors Association of NYS and as a consulting adviser to Building Efficiency Resources. He now works with Home Energy Performance by Halco, in central New York. Reach him at ed@TheBER.com.

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Greg Antonioli founded Out of the Woods Construction and Cabinetry Inc. in 1992. With more than $3 million in revenues in 2009, Out of the Woods is a design/build firm that does strictly residential remodeling, historically in the Boston suburbs and increasingly in the city. The company has 13 employees (eight in the field, five in the office), practices open-book management, and enjoys a company-wide bonus program. Greg is a long-time member of Remodelers Advantage Roundtables, president of the Eastern Massachusetts NARI chapter, and a Sandler Sales trainee. He is also an avid reader of business books and periodicals, a regular magazine contributor, and (some have said) a twisted thinker. Greg believes that his company’s #1 obligation is to its construction clients. He believes that company time and resources spent on sales is time that should be spent serving construction clients, therefore sales and design efforts must be very efficient. One of every three of the prospects with whom Greg meets becomes a design client, and 100% of those design clients convert to construction clients. Greg is a native of California’s Silicon Valley area and a graduate of Santa Clara University. He and his wife have three daughters and live in Acton, Mass.

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Jim Cory is editor of Replacement Contractor, a Hanley Wood publication for roofing, siding and window contractors. Prior to the launch of Replacement Contractor, in the fall of 2002, he was Senior Editor at Remodeling. He contributes to both Remodeling and Replacement Contractor as well as their respective Web sites. He organizes the Replacement Contractor Executive Conference, an annual event focusing on sales and marketing in the home improvement industry.

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After her first job in construction and seeing a company rise and fall due the lack of “strong internal controls, clear goals or respect for the numbers,” Judith formed her own company. The goal of J. Miller and Company was to help owners develop more professional construction companies which would provide exceptional service to both clients and employees and a balanced life to the owner. Now, Judith is a Seattle-based construction business consultant and trainer specializing in accounting, finance, and computerization.

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Kyle Hunt is the owner of Remodel Your Marketing and creator of The Excellence Club. After years of experience in the remodeling industry, Kyle now installs his proven and practical Marketing System for remodelers throughout the United States. Kyle resides in Michigan with his wife, Sarah, and their three children, Thomas, Piper, and Calvin. Contact Hunt at 517-548-7140 or email him at kyle@remodelyourmarketing.com. Follow Kyle on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/KyleHunt

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Lauren joined Hanley Wood in 2006 with a focus on bringing trends and new products information to the readers of Remodeling, Replacement Contractor, and Upscale Remodeling magazines. When she's not in the office, Lauren travels to industry trade shows nationwide to keep up-to-date on new products and tools available to the building trades. She'll be sure to share details on what she finds on the trade show floor in her posts on the Remodeling blog.

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Michael Anschel is the owner and principal of Otogawa-Anschel Design Build, a nationally recognized and award-winning design and build firm and a committed leader to the green building movement in Minnesota. A native of Minneapolis, he lived and worked in China as a teacher and TV show host, returning to Minnesota to study sculpture at university before forming his company in 1997. Among other professional affiliations, Michael is vice-chair of the board of directors of Minnesota GreenStar and CEO of Verified Green, Inc., which consults with builders, remodelers, architects, and state and city officials on green building.

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Nina Patel is a Senior Editor for Remodeling magazine and a Deputy Editor for Upscale Remodeling magazine. She has covered the residential construction industry for 15 years, writing about everything from products and building technology to sales and design. She can be reached at npatel@hanleywood.com.

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Paul Winans' career runs parallel to the changes in the remodeling industry over the last 40 years. From beginnings as a carpenter who didn’t want to run a business, Paul teamed with his wife, Nina, to build a highly successful remodeling company. After almost three decades, Paul and Nina sold the business to someone outside the company, a rare event in the industry. As a business owner, Paul once saw competitors as threats; over time, he came to regard them as allies, an attitude that propelled him to the office of President of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry. Once too shy to speak in public, Paul has for years addressed remodeling audiences at trade shows and conferences around the country. Today, Paul works as a facilitator for Remodelers Advantage, and as a consultant to remodeling business owners. Paul believes there is no one right way to do things, even though he certainly wishes there was. In his blog, Paul provides his unique perspective about life, the universe and other related matters. To learn more about Paul and the work he does now go to www.remodelersadvantage.com and www.winansconsulting.com. Paul can reached at paul@remodelersadvantage.com.

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Sal Alfano spent roughly half of his 20 years in the construction business learning the trade and the other half owning and operating a residential design-build company in central Vermont. He switched careers in 1991 and spent 10 years on the staff of The Journal of Light Construction. He joined Remodeling as Editor-in-Chief in 2001.

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Stacey Freed, a senior editor at Remodeling magazine, has been an editor, writer, and teacher. In addition to writing feature articles for Remodeling and Upscale Remodeling, she edits the Guest Column, Ways & Means, and By Design departments of Remodeling. Contact her with questions or comments at sfreed@hanleywood.com.

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Shawn McCadden founded, operated, and sold a successful design/build company. A co-founder of the Residential Design/Build Institute and former director of education for a national K&B remodeling franchise, Shawn speaks at industry events and consults with remodeling companies. Visit his site at www.shawnmccadden.com, or email him at shawnm@charter.net.

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Steve Gray is the owner of Steve Gray Renovations Inc. in Indianapolis, Indiana. Steve’s vision is to bring professionalism to the home renovation industry. He works with homeowners to turn their renovation dreams into reality using a proven process that creates long-term relationships through four core tenants: honesty, integrity, quality and craftsmanship.

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Ted Cushman attended Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., served for 4 years as a U.S. Army paratrooper, and worked as a frame and finish carpenter for 7 years before joining the staff of The Journal of Light Construction (JLC), where he anchored the news desk for 4 years and edited technical and business feature articles. In his 15-year career as a construction photo-journalist, Ted has earned a national reputation for insightful, accurate, and practical coverage of homebuilding techniques, building science, and housing economics. Ted now covers the homebuilding industry as a freelance writer from his base in the hills of Western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, psychiatrist Cynthia Cushman. Ted and Cynthia have three sons (Jack, Adrian, and Isaiah).

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Tim Nagle is the president of Remodel Buddy, a business organization specializing in coaching and peer roundtables. Tim is active as a speaker in the industry on building a culture of success in remodeling and home improvement businesses and how to develop a marketing system. In the beginning of his career, Tim Nagle took over a local home improvement business with a $1.4 million volume and yearly profit loss of $200,000 and used systems and processes to grow the company in five years into a $10 million company with an annual net profit of $1.4 million. He was also in a partnership for 15 years which evolved into a large, national home improvement company. You can reach him at tim@RemodelBuddy.com or 804-614-5132.

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