Our Team
Family culture has long been fostered - and has been nutured still more strongly since Shea came on board as President of Operations. The "flat" organizational structure and culture encourage and develops delegation, personal responsibilities, personal growth, and continuing exploration of fresh methods, goals, technologies and creative solutions to old or new issues!
Consequently you see lots of good people on staff, and they stay and grow. Read our staff bios and you can see what they have added since they came here. Or if you are looking for a specific contact or contact information, see below.
(To send emails, please use this format: first initial plus last name @ amerlandscape.com.
e.g. Sam Smith would be: ssmith@amerlandscape.com.)
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Your 1st most likely first phone contact! Tammy Lee |
Experience: Wide experience in similar positions in many types of manufacturing & distribution businesses, ranging from paper products to air craft parts. Special Expertise: Friendly and always willing to help! Associate Degree - Data Processing WWTI Bio: She & her family live nearby here in Menomonee Falls. Originally growing up near LaCrosse, her parents still live on the family farm. She earned her degree in LaCrosse. Her husband is an IT Engineer with a large equipment manafucturing firm her in the Falls. Her daughter is a highschooler and figure skater with 32 medals & 3 trophies from many competitions, including two nationals (Colorado Springs & San Diego) with a third coming up in Hershey, Pa. Her son is a middle schooler and an aspirint speed skater, who participates in Badger Speed Skate Club & Lego Robotics Team. Tammy enjoys crafts like Cross-stiching, but perhaps rarely when she isn't being "skaters mom." |
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Your 2nd most likely phone contact. |
Experience: Very diverse experience! Special Expertise: Eager to help and share a smile. Associate Degree - Accounting WCTC (recent grad) Bio: Married with 3 children (boy 12 & girls 10 & 6). Dawn is a girl scout leader for both of her daughters' troups. She also is Coach for Odysey of the Mind (a creative problem solving think-outside-the-box program) for both her son's and oldest daughter's teams, and their competitions. So she is a busy lady. And her husband is a busy man as a Senior Financial Analyst.
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Your 3rd most likely phone contact!
Pam Singsheim |
Experience: 30+ years of business management & accounting in a variety of settings, including 20+ years in manufacturing of tool & die progressive & stamping dies along with many other manufacturing (including airplane parts). Special Expertise & Qualifications ISO 9000 Certified Why American Landscape? Pam likes the energies that combine here in teamwork: "All are 'playing' well together here." Hence she aims to draw on her prior experience and skills to participate in the teaching of quality improvement and teamwork effectiveness. While the landscape industry is new to her---she finds the atmosphere at American fresh and invigorating each and every day and every hour and minute of the day. There is more to learn every day---let us live it now! "I cannot help liking the people here." Bio: The first thing you notice is her "sunny" disposition. Always the smile---and often a quick quip. And if there is a problem to solve, she delves right into it, there is a solution: "Just for grins, let's try this!" Pam loves the outdoors---the cliff behind her house with its overlook, the Revelation that takes place in Spring, putting her hands in the soil,....and hiking, hunting & fishing. And, of course, she fits right in here: she's another Harley enthusiast! ("A Motorcycle is a must, in the same way a Christmas tree has to come in winter!") Pam's family is diverse: married 30 years, with 4 adult children in the combined families---so lots of love for all. |
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Gary Schaefer, CSP, CLP
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Experience: 21 years experience Special Expertise: The only CSP - LICM in Wisconsin! CSP - Certified Snow Professional - one of only 4 in Wisconsin Qualifications: Broad background in customer & technical services, from Surveying to Landscaping Bio: Personally engaging, a good listener, and highly observant of customer grounds and needs. Especially committed to people and good communications and service; proving it over and over again; afraid of nothing. On his wall are lots of family pix of his daughter and son, favorite hockey players, including a full size standup signed by "Wayne Gretzky" and a pix of him in the bush of NW Australia! Should we say, "Crocidille Gary . . .?" |
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Chris Bolda, ASLA
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Experience: 26 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: Professional Landscape Architect Recognized by American Society of Landscape Architects Excellence in Hardscape Award 2007 for a challenging outdoor living space design & install Landscape Specialities: Hardscapes including walls, outcroppings, pool landscapes, patios and all types of pavers. Softscapes including plantings, perennials, annuals, ornamentals, trees, shrubs and much, much more. Bio: A ready smile and at ease and confident in all things landscape. Customers enjoy meeting with him, and so does all our staff, too! Married to Angela 15 years, with son Joseph (Joey), and their dog "Buster." Chris enjoys all things outdoors - certainly hunting and skiing. But his big extra-curricular activities are coaching youth sports, football, baseball, basketball and wrestling; he also appears frequently in the role of "Dad, the Trombone Transporter." |
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Steve Dunne |
Experience: 39 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: Steve is particularly gifted in residential landscapes and particularly expert in "native" landscapes. His "softscapes" including plantings, perennials, annuals, ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and more are dynamite. Adding or specializing "hardscapes" such as walls, outcroppings, patios, walks, and water features, are done with ease. Among his awards is a first place landscape for a prominent photographer set in a unique atrium studio, including a wterfall in a natural setting. Qualifications: Experience (in Spades!!) AND earned professional degrees in horticulture and marketing from two of SE Wisconsin's specialty colleges, followed by years of university "short courses" in landscape design, trees, lawn care, and horticulture. He is equally at home in a greenhouse, nursery, a landscape needing renovation or one having no landscape at all. Bio: Steve is very comfortable with all types of clients, residential, commercial, condominium, and smaller home landscapes, or prominent names from the Lake Country to Mequon to Lake Drive, even a one-owner island property. People enjoy meeting and working with Steve. He can offer emphases from delicate and beautiful to functional and pragmatic. Married 26 years to "Bernie" - both from big families - with 2 college age daughters in Arizona or Madison. They love to go to their "up north" cabin and the campfires - but truly, they love most their home backyard gardening, both vegetables and flowers. Each year Steve puts together 35 large planters with flowers to decorate the patio. He knows and loves native plants and visiting botanical gardens near and far. |
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John Olson, CSP
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Experience: 28 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: CSP - Certified Snow Professional - one of only 4 in Wisconsin Qualifications: Experience (rich, long and varied) AND earned degree in horticulture at UW-Madison. A vast array of knowledge and experience in the landscape industry, most of it with prominent landscape maintenance and landscape companies. Bio: Humble. Great sense of the humor in all things. And a person for whom it is Morning, as in Good Morning! A geniune professional: dedicated, thorough, unfailingly honest - and a genuine servant to others - family, customers, work. Loyal customers earned again over and over. Hopefully you will bring John to your site soon. Married to Cheri 20 years, with five children ranging in age from 12 to 27. Loves his out-of-doors, especially the garden. |
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Ryan Farina, CLT
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Experience: 15 years in Landscape Industry, 6 with American Landscape Special Expertise: LICT - Landscape Industry Certified Technician - Softscapes (Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals) Qualifications: Experienced Crew Leader; considerable knowledge of plants and "softscapes." Bio: A real outdoorsman - hiking, fishing, hunting, and those annual family hunting trips to South Dakota. He treasures his two children, a boy and a girl. |
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Jay Schmidt, ISA Certified Arborist
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Experience: 28 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: ISA Certified Arborist International Society of Arborculture rigorous exam Certified Arborist Qualifications: Experience! - years with trees and horticultural services and lawn care, including considerable experience leading and supervising crews, scheduling, managing, as well as working with customers, performing everything from dianostics to treatments, prunings, and take-downs. Bio: Jay and his wife Cheryl have been married 28 years and have 2 adult children. He describes themselves are mainly "homebodies" who like to work outside, keep their garden, and take that special once-a-year Carribean vacation in Cancun, coming back looking very native. He may be a "homebody", but everyone who knows him find him delightfully affable, loves a conversation, and giver of generous doses of dead-pan humor. He knows and loves his trees (and his lawns) but he assures you that does NOT hug them. |
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Brian Kuecker, LICT, ICPI-CI, NCMA-SRW, LRS-QI
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Experience: 15 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: LICT- Landscape Industry Certified Technician - Exterior Qualifications: Brian possesses many years experience and acquired knowledge and skills in both working in and training, motivating and managing crews working in all aspects of landscape construction and renovation, with a specialty both in knowledge of and passion for "hardscapes" such as retaining walls, brick paver patios and walks, decks and pond construction. Brian is equally at home with plantings, trees, shrubs and mulching and edging - and in all facets of Landscape Maintenance, from lawns to shrubs and trees. Clients find him personable and knowledgeable, and very articulate in communicating and understanding landscapes and clients needs and wants. Bio: Brian has won several all-company awards, including the "Presidents Award," top recognition at the President's Annual Awards - Company Meeting. Outside of work he loves his family and friends, especially "around a fire." Married to Kari 15 years and have teenage daughters Hannah and Morgan. And there is also the Harley! |
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Mark Jones, ISA Certified Arborist |
Experience: 23 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: ISA Certified Arborist Qualifications: His mature knowledge and experience includes flower design and planting, tree and shrub care & pruning, all aspects of horticultural maintenance - shrubbery, perennials, annuals, ornamental trees and shade trees. Not only has he studied and worked in all these areas, he also has worked directly with customers as a supervisor, department manager, and/or account representative. Very cordial and affable, customers will find him a worthy source for both information and for management of the Technical Horticulture Maintenance personnel serving their landscape. Technical Horticulture: Mark's department provides flower plantings, pruning of shrubbery & ornamental trees (deciduous and evergreen), weeding programs for landscape and planting beds, vegetation control for walks, pavement, curb seams, foundation bases, fences - and for smaller lawns may also include mowing & lawn care. Bio: A genuine Outdoorsman: hunting & fishing, especially if it is in Wyoming or the UP. Loves softball. And enjoys his "professional" golf (as his colleagues tell the story). |
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Scott Kennard
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Experience: 25 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: Experience!!, acquired skills and ardently conscientious! Qualifications: Scott grew up with us over more than 22 years. Starting as a mowing trimmer, becoming an operator and then a crew leader in mowing, and then mowing operations co-manager. His snow services experience and skills follows a parallel route, from sidewalk clearing to now snow plowing operations manager. Scott is very serous about doing a good job always. Bio: An affable family guy right along with his maturity. Now he is joined in the company by his son, who is starting out his career. |
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Char House
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Experience: 16 years in Landscape Industry, all at American Landscape Special Expertise: LICT- Landscape Industry Certified Technician - Exterior Char has been with the company for more than 16 years, growing continually in skill, conscientious work-standards, and increasingly into supervision and training. She has graduated through all the mowing steps: Trimmer (with a 3 day trial run she aced), Operator, Crew Leader - and ultimately to Co-Manager of Mowing Operations as one of two Area Supervisors. The path in Snow Operations was similar, ultimately leading to successfully taking charge of all winter sidewalk services and crews, growing in skill and competence always. Bio: Char has won several company awards, including "Trail Blazer," "Award of Experience," and "Stewardship Award." Very gregarious by nature, she loves people - and the customers whose grounds for which she is supervisor, find her endearing, conscientious, and a true "follow-througher" on her word. She loves her home, the Outdoors and her garden and long sloping lawn on a hill overlooking Long Lake. It is here that family and friends gather for good times. And sometimes they take the ATV's around the several acres. Or she takes a Harley ride - yes, she is another Harley devotee. |
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Ryan Huber |
Experience: 8 years in Landscape Industry Special Expertise: BS in Business; computer savvy, and extremely conscientious! Qualifications: Loves the Outside and all things Mechanical, especially trucks and loaders. In winter he is the principal ice-control payloaders operator for loading the trucks in teh New Ice-Control Storage Building - they line up, back in and he scoops from the mountain, loads the trucks, and out it goes to serve customers. Ryan is very computer savvy and manages buying and purchase orders for the landscape and snow departments, as well as supervising the maintenance of the building and grounds. Bio: Winner of several awards at American Landscape, including "Trailblazer Award" and the "Above & Beyond Award." Loves the "outside, trucks, the house, and 'American Landscape.' " Devoted to family and church. Married to Becky and has a 5 year old son, Noah.
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Steve Gothard |
Experience: 32 years in Mechanical Services Special Expertise & Qualifications: 22 years in heavy truck maintenance with all types of training support and courses; vast experience with diesel engines, transmissions, hydraulics - and all aspects of maintenance and repairs 11 years with American Landscape - from light to heavy duty trucks, small engine equipment, especially mowing equipment, landscape and construction equipment, and everything having to do with snow plows and ice-control equipment. Very little he isn't willing to tackle - very little. And goes the 11th mile and more when the big snows make their demands on machines and men. Bio: Married to Michele 31 years with two adult boys. He is also very partial to his Harley - and his truck.
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Shea Hughes, CSP
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Experience: 14 years in landscape industry Special Expertise & Qualifications: CSP - Certified Snow Professional - one of only 4 in Wisconsin Bio: Serving as a controller for a manufacturing company in Tennessee, Shea began to have the desire to run his own company. So Shea and his father, Tyrrell began having long distance discussions about the operations of American Landscape. In 2002 the talk became reality: His experience elsewhere earned him the position of managing the company and helping directly shape the next phase of American Landscape's future, first as General Manager and beginning in 2004 as the company's President. Under Shea's leadership, American Landscape has achieved significant growth in all key company landscape service ventures, a stronger supervisory staff, an advanced sales team, and implementation of fresh ideas for productivity and customer service. Shea believes strongly in developing a strong sense of company family. To this end, emphasis is placed on appreciation, loyalty and recognition as ways to show that no contribution is small. Shea aspires for American Landscape to be the kind of place where every person is treated with human dignity and immense respect. In 2004, Shea sat for and passed a day's long exam to become the second Certified Snow Professional (CSP) in the state of Wisconsin. Previous to American Landscape, Shea practiced as a CPA in the states of North Carolina and Tennessee, eventuallly becoming a controller for a Tennessee manufacturer at the age of 25. Personal & Family: Shea graduated from Franciscan University in Ohio, and married his college sweetheart in 1994. They are very proud parents of three girls and three boys and are members of Saint Dominic Catholic Church in Brookfield, where Shea serves on the Stewardship Committee. American Landscape proudly donates the horticulture maintenance services for the 20 acre parish campus. Shea is particularly proud of the company's work in the beautiful new Prayer Gardens on the parish grounds. |
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Tyrrell Hughes
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Experience: 37 years in landscape industry - as 2nd career! Special Expertise: Nothing special Unless you count being curious about more and more until he knows less and less about more and more until he will know nothing about everything! Qualifications: Bio: Tyrrell is our chief - sort of, as founder and Corporate President. Over 37 years experience and ownership in lawn maintenance, landscaping and snow service - he has worked, planned and/or designed in every aspect of this business at one time or another and continues to this day. There are customers more or less exclusive his. And he enjoys working on creative projects. Besides his years of experience, he has the one-room country school community, family farming, engineering, and teaching backgrounds, plus possesses degrees in several fields ranging from mathematics and physics to medieval studies and theology. He "recently" (in last 10 years) completed the raising of 5 children, and is enjoying a growing number of grandchildren, recently growing to 17! |
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