My business was established in March 2010. However, learning how to do many of the services I provide started as a young child growing up in Glenview, IL . My father had me performing multiple chores around the house and it was he who got me interested in custom woodworking. In fact, a small wooden tool box that I "helped" him build around the age of 10 still sits on his work bench to this day. In Junior High and High School, I took multiple courses in Woodworking and Drafting. I received multiple awards for some of my projects in Woodworking.

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After graduating high school, I went to Northern Illinois University to get a Bachelors Degree in Business Management

with the purpose, hopes and anticipation of owning my own Cabinet making and Custom  Woodworking shop. However, the realities of a slow economy at the time did not afford me the opportunity to pursue that ambition.

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I decided to go back to work in the retail industry working for Handy Andy Home Improvement and subsequently received a promotion to assistant manager at the store I worked at.

After spending 5 years working for Handy Andy, I changed gears and took a traveling sales position with a manufacturer located out of Oklahoma. They transferred me to Minneapolis, MN and 3 years later I was layed off with 75 other salesman nationwide.

Fortunately for me, I was able to find a territory sales job with an Industrial Woodworking Machinery distributor and subsequently worked for them for 8 years until the housing market crashed in 2007.

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I decided to try and branch out on my own and start up a machinery & tooling sales business, but the market was so depressed, so in September of 2009 I made the arduous decision to sell my house and move back to the Chicagoland area. March of 2010, I started up TLS Handyman Services.

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