Nicholas McAlister
Cassopolis,MI
Summary
To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Owner
Boat Rehab
Cassopolis, MI
02.2021 - Current
Owner and operator of pontoon restorations. Taking clients boats and redoing anything that will improve the look and feel of their boat to save them from buying new.
Product Designer
The Marine Group
Iowa
06.2018 - 02.2020
I started off at Misty Harbor as a product designer. I created their highest level series of luxurious pontoons. I designed it, built it, and represented it at the Chicago boat show and more. I help find the vendors needed for all the applications plus more. I also helped them with cad work for engineering and some other R&D projects. I did all of this up until the point to where they brought the company to Bristol and rebranded as Viaggio...
General Manager
The Marine Group
Bristol, IN
02.2020 - 02.2022
With bringing the company to Bristol for rebranding, they needed someone that knew boats to run the shop. Me and a couple others set the entire plant up and began running production. I was in charge from the deck up to out the door as a finished product. I juggled both running the plant and helping with the new brand.
Owner
Top Notch Boats
Elkhart, IN
06.2005 - 06.2018
This was the start of my passion for boats. We had a joy in taking boats apart and bringing them back to life with a little TLC. After taking a bunch apart, I decided I wanted to start from the ground up and build some new boats so I would sketch them on paper and work through the network I had to build what I put down on paper. It was a huge accomplishment and people started noticing my work.
Skills
*My skills are knowing a product inside and out
*Knowing if something can change for the better
*Quality over quantity
*Having an idea and bringing it to life
*Working hands on
Summary
I have been working on boats for almost 20 years, I have taken apart almost every boat out there and have seen what manufacturers do right and what they do wrong in my opinion. My level of skills got me into the Marine group/George Thomas. When I agreed to help him turn that company into something it wasn't, I had Bill Fenech calling me wanting me to come help be apart of Barletta. I turned Bill down twice because I already shook hands with George and I am a loyal, honest guy. Might have been a bad idea but it's in the past. I stayed true to George and the company until they started making decisions that was more about quantity over quality and that does not sit well with me so I put in a four week notice and left there to continue my own company. I am creating a new consept of the way pontoons are built that will change the industry for ever. I have over a dozen of great ideas inside and out of the pontoon that again will help change the way people think about pontoons. I can go on and on but I would like to sit down and have a discussion on how we might just be able to help each other.
Timeline
Owner
Boat Rehab
02.2021 - Current
General Manager
The Marine Group
02.2020 - 02.2022
Product Designer
The Marine Group
06.2018 - 02.2020
Owner
Top Notch Boats
06.2005 - 06.2018