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Gary L. Dick
2600 Denver Ave.
Longmont, CO 80503
Cell/Best: 303-995-1312 Home: 303-776-6850
kinross17@comcast.net (or) gary@blueyonderboating.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-dick-59202a52
Website: http://blueyonderboating.com
January 26, 2016
General Introduction
•14 years as Agricultural Consultant and Agronomist, both working for others and as independent owner/operator.
• 2 years in industrial product manufacture (toxic industrial gas).
• 4 years as Vegetation Management Specialist (weed control, small-pasture, and vegetation management).
• 2 years as Integrated Pest Management Specialist for University of Arizona.
• 3 years as Manager (Assistant Professor, Temporary) of an Entomology research field/laboratory program.
• 1 year in temporary electronics recycling program.
• 6 months in outdoor lawn and garden retail.
•Experience with 4 companies as owner/operator
•A short time attempting to help salvage an excellent small coffee roasting operation.
• 2 years in rescue/repair/maintenance of small sailboats and sails.
•I believe I bring a strong background in technically advising clients and effectively communicating with them.
•I believe my strong education and experiential background in many areas of crop science, biological sciences, soil chemistry,
fertilizers, plant pathology, and similar will be of value to my employer and/or clients.
•I believe I frequently went over and above in providing technical advisement for my clientele.
RESUMÉ: Reverse Chronological by Employer/Position
RainMaking International, LLC, Englewood, CO, March 2015 to October 2015. Title: Consulting Agronomist. In
conjunction with Larry Lipman, CEO, and his marketing team.
•Please note: This was a promising position I pursued on a contingency basis because I had the time and was extremely interested in
RMI International’s technology, its corporate vision, and the vast, untapped potential that exists in rural areas. My work with
RMI unexpectedly and inexplicably came to an abrupt end in October. The company severed ties and communication with
me, and did not offer any compensation.
•I was initially contacted from my Linkedin profile by RMI International CEO, Larry Lipman, to assist with a startup endeavor using
“disruptive technologies” to establish new methods and equipment for developing indoor, 365-day-per-year produce farms.
•We worked to establish a starting point for introduction of vertical green growing equipment, electrical power generation, “Water
from Air” technology, and recycling/vermiculture systems. These can all be stand-alone modules or operated as a complete
system. The entire system has potential for operating “off grid” in remote areas and can conceivably use any existing
structure such as abandoned warehouses and vacant Walmarts, K-Marts, etc.
•We targeted the following: 1) Small, dying communities that need the produce, jobs, and revenue, 2) Native American tribes and
their affiliates, 3) Relief missions and denominational missions groups, 4) Existing farm families and their children and
grandchildren who are looking for means to expand their farming operations in meaningful and economically feasible
fashion, 5) Sustainable, quality produce produced in a very efficient manner with diverse markets, 6) Regions and
communities far-removed from conventional fruit and produce markets, 7) With goals of helping establish regional and local
economic development and economic/sociological sustainability.
•Furthering the concept of “disruptive technology” which means taking current resource-intensive production technology, considered
to be non-sustainable, and turning those technologies into locally-stable, and long-term, economically and environmentally
sound directions.
•I took the part-time, temporary, position below while working toward making my position with RMI at least a part-time, paid,
position. This did not happen, but I invested enough time in pursuing the endeavor that I believe it should be part of my
resume.
Lowe’s #2568, Loveland, CO 80537. Seasonal Temporary, Outside Lawn and Garden Department. March 2015 to October
2015. Title: Customer Service Representative.
•Advised numerous customers regarding their lawns, garden, floral planning, rock walls, and some power equipment. Received
favorable comments from several repeat customers that my advice worked in their urban and rural settings.

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•Came to realize how complex and confusing the consumer fertilizer and pesticide market is to “standard” homeowners. It was
confusing to me, and I’ve worked with agricultural and horticultural chemicals much of my career. Within my own mindset, I
developed a one-on-one strategy to better help these customers. Inquired of more knowledgeable customers where they obtained
their knowledge.
•Helped Lowe’s implement their IMPACT method of interacting customers and develop a working relationship with them on their
current and anticipated projects.
•Maintained display merchandise in a pleasing and professional manner.
•Maintained safety and cleanliness in assigned locations within store. Outdoor cleaniliness was a constant effort, and I believe we did
an excellent job of maintaining a visually-pleasing presentation.
•Demonstrated personal patience with archaic plant watering techniques and questions about purchase practices vs. salability of
several plant species. Witnessed substantial, what I believe avoidable, economic losses in our department.
•I’m not claiming a major career move here, I took this position while waiting for a promising possibility to develop.
Blue Yonder Boating, Longmont, CO. October 2013 to Present. Title: Owner & Lead Technician,
http://blueyonderboating.com
•Nine years of self study about sailboat and conventional sail maintenance and repair beginning in 2006.
•Became sailboat owner in 2010, and now own two sailboats, an 18-ft Spacesailer (currently for sale) and a 25-ft MacGregor 25.
•Renovated a partially sunken MacGregor 25 from Tennessee. Results detailed on website.
•Studied sail making and sail modification/repair. Repaired several sails, modified sails to re-purpose them for storm conditions, and
designed and built from scratch a new storm jib.
•Performed one long-distance boat move involving towing a Catalina 25 on dubious trailer from Frisco, CO to Carter Lake, CO over
Loveland Pass. Successfully completed the tow and delivery. Rebuilt 3 of 4 wheel bearings and modified trailer.
•Sailed the following venues and gained considerable captain’s experience under all types of weather conditions ranging from gale-
force winds to unworkable ambient temperatures (105-112F). Tuttle Creek Lake near Manhattan, KS, Lake Havasu on CA/AZ
border, Carter Lake near Berthoud, CO, Wilson Lake, KS, and Horsetooth Reservoir, near Ft. Collins, CO.
•Hosted an estimated 50 different people on my MacGregor 25. Exhibited excellent captain’s skills. Received favorable comments
from numerous guests, including one who had grown up sailing and ranked me above her father in Captain skills.
•Member, Blue Valley Yacht Club, Manhattan, KS from 2011-2014 and the Carter Lake Sailing Club, Loveland, CO, in 2013.
Assisted club with required club member responsibilities.
•In 2014, on a volunteer basis, supported the Carter Lake Sailing Club Junior Sailing Program by re-constructing and refinishing 5
Sunfish rudders that received new hardware to upgrade their attachments to boats. (See website.) Listed as Junior Sailing
Program sponsor as a result.
GLD Consulting, Longmont, CO. Owner & self-employed agricultural consultant, Lakin/Ulysses, KS area. October, 2009 to
September 2013. Title: Agronomist.
•Served 12 to 18 clients annually representing about 8,000 to 12,000 acres of alfalfa, corn, wheat. The gross monetary value of this
volume of crops is estimated at $4.1 million to $9.9 million, reflecting wide swings in yields under drought conditions and wide
swings in commodity prices due to drough-caused regional feed shortages.
•Provided irrigation strategies to help deal with water restrictions under extreme drought conditions.
•Monitored insects, weeds, diseases and provided timely management recommendations.
•Studied soils. Most notably recognized some unique micronutrient needs, chronically low potassium, unusual situations in which
tissue tests for calcium, copper, manganese did not correlate with soil tests. Worked with using humic acids in addition to iron
sulfates and iron chelates to reduce substantial areas of marginal to moderate iron chlorosis.
•Worked with foliar fertilization. Successfully determined that under certain scenarios foliar feed was useful and economical.
•Timed fungicides and growth regulators for wheat, corn, and alfalfa properly (Ethephon II, Folicur, Headline, others)
•Advocated trying reduced-irrigation crops such as safflower.
•Our needs connected with current yields and prices out-stripped book knowledge and past practical knowledge. Decision thresholds
for treating insects and diseases decreased substantially and thresholds and expenditures for fertilizers, fungicides, growth
regulators increased substantially. Growth regulators, alfalfa fungicides, foliar feeding became economically feasible.
•Observed that GMO corn had great value but that it seemed to be changing biological characteristics of some insects, weeds, and
diseases. Growing trend to work away from GMO corn if older, non-GMO hybrids available.
•Advocated against repeated use of stacked corn genetics. Advocated return to residue management to reduce impact of Goss’s Wilt.
•Major effort devoted to dealing with some serious weed resistance issues--glyphosate, 2,4,D, dicamba, Pursuit, others.
•Due to developing herbicide-resistnace issues, changed cropping and rotation patterns, recommended rotating herbicides.
•Worked on making herbicide-resistant wheat viable. Great idea, limited genetics and probably limited useful life of any particular
herbicide..
•Observed nutrient stratification and compaction in reduced-tillage fields. Advocated controlled traffic patterns and re-instituted deep
ripping in cases.
•Observed increasing problems with portions of the aquifer adjacent to the Arkansas River. Water quality declined to the point where
sulfates, nitrates, and carbonates were detrimental. Probably accentuated by protracted drought and reduced river basin flow.

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•Invested considerable time and effort in conveying my technical knowledge to clients and explaining the meaning of the
technicalities.
•Determined that the once common practices of insectigation and herbigation were not feasible under extreme drought conditions.
With extreme drought and area-wide mandated watering restrictions, we could not waste the water or the time to treat insects and
weed.
MOST PERTINENT NON-AG TECHNICAL/MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE
Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., Longmont, CO Branch Facility, March 2007 to April 2009. Title: Plant Operator.
•Manufacture and specialized packaging of tungsten hexafluoride, a computer chip industry raw material. Both raw materials and
finished product were highly toxic and/or reactive, requiring specialized monel infrastructure and solid nickel packaging.
•Specialized training in handling fluorine gas, finely-powdered tungsten, liquid nitrogen, specialized cleaners.
•Safely handled all raw materials and finished components. Frequent continuing education tests.
•Knowledge of fractional distillation and non-pressurized transfer of component and finished products. Fractional distillation was
used to purify product and re-distill sub-standard product prior to sale.
•Specialized training for emergency response, labeling, hazardous shipping, and first aid.
•Trained in community relations relative to toxic manufacuture.
•Properly stored, inventoried, and monitored toxic wastes for disposal.
•Received training in and regularly used personal protective gear, supplied air apparatus,
•Some training in Dept. of Transportation requirements.
•Knowledge of chemistry and chemical procedures necessary to obtain highly pure (“nano-pure”) finished product.
•Observed what happens to manufacturing labor when economic downturns occur. Watched some of the steps taken by employer to
retain personnel as long as economically possible.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Foothills Vegetation Management, Inc., Conifer, CO, March 2003 to June 2006, and again May to August 2009. Title:
Vegetation Control Specialist.
•“Extreme” weed control at gravel mines, industrial sites, mountainous highway rights-of-way.
•Vegetation management strategies and implementation for small-acreage properties, municipal open space. Used management
training, cultural practices, herbicide and fertilizer applications, and limited renovation and re-seeding.
•Continually and adamantly advocated against overgrazing.
•Required knowledge of the biology of both weeds and preferred vegetation, chemical knowledge of herbicides and adjuvants, proper
mixing, loading, and application techniques.
•Required training in and habitual use of appropriate personal protective equipment.
•Required knowledge of correctly treating chemical spills and preventing their occurrence.
•Required planning daily and seasonal logistics to coincide with species-specific and site-specific management efforts. Logistics
sometimes required dealing with restrictions mandated by clientele or surrounding neighbors and municipalities.
•Knowledge of dissemination, spread, and biology of noxious weeds was essential to prevention, management, control, and even
eradication efforts on occasion.
•Trained clientele in knowledge of agronomic and horticultural techniques used in an integrated management plan and to tip the
balance of vegetation in favor of desirable vegetation.
•Wrote ATV safety manual, and designed service estimate form.
•Procured and maintained Colorado Certified Pesticide Supervisor license and took steps to minimize FVM liability and prevent mis-
application.
Coffee Jones, Boulder, CO, February/March, 2006. Title Tech/Sales. Worked on a contingency basis for random cash. Carl
Simms, Owner/Operator, was my supervisor. Carl was the world’s best coffee roaster, with records to document his product
development.
•Carl Simms, owner, gave me free rein to help him to attempt to revitalize the business.
•Cleaned and reorganized storage and warehouse.
•Minor construction for compartmentalizing warehouse.
•Lobbied for and procured responsibility for revamping advertising and marketing. Re-wrote all advertising materials.
•Developed sales prospect list.
•Began a program to interview past customers/clients to re-develop their confidence.
•Made sales calls and helped develop two new contracts.
•Conducted product deliveries and procured new orders.
•Began to see a turnaround in owner’s attitude and efforts.
•Developed contacts for business development consulting.

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GLD Agricultural Consulting, Inc., Colorado Phase, Lyons, CO, June 1998 to February 2002. Title: Owner/Weed
Management Specialist.
•Goals and site planning specific to each client’s needs. Often required explanation of principles involved and discussion of chemical
hazards, grazing re-entry restrictions.
•Served as expert witness (and achieved out-of-court settlement) in a two year legal case in Kansas.
•Received training in nutrient management associated with land applications of solid wastes (manure and muicipal).
•Ditto the above from Foothills Vegetaition Management, with the exception of the highway right of way work.
•Wrote and/or designed all field forms, advertising forms used in work.
•Custom application of herbicides and fertilizers for vegetation management.
•Procured and maintained Colorado Certified Pesticide Supervisor training and licensing, necessary pesticide liability insurance,
passed appropriate inspections, maintained very safe operation record.
GLD Agricultural Consulting, Inc., Kansas Phase, Garden City, KS, August 1992 to May 1998. Title: Owner/Agronomist.
•Worked in Garden City/Dodge City/Lakin region as independent crop consultant. 11 farm clients and 4 feedlot clients in a 4-county
area.
•Ditto much of the general description of GLD Consulting, 2009-2013 with the following additions:
a. Conducted several contract field demonstration studies of herbicides and insecticides, including comparing chemigated
insecticides to aerially-applied Bacillus thuringiensis.
b. Conducted environmental samples for several cattle feedyards.
c. Served as expert advisor for attorneys and provided reports detailing results of investigation of potential legal disputes
between tenant and landowner, neighbor vs. neighbor. Batting 4 for 4 on dropping the case or maintaining status quo.
d. Learned business start-up, took classes in business principles, constructed accurate budgets.
e. I was able to start this consulting firm based on favorable reputation from earlier consulting work. I was able to re-enter
agronomic consulting listed above in GLD Consulting, 2009-2013, because of favorable reputation from this business
start-up.
•Wrote and/or designed all field forms, advertising forms used in work.
•Became certified EPA trainer for Worker Protection Standard principles and personal protective equipment required for farm
pesticide applications.
•Acquired and maintained CCA certification, National Association of Independent Crop Consultant certification, (Neither currently
valid, although I may be able to re-apply and take tests for CCA.
Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Mahattan, KS. Assistant Professor, Temporary, Stationed at the
Garden City Experiment Station, May 1989 to October 1992. From Janary 1983 to April 1987 Graduate Research
Assistant under Dr. Larry Buschman, which ultimately led to the Temp. Asst. Prof. position.
•Substituted very successfully for my Major Professor, Larry Buschman, who took a 3-year sabbatical in Morocco. Was hired to
maintain Dr. Buschman’s research program and philosophy.
•Procured substantial funding for ongoing and special projects. Successfully requested and maintained increased fees for sponsor
inclusion in field plots and demonstration trials.
•Managed research budget, including projects, temporary personnel, cost of filed trials, and appropriate travel/presentations.
•Hired, trained, and successfully interacted with several seasonal assistants.
•Continued ongoing scholarly research, worked on publications, conducted field trials in conjunction with various sponsors.
•Worked with advisory board planning new pesticide building with storage, workroom, and spill containment facilities.
•Coordinated inventory, planning, and toxic cleanup of old pesticide storage building in process of moving to new pesticide storage
facility
•Maintained specialized equipment, laboratory and greenhouse facilities, and office.
•Cooperated with interdepartmental research colleagues in allocating research plots, helping control insects,
Extension Integrated Pest Management Specialist, Dept. of Entomology, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. Stationed at Casa Grande,
AZ. 1987-1989.
•Assisted project supervisor and other department researchers with testing mating-disruption chemicals to reduce pink bollworm
populations.
•Developed and conducted field research on effects of early season cotton thrips.
•Conducted small-plot field trials with Russian wheat aphid in Durum Wheat
•Contract work with new products vs. current products (insecticides) for management of bollworm/budworm complex.
•Lots of reporting, all maintained on a timely and acceptable basis. (Monthly, Annual, AEMIS ethnic/minority.
•Based on my Kansas experience with wheat insects, was assigned lead liason for new Arizona pest of Durum wheat and barley, the
Russian wheat aphid. Efforts included monitoring, communicating findings, conducting field insecticide efficacy trials, initial
control efforts, coordinating with surrounding states, and initial efforts coordinating Fed. and States with release of several
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•Assisted project supervisor with developing and propagating theory and practice of using primarily cultural controls to mitigate boll
weevil in cotton.
•Developed a strategy to monitor the degree of compliance with State-mandated cultural controls for timely stalk-shredding and
plowdown of cotton crop residues.
•Helped work with strategies for mitigating secondary explosions of cotton aphids and whitflies following early-season cotton
insecticide applications.
•Our U. of AZ Extension principles and efforts regarding boll weevil management butted heads with USDA-APHIS boll-weevil
eradication efforts. Eradication efforts created massive secondary pest situations. Our methods were much more environmentally
friendly and had a much smaller chemical footprint.
•Wrote or assisted with writing/revising a number of Extension publications and communications.
Agricultural Consultant/Field Crop Specialist for Several Entities (Listed Below) Details available on request.
•Mehl Farming, Sandhills Division. North Platte, NE, March 1982 to October, 1982
•Agricultural Technology Company. McCook/North Platte, NE, March 1981 to March 1982
•Scientific Crop Services, Div. of Collingwood Grain, Inc. (Now ADM) Summer, 1976 and June 1977 to March 1981.
NON-PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Idependent Labor Contractor, MD Custom Homes, Pine Junction, CO, several occasions between 2002 and 2005. Title:
Independent Sub-Contractor.
•Participated in all phases of custom home construction from foundation to shingles. Experience with true log home construction
which has a very unique set of requirements and knowledge.
•Learned some aspects of building codes and inspections.
•Helped build some beautiful homes and witnessed the enjoyment of owners as they observed construction and completion.
Worked through temp agency, Volt Technical Services, for two companies, short-term, intermittent between 2001 and 2003.
•American Electronics. Used electronics recycling firm, Boulder, CO. Gathered, sorted, cataloged, and packaged used electronics.
•Amgen Corporation, Longmont. Assisted as directed with unpacking and preparation for sterilization of specialized incubation
equipment used to produce a pharmaceutical product, erythropoeitin, used by chemotherapy patients to deal with treatment.
Required exceptionally strict work rules and very careful handling of equipment preparation.
EDUCATION
•Bear Creek High School, Lakewood, CO 1969-1972. Graduated, 3.2 GPA
•Community College of Denver, Red Rocks (Now Red Rocks Community College), Golden, CO. 1972-1974. 3.2 GPA.
Completed a transfer program specifically designed to transfer to Colorado State University in areas of natural sciences.
•Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 1974-1977. Graduated, B.S., 3.3 GPA. Plant Pathology w/concentration in Crop
Protection. This major and concentration set me up in spectacular fashion for what I did in crop consulting and agronomy for
much of my professional career.
•Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 1984-1987. Graduated, M.S., 4.0 GPA. Entomology w/concentration in Insect
Pathology. This major served me well in preparation for my University of Arizona work and to return to Kansas State as
Temporary Professor, 100% research, at the Garden City Experiment Station. Helped with all phases of insect management as
crop consultant. Published two refereed journal articles summarizing my M.S. research, and co-author on many other journal
articles and extension publications.
•Garden City Community College. Continuing education in business related coursework, adult continuing education, Mid 1990s.
•Arizona Department of Agriculture. Studied for and maintained Pest Control Advisor License as needed. License mandatory for
commercial consulting but only procured for added credibility/continuing ed. when U. of AZ employee.
•Colorado Dept. of Agriculture, Pesticide Division. Studied for and maintained pesticide applicator training and license and then
escalated status to applicator supervisor as needed.
PUBLICATIONS
Main Publications Listed. Others too numerous to mention here. References and/or copies available.
•Seasonal Occurrence of a Fungal Pathogen, Neozygites
adjarica........http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/25085616?sid=21105343832801&uid=2&uid=4&uid=70&uid=3739256
&uid=2133
•Description of a species of Neozygites...Infecting Oligonychus
pratensis.........http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3760383?sid=21105343869031&uid=4&uid=2133&uid=2&uid=70&uid=3
739256
•Places: Tuttle Creek Lake, Kansas. Popular press account of a sailing adventure. Small Craft Advisor Magazine, No.88,Jul/Aug
2014.

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•Manuscript in progress: Currents in Inland Lakes--You Bet! Targeted for popular press. Details experience other Sailors and I
have had with water currents in inland lakes.