Carter Ryan
209 Maple St / Lowell MI 49331
Education:
B.S. with Honors in Economics with Minor in Communication / Masters In Business Administration in Marketing with emphasis in Market/Survey Research / Some classes audited in Art History and post graduate market research specialities via Buerke Institute, a key supplier of Fortune 500 Companies... and some further education in communication via Retrouvaille.
Bio:
Free lance journalist for several news organizations specializing primarily but not exclusively in Economic journalism...Junior Staff member and correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor... and also published in the AdCrafter professional publication roster issue approximately and in the Detroit News. Study (survey) director for the Gallup Organization (Gallup Poll) and editor of The Gallup Report 1977-1981; Sr. Research Analyst for D/M/I the private "pollster (Richard Wirthlin for President Ronald Reagan ... submitted economic and political studies directly to Misters Meese; Deaver and Baker and Ed Rollins; Research analyst forecasting the demand for card edge connectors in the first IBM desktop cpu the 1982 apple 2 e and the next version of Atari ; handled clients such as Vlasic Pickles Hygrade Ballpark Franks then Martha White Baking products (corporate client position ) then Maybelline developed 13 new cosmetic products and finally Consumer Research manager for Conagra Frozen foods ... then founded Actionable marketing research in St. Louis MO clients included Monsanto/ Dupont/Southwester Bell (Later SBC global) AT&T ...helped the President of Smirnoff develop Smirnoff Ice and had Guinness as a client for a bourbon they were introducing and NTN communications & Nestle. Married in 1997 ... care gave for my elderly parents while living and running Actionable Marketing Research in their house in Beverly Hills MI Founded Christian Caregiver Relief it grew to over 100 churches and over 1000 unpaid volunteers and offered respite to adult children caregiving for their elderly parents & parents of special needs children. Finalist for volunteer of the year in 2013 in Michigan even though I resided in Fredericksburg VA. Divorced June 18 2014. Remarried continued CCR end it 9/2018 second wife divorced me Oct 29 2021 after 7 years. I am a disciple of Christ ... play tennis... chess and garden and have not had a date in 25 years except for 2 marriages. I am not good at cpu... cell phones but taking lessons now. Admire Melcher's volunteer heroic effort. It involves far more detail than anyone can imagine. I also write humorous personal rhymes for friends and I am dabbling in fictional writing. Everything published so far non-fiction. I also haved sold some photographs but I am still a beginner. Look forward to meeting each of you. I am in touch with Bill/William Burr Anderson...Dr. Todd Beel; Andy Knowlton and look forward to renewing my friendship with my tennis team partner Scott Moore and an excellent female tennis player Harriett Stewart. After getting married travelled with each wife to Europe and to Africa (photo safari) and Galapagos Islands near Ecuador. I like to get people I interact with to smile 3 times.
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