Joel Strassburg Email Address

Director Process, Projects, and Operations

About Direct Supply, Inc: Direct Supply is a leading US equipment and services supplier to the long-term healthcare profession. The company operates through two divisions, Direct Supply Equipment, DSE, which provides over 750,000 equipment items for use in long term care serving over 21,000 nursing homes, assisted living and subacute care centers nationwide. The DSSI division operates the nation's largest eCommerce network of long term care providers and suppliers, and is currently one of the top eCommerce sites in the world. Direct Supply's headquarters are in Milwaukee, WI.

★ WHO I AM: -Husband of amazing, creative business owner and father of 5 wonderful children (1 boy, 4 girls) -20+ yrs running most business aspects of an organization in executive roles including: •Operations •eCommerce •Customer Service • Business Intelligence • Information Technology • Process Improvement/Six Sigma/Lean • Sales & Marketing Operations ★ VALUE I BRING: -Humble, servant oriented, results driven executive that delivers business results -People and team developer, love maximizing talent -Customer focused, significant experience selling directly to customers and caring for them with incredible service -Problem and process innovator....trained as Six Sigma/Lean Black Belt -Hard worker, grew up on a dairy farm and milked cows every morning at 4AM before school and each night after school. Started my own IT consulting business at age 14 and grew to 150+ customers -Entrepreneurial spirit and energy, always dreaming towards what could be and working hard to get there -Passionate about technological innovation, I thrive on maximizing technology -Fun! I believe work should be fun and we spend way too much time doing it to not enjoy it ★ STRENGTHS FINDER 2.0: 1. Focus ("Can take direction, follow through, and make the corrections necessary to deliver results") 2. Command ("Has presence. Will take control of a situation and make decisions.") 3. Learner ("Has a great desire to learn and to continuously improve. Learning excites them.") 4. Relator ("Enjoys building close relationships with others. Finds deep satisfaction in working hard with friends to achieve results.") 5. Maximizer ("Focuses on strengths as a way to stimulate personal and group excellence.") ★ MBTI: ESTJ:"The Executive-Embraces honesty and dedication to bring teams together and lead the way on difficult paths, with high standards, strong influence, innovative thinking, and quick decision making."