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Ron VanVarden Management |
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Multi-talented and accomplished professional with expertise and career history managing all aspects of operations, leading teams of professionals and associates, and driving continuous improvements. Experienced in retail, professional services, and facilities management. Proven success driving increased revenue and profitability. Highly-skilled at managing and motivating teams. Possess strong professional attributes in communication, organization, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
Areas of Expertise
♦ Retail Store Management |
♦ Customer Service |
♦ Safety Compliance & Training |
♦ Coaching & Mentoring |
♦ Team Building & Leadership |
♦ Revenue & Profitability Growth |
♦ Training & Development |
♦ Multi-Site Management |
♦ District Operations |
♦ Plumbing & Home Repairs |
♦ POS Systems |
♦ Facility Management |
Professional Experience
Superdrain Plumbing, Stockton, CA 2019 – Present
Safety Officer
Oversee safety and safety compliance for top-rated full-service professional plumbing company. Develop and deliver safety training programs for employees. Ensure safety and correct operation of equipment by conducting equipment inspections and maintenance.
- Led development and delivery of Cal-OSHA and OSHA compliant employee training and safety programs.
Advanced Mini Storage, Stockton, CA 2014 – 2019
District Manager
Directed all aspects of multi-site district management for busy self-storage business and facilities.
- Led conversion of point-of-sale system for compliance with California lien laws.
- Achieved increased revenue and profitability nearly every year by negotiating more favorable services and rental rates, resulting in boosting yearly revenue from $200k to $600k per year.
- Served as business owner’s agent for cases in Small Claims Court.
- Optimized staffing of highly-qualified personnel at all facilities by leading recruitment and interviewing processes for most-qualified candidates.
Additional Experience
Manager, Advanced Mini Storage, Stockton, CA
Retail Sales Manager, Radio Shack, Stockton, CA
Longshoreman, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 54, Stockton, CA
Education
General Studies Coursework
University of Maryland (US Navy), Guam M.I.
Technical Proficiencies: Microsoft Office, MS Access, Microsoft Visual Studio
Professional Training
Principles of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems
Fundamentals of Human Resources
C+ Programming
Forklift Training
Licenses & Certifications
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)
Longshore Clerk Certification
Community Involvement & Leadership
Maintenance/Technical Crew, Team Eternity Paintball
Children’s Ministry Director, Life Song
Children’s Ministry Pastor, Life Church
Children’s Ministry Director, Lakeview Assembly
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HomeSchool Chickens
Kid's Church Remodel Videos
When I was the Children's Pastor at Lakeview, we transformed the room to archaeological dig site. I will try to find some pictures. Creative Memory album searches are not as easy as computer searches ;)
2008
First Room
Fervent Kids Ministries started with the Life Church when they were doing church out of a truck at a school. When the Home Church moved out of the warehouse on Murray Drive in Stockton it was a chance for the Life Church to call a building home. We had 30 days to convert the warehouse into a church with a sanctuary, kids church, and a nursery. The bathrooms were something else too. When drawing up the plans for the Kids Church, we finally decided on putting in an entryway and a bohimath structure over the stage.
We completed the remodel in 30 days and remained in that building for around 8 months.

2009
Then the Grace Assembly Building on Fremont St. became available to us. The first week of January we moved from our building on Murray Dr. to a facility on Fremont St and hwy 99.
When we first looked at the new facility all we could say is ‘wow’ and not a good wow. The building where the kids will meet looked like it had been built in the 1950’s and abandoned in the 1980’s. The ceiling was about 7 foot high, so no bleachers and a lot of the tiles had water damage. I was really bummed that we were leaving an awesome Kid’s Church for this.
As we tried to figure out what we were going to do, the Lord started laying little pieces about His plan on our hearts. We know if we would have received His whole vision for the facility, we would have choked. We removed the ceiling and a wall between 2 23x25 classrooms, so we would be able to use the bleachers from our old Kid’s Church. Our original thought was to paint the roof, however after we removed the ceiling, we found piping and wiring exposed for the non functioning a/c units. The ducting for the a/c units looked like they were put in by Dr. Seuss, what a mess. We also found that most of the insulation and tiles were not salvageable because of the water damage. We did find a lot of pots and pans above the ceiling, I guess that was easier than taking care of the problem. Because of the wiring and the piping, we needed to replace the ceiling, ouch.
God really started to reveal Himself when a friend said he had family that would be able to put a new ceiling in for us and a friend that can check out the a/c heating units. That week, our a/c units were all working and they were able to remove almost 30 feet of extra ducting that had been installed. I had been dreading getting the estimate for the ceiling.
When the people came out for the ceiling, after taking some measurements, they said they would be able to do it all for free. All we would need to pick up is the tiles. He had all the wires, t-bar and everything else. He even brought a crew. All he wanted is a letter of recommendation for the job. (Are you kidding, a letter, WOW God you are so in this).
Now I am getting excited, I wanted to have something that took the place of our mammoth structure that we had over our stage at the other building. We tried to think of something that really didn’t belong in a classroom (or 2). A MASSIVE STAGE, now it is getting exciting. God was giving us dreams. So I talked to our stage creator (Johnnie), who helped us, start planning the stage, and boy did we start planning. We did not waste anytime building an awesome 10 foot entrance wall, puppet stage and a 2 foot high 24 foot long stage (I was hoping for 3 foot high but 2 is awesome).
If the video below does not load, it is viewable at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=0VjO03JtFU

Finished Room

LifeSong Remodel of double wide modular, old youth ministries room
When we discussed the theme for this room before we started, I was hoping for an Old Jerusalem or Galilee type theme, my wife wanted a ship. When we first started to clear out the room, we found some t-shirts from a VBS the church had done a few years earlier. They had a picture of a ship on them. A few hours later we found curriculum based on a ship. Not 10 minutes later I got a phone call from the previous Children's Pastor telling me that she had been praying and the Lord had put on her heart that Robin and I were Captains on a ship....Being the dense kind of guy that I am, I got the message :) I said ok to my wife's ship vision.
We started to put out the vision to our church body for help, as I am not a carpenter or electrician. I was starting to get disheartened with the lack of interest in anyone helping. Then one family said they would be able to help, and they really were able to make our dreams come true. They were also able to add to the vision. As we started to build, then others started stepping up with supplies.

Trip 2004
Last year we drove to Alaska, then to the West Edmonton Mall and Yellowstone National Park. This year we are going the other direction. We are visiting my sister in Dallas then heading up to Springfield Missouri to visit some friends, instead of driving straight from Dallas to Springfield, we are going to go through Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Fort Walton Beach Fl., Bowling Green Kentucky.
We went over 6000 miles covering 16 states in 17 days.
Days 1-3: Home (Stockton Ca.) to Ft Worth Texas
This doesn't look like enough snacks to get us to Texas.
I didn't know that life could to start this early
It was a great morning when we left at 6:00 a.m. from Stockton California.
on I-405 we got postponed by the traffic, due to President Reagan's funeral procession
We are at the beach by San Diego
Hunter checking out the wild life by the beach.
We made it to.......uuuummmmmmm?
The girls watching the Hunter flying show
Of course we had to keep the tradition of having Dairy Queen when we leave California
at one of the rest stops in Az. We didn't get on the news here.
we made it ,to the rest stop
What is ironic, 10 years after coming through this area a couple times, Robin's parents moved about 30 miles away from this rest stop.
such a drastic scenery change from Arizona to New Mexico....NOT
then on to Texas
Since we where in El Paso so close to the Mexican border, we went to a Greek restaurant and had pizza, go figure
time to wash the desert dirt off
as we headed further into Texas we got stopped at a border patrol check stop. They didn't know that we had smuggled Nicole in from Canada.
A B1 bomber flew over us as we headed into Fort Worth
We saw this storm chaser on I-35w as we headed into the Ft Worth area. They had been under severe weather for the 3 days prior to us getting there.
Days 3-4: Cleburne Texas, Ft. Worth Zoo
We made it to my sisters in Cleburne, just south of Ft. Worth
on our way to the zoo
the 3 amigos
Hunter was terrified of the squirrel.
This is a great way to cool off
Days 5-6: Cleburne Texas, Ft. Worth Stockyard
and I thought our kids were good. You raise them right and they still turn out bad. I think Oscar is the bad seed ;-)
Just yesterday he was terrified of a squirrel
The girls got their Texas size gumballs, they were hollow. What a jip
Aunt Robin got Hunter a gun set
Then she shot him
my poor poor boy
I think he liked the gift.
from being afraid of squirrels to riding bare back
helping with the chores
family picture time before we leave
I can't believe I got my kids Dallas Stars stuff. But at $4 bucks, I couldn't pass it up. 2 weeks earlier our pastor was in British Columbia and the hockey stuff was way over priced.
bye Cissy.....again
Days 7-8: on to Louisiana, with a stop in the big Easy, Mississippi, Alabama
we made it to Louisiana. Uh oh, where is Cole? Did we leave her in Texas?
those clouds look pretty serious as we head towards Baton Rouge.
not too bad
didn't need it but I guess it was good to know
Baton Rouge across the Mississippi River
thats where we are headed
the French Quarter. They were hosing the barf out of some of the bars into the street. It stunk.
The buildings were really awesome to look at.
On to Mississippi
Out of it already???? Hello Alabama
USS ALBAMA Now, That is a boat
ADays 9-11: Fort Walton Beach, if you go here you have to stop by the Old Bay Steamer and have the seafood boil, it was the best food on the trip.
We stayed at the Ramada which was a great family hotel.
oooooooohhhhhh mmmmmmyyyyyyy. This is the view from our room. As soon as we saw this view, we called down to stay an extra day here.
yea dad, this is our room.
The girls wasted no time hitting the beach.
this is my favorite picture, this was taken from inside our hotel room. I love the wave crashing.
it started raining for a while, so we went and did laundry.
quick everyone lets go... the sun is out.
because of the weather front that moved through, the waves were great.
the girls getting ready to go body boarding at 11:30 pm.
the 3 girls out at the surf after midnight.
they decided to call it a night when the lightning started to get close.
the next part of the front made it in.
We were on the beach for about an hour and half between the rain, and boy did we get cooked.
except BD just got browner
we seem to be getting redder
The slide worked suprisingly well for being very humid. Hunter flew off the slide
the last night, go to check our emails.
Days 12-14: on to Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas
there is a gator over there
we just passed the highest point in Florida and then we dropped into Alabama (345')
on our way on a side trip to pick up some boiled peanuts
Nashville? or LA with trees
We want to go to Kentucky again and spend more time here
The pool felt great on the sunburns
bye Bowling Green
We just watch the Godfather the night before. I don't think we have any enemies like Sonny Corlione.
the show me state.......show me the way out.....
trying to get to the arch they had everything closed off. St Louis sucks.
this was as close as we got....stupid Missouri
we don't have lightning bugs in Calif
on to see my parents. They live in Arkansas. I will get some pictures up from there pretty quick.
We had a great evening watching T-ball game.
go girlfriend
Days 15-16: on to Kansas Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
look, we're not in Kansas anymore (I think it is a law that you have to do that picture)
this McDonalds goes over the highway. Too cool
we stopped at the Oklahoma City Bombing Museum. It was very sobering.
this tree survived the blast
as we came up to this statue across the street, Hunter was saying, 'Look, Jesus is crying'. Here is a 2 year old who can grasp the concept that Jesus was crying. Another family was walking by and the mom told her kids that they let a church put this statue here because the church got damaged during the attack. How about it is here because 168 people lost their life because of terrorist attack.
just west of OKC we passed through the Canadian section of Ok. I didn't know they had a canadian section.
Cole getting emotional at the end of Return of the King
yea I'm still back here
We stopped at the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert again. It is worth the stop
it's not time yet!!??
should we be concerned?????
these things are huge
except for Cole's scowel, this is a nice picture, at least Bon is happy.
we picked up some ice cream cones to help cool off
through Las Vegas
look at the all the great things to do on highway 95
area 51........oooooooo scary
the Ramada was like an oasis in the middle of the desert. The hotel and restaraunt were fantastic.
back to Califonia
Mono Lake
Hunter had a chart of bugs and he was excited to match it up.
hi bunny
on to Panum Crater. The girls went up to the top and I had to change a tire.
fun times for me
we always find snow on our trips.
since we had to change a tire, we went to Yosemite instead of Bodie. I didn't want to take the gravel road to Bodie without a spare tire.
we always try to get a penny smushed
it is over already. Droppin' of Oscar Cole