Peter is a versatile leader with over 30 years experience in manufacturing. His work experience has provided opportunities to be at many extremes that have helped him understand the points of view of those who might otherwise find themselves on opposite sides of a problem or negotiation. This experience has given Peter the skills to bring order and solutions out of chaos.

In his early career, he worked on the shop floor as co-operative education student at a Fortune 500 agricultural equipment manufacturer while earning his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering performing tasks from driving a fork truck to running a forge hammer to assembly and equipment maintenance. This led to positions of increasing responsibility in manufacturing and product engineering where his experiences led to positive solutions between internal customers on the shop floor and in the management offices. After serving in product engineering as a liaison to manufacturing, Peter had functionally been throughout the plant and left to run a small manufacturing company.

Similarly, after leaving to serve as president of a small custom-engineered material handling equipment company, Peter used his experience as customer to transform this company from an entrepreneurial start-up into an ISO certified customer centric division of a large multi-divisional corporation. There, he used his previous customer relationship experiences to grow the annual sales four-fold without adding personnel through training and a shift to participative quality team management.

Peter also devotes time to influencing and improving the social, economic, and political environment around him. Peter devotes time to local, regional, state, and national positions of leadership. Locally, he served eight years as mayor, twelve years as county board of health chair, fifteen years as a member of the local industrial foundation, six years a board member of the Iowa Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), twelve years as the Ergonomics Council Chair for the Material Handling Institute of America, six years as a member of the ANSI B30 committee, three years as the Iowa State University Extension business representative to the board, and three years as the chair of the Iowa Department of Economic Development Advanced Manufacturing Council and board member of the state's Technology and Commercialization Committee.

After orchestrating a leveraged buyout of the material handling division and running it for four years, Peter has turned his attention to using his experience as a business development consultant and CEO coach to small and mid-sized companies helping them grow to the next level beyond entrepreneurial start-up, while maintaining his volunteer positions with the Iowa Department of Economic Development and his relationship with Iowa State University and the Iowa MEP and the local industrial foundation.