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Meet Our Staff
Dave DeMontigny |
Brad Engelbrecht |
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Don Ann
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Trudy
Engelbrecht | Jill Marsden
David DeMontigny
dave@carpeople.com
425-952-4400 |
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Specialty: |
Technicians and all
Service and Autobody Positions. |
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History: |
Started with Car People May 1997 |
A true car person, Dave started his automotive career as
a gas station attendant while in high school. After
graduating from San Jose State University, Dave worked his
way up as Operations Manager for an automotive service
franchise in San Jose, California to eventually own a chain
of 8 auto repair franchises in the San Francisco Bay area.
After finding success in California Dave was lured by a
better way of life up here in the great NW. He was
operations manager for a string of local stores and helped
them grow before coming on board with Car People. His years
of experience in hiring and managing people prepared him for
just this position.
Dave is very active in the automotive community. He
instructs at Shoreline Community College (PSADA) for the
Service Advisor class. That class has also been put on
through Automotive Service Association (ASA) and directly
through Car People Agency. Dave is on the advisory board at
Renton Technical College as well as the ITEC board. As a
guest speaker he conducts seminars through various
automotive functions such as the Northwest Automotive
Industry Tradeshow (NAIT) and North West Tire Dealers
Association (NWTDA) tradeshows. He can also be found as a
guest speaker at most of the local technical colleges as
well as UTI in Arizona where he instructs students on how to
better prepare for an interview with potential employers. In
his spare time Dave is involved with "Auto Angels" through
his church offering repairs for people in need.
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Brad Engelbrecht
brad@carpeople.com
425-952-4400 |
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Specialty: |
Office Managers and Controllers and
all Office Positions,
General Managers. Dealership only Service Managers
and all Parts positions. |
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History: |
Started with Car People October 1,
1986 |
Brad was one of the original partners of Car People
Agency in 1986 and has been the sole owner since 1994. A
local native and sociology major at the University of
Washington, Brad worked for HFC managing 3 local offices
ending with their head office in Seattle. The head office
included Personnel for the Pacific NW which was a great
training ground for managing a personnel agency. He
continued with Allstate Enterprise Financial Corp. working
with auto, RV and boat dealerships providing financing
throughout the Pacific NW. Brad has been involved in setting
up offices in Oregon and California and assisting and
training others to run similar agencies in other regions.
Brad is our systems administrator and the author of most of
the editorials in our newsletters.
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Trudy Engelbrecht
trudy@carpeople.com
425-952-4400 |
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Specialty: |
Trudy is our Office Manager. Her
responsibilities are varied from being a full charge
bookkeeper, to managing our custom database,
updating and maintaining our web site, building and
preparing our monthly newsletter and handling the
lion's share of our phones. |
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History: |
Started with Car People: February
23, 1987, Full time since 1994 Trudy is the backbone
of our office and we are all completely dependent on
her. A native of Washington she attended the
University of Washington. She worked at the new car
dealership level for several years as well as being
a trust lead for a now gobbled up major local bank.
She has fulfilled her responsibility to society by
raising two great kids through college. |
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Jill Marsden
jill@carpeople.com
425-952-4400 |
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Specialty: |
Sales Managers, New
and Used, Desk, Closer General Sales Manager,
Finance & Insurance, Special Finance, Sales, Fleet,
Lease, DRP and Internet Management & Sales. |
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History: |
Started with Car People 2006
Jill has a long history in the automotive industry.
After graduating Lynnwood High School she began
working for GMAC in Customer Service and Special
Collections. After 8 years, she was offered an
opportunity to try the other side of the business
working for Bayside Toyota in the Finance
Department. In 1991 she became the Finance Manager
for Roy Robinson Chevrolet/Subaru/RV Center in
Marysville where she remained for several years.
Jill did take a side trip and worked for two years
as Finance Manager at the RV Outlet Supermall.
After a one year hiatus in Reno/Carson City Nevada,
she moved back to the NW and returned to Roy
Robinsons until she joined our staff. Jill is a
member of the National MS Society and participates
as a volunteer every year at the Seattle MS Walk.
Did we mention she is a huge Mariners fan? |
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