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OUR FOOD FOR THOUGHT
OUR BEGINNINGS
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“I knew I had to do something meaningful; protecting the
environment means a lot to
me,” he says. “I thought if I could develop something that helps protect this planet, it would
not only help my life, but it would improve the lives of others.”
So he started an instrumentation
and sales company that specialized in wireless monitoring and control
systems. The rst order of business
the garage. They thought because Dad’s home, he wants to play with us,” Ward says, reminiscing. “I made a hand-written sign and tacked it
to the back wall of my garage. It said ‘Dad’s busy right now,’ but
little Lydia, who wasn’t even in kindergarten yet, sneaked in on Day-One and took a Polaroid of me working out here.”
With his typical wry sense of humor, Ward hung up the photo with a push pin, but not before rst scrawling
at the bottom of it: Look for me in the soup line in 6 months.
Unhappy working for large companies and unimpressed with their corporate
atmosphere, Ward yearned to invest his time and experience into something personally meaningful.
He wanted his work to matter in this world and wanted to
someday have employees he could treat the way he wanted to be treated — with fairness and respect. Ward gured that engineering and technology that protected the planet was a pretty good place to start.
was to secure electronic systems integration projects from some well-respected local companies, such as the Indianapolis Water Company. His control system projects were innovative, giving clients computerized automatic control and monitoring capabilities for their industrial processes.
In the rst stages of his business, Ward established enough reliable business to gain the capital necessary to enable him and his small sta to develop a wireless cellular monitoring device that would monitor clients’ remotely located equipment.
The device was dubbed the “XR50 Wireless Alarm Monitor.”
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