Brian Beaudry
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Host; The Front PorchAppears in 72 Episodes
Ross Wheat
Ross Wheat, Point of Rental's Sales Operations Specialist joins us on the Front Porch this month. We discuss his career, from race car driving to bowling to the printi...
#PORIC23 Industry Panel
At Point of Rental's 2023 International Conference, we welcomed several rental leaders up to the stage to talk about the state of the industry and its future. In this ...
Katie McFarland
Katie McFarland, Point of Rental's Inbound Sales Development Representative, drops by the Front Porch to discuss her career - from achieving her dream of becoming a te...
James Morley
James Morley, Point of Rental's SVP of Global Product Management, drops by the Front Porch to discuss...well, product management, overall. We learned about his philoso...
Joey Marks
Joseph (Joey) Marks drops by the Front Porch to talk about his path from paleontology to selling software. He explained the differences in working with strategic accou...
Evan Fort
Evan Fort, Point of Rental's SVP of Global Technology, drops by the Front Porch to talk about his career in technology, from starting in IT for a school district to bu...
Andy Clark
On this episode we talked to Andy Clark about his career, coming from construction to tube sales to car sales to software. We learned about the time he decided rodeo w...
Brian Dugger
Tier I Senior Windows Support Technician Brian Dugger steps onto the Porch to talk about his career in the service industry prior to getting to Point of Rental, as wel...
Scott Plomer
Scott Plomer, Point of Rental's web developer, started his career with interests in firefighting and engineering. He ditched it all to pursue creative passions, move t...
Melanie Kaye
Melanie Kaye is a Project Coordinator in Point of Rental's UK office, working with renters and hirers to get them set up and happy with their new software. We learned ...
Adam Seyedmortaza
Adam Seyedmortaza is one of Point of Rental's Software Engineer Team Leads and has been a Pointer for about six years now. He joins us on the Front Porch to chat about...
Jack Baker
Jack Baker is one of Point of Rental's new Strategic SDRs. He's taken a different path to Point of Rental - from scooter riding to serving - and applied lessons learne...
Rob Warwick
UK Software Support Manager Rob Warwick sits down on the PORch to talk about how he got into software support, lessons that translate from the soccer pitch to the work...
Joan McKinlay
Joan McKinlay joins The Front Porch fresh off her trip to Slovakia as part of Plant & Hire Aid Alliance's convoy to bring supplies to Ukrainian refugees there. While w...
#PORIC22 Industry Panel
In a special edition of The Front Porch, we recorded our Industry Panel session at the 2022 International Conference. Panelists include, in order of appearance:John Hi...
Jeremy Mackey
Jeremy Mackey grew up wanting to be a Power Ranger and now he's delivering lessons and knowledge to Point of Rental users...so, pretty close! We got his backstory, lea...
Bridget Otten, American Rental Association
The ARA's Bridget Otten joined us on the Front Porch this month! We talked about her career in event organizing, YP events, played a game of "Otten or Not In", and lea...
Sara Wilhite
We talked to our HR and Payroll Manager Sara Wilhite to learn more about what HR is really all about and it pretty much turned into a "tell us good stories about peopl...
Samantha Ruttura, Our Rental Pumps
Samantha Ruttura and her family have been in the construction or construction-adjacent industries for 100+ years (OK, just her family has; she definitely isn't 100+ ye...
Amy Mulligan, AJM Hire
We welcome our first Australian non-Pointer guest to The Front PORch! Amy Mulligan joins us from Western Australia - she and her husband founded AJM Hire in 2019 after...
Peter Maginnis, Makinex
Peter Maginnis's journey has taken him through California's wine industry, through Australia, running a rental store, and self-storage. Now he's helping make inefficie...
Andrew Heesacker, Arvada Rent-Alls
If you learn just one thing about Andrew Heesacker and Arvada Rent-Alls by listening to this video, let it be how to pronounce his name. It seems like there's a pretty...
Frances Ellison, CE Rental
Frances Ellison is CE Rental's IT Business Development Director, but once upon a time she was one of Point of Rental's leading software experts. We talked about her ca...
Tim Dodd, Atlanta Party Rentals
Tim Dodd came to the Porch to talk starting from the bottom in the party rental industry, career planning, business advice, dealing directly with Chinese companies, an...
Pat Flannery, Canadian Rental Service
Patrick Flannery has been a busboy, a grocery clerk, painter, bar bouncer, crane yard worker, pizza store clerk, construction worker, copywriter, writer, and salesman ...
Will Wright, Peerless Events & Tents
Peerless Events & Tents' Will Wright didn't grow up in the rental industry; he had to fall in love with it. He talks about the move from the finance industry to acquir...
Kacie Brewer, United Rentals
Kacie Brewer, United Rentals' Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager (and member of Rental Management's "12 to watch under 40" list for 2021) joined us to talk about...
James Auerbach, American Rental Association
The American Rental Association's Event Segment VP stopped by the PORch...turns out journalism degrees can be useful! He's built businesses from the inside and now wor...