William Draper:
CLASS OF 1973
Milford High SchoolClass of 1973
Milford, DE
Caesar Rodney High SchoolClass of 1976
Camden wyoming, DE
Caesar Rodney High SchoolClass of 1973
Camden wyoming, DE
Lakeview Elementary SchoolClass of 1966
Milford, DE
William's Story
Life
My Spouse
I met my wife, Mary Sue while driving around one night with some friends and looking for a party, she was 15, I was 19, we stopped at a parking lot in Harrington, Del, she was in a car with her twin sister and her friends from Wyoming Delaware. We have been working things out ever since.
My Pets
Our house has three cats inside, Daine, Forrest, Cheyenne and four cats outside, Taylor, Tyler, Jona, Tiffany. We also have a red parrot fish named Buddy.
My Kids
We have a wonderful son, William J., who is 21 years old, still at home, working with us in our Consulting business.
My Job
I started a business, Draper Consulting & Drawing Services, which supports the Food Processing industry with Sales consultations to supply each facility with quality products and or services at a lower price from numerous manufacturers. Our core product is importing rubber products from Israel. I also convert old blueprints to CAD drawings. I am presently starting an S Corporation to bring other individuals into my nich markets and expanding my knowledge into theirs.
Workplace
My work started long before leaving school, followed in my fathers work status, Maintenance Engineer, trained for several years till 1982 then became an complex engineer with one of the largest Food processors in the world, ConAgra Foods, left ConAgra in 1987 to work with an equipment development company from Denmark, Lindholst, they were the first to reduce manual labor in ...Expand for more
many food processing plants around the world, while working for them I traveled to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Denmark, Canada, and all over the US. In 1989 FoodCraft Equipment located in Lancaster PA started an Equipment Development company to assist them in reducing labor intensive processor jobs, I was hired and began traveling again ( this one took me to Japan, England, Italy, Nova Scotia, South America, & Taiwan )till approx 1993 and then took positions as Safety and Liability, Sales & Marketing, & Development Manager with the Company. The company moved to Kansas in 1997, I took the severence and started my own Company, Draper Consulting, working as a sales rep for a Rubber Manufacturer from Israel, they have sales office in Long Island City NY, & Lakewood NJ, I cover the Northest quarter of the US for them, selling such products as Poultry equipment parts, Stainless Steel clamps, to rubber pads for wooden dance floors. In 2003 my Wife became the President of our company, and we have expanded in designing USDA approved Kosher supermarkets and Food Processing plants, in the NY and PA State area, along with working with a group of Bruderhofs who follow the New Testament, and live together on large Farms around the world. Some day we hope to be the sole supplier of rubber motor mounts and chassis parts for Harley Davidson, we do not plan on slowing down for some time and hope to leave a excelling company for our son if I ever do retire.
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