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Our Employees
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Our Employees are who make Harper and Company, Inc. the company it is today.

Charles Harper Owner
Charles oversees the company's business plan for marketing.  He works in the office most of the time, and occasionally sneaks out to visit with customers whenever he can. Pool supplies sales started in 1970 after a tour with the Navy. Charles has an answer for most commercial pool problems. He is a certified instructor for the National Parks and Recreation Association (AFO) Aquatic Facilities Operators Course.

Jennifer Harper Owner
Jennifer is the company's Chief Financial Officer. She makes sure Charles doesn't spend too much money, and keeps the company's Dun and Bradstreet rating respectful. The involvement she has with the Bank, CPA firm, and Computer Services is a vital link towards the continued success of the company.

Scully Harper Greeter/Guard Dog
Scully is the company's Greeter (a gray miniature schnauzer). She protects the girl's from the mailman, and talks to the customers coming in until she gets a treat from the jar at the front door, or a scratch until she's satisfied. She comes to work by 8:00 ready to say good morning to everybody, and first in line to leave at 5:00 so she can go home and talk to her neighbors buddy's, Champ (a golden lab retriever) & Emma (a gray standard size schnauzer).

Mary Hall Inside Sales
Mary stays busy doing a lot of different things. She assists customers that walk-in, that call in, or that email her. She schedules our service technicians, and coordinates the Certified Pool Operators and Aquatic Facilities Operators schools we sponsor all over the Mid Atlantic.

Kelly Stephens Inside Sales
Kelly's many responsibilities include customer's that walk-in, call in, or e-mail's. Kelly help's Charles and anybody else in trouble with their computers, and works with accounts receivables.

Michelle Vogel Office Administration/Accounts Payables & Receivables
Michelle keeps up with all our endless amount of bills due, helps with our accounts receivables, prepares our never enough bank deposits, assist with phoned in orders, and just about anything else that's needing done. She tries her best to keep Jennifer and Charles in line.

Dan Berry Regional Sales Manager for areas North and West of Richmond, DC, Maryland & West Virginia
Dan manages our outside sales needs in the areas mentioned above. He lives in Charlottesville, and has many year of technical hands-on experience with the products we sell. He is a certified Aquatic Facilities Operator (AFO) for the National Parks and Recreation Association, and the Red Cross.

Rob Basso Regional Sales Manager for areas South and East of Richmond, including North and South Carolina
Ron manages our outside sales needs in the areas mentioned above. He lives in Sand Bridge and has had years of experience in the commercial swimming pool world. Ron is very technical oriented and can resolve most any pool problem required.

Patrick Geary Technician/Warehouse Manager
Patrick heads-up our inside technical services such as preparing our Siemens computerized chemical control systems for swimming pool installations, heading-up our Medtronic's Factory Authorized Service Center on their automatic pool vacuum cleaners, and Rola Chem & Stenner chemical feed pumps. When he's not involved in service work, he might be checking inventory, or preparing a shipment to go out on one of our trucks, or UPS. We sometimes call him McGovern because he always help us fix stuff one-way or the other.

Tim Wojcik Master Service Technician
Tim has been in aquatics for many years. He used to be our sales representative in the Northern VA & Maryland area until he got his marching orders to get married, and stay at home to become a City of Newport News Fireman and Paramedic, which had been a life long ambition. We are fortunate enough to still be able to utilize his technical skills whenever he has a day off.

Steve Ragone Technician/Driver
Steve has been with us for several years. He lives in Roanoke and takes care of our service and delivery needs from the Shenandoah Valley to Bristol from our storage facility located in Salem, VA. He does what ever it takes to keep everybody happy. That's a real challenge since he covers such a large area. He has a Class "B" Hazardous Materials Certification D.O.T. license.

William Bonte Operations Manager
William came to us from Trinidad many years ago. He oversees our delivery scheduling, D.O.T. preparedness, vehicle maintenance, our truck drivers and customer satisfaction regarding deliveries. All a customer has to do is ask William something regarding their delivery, and he's most happy to try and accommodate them. He has a Class "A" Hazardous Materials Tanker Certification D.O.T. license.

Chris Davis Driver
Chris is a hard working driver also. He has a Class "A" Hazardous Materials Tanker Certification D.O.T. license, and also works hard at keeping customer satisfaction a primary effort.

Scott Corbett Driver
Scott has helped us out any many facets of the business. He delivers most of our shotgun orders. Sometimes supplies are needed in a hurry, so we get Scott involved to take care of business. He may be here this morning, and in Winchester by noon to help with keeping our deliveries system second to none. No job is too small or big for Scott. He has a Class "B" Hazardous Materials Certification D.O.T. license.