Working His Way Up

"My responsibility of keeping this system up to date and submitting mailings to the post office is how I got my first exposure to postal automation," says Steenhoek. "I quickly learned that standardizing addresses and doing as much work share for the post office as possible paid dividends."

After a couple of years, Steenhoek yearned to run a printing and mailing operation, and began looking at larger organizations that had more opportunity for growth. However, he took a job with the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU), because it was similar to the work he had done with the school board, yet it gave him more responsibility and flexibility with equipment purchases.