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		About Rauckman Utility Products

		In 1999 Jim Rauckman formed Rauckman Utility Products, located in the St. Louis suburb of Swansea, Illinois, to bring useful and proven products and tools to the utility market so that working utility personnel could work safer and more efficiently.

		Originally from the St. Louis area, Jim is a 1983 graduate of the University of Missouri in Rolla where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.

		Upon graduation Jim joined A.B. Chance Company in the role of an Application Engineer working primarily on padmounted and overhead switches throughout the United States. After two years as an Application Engineer, he was given the sales responsibility for A.B. Chance in Colorado, and parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota. In this role he had sales responsibility for all segments of Chance's market and all customers, including distributors, investor owned utilities, municipals, and cooperatives. In 1989, after approximately three years in the Colorado market, Jim was promoted to Product Manager of padmounted switches, fault indicators, and overhead switches at the A.B. Chance factory. In this marketing role he had profit and loss responsibility for over 10 million dollars worth of products. In 1992 Jim was promoted to Regional Manager of Asia. In this role he had responsibility for all in-country agents, distributors, utilities and licensees throughout Southeast Asia. After approximately three years of international responsibility, Jim was reassigned in 1995 by Hubbell to be Marketing Manager for A.B. Chance products under Hubbell Power Systems. In this role Jim had profit and loss responsibility for over 100 million dollars worth of business in the global marketplace. In 1999 Jim left Hubbell Power Systems to form Rauckman Utility Products.