Get to Know United

Get to Know: Kerrie Holden

Get to know the employees behind United Services Group through a game of ten questions.  Each featured employee exemplifies the United Services core company values and is committed to achieving service excellence for our clients and partners.  Each featured individual will answer a few unique questions to help you get to know a little more about them.  We will be featuring employees from both our home office as well as our on-site craft personnel throughout the year.

get-to-know-kerrie-banner

Kerrie Holden has been the Office Manager with United Services Group since August 2013.  She was the very first employee of United Services Group.  She handles all of our office matters and is in charge of all of our company’s business and contractor’s licenses.  Also, She is usually one of the two people who you speak with when you call into the home office.

The 10 Questions:

1.  If you had to be shipwrecked on a deserted island, what three items would have with you?

A hairbrush so I could brush my nappy hair, my squishy pillow because I can’t sleep without it and soda because I have to have some kind of caffeine.

2.  You just won $20 million dollars in the lottery, what is the first thing you are buying/doing?

Buying lots of land for all my family and building each of them houses on it.  Lots of land so we are far enough away from each other but still close enough for comfort.

3.  What is your favorite meal of all time?

My mom’s meatloaf, I don’t like any others, with mashed potatoes and corn.  It’s my birthday meal every year.

4.  One piece of business advice that someone has given you that helped you succeed?

Smile on the phone – the person on the other end can hear it in your voice.

5.  If we pulled up next to you at a red light, what song would we catch you belting at the top of your lungs?

One of the following two songs: Cher – If I Could Turn Back Time or Usher featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon – Yeah!

6.  What is your favorite gulity pleasure television show or movie?

I am in school full-time now, so I don’t get to watch TV as much anymore, but I always seem to find myself watching Lock Up on MSNBC or The First 48 on A&E while I’m doing homework.  I love watching mystery/murder shows.

7.  If you could be a superhero, what would your  one super power be?

To be invisible.  I want to be the so called “fly on the wall”.

8.  If you had the opportunity to go on any TV game show, which one would go on and why?

Let’s Make a Deal – It looks really fun.

9.  What is your favorite thing to do to kill time while at work?

One of two things either chit chat with people in the office or catch up on the tabloids.

10.  If you could be any Television or Movie Character, who would you be?

I don’t think I would like to be any of them, so I choose to be myself.  Although most of their lives seem glamorous, I like my privacy and I love my family – as dysfunctional as we are.  Choosing to be in my your own skin wins any day over someone else’s.  The grass isn’t always greener.

11.  Bonus Question: What is the first word that comes to your mind when you hear the name United Services Group?

Team

Get to Know: Richard Hudson

Get to know the employees behind United Services Group through a game of ten questions.  Each featured employee exemplifies the United Services core company values and is committed to achieving service excellence for our clients and partners.  Each featured individual will answer a few unique questions to help you get to know a little more about them.  We will be featuring employees from both our home office as well as our on-site craft personnel throughout the year.

get-to-know-banner-hudson

Richard Hudson has been a Project Manager with United Services Group since September 2013.  He has worked on projects for United Energy Services in Front Royal, Virginia, Milford, New Jersey and Lake Charles, Louisiana.

The 10 Questions:

1.  When did you get started in the specialty services business?

Summer of 1992.  My first job was in a paper mill as a grunt. I spent that summer rolling bottles and setting up for a boiler outage.

2.  When you’re not at work, where can we find you?

On my boat fishing or doing something outdoors with my family.

3.  What is your favorite sports team or athlete?

The Florida Gators are my favorite sports team.  My favorite athlete would be Florida Gator and Dallas Cowboy legend Emmitt Smith.

4.  If you could have lunch with any three people, dead or living, who would they be?

My grandfather, North Carolina tycoon Washington Duke and a younger version of myself.  My grandfather passed away while I was young and I would love to pick his brain and show him the man I’ve become and I feel like I could learn a lot about business from Washington Duke.

5.  What is one piece of advice you would give to your younger self?

To take a step back and be open to other’s opinions and advice.  Also, to understand that your way isn’t always the right or best way and you’re only as good as your team.

6.  What is your go-to karaoke song?

Either “Neon Moon” by Brooks & Dunn or “Man of Constant Sorrow” by the Soggy Bottom Boys from the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?

7.  What is one piece of advice you would give to a young welder or machinist just getting started?

To be able to take constructive criticism.  A lot of people are going to give you their opinions in this business.

8.  If you could be a superhero, what would your one super power be?

I would want to have x-ray vision.  This way I could X-ray my welds before they are turned over to the quality department. 

9.  We’re making a movie based on your life, who is playing the lead role?

A younger Robert Duvall.  I am a huge Lonesome Dove and Godfather fan. 

10.  What is the first word that comes to your mind when you hear the name United Services Group?

Excellence

Photo Gallery