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Making Waves in the Kiddie Pool: Todd Brassard at TEDxHoughton

548 views · Published 12 April 2013 · 17:30 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · People & Blogs

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Todd Brassard is an electrical engineer by education and software programmer by trade.  But that barely gives us a glimpse of what he does with his life. He is former business owner, partially owning and operating a successful software and IT solutions company for over 15 years. He currently is a systems engineer and operations manager at Calumet Electronics, a world-class manufacturer of printed circuit boards. He is the executive and race director for the CopperDog 150 professional sled dog race. He is the program director for PJ Olsson's Rock Camp, an intensive two week music camp for youth. How are any of these endeavors related?  Two words, full-immersion experience. For everything he is involved in, Todd's expectations are high. Really high. He doesn't want to be part of a "vanilla" experience.  When he gets involved in something, he wants to make sure that the end product is an experience worth having for everyone. He immerses himself to make sure that the stakeholder (audience or camper or customer or instructor or musher or sponsor or vendor or volunteer) has a memorable, impactful, and emotionally moving experience. He has a loving wife, Jessica, and two beautiful daughters, Fiona and Elodie, whom he adores, deeply. And, yes, his wife wrote this bio.

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