Rick Kvasager serves as Enterprise Minnesota’s Business Development Specialist for west-central Minnesota. Rick is the liaison between Enterprise Minnesota’s Business Process Engineer Team and clients in Alexandria, Granite Falls, and St. Cloud. He provides clients his experience in engineering and manufacturing, including work on lean enterprise, value stream mapping, facility planning, project management, and human factors engineering to guide them through improving their business.

Prior to joining Enterprise Minnesota, Rick worked over 30 years in industrial engineering for manufacturers in the high-tech industry. He worked as an industrial engineer at both Square D Co. and Honeywell, then moved on to work as senior industrial engineer at Control Data Corp.

Rick holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology from the University of North Dakota, and has completed coursework in both human factors engineering and ergonomics at the University of Minnesota.