About
I’m 25 and still in the game. My education started at homeland Arizona State and continued at BYU’s accounting program. In 2006 I started Parker Planners and it’s still going strong. Love family, life, good girls, learning how things work, sweatshirts, guitar, entrepreneurship, meeting people, Rosalind Hall, BYU, and rapping for my friends. Let’s have lunch if you work hard, love people, and do more than you say.
An explanation of the images above
From left to right:
Parker Planners-the Biz
Flags- Wales: my heritage, Montana: born there, England (that’s the real flag, not the Union Jack like you thought): lived there, New Hampshire: love the ponds, Utah: BYU and Mormon Church, AZ: from there, CA: served mission there, Mexico: Visited Guadalajara, speak Espanish
Guitar, Piano, and Mic- my three musical loves
Football- played in High School and got 1st team all-region for D end
Yamaha Logo- Owned a 1993 FZR 1000; top speed 160 mph, and I like their pianos
CEO BYU- The entrepreneur club at BYU. I was VP of activities and the we have the Guiness record for the largest rock paper scissors tourney! ha!
Best B Schools- BYU Accounting is high on the list, graduated April 2010.
Men’s Chorus- Sang in BYU Men’s Chorus 2007-2008. The directress Rosalind Hall changes lives. Great choir.
Windows XP- still use it on my macbook (I know, please no letterbombs)
Mac- have one and love garageband, photobooth, and partly love iMovie, rock on Xcode!
This company started because everyone needs a planner. Some people need a small, coil-bound paper one. I like those people. We mostly sell to college bookstores right now and made some news.
A Little History
In High School I owned a 1993 Yamaha FZR 1000. It went 160mph and had a magnetic effect on human females. I spent lots of garage time with cars, too.
I started my first company at age 18: Ammon Design. I fabricated some custom furniture and over-sized novelty belt buckles for people. It was all one-off request work. I sold the beloved motorcycle to buy a welder and other metal-working equipment. The blue graphic below was the landing page for my website.
My dream was to design motorcycles for Yamaha so I studied Industrial Design at Arizona State for a year. After my mission (see below) I decided to go to BYU and eventually changed my major to accounting due to it’s “crown jewel” status. Because I already loved design and business I knew that the numbers couldn’t hurt- they did for a while, but the people in BYU’s program made it very worth it.
California Ventura Mission Spanish-speaking
Serving an LDS mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed everything for me. It was an experience that set the pace for the rest of my life.
