Meet the Volvo Sales Team

Jack joined his dad's dealership in 1970 and was quickly shown to be a natural in the automotive business. His success at building a wonderful family and business stem from an innate ability to win friends and influence people. His close relationship with the manufacturers has led to a unique perspective on the world of auto sales. On his down time he is an avid golfer and loves to travel. More than anything is proud of what Sill-TerHar has become, and values that his entire family can be involved in it's continued growth. He is pictured here with his wife Penny.

Fred has been at Sill-TerHar since 1988, which means he's one of our longest tenured employees.  Fred has been in the Denver area all of his life, and currently resides in Broomfield with his wife Lisa, and a couple of horses, one of which badly broke his ankle in the spring of 2014.  When he's not loving animals, he loves to hunt, there's a rumor going around that Fred is the guy that Dick Cheney shot by accident, but it mostly exists to build his reputation as a tough guy.  If you sneak up on him, you can see his softer side, like here, where he's seen intently watching an episode of Maury Povich.

Nicole (No, there's no H, no matter how badly we want there to be one) joined Sill-TerHar just before the entire world was put on a strange hybrid pause because 2020.  She brought with her a knowledge of marketing from the major Colorado University that's not CU.  We forgave her and hired her anyway.  She has 2 great loves in the world Corgis, and Levi blue jeans.  So it's no surprise that she adores her short legged sausage of a dog Levi, oddly named after Chuck lead man, and Shazam star, Zachary Levi.  When she needs some sun her favorite pastime is to join her family on the lake for some wakesurfing.  For the most part they love being out on the water, but apparently her parents get cranky when she insists on going out for a nice December day on the boat.  Remember folks, sunshine is nice, but 20 degrees is 20 degrees, even if it is sunny.  Life isn't always action and excitement for Nicole, it takes a very large Starbucks every morning before she's really willing to sit and discuss her life (I've found that out the hard way).  And in the evenings, when her family has told her that they absolutely can't go wakeboarding because it's snowing, and Levi is fast asleep, Nicole snuggles into her favorite blue jeans, curls up in bed with a good book and a glass of wine.  I suspect she prefers tear-jerkers as I've heard her describe herself as a pretty crier more than once, and if you're going to be a pretty crier, you're going to need practice.  I myself look like a blob fish yoinked from the ocean floor when I'm crying, but I think that's true for most people.

Steve joined us in late 2016. Despite his name. Steve is not the alter ego for a superhero. Although unassuming finance manager would be a pretty good cover. He definitely needs you to remember there's not an S at the end of Power ( he got strangely defensive about this point). He was a sous chef when he was younger, so he's probably really good at chopping things. He loves to skateboard with his son, although that's only fun until you hurt yourself, so we'll see how long that lasts. Finally, he is not from North Dakota. I don't remember why that's important, but I have it in my notes, so I'm going with it.

Zayne started in 2014 and proved so successful in the Mazda drive that he was moved to the Volvo drive, which is way more warm than inside Mazda.  Now he gets cold less.  He's got a passion for customers and his family.  However, Zayne's family has been asked not to also be customers for the simple reason that we're afraid the passion would become so strong, that Zayne may not be able to handle it.  I imagine the expression of such passion would be akin to that of a soccer fan whose team has just won the World Cup, or perhaps an eight-year-old who just got the action figure he's been pining for.  In more recent years Zayne has done so well with his customers and presented such a leadership attitude, that he's been promoted to the luxury service manager position.  With it came instant respect, a fancy office, and an executive toilet.  Honestly the executive toilet is just the toilet that the public uses, but when we tell him that it's part of his promotion, he really feels like he's made it and is in charge of things.  In other news, Zayne has a family, and drives a car.  He's not great at the car things as he tends to get it really hot and melt his bumper, although he swears that it will only happen the 2 times.  He's also a huge fan of the Houston Texans as can be seen in both his apparel on the wallpaper on his computer.  Whenever I fix his computer, I put a Broncos' wallpaper up, I'm doing my best to convert him, but so far no beans. Speaking of beans, I threatened to change Zayne's picture and he was very unhappy about that. He said that he felt more official in his nice clothes, that he wore that one day. This is the picture I wanted to use.

Alex joined the dealership in 2019 I think.  I forgot to ask, but that feels right.  He's older than when he started, but not old enough to be old.  Alex is very outgoing.  He loves to talk to people about all the stuff he loves, like fast cars.  If Alex isn't at the drag races, he's at the drag races, and talking about the drag races, because those are THE fastest cars.  There was a lot of talk about fast cars.  BUT, that's not all Alex is!  He's also from Pittsburgh.  So he must be a big fan of all things Pittsburgh, like Heinz ketchup, that one river that caught fire many years ago, sports teams that have black and yellow logos, and the steel industry.  I should probably look up more about Pittsburgh's history because I'm sure they have a rich culture there.  What I know they don't have is snowboarders, so you may be surprised to learn that Alex loves to snowboard!  The thrill of bombing down a hill with both feel strapped to a board, throwing himself at trees and small children, then sitting the middle of the trail to tie his boots gives Alex unbounded joy.  And a cold posterior.  Finally, Alex wants us to know that he loves what he does for a living!  The hope is that selling cars is how he makes a living, but you never know what people do outside the office.  He may have a second job that makes him tons of money, you know, like driving Uber, or being the President.  I'm pretty sure Alex isn't the President of the US, but he may be the President of someone smaller whose politics I don't follow, like Belgium, or Canada.  Either way, he shows up pretty consistently at work, so if he's making a ton of money being the President of somewhere else, he's probably not doing it very well.

Paul likes video games. He sold cars for us for a long time, but got burned out and went to another store to become a service advisor. After a while he started keeping an eye on open job positions here and when there was one, he came back to the fold. He told me he likes video games. Like a lot of times. He also has a lot of tattoos, but they don't show, so he still looks like a geeky 14-year old. I asked for a picture and he sent me this picture. He has a Dodge Challenger that he drag races. I took that to mean that he races other Dodges by dragging the car as far as he can, because it's not working right. Look, we sell Fords, I'm contractually obligated to say negative things about Dodge. I'm sure his car is very fast, in a very straight line, for a very short amount of time. Just as long as he doesn't have to turn. Paul shared with me that he's adopted, which is very cool. He said that he lost his parents when their home planet of Krypton exploded, but not before he was put into a small shuttle and launched toward a planet circling a yellow sun from which he can draw strength. Finally, Paul told me that his birthday is on Groundhog's Day. So, if he sees his shadow, apparently there will be 2 more weeks of winter according to him. That seems like an odd rule, everyone sees their shadow every day if they're in any sort of lighted environment. At least the Groundhog gives us 6 more weeks of winter. 2 weeks feels like a mini forecast at best. Like, looking outside and saying, "looks like rain". Anyone can do that.

Collin has been with us since before 2019. He started life at Sill-TerHar as a lot guy at Ford, then moved his way through other positions all the way to Volvo service advisor. He is very tall, with a long body, so his shirts are very often too short. Don't believe me, ask him to hold his hands over his head the next time you see him. Belly button galore. He played college football at Kent State University, excelling as the guy who kicks the ball or catches it maybe. He's lived in China and Canada, at different times. While in China, he learned absolutely nothing because they were there for his dad to work and he was very small. Well, he was young. I don't imagine Collin was ever terribly small. He's got to be 6'6" or so. While in Canada he learned a deep and passionate love for maple syrup and meese. Mooses. He loves sports, mostly watching, although he golfs with very special long clubs. The shaft of his driver is taller than me. If you're lucky enough to work with Collin, let him bring you into the safety of his enormous wing span while he gets your Volvo working perfectly again.

"Archie" isn't named Archie.  His real name is Quincey.  Or something like Quincey.  I honestly don't remember, but his last name starts with Archie, so he decided his name should be part of his last name then all of his last name.  He once went to a haunted house.  He waited 2 hours to get into said haunted house, then he waited 2 minutes to get back out of said haunted house.  Turns out Archie doesn't like haunted houses.  He does love horror movies though.  He's cool being terrified, but not in person.  On his days off Archie enjoys eating food, drinking things, and exploring the city.  Not sure which city, but I'm guessing it's probably No Name, because there have to be some interesting things there.  Not sure it's a city per se, but it's worth exploring.  Because Archie grew up in Florida he is a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he swears he liked them before Tom Brady, so maybe he was more of a John Gruden fan.  Although that's WAY worse.  If you ever come to work with Archie and he's not really paying any attention to you, just know it's not personal, it's because he's thinking about a little house in Denver that his girlfriend will never approve of.  He desperately wants to own it one day.  If you'd like to see a picture of it, Check it out!  Personally, I think his girlfriend would love it.  I don't think I've met her, or if I have I don't remember meeting her, she may have been at the Christmas party, but I'm sure she's delightful and would LOVE that little Denver house.

Skylar's bio interview was by far the most controversial that I've had so far. We sat and talked just like normal people. She didn't just give me a list, she told me about her love of hiking and her origin story in Florida. It involves being a cheerleader who was haunted by the ghost of a long lost gator with only one eye. She told me about how it was everywhere she turned, in her gym locker, waiting for her after school, even in the kitchen of her favorite restaurant. It would brutally attack anything she loved. It would tear tires off of her car, hide her favorite shoes, and she couldn't bring herself to tell me about what happened to her favorite stuffy. Then she told me that she's a huge fan of horror movies. It was about this time that I realized she may have been making up the thing about the alligator, although, maybe the kitchen thing should have been a clue, alligator's can't cook, they don't have thumbs. She did say that thinking is hard for her. I asked if that meant all thinking, or like schooling, or philosophical thinking. She looked very confused and started staring over my shoulder. I stopped that line of questioning immediately. Finally she told me that she's giggly, and giggled. I can see that in her. Also, I think I used the wrong word at the beginning, her interview wasn't controversial, it was conversational... I always get those 2 words reversed.

Clay started his interview nice and easy.  He told me has a mustache.  A solid start, definitely something I already knew about him, but I did say "tell me 5 things about you", I was not more specific and that's my fault.  I pushed further and got some tidbits about how he likes to fish, mostly for trout, but he's happy when anything is biting, except mosquitos, no one likes them.  Not that they really bite… it's more of a stab than anything.  An awful poisonous stab that itches like crazy.  Stupid mosquitos.  He also plays Dungeons & Dragons as well as Magic The Gathering, which feel like a better idea, nice quiet indoor games.  He enjoys reading horror books as well, with a penchant for Stephen King.