Hello! I am Susan Negley , Director of Communications at the Floor Covering Institute . Since you’ll be hearing from me occasionally I wanted to introduce myself. I’ve worked in the flooring industry for 17 years, as a retail store owner, in communications capacities for a flooring distributor (Misco Shawnee) and two buying groups ( Color Tile, LLC and CCA Global Partners ). But it isn’t just the flooring industry that makes me who I am so let’s turn back the page just a bit. Before flooring (“BF”) I was a journalist and a bankruptcy litigation paralegal…useful stuff it turns out. As a journalist in the Air Force I went to crash sites, train derailments, wildfires, and missile launches, inside NORAD’s command post and missile silos. My job was to write about those experiences. In 1982 I became a litigation paralegal specializing in complex bankruptcies…which came in handy later. My husband at the time ( Ron Negley, now V.P. Ceramic and Stone at CCA Global Partners ) was on a caree
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