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The Staff
Cool Car Auto Air Staff
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Gus Swensen is the Owner of Cool Car Auto Air. He attended and graduated High school in Columbus and attended Columbus State University. His A/C training began in 1980 when his father hired him to work part time on Auto A/C systems at the family business. He is MACS Certified as well as ASE Trained. He has trained at the Chevron Oil training center and the General Motors Training Center in Atlanta.
He has completed over 40 training classes and seminars over the last 25 years. He lives in Columbus, GA and has lived here all of his life (except for a tour as a relief worker in the South East Asian country of Cambodia)
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Jordan Estes is training to be the Shop Coordinator. He has lived in Harris County all his life and attended Harris County High School. He plans to further his education this winter as a student at Columbus Technical College. He is presently in His second year at Cool Car although he has helped out in the summers since he was 12 years old. One of his Hobbies is fabricating just about anything.
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Ron Fisers is a Senior Air Conditioning Technician. He has worked at Cool Car for over 16 Years and is ASE Certified in Auto A/C repair. He holds several advanced training certificates and is MACS certified. He attended schools in Columbus, GA and has lived here all of his life. Ron loves to hunt deer and maintains a mini hunting preserve in Harris County, GA.
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Ed Swensen is the retired founder of Cool Car Auto Air. He comes out of retirement every spring and resumes his responsibilities as Lead A/C Technician. His refrigeration training and experience spans over 6 decades and he is the recognized authority on A/C repair in the Southeast. He has invented many specialty tools for the A/C industry as well as one of the first Refrigerant Recovery Systems ever made. Ed served 2 tours of duty in the Korean War before he returned to Columbus, GA and started to work at Royal Crown Cola in the refrigeration dept.
He retired from RC Cola and started Cool Car in 1969 on Morris Road in Columbus, GA. He is a life long resident of Columbus and spends the winters on his Echo, AL pecan farm where he has Ducks, Chickens, Fish, Deer, Turkey, Dogs, Cats and numerous other animals.
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Willodean Swensen is our Manager of Human Resources and Benefits Administrator has been with Cool Car since it's inception in 1969. She was born in Echo, Alabama and has lived in the Columbus, GA area for her entire adult life. She teaches Human Resource Management at Troy State University and is active in her church and other professional organizations. She attended Jordan High School and holds several advanced college degrees including a Masters in Human Resource Management. She has homes in Phenix City, AL and Echo, AL where she and her husband Ed, manage their Farm and Pecan Orchard.
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Rafael Baerga is our A/C Technician from Luquillo, Puerto Rico. He graduated from Liceo de Arte y Technologia of Puerto Rico were he got his Air Conditioning Refrigeration with PLC Associate Degree. He holds both EPA 608 & 609 certifications. He is been working with Refrigeration and Air Conditioning since 2001. He has worked for companies such as Burger King, Kress Stores in Puerto Rico and LAP Compressors of Puerto Rico. He recently moved to Columbus, GA with his wife Sylma and daughter Julieanna, his son Victorafael is still in Puerto Rico. He starting working for Cool Car in the Spring of 2006. An added asset to the company is that he is fluent in Spanish..
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