By my early teen years, I was working on every mechanical part at our gas station: pumps, customer cars, and the tow truck fleet.<\/p>\n
This might not seem like the best childhood to someone outside of industry. But, the time spent with my father – learning automotive and facility maintenance, building and piloting racecars, interacting with the community through our customers, learning the urgency of business\u00a0\u2014<\/span> these are experiences I wouldn\u2019t trade for anything.<\/p>\n Technology was always big for me. No matter what kind of machine or tool, I needed to know exactly how things worked.<\/p>\n Being in the towing and gasoline business brought lessons of good customer service: work hard, but more importantly, work smart. Time is money, and using the right tools, there are ways to make businesses run smoother. From a young age, I was determined to find them all. After finishing school, and making some great contributions to a few larger companies and teams, I realized I was holding onto an undying urge to more directly improve the digital lives of working professionals in small to midsize companies. Around the same time, I fell severely ill, and was told that, if I survived, life might not ever be normal again.<\/p>\n While bedridden, I decided that, no matter what the future held, I was going to do my best to “make the difference” I’d been wanting to make.<\/p>\n Everywhere I’d been, I was personally known for doing good work because of preparation and use of great tools. What if I could get better tools into the hands of tens of thousands? What if I could make something that increased flow for maintenance and operations teams?<\/p>\n What if I could stop someone else’s phone from ringing 7 times about the same problem?<\/em><\/p>\n What if my firm could enable smaller teams to adopt preventive maintenance schedules….and other “big boy” or “enterprise-only” features?<\/p>\n What if I design a highly-organized and easy to navigate user interface, with no-nonsense database administration self-service tools? A platform built with easy turnaround of customization and integrations in mind? A platform that respects the urgency of business<\/p>\n This is how I decided to create Work Order Pro\u00a0\u2014<\/span> the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).<\/p>\n Not only did my tech-world friends think it was possible, they were quickly the second, third, forth ones working on Work Order Pro.<\/p>\n After a few months, we had a working CMMS ready for my family’s towing fleet, maintenance shops, manufacturing facilities, machine shops, and any other business with equipment that needs recurring breakdown and recurring planned work scheduling.<\/p>\n Work Order Pro comes directly from my experience working on garage and shop floors. I know what it takes to keep a business running smoothly. The industries of manufacturing and maintenance are critical to our economy, and I continously strive to deepen my understanding of the people and processes that keep these industries successful.<\/p>\n Work Order Pro was created for technicians and maintenance managers of big facilities, but also for people like my family who operate essential businesses across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_team_member name=”Danny Knoll” position=”Co-Founder, Senior Consultant” image_url=”https:\/\/workorderprocmms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DK.png” facebook_url=”https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorkOrderProCMMS” linkedin_url=”https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dannyatworkorderpro” _builder_version=”4.5.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h2″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_font_size=”30px” body_line_height=”1.6em” position_font_size=”17px” position_line_height=”2em” width=”78%” module_alignment=”center” custom_padding=”7%|||5%|false|false” custom_padding_tablet=”” custom_padding_phone=”” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” child_filter_saturate=”0%” border_color_all_image=”#e02b20″ border_style_all_image=”dashed”]<\/p>\n Danny has been involved in many areas of maintenance management, facility management, and business software, for over 15 years. [\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About Work Order Pro CMMS Full-service facilities management & work management software \u00a0As luck would have it, Dad owned a family service station in Amherst, close to Buffalo, in Upstate New York.\u00a0 Being around equipment maintenance was my childhood; shop floors were my playground growing up. Auto Racing has been in my family’s lifeblood for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/workorderprocmms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4-300x225.jpg\")
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Danny decided to build Work Order Pro after realizing most software that keeps society running has senseless user interface.<\/p>\n