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John Bartz
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Bartz is an Illinois Licensed Home Inspector; he has been in the home inspection field since 1995 and has completed about 5000 home inspections. Mr. Bartz has been a member of NAHI since 1994 and was a founding board member of the Illinois Chapter of NAHI. He has held teaching positions for the United States Marine Corps, PepsiCo International and The Inspection Experts/North American Marketing Inc. John Bartz is currently one of the principal owners of A Home Inspector University Inc. and Home Diagnostic Services Inc.
Rick Mattern
Mr. Mattern is a Home Inspector University class instructor. His background includes over 20 years as a commercial real estate engineer. Mr. Mattern has been in the Home Inspection business since 1999. The Chicago Tribune and the Northwest Daily Herald have recognized his success in the home inspection industry. As a member of The National Association of Home Inspectors he has earned the designation of Certified Real Estate Inspector.  His other credentials include:, Illinois Licensed Home Inspector, Member of the Foundation of Real Estate Appraisers, past two term Vice President of the National Association of Home Inspectors - Illinois Chapter.
John Kowalski
Mr. Kowalski has over 25 years experience as a registered architect and is the owner of Cornerstone Residential Inspections, Inc. He was an equity partner at OWP/P Architects, where he designed a wide variety of building types totaling over $600 million in construction costs. He designed and inspected his first building in 1975, and is well versed in all building systems and components, including site design; structural design; masonry, wood and concrete; electrical; HVAC and plumbing. In addition to 25 years of professional design and construction experience John has 15 years of teaching experience as Director of IT at OWP/P Architects.
Allan Monat
Mr. Monat is a nationally known educator and speaker and is held in high esteem by his peers across the United States. Mr. Monat is the founder of Metro Real Estate Inspections, a Board Member of the National Association of Home Inspectors, Board Member of the Illinois Chapter of NAHI, and holds a seat on the Illinois State Home Inspector Advisory Board.
Tom Zidron
Mr. Zidron, an Illinois licensed home inspector, is a graduate of Elmhurst College with over 20 years of entrepreneurial senior management experience. Prior to establishing Residential Inspection Specialists, he was the president of the Streetsmart group of companies, providing outsourced training and staffing solutions to the communications industry.
Greg Pfauth
Mr. Pfauth has an Associate degree in Applied Science – Electronic Systems Technology. Retired Master Sergeant, USAF – Career military experience conducting training in telephone, data and radio systems.24 years experience in telecommunications managing field technical operations. Develop and conduct company training on basic telecom technology, power systems and safety. Certified National Safety Council instructor since 1995.Recent experience in home inspections and development of home inspector training.


Kevin
R. Maynard
Kevin R. Maynard, Owner/Member of Open Hearth Home Inspection, LLC, is one of the foremost experts in the United States in the area of log home inspections. He has built more than 50 log homes in most states east of the Mississippi and repaired more. Kevin has built full scribe (hand crafted), manufactured, as well as log veneer homes, giving him intimate knowledge of log homes.  Kevin and his crew have traveled across the east coast building log homes from Maine to Florida. As a licensed home inspector Kevin not only has knowledge specific to log homes, he also understands the entire building process and the components of a home. Kevin R. Maynard is a Board Member of the International Log Builders Association. He is a member of the Wisconsin Association of Foundation Repair Professionals, the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors, the American Home Inspector Training Institute and the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors. Kevin also participates in the logger games to keep his skills sharp. At the 2006 conference in Montebello, Canada he took first place in the axe throwing competition, competing against log home builders from around the world!

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Ronald Middleton

Mr. Middleton is currently an instructor/trainer for Public Health and Safety, Inc., where he is the instructor for the Asbestos Worker Course, Asbestos Supervisor Course, Lead Base Paint Worker Course, Lead Base Paint Supervisor Course and other related refresher courses. Ronald is IDPH Certified Asbestos Supervisor, IDPH Certified Lead Supervisor and Lead Base Paint Inspector. Ronald has more than 16 years of related experience in these fields and has taught at the following other locations: University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Public Health and Safety for the city of Chicago. Ronald is currently developing, courses for Home Inspector University, which will be designed to better educate the Professional Home Inspector in the areas of Lead, Asbestos and Molds, as they relate to the home inspection process.

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tz and Rick Mattern.  Their combined years of experience as Home Inspectors, their affiliation with the American Association of Home Inspectors ASHI, National Association of Home Inspectors NAHI, Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors and past positions as founding board members of the Illinois Chapter of NAHI ICNAHI make each uniquely qualified to deliver the highest quality continuing home inspection educat

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