Welcome to the GemEx Systems blog. Please follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/gemex), Facebook (www.facebook.com/gemex) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1861021). Our websites are www.gemex.com and www.diamondlightperformance.com.

My name is Paul Town and I am the marketing manager at GemEx. I started with GemEx in 2001 and have worked in sales and marketing over the past 9 years. I graduated from St. Norbert College (www.snc.edu) with a Bachelors degree in Business Administration.

I live in Milwaukee with my wife, Carrie. We were married on September 6, 2008 and are looking forward to the birth of our first child this year. The due date is May 6th and we are waiting to be surprised by the gender. We are very excited for the major change that is coming to our lives and are busy preparing for the new addition to our family.

We are currently working on converting our attic into a bedroom. While I have no idea what I am doing, I have received a great amount of help from family and friends, especially my father-in-law and brothers. We have made a lot of progress over the last few months and thankfully we have hired a company to install the drywall this week. We hope to move upstairs by the end of the month so that we can prepare our current bedroom for the baby. My mom and sister hosted a baby shower for Carrie last weekend and we are very thankful for the great gifts we received. Carrie's mom and sister are hosting another baby shower for her in a couple of weeks. We are happy to have family and friends around with the baby on the way.

I am a big sports fan. We are in a great month of the year with the NCAA tournament. Carrie and I enjoy going to Marquette games and will be following them along with the entire tournament. I enjoy following the NFL, MLB and the NBA and my teams are the Bears, Cubs and Bulls. It has been amazing to watch the Bears actually make moves this month. None of them make them a great (or even good) team but at least they are trying to do something. It would have been nice if they had this sense of urgency after they lost the Super Bowl instead of suffering through these last three years. If the Cubs can be healthy, it could be a fun year but I don't think that will happen. That happens when you have an older roster. I was surprised Jim Hendry was as high as he was in the SI GM ratings. He has great resources but has made too many mistakes recently.

That is some information about me. We will update this blog with different types of posts by different authors and look forward to your feedback and ideas.