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SHADE
SAILS
ON LAND AND SEA
HONING YOUR MATH SKILLS CAN OPEN
UP NEW MARKETS.
By Jeff Moravec
n the way to becoming the owner of Wyckam
Fabric Creations in Portland, Ore., Amy Poe
developed a set of eclectic skills that have
come in handy in the wide world of
fabrication. She earned degrees in physics
and Spanish and specialized in failure analysis as an engineer
at TriQuint Semiconductor before joining North Sails Oregon,
owned by her husband, Kerry Poe, in early 2000.
It soon became apparent there
was a demand for fabrication services
outside the marine industry.
With her nascent success in integrating
modern technology using
3D digitizing, CAD design, and
automated plotting and cutting,
Poe decided to open North Winds
Canvas as a custom industrial
sewing shop, which is now called
Wyckam.
A fabrication business can
take unexpected twists and turns,
Poe discovered.
How expansion happens
" When you have an industrial
sewing machine, people start
coming in asking if you can do this
or if you can do that, " Poe says.
" So, if you've got the machine,
the space and the time, you start
making other things. One day a
few years back someone walked
in and asked if we'd ever made
shade sails, not sails. We said,
'What's that?' "
" We'd never heard of them, " Poe
says with a laugh.
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