Thirty years of AV, from statewide networks to your living room

For over 30 years, Jerry has been designing and installing audio, video, and control systems. He started in 1996 installing distance learning classrooms in eight states, including Iowa’s statewide ICN network, which linked schools, libraries and courthouses by video long before Zoom made it routine.

Word of mouth soon brought him onto projects with Minnesota’s largest AV integrators. He bid and oversaw complete installs from open framing to final handoff at the Medtronic, General Mills, Best Buy and Medica world headquarters, the 3M technology center, the Walker Art Center, the Guthrie Theater, the University of Minnesota’s Coffman Union, and the Minnesota State Senate floor. The Walker job alone took 187,000 feet of cable. Hundreds of churches, courtrooms, studios and boardrooms filled in between.

In 2009 he founded Connectors AVL to have full control over creativity and design. Since then, he has built the Minnesota Children’s Museum’s audio and control system, the sound and effect lighting at the Minnetonka Ice Arenas, and complete AV conferencing and surveillance systems for PEM and AFI. With a background in classical painting and advertising art from MSU, he brings a designer’s eye to every space.

Today, Connectors AVL brings that commercial experience into homes across Southern Minnesota with Josh.ai voice control, lighting, shades, audio and home theater. He has watched this technology grow from the first distance learning rooms to today’s smart homes, so he knows what’s possible and how to keep it simple.