Credentials and Experience
Shown here is Terry Podgorski, the owner of MVS, who has many years of diverse experience to offer you as an ideal appraiser. Some of the highlights are listed below.
Experience includes but is not limited to the following:
- Woodworking
- Machining
- Stamping
- Waste Disposal
- Asphalt Paving
- General Contractors
- Excavating
- Utility Contractors
- Construction
- Packaging
- Logging
- Food Processing
- Metal Finishing
- Concrete Batch Plants
- Asphalt Plants
- Dairy and Beef Farms
- Inventories
- Tool and Die
- Plastic Injection Molding
- Printing
- Wineries and Breweries
- Aggregate Mining
- Concrete Paving
- Orchards
- Blueberry Farms
Work Experience:
- Owner and Senior Appraiser of Machinery Valuation Specialists
- Full time experience since 1994 as a machinery and equipment appraiser
- Has completed over 1600 appraisals throughout the United States
- Has given expert witness testimony in Civil Court and U.S. Bankruptcy Court
- Co-presented “Biofuels and Biofuel Equipment” to the 2022 American Society of Appraisers International Conference
- Twenty years experience in manufacturing management as Production Planner, Production Control Supervisor, Purchasing Agent, Material Control and Purchasing Manager, Manufacturing Manager, and Vice President of Operations
Education and Associations:
- Graduate of Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, BA, Magna Cum Laude
- Accredited Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA)
- Has completed ASA Machinery and Technical Specialties Core Courses, Report Writing, Marine Survey, and Inventory Appraisal and appraisals for financial reporting courses, covering appraising for machinery and equipment, inventories, marine survey, etc.
- Past president, membership chair, vice president, and treasurer of ASA Greater Michigan Chapter
- Has completed USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) course
- Member of the Brewer’s Association
- Other education including, material control, production control, hiring and disciplining, JIT manufacturing, statistical process control, inventory control, and purchasing law
Meet Anna Norris
Our Junior Appraiser, Anna Norris, is a Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate of Western Michigan University and Candidate Member of the American Society of Appraisers among her many accomplishments. She has diverse experience and brings a lot of dedication, energy and enthusiasm to MVS and our clients.
Work Experience:
- Appraiser for Machinery Valuation Specialists, LLC
- Experience as a machinery and equipment appraiser since 2016
- Has assisted on over 200 appraisals throughout the United States
- Industrial and commercial facilities appraised: tool and die, machining, metal fabricating, grinding, screw machine, welding, warehouses, roll forming, stamping, woodworking, and more
- Construction and transportation companies appraised: specialty transportation companies, asphalt paving, concrete paving, general contractors, underground utilities, aggregate, ready mix plants, excavating, demolition, bridge building and repair, scrap yards, landscaping, and more
- Agricultural operations appraised: cash crop, beef, orchards, blueberry, vegetable, and more
- Food and processing: wineries, breweries, vegetable processing, seafood processing, and more
- Co-presented “Biofuels and Biofuel Equipment” to the 2022 American Society of Appraisers International Conference
Education and Associations:
- Graduate of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Candidate Member of the American Society of Appraisers (ASA)
- Has completed ASA’s ME201, ME202, and ME203 – Fundamentals of Machinery and Technical Specialties Valuation course
- Member of the American Music Therapy Association
- Neurologic Music Therapy Fellow
- Has attended numerous appraisal seminars and conferences
- Has completed the USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) course
