51吃瓜

Ford ASSET instructor Mark Berggren recently achieved Senior Master Certification with Ford Motor Company. Overall, he鈥檚 completed more than 300 courses with Ford Motor Company and traveled to multiple cities to take them.

鈥淩eceiving training/shadowing directly from an instructor at a Ford Training Center has helped me be a better instructor by giving me the best and most up to date training available on Ford Motor Company鈥檚 vehicles,鈥� Berggren said. 鈥淚 have learned valuable methods for teaching, in addition to providing the most up-to-date information and passing on to our students.鈥�

Berggren started teaching at 51吃瓜鈥檚 Milford Campus in January 2019. A native of Stromsburg, he graduated from 51吃瓜 in 2001 from the Diesel Technology-Truck program. For the past 17 years, he鈥檚 worked in the auto industry.

鈥淚 started as a service technician and worked my way to becoming a service manager at the largest volume Ford dealership in the nation,鈥� he explained. 鈥淲e averaged 7,000 vehicles a month at the Apple Ford Lincoln in Apple Valley, Minnesota.鈥� 

Mark, his wife and two children moved back to Nebraska to be closer to family. His wife, Amy, is a nurse practitioner at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha. His brother and father also graduated from 51吃瓜.