The 2018 PDR College Advanced Skills Seminar was held January 23–25 at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. The recovered program documents three full days of advanced repair, hail, sales, estimating, safety, marketing, and business instruction.
Event facts
- Dates: January 23–25, 2018
- Venue: Caribe Royale Resort
- Address: 8101 World Center Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821
- Daily format: registration began at 8:00 a.m.; instruction began at 8:30 a.m.; the published FAQ described full days running approximately 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
- Audience: working technicians; the original page warned that the material could be too advanced for someone without basic PDR training
Day 1: damage, communication, hail, and blending
- Paul Kordon and Keith Cosentino: damaging vehicles, assessing repairs, and pricing
- Nicholas Boothman: interpersonal skills
- Tony Frasher: hail-repair tips, hotbox, and aluminum hotbox use
- Shane Jacks: blending for speed while glue pulling
- Additional live vehicle-damage work
Day 2: rotating repair pods
Attendees rotated through three practical groups:
- Sal Contreras: Dent Dial usage and setup
- Kazimieras Stankevicius: repairing damage considered unrepairable
- Brice Kelly: complex mobile repair work
Day 3: sharp dents, enterprise sales, marketing, hail, EVs, and video
- Shane Jacks: deep sharp dents and sanding skills
- Bill Ryan: selling to multimillion-dollar clients
- Gene Fetty: action marketing
- Ryan Hampton: hail preparedness for local technicians
- Kevin Andrews: electric-vehicle repair safety
- Max VanNostrand: hail estimating, adjuster communication, and maximizing legitimate repair value
- Myke Toledo: video marketing and adding training to a business
Other documented instructors and themes
The original event page also describes Keith Cosentino and Paul Kordon teaching retail customer interaction and pricing, Sal Contreras teaching large-damage methods, and a broader focus on translating new techniques into stronger repair and business results.
Download the recovered 2018 seminar schedule PDF
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