Chad’s great grandfather owned and operated auto dealerships in Logan, Magnolia, Missouri Valley, and Pisgah, Iowa. In Logan, his business partner was “Kit” Carson, grandfather of Johnny Carson, TV star of the “Tonight Show”. While his paternal grandfather worked in a Chevy dealership in Onawa, Iowa, his maternal grandfather owned a general store in Pisgah, Iowa. This is where Chad gets his service above and beyond mindset. At Dreamworks we feel we can offer small town service along with the same value offered by the “big box” collision centers. It didn’t just stop there, Chad’s mom was the secretary in a collision center for 5 years and later was an Instructional Assistant in the Auto Body Class at Central Campus High School in Sioux City, IA for another 5 years. We can’t leave out the strong roots Chad got from his dad who has been in the auto industry since 1969, with two of those years spent in the U.S. Army Motor Pool, 18 years in a collision center at local dealership in Sioux City, IA. In 1991, Chad officially became employed in the collision industry and worked at a large collision repair facility until 1997 when he moved to a local family-owned dealership where he worked in the collision center from 1997 to 2012.

It isn’t just Chad who has the auto industry roots, his wife and business partner, Katrina comes from a family with a large history in the auto industry, as well. It all started with Katrina’s grandfather, who started in the auto industry at a young age. Her paternal grandfather began working professionally in the collision center at the local GM dealership in Winner, SD in 1951. Katrina’s dad, like his father, took interest in the auto industry at a young age too. He began working professionally as a mechanic in 1979. After many years working for others he decided in 1989 to open his own service station in the Riverside area in Sioux City, IA. He owned and operated the 76 Station along with her mother for 15 years. Katrina spent much of her childhood helping her parents. At one point during this time there were four generations involved in the “family business.” As you can see, we are deeply rooted in the auto industry in this family. Now, Chad and Katrina are blessed to be working together alongside their parents and children. They have learned through the years that as our society moves towards a market based on large franchise “big box” stores in everything from electronics to hardware, and now in our area, auto and collision centers. Dreamworks mission is “To offer customer service above and beyond expectations, along with a value equal to that of the “big box” stores with repairs being done by only the best highly trained technicians, using the latest cutting edge technology available.”