MILWAUKEE – Dave Schuelke has a couple of jobs. His day job as president and chief executive of Spring Bank in suburban Milwaukee is more important in the grand scheme.

But it's his other job — that one that takes him to Lambeau Field for each Green Bay Packers home game — that catches people's attention.

Schuelke is the person who controls the radio receiver in quarterback Aaron Rodgers' helmet that lets Coach Mike McCarthy tell him which play to run.

Actually, Schuelke turns on and off not only the sound device in Rodgers' helmet, but also in the opposition quarterback's helmet and the helmet of the one defensive player on each team who also is allowed to hear a coach's orders remotely from the sideline or booth before a play.

He is what the National Football League calls the "coach-to-player" official or operator. He's been doing the job for more than 20 years.

"I even hate to call it a job, but you get paid for it," Schuelke said. "You take pride in doing it well. It's all part of this big production — the NFL. You want to do it well."

On a day-to-day basis, running a community bank is Schuelke's top priority and passion. Spring Bank is the last totally new bank to be opened in Wisconsin, or, as Schuelke says, it's the state's youngest bank. It was started by Schuelke and investors in 2008, just before the Great Recession erupted in earnest and started sucking the life out of the U.S. economy.

Even though the timing may appear very unfortunate, a brand-new bank had one big advantage over its competitors: It had no bad loans on its books. So instead of looking inward to try to clean up existing messes, as other banks were forced to do, Spring Bank was able to look outward and seek careful growth.

And as bigger banks rushed to comply with regulatory mandates and needed to shed small but good loan accounts, Spring Bank was there to scoop them up. It has grown steadily in today's more-normal market as well.

Spring Bank's assets — a bank's assets are made up mostly of its loan portfolio — have more than tripled from about $70 million in 2009 to almost $236 million today. The bank's annual profit has increased each of the last five years, coming in at $2.4 million in 2015.

At 60, Schuelke is a veteran Wisconsin banker who has worked at some of the largest financial institutions, such as the old First Wisconsin and Bank One (now Chase). And it was a friendship in the industry that resulted in his side job with the NFL.

Back in the early 1990s, just about the time the legend of Brett Favre was about to be born, Schuelke was asked by a fellow banker, Jerry Mortell, if he was interested in helping with some sideline work during a Packers preseason game at old Milwaukee County Stadium. The Mortell family has been the official game clock operator at Packers games for years.

Schuelke's first NFL-related job was done on a volunteer basis, mostly just for the experience of being part of the action on the sidelines.

"I think the first time I did it, I was essentially holding a cord for somebody. The other responsibility I had — this is when they still fired off a starter's pistol — was carry the gun," he said.

Before long, Schuelke was sitting in a booth along with the game clock timekeeper and play clock operator at Lambeau Field, holding a device with a button that lets him begin and abruptly end a coach's ability to remotely instruct his quarterback which play to run next.