I have created several custom profile properties for users when they register - one of them being "Business Type".

I would like to provide an option for people to search user profiles of people with certain "Business Type" - Dropdown list of all the business types, search all profiles for users with selected Business Type and display certain profile info of those users that match the criteria.  The "Business Types" are all static info based on the registration form, so that takes one level of complexity out of it (populating the dropdown list is easy).

Is there a way to do this with the core DNN or will I need to create a SQL connection, queries, etc, myself?  I don't mind doing it the 'long' way, and am fairly comfortable in doing so, but I don't want to spend time doing it just to find out that DNN has something built in to the core that will allow it to be completed more easily.