Experience

Northeast Indiana Innovation Center

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President/CEO/Executive Director

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States

• Director of Revenue Development

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2021

  Fort Wayne, Indiana Area The NE Indiana Innovation Center helps start-ups get started and small businesses grow and scale. I help create new programs to make that happen and ensure they get funded so we can help the maximum amount of people. I am also responsible for getting funding for those programs via grants, partnerships and many other mechanisms. I work to get resident clients in our building to help them grow. It's a fun and rewarding job.

• Entrepreneur In Residence

  • Dec 2012 - Dec 2021

  Fort Wayne, Indiana Area Responsible for entrepreneur coaching, marketing, university interface and community outreach. This includes listening to every aspiring entrepreneur's crazy ideas and helping turn that into a workable, successful business venture. I am responsible for helpig us achieve our mission: "We are rocket fuel for great idea, people and companies".



ZOOM Information Systems

• Co-Founder & President

  • Dec 2002 - Present

  Fort Wayne, Indiana Area Directed all company (as well as three subsidiary companies) operations including: strategic planning and budget development, overall P&L responsibility, hands-on project management, cross-company technology development coordination, business development and proposal writing, marketing, customer relationships and account retention, HR management, contract development and management, operating policies, and acquisition and growth activities. - Personally acquired over $11M in new… Show more Directed all company (as well as three subsidiary companies) operations including: strategic planning and budget development, overall P&L responsibility, hands-on project management, cross-company technology development coordination, business development and proposal writing, marketing, customer relationships and account retention, HR management, contract development and management, operating policies, and acquisition and growth activities. - Personally acquired over $11M in new business and $2.75M in grant awards for ZOOM. - Program/Project Manager for over 35 ITS/technology projects. - Created and led new subsidiary company, ZOOM LBS, to monetize technology assets via sponsorship and advertising. Created and grew a new revenue generation model on the interstate highway system for State DOTs. Acquired 6 states contracts and implemented successful technology programs to support them. - Oversaw acquisition of two subsidiary companies to capture new markets for company products. - Created, developed and dominated a new market on the US highways revolving around technology at rest areas. - Pioneered new highway-based Public-Private-Partnership model via commercial sponsorship and advertising. - Rest Area-Based Technology – including integration to state 511 systems to display location-based traffic, weather and tourism information to travelers via digital signage and wireless Internet technologies. - Government Fleet / Public Works AVL – not only tracking vehicles but managing 2-way data flows from the vehicles and analyzing/displaying data. - Interstate highway automated gate closure systems – patented web-based Internet control. - Video-based and video-analytics-based highway infrastructure data gathering. Show less



Logikos, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President

  • 1983 - 2002

  Led the company to achieve the vision of creating some of the most critical software in use today by focusing on great processes, great employees and great training. Clients included Delphi, Motorola, OnStar, Cummins, Caterpillar, Hughes, Magnavox, Visteon, Raytheon, US Army, Various State Governments, etc. - Grew the company to over 70 software engineers. - Led expansion of markets from entirely defense business to commercial automotive, healthcare and more, including creation of… Show more Led the company to achieve the vision of creating some of the most critical software in use today by focusing on great processes, great employees and great training. Clients included Delphi, Motorola, OnStar, Cummins, Caterpillar, Hughes, Magnavox, Visteon, Raytheon, US Army, Various State Governments, etc. - Grew the company to over 70 software engineers. - Led expansion of markets from entirely defense business to commercial automotive, healthcare and more, including creation of the vehicle-based software for the OnStar™ system. - Led total rebranding of company image and marketing. - Personally sold multi-$M in business. - Wrote and personally responsible for obtaining over $1.5M in grant awards. - Program/Project Manager for many software development projects. Show less



Geospatial Systems

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Electrical Engineer

  • Aug 1978 - Jun 1983

  Designed and built space flight instrumentation and test equipment including equipment used on the space telescope and various weather satellites.