Profile
Here is a overview and summary of several
professional accomplishments:
- Graduate of
St. Albans High School, 1985
- Graduate of
WV State University, Two
Degrees, 1990
- AAS in Computer Science, AAS in Electronic
Engineering
- Pursued Bachelors degree in Marketing, WV
State, 160 hrs
- Founded Spectrum Technologies in 1990
- Joined WV
Army National Guard, Federal &
State Missions, 1990
- Completed Light Infantry BASIC Training,
Fort Dix, NJ
- Served as a
Tactical Communications Chief,
31V, 107th ACR
- Served as an
Armored Calvary Scout, 19D,
107th Armored Calvary
- Distinguished Honor Graduate, 31V,
Fort
Sill, OK (1st of 400)
- Distinguished Honor Graduate,
Primary
Leadership Development Course (PLDC),
Fort
Jackson, SC, (2nd of 200)
- Received 1 Army Commendation and 2 Army
Achievement Medals
- Completed
Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
(NBC) Recon Training
- Received Honorable Discharge, United States
Army, 1996
- Built Spectrum Technology to $900,000/year
business in 1994
- Co-Founded
CityNet Corporation, 1994, WV's
First Internet Provider
- Served as President of CityNet from
1994-1997
- Sale of CityNet 1997 to
City Holding (a
$3.4B Bank Holding Co.)
- Founded
DataCorp Communications, Inc, 1995,
Bell-Atlantic Agency
- DataCorp selected as one of top-performing
WV sales agencies
- Completed Leadership Charleston Course,
Chamber of Commerce
- Joined the
CornerStone
Technology Group as
Executive Director of Marketing in 1997 - Served
under first ownership group until 2000
-
West Virginia Executive
Magazine:
Recognized as
Young Gun 2000
- DataCorp secures
national agency status for
AT&T
- CornerStone has substantial revenue growth
to $10M, 1997-2000
-
CornerStone Technology Group sold to new
investor group, 2000
With related corporate acquisitions grows to
approx 100 employees
- Promoted to President & CEO CornerStone
Technology Group, 2000
- DataCorp's
AT&T Agency opens door to $10M of
global provisioning of high-capacity data
services from 2000-2002
- Responsible for leading corporate
restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, turnaround
and concluding workout with CornerStone
Technology Group and various investor group
assets, 2000-2002.
- Founded
Premier Strategies, LLC in 2002 -
Helping clients a a Business Broker and
Management Consulting Firm
- Accepted as member of
International Business
Brokers Association
- Served as President of
Business Networking
International, 2005 for the West Virginia
Founders Chapter, Charleston, WV
- Active Member of the
Charleston Rotary Club
7550
- Selected to serve as the Acting Executive
Director (2004) of the
West Virginia Venture Connection to assist in
the first year launch.
- MATRIC -
Mid Atlantic Technology Research
and Innovation Center
Serving as MATRIC's Executive Director of
Commercialization, 2004
- Recognized
Who's Who in WV Business 2004 -
State Journal -
Video
- Founded Investor-Led Venture:
Chat Cable,
LLC, 2006
- Launching
CoalBroker,LLC, a business brokerage
asset exchange.
Creating a deal
finder network for M&A and asset-based transactions in
Coal, Oil, Gas, Timber and Technology Licenses
in the Energy & Natural Resource marketplace.
- Founded and is currently leading national expansion of investor-led internet media company, StateNewslines.com. The company operates a portfolio of over 100 interactive media properties, indexing over 7,000 news websites each hour and providing one-page news headline aggregation sites for each state. StateNewslines also operates a nationwide media monitoring & daily alert service.
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