PRINCIPAL KAS CONSULTING, Austin TX, September 2006 - Present
- Creates, establishes and manages strategic relationships with energy financing sources in the form of project finance, debt, leasing and equity investing
- Developed contractual relationship with the largest, most prestigious solar company in the US for the funding of distributed solar projects ranging from $20M to $300M
- Facilitator and co-leader of the Texas Greenbelt Coalition, a group made up of rural utilities, local government, and private and public sector executives whose purpose is to bring green energy companies and solutions to Texas.
- Actively developing multiple green energy solutions with private sector EPC companies and funding sources
- Created and owns kasconsulting.com and greenenergyleasing.com
- Member of the leadership team of the Texas Greenbelt Coalition, a group made up of rural utilities, local government, and private and public sector executives whose purpose is to bring green energy companies and solutions to Texas.
- Responsible for all business development and marketing; resulted in a new division of the company
- Created alliances and partner programs that we sold 80% of our products through
- Represented and presented the company to the National Investment Bankers Association and the Financial Services Exchange resulting in the recruitment of Broker Dealers
- Designed and managed marketing and communications program for investors, partners and alliances
- Created BPM modeling and rollout of sales and marketing for the company
- Accountable for raising capital for drilling projects; secured $20M in revenue and funding in 2006.
- Global Offering Management of web based e-mail, CRM on-demand and e-Learning on-demand
- Managed IBM hosting, servers, hardware groups and external partner ISV creating end-to-end solutions
- Project Leader for all groups involved in offering lifecycle, development, delivery, marketing, sales and support
- Accountable on global level to assist in the goal of attaining $909M in revenue in 2003
- Responsible for bringing the e-business on-demand partner to market in 2002 with ISV Onyx software.
- Accountable for managing and increasing business for Great Lakes region; awarded as third highest sales producer in 1998. Increased sales revenue by 40% in one year.
- Channel management: was liaison with IBM, Lotus, and Tivoli software
- Designed, planned and executed seminars, executive briefings, and promotional events; achieved 95% response rate for Lotus sponsored seminars.
- Awarded as third highest sales producer for RSM McGladrey in 1998
- Awarded two US Army Meritorious Service Medals; Honor Graduate of US Army UH-60 Avionics Course; among top 10% of graduates in US Army Primary Leadership Development Course
- Board member of the Clean Technologies Sustainable Industries organization www.ct-si.org
- Board member of Lift Up America 510c3 - Austin Chapter www.liftupamerica.org
- University of Texas, continuing education in Petroleum Fundamentals 2006- Present
- Project Management, Certified Professional Education 1998
- Trinity University, Bachelors Degree in Interpersonal Communication 1993-1997
- US Army Primary Leadership Development Course 1986