Over 44 years managing, mentoring and growing teams to complete the mission! Over 24 years building client base and supporting them! I have a reputation as the guy who gets things done. Mentor, Leader, Process expert. Available to assist dealers evaluating products and services if re-looking at your product suite!
After 20 years in the Air Force assigned to a Forward Air Control Wing in Europe, Weapons Test and Development for 10 years in the FL Panhandle, Quick Response Force and Combat Rescue, I moved on to running a broadband ISP and Dev company while being a Adjunct Instructor at a Technical College in South Ga.
I moved on being a founding team member of Elead, a CRM that grew from no (0) accounts to over 3,800 when the owners sold to CDK Global, I stayed on-board and directly impacted the growth to #1.. over 7,000+ Dealer Clients and OE's under Elead | CDK Global. From Training to initializing and setting up departments, teams and offices from Support, to Account Management and Client Services. I provided incremental sales to our VIP clients ( managed all 1 mil billable's ) putting up $450k to $1.2mil annual revenue growth. When I retired from CDK Global 15 months ago after 23 years, I was Sr Group Product Manager for North America with 7 Product Teams overseeing product development for Elead CRM and CDK One-Eighty In Canada.
Now, Im doing 'what I want, 'how I want', 'when I want' without restrictions, guardrails, or fulfilling others agenda's and priorities.
As COO of Hallquist and Co., LLC this application is one goal of many.
Corporate America though cuts, mergers, acquisitions, focusing on the bottom line, off-shore contracting and out-sourcing has resulting in businesses cutting and releasing their most valuable resource.. PEOPLE.
This directory is FREE, we will monetize later to cover the cost of server, application, updates and marketing. We plan on offering Featured listings in the future for a nominal fee... maybe a dollar a day 🙂
Who Am I?
In 1997 I started building affiliate sites and portals starting with one named Clothesnet in 1999-2000, the largest apparel portal on-line getting 1mil hits a month and selling ad space and joining affiliate programs. Then moved into automotive, city and radio station websites in 1998 when others were just getting in the game.
Education | Certifications
BSBA Management, SAFe, Agile, Pragmatic, JIRA, Atlassian, Notion, CRM's, DMS's, Marketing and quoting tools.
