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Our Industry Expert - Dennis Hill
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Dennis Hill, PhD Business Intelligence,Technology and Web 2.0 - Engineering |
PROFESSIONAL FOCUS
Dennis Hill, PhD currently serves as consultant for Business Intelligence and e-Commerce Services with Sagacity LLC and is founder of Boundless Partners Inc., a ministry partnership involving urban, incarceration and home-school-based outreaches. A sample of his international and local clientele: Honeywell Federal Systems Inc, Group Bull NA, Jadecor GmbH, The Oxford Graduate School and Society of Scholars, Direct Supply Company, Aerospace Corporation, Allen-Bradley Company/Rockwell Automation, Wisconsin Color Press, Exacta Corporation, Exacta Graphics Inc, Kard Recycling Services, General Mills, The Nordic Group of Companies, Flambeau Corporation, Artecon Inc (Dot Hill Systems Corp), Snow Valley LLC, PACJETS Financial, Ltd., Wisconsin Telephone/AT&T/Ameritech, just to name a few.
Dennis has been an independent consultant, university professor, corporate vice president and entrepreneur in a career spanning more than 30 years. Hill has spent much of that time developing and imparting knowledge which integrates humanity and technology to achieve higher performance levels in organizations.
His relaxed manner contrasts with a torpedo-like persona which emphasizes organizing teams around individual strengths, achieving excellence by overcoming weaknesses.
Among his credits, Hill pioneered one of the earliest integrated manufacturing systems using Oracle, one of the first accredited computer science/computer engineering programs in the U.S. at Milwaukee School of Engineering, an integrated imaging center solution for a major medical manufacturer, undergraduate and graduate curricula in engineering, engineering management, and technical communications, as well as many other innovations in managing, manufacturing, educating/training, and engineering disciplines across North America and Europe.
WORKING CREDENTIALS
Key Boards: Artecon Inc (took public in 1997, now called DotHill), Nordic Systems, Nordic Group of Companies, Wauwatosa Education Foundation,
Publications and Seminars: COMDEX, International Computer Security Conferences, HLSUA, IEEE/MTT, MPI (over 100 peer-reviewed papers and presentations given nationally and internationally)
Multidisciplinary Education: BS – Biomedical Engineering, MS – Electrical Engineering, PhD – Computer Science (Predicting and Measuring Effective Bandwidths of Computer Systems Using Fourier Transform)
Additional fields of study/work: Computer Security and Secure Communications, Chain of Custody in Forest Stewardship Certification, Developing Manuals for Procedures and Processes, Contracts and Legal Applications in Asset Management and Liability Proceedings, Engineering Management, Biblical Greek, Old & New Testament Archaeology, Medical Ethics, Business Ethics, Corporate Development, Managing Nonprofit And Charitable Organizations, Research Methods & Design of Experiments, ISO 9000, Green and Ecological Technologies in Product Design, Change Management, DISC Profiling and Executive Recruitment, Retention and Separation, Bio-phenomena of Low Energy Electromagnetic Waves, Automatic Impedance Control in High Energy EM Applications, EM Sterilization and Pasteurizationin Food Processing, Supplemental Minerals and Vitamins in Post-Surgical Bariatric Patients, Multivendor Networking of Systems and Servers, DoD Rainbow Series Effective Technical Communications to Non-Technical Audiences, Localizing Products For Foreign Markets Roger F. Bacon Fellowship, Marquette University FALK Engineering Educator Award, First Recipient, Milwaukee School of Engineering Outstanding Minority Service Award, Milwaukee School of Engineering Outstanding Young Men of America (1986)
Key Non-Consulting Positions Held:
President, Nordic Systems Ltd – Chief Technology Officer, Nordic Group of Companies
Executive Assistant to the President, Gammex/RMI Program Director (through initial accreditation) and Associate Professor of Electric Engineering and ComputerScience, Director of Academic Computing, Director of Administrative Information Processing, Executive Director for Institutional Development, and Vice President for Business & Government Relations, Milwaukee School of Engineering
Powerscourt Press Research Engineer – Systems
GE Medical Systems Operations Computer Scientist
Research Service Veterans Administration (Wood)
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
From the board-level to the shop-floor and around the office cubicles, Hill uniquely offers an approach to strategic and tactical business issues, including systematic methods for business process engineering and re-engineering, problem identification, resource planning and selection, solution implementation and monitoring, as well as preparatory services in ISO, EN, DOD and FSC audit and certification, corporate intelligence, records management, and most other areas of human and capital management, accounting, product development, marketing communications, and leadership innovation.
Dr. Hill is an enginner who can read a balance sheet as well as a change agent who makes measurements and solves problems.
