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Sam Pointer, President and Principal Consultant

       

Sam Pointer has worked extensively with companies providing high-tech products and with organizations in other industries seeking to improve their use of technology.  Representative results include

  • leading a software engineering team to develop a family of 10 software products released in the U.S. and Japan,
  • streamlining and automating the workflow of a University technology transfer office,
  • leading the IT infrastructure development to support a national product release and IPO for an Internet postage company, and
  • managing multiple third-party logistics (3PL) projects for a pharmaceutical company.

Prior to founding Red Mountain Consulting, he was Vice President and General Manager of a subsidiary of EBSCO Industries, a private multinational with over $1 billion yearly revenue.  He previously was with Macess Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company. 

Sam's credentials include:

  • M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow;
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering magna cum laude from Duke University, where he was an A.B. Duke Memorial Scholar; and
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

 

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