
Owner, Apogee Coaching
Gainesville, Florida Area

Owner, Apogee Coaching
Gainesville, Florida Area
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For the last 17 years, I’ve performed at many levels (producer to executive) for a variety of companies varying in size and industry segment, from small firms to Fortune 50 companies in areas including software development, engineering, finance and distribution. With my newest personal venture, Apogee Coaching, I am focused on helping individual business owners and leaders of organizations their full potential and achieve their dreams through individual and organizational excellence coaching.
I invite you to connect to me via:
* My Website (http://www.apogeecoaching.com)
* Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/apogeecoaching)
* FaceBook (http://www.facebook.com/JimLilkendey)
* Plaxo (http://jimlilkendey.myplaxo.com)
Business Coaching, Consulting, Leadership Development, Business Strategy, Organizational/Operational Management and Maturity, Team Building and Performance, Process Definition and Process Engineering, Project Leadership/Management (traditional and agile), Client/Professional Services Management, Software Development Methodologies and Practices, Employee Development, Talent Acquisition
(Management Consulting industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Apogee Coaching partners with business leaders who are committed to individual and organizational excellence.
By taking the time to understand you and your organizations underlying behaviors, values and vision, identifying effectiveness challenges, developing consistent goals, and aligning all elements of your business to support these goals, attaining them becomes less costly, requires less effort and occurs more quickly. Once we achieve such alignment, we can focus our operational and process improvements on the areas that provide the greatest return and have the most significant impact.
To learn more about how Apogee Coaching can help you maximize your organization's effectiveness, even if you are an organization of one, please contact me.
(Management Consulting industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
December 2006 — Present (3 years )
Prioria is a high-growth engineering product and services firm focusing on intelligent embedded systems and products based on those systems. Our primary offerings are Maveric (an advanced Micro Air Vehicle) and Merlin (our embedded processing platform). In addition to our products, we provide services around our Merlin platform, as well as custom electronic design services, in various industry segments including defense, homeland security, and medical devices.
As VP of Operations, my primary responsibilities include leadership and growth of business operations (professional engineering services and product development), client services management, and IT/application infrastructure.
MS , Computer Science , 1990 — 1992
Specializations:
- Machine Learning
- Genetic Algortihms
- Artificial Intelligence
BS , Computer Engineering , 1986 — 1990