Jeffrey Lyons Jr.

Current

President at Chapel Wireless
Founder and CEO at ideabreaker.com

Past

Principal Investigator at NSCII
General Manager at NPI
President at Nine23 Industies

Banquet/ Board Room Management at InterContinental Hotels Group
T3- Sales Representative at Tandy Corporation

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Education

University of New Orleans

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Jeffrey Lyons Jr.’s Summary

Dreamer. Instigator. Executor. Innovator. I am in the business of getting it done while adding value to the personal and professional lives of real live people. Let's discover your business.

Jeffery R. Lyons Jr. is the grateful husband of Milessa Parker Lyons, the proud father of Jeffrey R. Lyons III and Eben Michael Lyons, the blessed son of Jeffrey R. Lyons Sr. and Jennifer H. Roubiqe, and the prodigious lineage of Lyons and Hewitt ancestry.

Jeffrey Lyons Jr.’s Specialties:

Project Management, Sales, Marketing, Process Improvement, Leadership, Team Building, Research/ Development, Technical Writing, Startups, Coaching/ Counseling, Product Evangelism

Jeffrey Lyons Jr.’s Experience

President

Chapel Wireless

(Wireless industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Chapel Wireless is Smart Device Service.
At Chapel we provide innovative repair services for smart phones and mobile devices including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile products and More.

We offer local drop-off and pick up in addition to offering repair options to consumers nationwide through the our website and phone-based ordering system.

More options, more choices. That's Smart Device Service.
Founder and CEO

ideabreaker.com

(Computer Software industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

At ideabreaker we create tools and imaginative processes. Tools for cultivating ideas, for creating pathways to innovation, for communicating with people, and for managing the madness.

We believe in exploring right-brain approaches to analytical problems by crafting solutions that are intuitive and successfully capitalize on the natural flow of human thinking and activity.

We are confident that applying a holistic approach to innovation will increase productivity by enhancing collaboration. Let ideabreaker help you discover your business.
Principal Investigator

NSCII

(Think Tanks industry)

March 2007 — November 2007 (9 months)

Served as P.I. And lead writer for local technology consortium in an effort to secure phase I status in National Science Foundation's SBIR program subtopic.

Responsibilities centered around production of written materials to assist in recruitment of research personnel, investigatory groundwork in materials acquisition, research into competing and contrasting technologies and write and rewrite of final proposal documentation.

Was entrusted with analyzing and dissemination sensitive information in liaison role between NCSII and National Science Foundation topical administrator.
General Manager

NPI

(Hospitality industry)

September 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 1 month)

As the General Manager of a high volume unit, oversaw material acquisition and production as well handled all human
resource aspects of business at unit level.

Responsible for producing acceptable cost figures under tight budget constraints and assembly of daily, weekly, and monthly financial reports. Directly managed diverse staff of over forty employees and was charged with development of prospective management on a unit and company level.
President

Nine23 Industies

(Computer Hardware industry)

June 2004 — December 2004 (7 months)

Nine23 industries was a custom desktop computer company based on the northshore of New Orleans. Nine23 specialized in building custom gaming machines and low cost alternatives to business pc's.

In retrospect, it is easy to see how we missed it. This was my first startup and although littered with mistakes and disappointments, it was my first taste of entrepreneurship and far more was gained than lost.
Banquet/ Board Room Management

InterContinental Hotels Group

(Public Company; IHG; Hospitality industry)

March 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Assisted in managing both audio/ video implementation and catering capacities. Duties included setup and breakdown of seating,
presentation and board room arrangements for groups of 10-300 splitting time between food/ beverage production and
A/V setup and maintenance.
T3- Sales Representative

Tandy Corporation

(Public Company; TAN; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — January 1999 (1 year )

Worked as a top ranking sales professional with high volume technology vendor. Daily operating responsibilities revolved
around building of customer base through product education, sales and service.

Required to complete continuing education courses in major areas of base technologies,in addition to staying abreast of emerging technologies on constant basis

Jeffrey Lyons Jr.’s Education

University of New Orleans

Marketing 1999 — 2003

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Jeffrey Lyons Jr.’s Groups:

eOffice
NetSquared
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Blueprint Louisiana
South Louisiana Networkers
Getting Things Done - GTD - SolutionPeople Innovation's Network of Action Innovators
Louisiana Technology Council
Fans of Mashable
Tweeple
Southeast Venture Community
TechSouth
Louisiana BNI
VenCorps
Net Squared New Orleans