Emerson's Chief Blogger and Communications Manager
Austin, Texas Area
- Current
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- Volunteer at Austin Tennis Academy
- Chief Blogger and Communications Manager at Emerson Process Management
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- Marketing Product Manager at Fisher-Rosemount
- Alliance Manager at Fisher-Rosemount
- Product Application Group Manager at Fisher Controls
- Oil & Gas Sales Engineer at Fisher Controls
- Systems Engineer at Conoco
- Education
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- University of New Orleans
- University of Texas at Austin
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Jim Cahill’s Summary
Chief Blogger of Emerson Process Experts, www.EmersonProcessXperts.com and global communications manager for Emerson's Systems and Solutions business. Responsible for managing communications organization for multi-hundred million B2B brand.
Motto-Simplify and Execute. Communications is rapidly changing from a one-way broadcast medium to a two-way dialog that today's social media technologies offer. I like to take a hands on approach from developing the objectives to building the strategy and executing the tactics.
Jim Cahill’s Specialties:
Brand management, blogging, website development and management, advertising, copy writing, budgeting, program management, electrical engineering, systems engineering, master in business administration, server administrator, email administrator/list manager, podcaster, screencaster, SharePoint developer and administrator, Google search appliance administrator, Movable Type developer and administrator, Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP enthusiast.
Jim Cahill’s Experience
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Volunteer
Austin Tennis Academy
(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)
June 2002 — Present (6 years 2 months)
Manage the small business server and run www.AustinTennisAcademy.com website and SharePoint intranet site. Manage the Microsoft Exchange Server and distribution lists for the 100+ parents and families enrolled in the Austin Tennis Academy.
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Chief Blogger and Communications Manager
Emerson Process Management
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMR; Industrial Automation industry)
May 1999 — Present (9 years 3 months)
I am Emerson's first blogger, www.EmersonProcessXperts.com and big advocate of social media-based communications.
I have many years of experience in product management, marketing communications and brand building for a B2B global multi-hundred million dollar brand, DeltaV. This control system grew out of a skunkworks effort in the mid-to-late 90s. -
Marketing Product Manager
Fisher-Rosemount
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMR; Industrial Automation industry)
January 1995 — May 1999 (4 years 5 months)
Skunkworks/offsite development, startup with a large company, Communications/diagnostic product focus, promotion/launch focus
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Alliance Manager
Fisher-Rosemount
(Public Company; Industrial Automation industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years)
Program managed third-party alliance program.
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Product Application Group Manager
Fisher Controls
(Public Company; EMR; Industrial Automation industry)
1990 — 1993 (3 years)
Perform customer presentations and demonstrations, develop and attend industry trade shows, educate global sales force.
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Oil & Gas Sales Engineer
Fisher Controls
(Public Company; Industrial Automation industry)
1988 — 1990 (2 years)
Business Development for Oil & Gas and Refining industry process manufacturers.
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Systems Engineer
Conoco
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
1984 — 1988 (4 years)
Offshore Oil & Gas production systems engineer responsible for design/commissioning/operations staff training for safety shutdown systems, control systems, power generation/distribution systems, telecommunications.
Jim Cahill’s Education
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University of New Orleans
MBA, Marketing and Management, September 1986 — June 1988
- Activities and Societies:
- Evening student while working full time at Conoco-North American Oil&Gas Production as a Systems Engineer.
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University of Texas at Austin
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, January 1980 — December 1984
- Activities and Societies:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Order of Alec, Texas Exes Life Member, Former Texas Exes President-New Orleans Chapter, Longhorn Football season ticket holder
Additional Information
Jim Cahill’s Websites:
Jim Cahill’s Interests:
new technologies and gadgets, tennis parenting, blogging, social media, Ubuntu Linux and open source stuff, hiking
Jim Cahill’s Groups:
Austin Tennis Academy volunteer (see www.AustinTennisAcademy.com), Construction Industry Institute (www.construction-institute.org) Brand Development team member, American Marketing Association
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Blog member
Jim Cahill’s Honors:
Key note speaker for upcoming ISA Sales and Marketing Conference - http://twurl.nl/lc0d4s
Emerson Process Experts blog use as example (p.114) in best-selling book, Groundswell, by Forrester Research principal analysts Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li - http://twurl.nl/hdphnd
Emerson Process Experts blog featured in Strategies and Tools for Corporate Blogging book by John Cass
Named a "top marketer blog" by Forrester Research Senior Analyst, Peter Kim (July 12, 2007) - http://twurl.nl/i0br74
Quoted in Wall Street Journal (February 6, 2007) - http://twurl.nl/a233pt
3 Patents filed
Presented at New Comm Forum, April 2008 - http://twurl.nl/y1gthd
Presented RSS and Blog Case Study at the Houston Chapter of the American Marketing Association - November 2007, September 2006
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