Jim Cahill

Current

• Volunteer at Austin Tennis Academy
• Chief Blogger and Communications Manager at Emerson Process Management

Past

• 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

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Education

• University of New Orleans
• University of Texas at Austin

Recommended

12 people have recommended Jim

Connections

442 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Emerson Process Experts
• Austin Tennis Academy
• My FriendFeed

Jim Cahill’s Summary

Chief Blogger of Emerson Process Experts, www.EmersonProcessXperts.com and global communications manager for Emerson's Systems and Solutions business. Borrowing the words of the Wall Street Journal ( http://is.gd/bNo6 ), I consider myself a "marketing technopologist." This quote, http://is.gd/jHtK , from a leading media, technology, and marketing author captures my approach:
"Emerson Process Experts is superbly focused; it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a technical resource to a small but very important audience. Cahill is fluent in the language of the industry, but he’s also a good writer who organizes and expresses his thoughts clearly."

Another nice article - http://tinyurl.com/AMA-MarketingNews-A-Long-Slog

As a Marketing Communications manager, I'm also responsible for managing the 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

• Volunteer

  Austin Tennis Academy

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)

  June 2002 — Present (7 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.

• Chief Blogger and Communications Manager

  Emerson Process Management

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EMR; Industrial Automation industry)

  May 1999 — Present (10 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

• Alliance Manager

  Fisher-Rosemount

  (Public Company; Industrial Automation industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years)

  Program managed third-party alliance program.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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:

• Emerson Process Experts
• Austin Tennis Academy
• My FriendFeed

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

•    Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin
•    Austin High-Tech
•    Ubuntu Users ( 9000+ members ) Official Group
•    Automation
•    LinkedTo Emerson
•    Automation Engineers
•    Austin Linux Users
•    DCS Selection
•    ISA Automation Marketing & Sales Group
•    DeltaV Digital Automation System
•    Automation Engineers Technical Group
•    Syncade Suite
•    Automation & Control Engineering
•    Automation World

Jim Cahill’s Honors:

Featured in American Marketing Association article- http://tinyurl.com/AMA-MarketingNews-A-Long-Slog

Keynote presenter on Web 2.0 for Automation Marketers at the 2008 ISA Sales and Marketing Conference - http://tinyurl.com/ISAMS2008 (Reviews- http://is.gd/2O9O , http://is.gd/31OW , http://is.gd/31P9 )

Presented at 2008 New Comm Forum - http://is.gd/31Ra

Presented RSS and Blog Case Study at the Houston Chapter of the American Marketing Association - November 2007, September 2006

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

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