Brian Jones

Current

President and Co-Founder at Industrial Interface, Inc.

Past

Co-Founder at Valantis Enterprises, LLC
Process Engineer at Acushnet Company
Founder / Principal Photographer at T. Brian Jones Custom Photography

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Education

San Diego State University-California State University
Vanderbilt University
St. Paul's School

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Connections

214 connections

Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

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Brian Jones’s Summary

Entrepreneur with experience in Small Business Planning, Marketing, and Management. Extensive background as a design and manufacturing engineer. Professional Photographer for over 15 years.

Brian Jones’s Specialties:

• Business Planning, Product R&D, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Financial Analysis.

• Mechanical, Electrical, and Software Engineering Design, Advanced Statistical Analysis, and Project Management

• Extreme proficiency: SolidWorks and Adobe Photoshop.

• Experience: AutoCAD, JMP Statistical Package, LabVIEW, Matlab, Salesforce, and PeopleSoft.

• Programming in C++, HTML, CSS, MySql, PHP, and a variety of proprietary industrial languages including GE Fanuc.

Brian Jones’s Experience

President and Co-Founder

Industrial Interface, Inc.

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Industrial Interface is a Dynamic Matching System that enables a more efficient design process between Buyers (engineers & sourcing professionals) and Sellers (sales engineers & manufacturers’ representatives).

• Responsible for the strategic direction of a developing startup: mission, marketing analysis, competitive analysis, financial analysis including projections and investor valuations, product implementation plan, and go to market strategy.

• Management of a team of four experienced professionals, in-house Attorney, Sales Engineer, Design Engineer, Computer & Software Engineer.

• Conceptualized business based on experience as a manufacturing engineer. Initial design and coding for website user interface. Copy for company communications and website.

• An active participant in multiple venture communities in Southern California. Experienced networker and presenter in investment and small business community.
Co-Founder

Valantis Enterprises, LLC

(Internet industry)

June 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 7 months)

Professional engineering, outside sales, and computer consulting. Additional involvement with various web applications for B2C & B2B products and services.
Process Engineer

Acushnet Company

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FO; Sporting Goods industry)

September 2004 — August 2007 (3 years)

Part of a three man engineering team responsible for maintaining and innovating operations of the entire US Titleist and Cobra Golf Club manufacturing plant (including production, quality, warehouse, and machine shop) and three other major local facilities. Central engineering support for multiple international manufacturing operations.

• Major personal projects to identify, research, and design new processes and machines. Responsible for coordination of new project launches between Engineering, Machine Shop, Maintenance, and Manufacturing.

• Implementation to increase throughput and cost savings plant-wide, with a strong emphasis on ergonomic safety & process capability.

• Personal project to design and implement a machine for locating, measuring, and adjusting relational angles on a golf club in 3D space. Responsible for initial project conceptualization, and R&D for electrical, mechanical, computer and software design.
Founder / Principal Photographer

T. Brian Jones Custom Photography

(Photography industry)

May 1996 — September 2000 (4 years 5 months)

Established first business while in high school, taking portraits and photographing parties and fundraisers. Have won numerous photography awards, and been published in magazines and newspapers.

Brian Jones’s Education

San Diego State University-California State University

MBA , Marketing & Entrepreneurship , 2007 — 2009
Vanderbilt University

BE , Mechanical Engineering , 2000 — 2004
St. Paul's School

Elementary School / Middle School / High School 1987 — 2000

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Brian Jones’s Interests:

entrepreneurship, engineering & artistic design, process improvement, knowledge consumption, science based philosophy, personal relationships, surfing, music & singing, guitar & piano, photography