Chris Hartley

Chris Hartley

Director of Marketing

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Vice President of Operations at Tele-Optics, Inc.

  • Education

    • East Tennessee State University

      1993 - 1999
      Bachelor of Science Mass Communications, Marketing, Graphic Design
  • Experience

    • Peercom

      Sept 2000 - Dec 2003
      Director of Marketing
    • Tangent Group, LLC

      Jan 2004 - Oct 2005
      Partner
    • Tele-Optics, Inc.

      Dec 2005 - now

      Oversee day-to-day company operations.Define and implement operations strategy, structure, and processes.Manage the quarterly and annual budgeting process and P&L responsibilities.Monitor performance to proactively identify efficiency issues and propose solutions.Maintain a working knowledge of all phases of operations.Coordinate support to operations throughout the business.Interview, hire, train, and mentor the operations management team.Provide regular performance updates to the senior leadership team. Show less Primary Responsibility: Establish, plan, and administer the overall policies and goals for the Communications Services Department; manage Telephony and Data Systems Technicians along with assigned long-term Project Teams for various Tele-Optics customers. Secondary Responsibilities: Analyze the IT needs of different internal departments of Tele-Optics and determines ways to meet business objectives by modifying existing or developing new information processing systems or procedures. Work with the Director of Sales to identify and evaluate new and future product offerings in the Telephony and Data fields to be offered by Tele-Optics. Manage and supervise the RFP responses and submittals for all Tele-Optics disciplines. Show less Primary Responsibility: Serve as Sales Engineering for multiple Data and Telephony Solutions, including network core and VoIP systems (Nortel/Avaya, Shoretel) specializing in Wireless Network deployment. Engineer and Project Manage multi-discipline projects (involving any combination of Cabling Services, Data Systems, Telephony Systems, and Access Control Solutions) coordinating interdepartmental communications between managers to complete projects. Develop and manage effective responses to professional and government RFP for all disciplines of Tele-Optics. Secondary Responsibility: Serve as Assistant to the Director of Marketing conducting Market Research, developing advertising and marketing campaigns for various disciplines of Tele-Optics, lead graphic design team for the development of marketing images and elements for print and visual media, including website and other digital platforms. Show less

      • Vice President Operations

        Feb 2022 - now
      • Director of Marketing & Technology

        Dec 2018 - Feb 2022
      • Director of Communications Services

        Jun 2016 - Dec 2018
      • SE / Project Engineer - Data and Telephony Systems / Assistant to the Director of Marketing

        Dec 2005 - Jun 2016
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • CCDA

      Cisco Systems
    • Milestone Advanced

      Milestone Systems