TA CONSULTING

Tommy Jackson

OBJECTIVE

To provide services to progressive truck dealerships who want to take advantage of the technologies available

QUALIFICATIONS

25 years of experience in the truck business both from inside of Freightliner Dealerships and servicing dealer's needs for automation

EXPERIENCE

Triad Freightliner, Assistant Parts Manager, Systems Administrator (11.1978— 08.1986)

Worked my way up through the Parts Department from odd jobs, delivery, warehouse, order desk, back counter, assistant parts manager. I was responible for inventory control and was instrumental in various business system implementations, going from CARS/Dayatron pad system to ADP "on-line" to ADP in-house, to ROADS in-house.

Christopher Truck Sales, Parts Manager (09.1986— 08.1988)

Managed all aspects of the Parts Department in a small dual-line dealership in Greenville SC. I was instrumental in the dealership upgrading their ROADS system to include the Service application to improve efficiency as well as enforce some business controls to control losses. Piloted Freightliner's PartsPro system.

Ultimate ROADS, Support Manager (09.1988— 09.1991)

Worked my way up from a support/install position to the manager of the entire support side of a large Truck Dealership software provider.

ADP Dealer Services, Client Operations Analyst (10.1991— 03.1993)

ADP purchased Ultimate ROADS in 1991. At that time I was utilized for both ADP and ROADS onsite client visits to assist in "client safisfaction" by helping them through the difficulties of their implementation. I also assisted in special projects such as their roll-out of the "Automated Parts Catalog" for GM dealers.

ATC Freightliner / Dallas Freightliner, Parts Manager, Systems, (04.1993— 10.1997)

Managed all aspects of the Parts Department in a large metropolitan area. Piloted Freightliner's ServicePro system, networking all dealership PCs and business system. Directed the migration from ROADS for Dallas and Fort Worth stores, and to the ADP 9300 for the entire ATC group. Along with Gerald Chunn, Dan Raisovich, and Tu Dang, developed an inventory replenishment system that is now ETurns.

ATC Freightliner , IT Director(10.1997— 10.2000)

Managed all aspects of IT for the ATC group, inculding supervising a staff of 5 IT persons.

TA Consulting, Owner(10.2000— Present)

See Clients for a list of clients worked with.

Lonestar Truck Group work includes initial implementation of Dealer 2000 for all 10 locations, conversion, training, as well as ongoing projects.

Procede Software is the provider of Dealer 2000 and Excede, today's premier dealership software. I have assisted them on various implementations.

REFERENCES

Gerald Chunn— Lonestar Truck Group, Partner, (817) 793.1732

John Miller— Lonestar Truck Group, Patner, (817) 797.5184

Trisha Brewer —Procede Software, (858) 450.4850

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Last updated: October 13, 2004