Stan Carpenter Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

BST Global is the leading global provider of enterprise business management software and service solutions for engineering, architectural, and environmental consultancies. Today, over 100,000 end users across six continents and 65 countries rely on BST Global's software solutions to manage their projects, resources, finances, and client relationships.In a previous role with an environmental engineering firm, the successful conversion to outsourcing of all business applications to BST Data Systems (eventually BST Global) resulted in the reduction of IT and accounting staff by more than 80%. This conversion included the integration of general accounting with custom project accounting systems.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” (Benjamin Franklin) For business owners, another certainty is that they WILL EXIT their business at some point! BUSINESS EXIT PLANNING WHAT IS IT? If you own a business there will come a time when you will exit your business. This could be a planned exit such as a retirement, or a transition to a new venture. It could also possibly be an unplanned exit, for example, due to health or disability reasons. There are various exit strategies, but you will want to maximize your financial return if you exit either by choice or by necessity.WHY BE PREPARED TO EXIT YOUR BUSINESS? For a very simple reason: $s. If you are properly prepared to sell your business you have the opportunity to add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the selling price. Don't let your exit happen without being ready! HOW DO I PREPARE? The time to complete & implement a customized exit plan depends on the complexity of your business. We can guide you through this process. We have extensive experience and success in business consulting and management, and we know the value areas that business buyers consider when buying a business. We know how to help you prepare for your exit. We will guide you, mentor you, coach you, and be your accountability partner in this process.WHEN SHOULD I PREPARE A BUSINESS EXIT PLAN? Contact us now so that we can help you prepare & implement a customized exit plan. Every business is unique & we will guide you in focusing on the areas that will produce maximum payback. It does not matter if you have a small, medium, or large business – we have experience with all. NOTE: We are not a business broker but we will help you to locate other excellent professionals you may need such as a financial planner, business attorney, etc.

Bolivia, South America

While in South America I volunteered with several businesses to assist them with business issues. The businesses included:* A Medical Clinic in La Paz, Bolivia* A Diabetes Clinic in Cochabamba, Bolivia* A Language School in Cochabamba Bolivia

Greater Denver Area

Working with business owners and their staff -- I successfully helped start-ups to be successful and mid-sized companies to grow and be profitable. I setup, organized, and managed all aspects of business operations. Successfully helping grow one business and they won ...Many AWARDS, including: * Colorado Companies to Watch * Outstanding Business Small Business Category - Denver Business Journal* Top 100 Businesses in Colorado - Colorado Chamber of Commerce * Fastest-growing private companies - Inc. Magazine* A ranking in the 1600’s - Inc. 5000 list* Athena Award - Colorado Chamber of Commerce . Assisted in the successful GROWTH of one business from three staff (the owners and myself), to over 50 employees. My expertise is at the nuts and bolts level of a business for: * Systems (install, convert, integrate, upgrade, troubleshoot, & support)* Organizational & staff efficiency* Management* Processes* Procedures* Documentation, etc. Extensive experience emphasizing EXCELLENCE & GROWTH in all areas including:* Accounting* Budgeting* Client systems - CRM, etc.* Cost Accounting* Customer Service* Data Conversions* Databases, Data Management, Data Mining, Spreadsheets* Disaster Recovery Planning* Document Production & Management Systems* E-Commerce* Finance and accounting (all, but I am not an accountant)* Forecasting* Human Resources* Inventory Management* Lease Management* Light Manufacturing* Operations & Production* Outsourcing* Planning - Business and Marketing Plans* Pricing* Product Life-Cycle Management* Project Accounting & Project Management Systems* Quality Control (but I am not certified)* Records Management* Research & Development* Sales & Marketing* Shipping & Receiving* Technology* Training* Vendor & order management* Warehouse Operations and manufacturing systems and processes * Web site development (low cost)* and more ...

Englewood, Colorado

Duties & Responsibilities: Firm-wide Recovery Product Manager, Senior Financial Consultant and Analyst, Financial Database Specialist, and IT Financial Manager. Management, accounting support, audit support, financial system analysis and design, project manager, training, product cost accounting, and coordination of financial administrative and technical applications and budgets for a leading worldwide environmental engineering consulting firm. Accomplishments: Reporting to the CFO, responsibilities included Recovery Product Manager for all of CH2M HILL’s Recovery Products ($85 million annual budget), plus special financial reporting and audit support. As IT Financial Manager, reported to the Director/VP of IT, and managed the corporate IT budget, and Recovery Products firm wide. Managed very large projects, at or under budgeted planned amounts. Several promotions.

Corvallis, Or

Duties & Responsibilities: Director of IT Production, Manager of IT Training. Duties: As Director of IT Production, responsibilities included managing CH2M HILL's Corporate data center used for technical and business applications worldwide, responsible for procurement, and lease administration of all computer equipment. Systems analysis and design of technical and financial systems. Extensive records storage, records management, and retrieval responsibilities for both hard copy and electronic policy documents, procedural documents, study documents, email documents, and billing records which had to be maintained and retrieved for federal audit purposes, and for client audits. Technical mentor.Accomplishments: During this time set-up and managed a firm wide property management system for CH2M HILL's entire nationwide inventory of computer equipment, and managed the procurement and lease administration for all computer equipment and peripherals, managing large budgets to within a two percent variance. As manager of CH2M HILL's IT Training, was responsible for documentation and training nationwide for all technical and business computer applications. Established an on-line technical software manual database and change control procedures. Accomplished the move of a very large corporate data center with no downtime. Received several promotions.

Gainesville, Fl

Duties, Responsibilities & Accomplishments: As CH2M HILL’s Eastern District IT Manager, work included supporting all technical and business computer applications. As IT Manager for Black, Crow, & Eidsness (BC&E eventually merged with CH2M HILL), responsibilities included managing all aspects of IT. Significant accomplishments included the design of a custom Project Accounting system (still being marketed today) and the conversion to outsourcing of all business applications. This successful conversion and outsourcing to BST Data Systems (eventually BST Global) resulted in the reduction of corporate IT and accounting staff by more than 80%. Received several promotions. Trained and mentored staff.

Piscataway Nj

As a Member of Technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, worked on systems analysis, design, and maintenance of business information systems for the operating telephone companies in the USA and Canada.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry