Thomas Beverly Email & Phone Number

Metro Chicago And Collar Counties Career - Retired/Consult South Carolina 2020

An image-capture company offering hi res still photography, HDR, Aerial Drone/interior video, Interactive FloorPlan Tours, 3D Virtual Reality, and virtual tours; seeking partnerships or in-house relationships with large entity decision-makers to provide marketing content for real estate residential and commercial listings. Other retail industries with multiple units to photograph also a fit. National presence with a focus of fast turnaround with high quality in a low margin/high volume environment.

After many years leading the industry for Self Service Virtual Tours, Visual Tour made a timely decision to enter the Full Service Tour market in order to service all the image needs of its clients. Tom Beverly - former CEO/President of Virtual Imaging, the largest imaging field services network - joined Visual Tour to create a national network of contracted service providers to meet the needs of full service customers in the residential and commercial real estate markets as well as other vertical industries needing virtual tour products and services.

• Innovative executive leadership in business applications for high-volume, low-margin arenas, saving large sums of money. • Expertise and efficiency in field service operations with vast experience in contracted labor methods, incentive programs, and best business practices on a national scale; excellent communicating, training, and motivating skills. Developed and streamlined methods that achieve extremely low error rates.• Vast experience in all aspects of business logistics, intelligent solutions, trouble shooting, rapid implementation, improving systems, government compliance, meeting/exceeding deadlines, accountability, and professionalism in multiple branch office environments.LEAN SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT TRAINING NOV. 2009.

• Sold the largest MLS and Virtual tour company – Virtual Imaging Corp (VIC) – to Zaio August 2007 to improve their photography operations and accelerate the pace of capturing images of all homes in the USA while cutting costs by 20% and increasing quality as well as productivity. • Best practices resulted in immediate impact, culminating in tremendous savings in 13 months over Zaio’s prior historical costs for same efforts.• Eliminated waste and fraud in the photography division, implemented best independent contractor practices, raised quality standards, cut expenses, eliminated unnecessary personnel layers. • 50% increase in weekly production; images of 22,000,000 individual residential properties captured in 14 months in the top 100 MSAs• Enhanced software for up-selling photos to other verticals to increase future revenues

Created the largest and most successful network of real estate photographers. Sold to iPIX, recreated and sold again to Zaio Corp.

• Created and grew the nation's largest network of independent contracted photographers for real estate MLS. Gained a national reputation for highly efficient MLS photography and book delivery services for large MLSs. Innovative in adapting to ever-changing image capture techniques and online computer services for MLSs and brokers, including virtual tours. • Exceeded deadline expectations consistently with 99% accountability rate and fastest industry turnaround times.• Sold to iPIX in 2000 after capturing most of their 250,000 virtual tours as a vendor prior to that time. • Reacquired company, renamed it Virtual Imaging Corp with $8.6 Million in MLS Sales for 2 million properties per year for 31 MLSs (16 of the top 25). • Created and supervised I.T. development of virtual image and slideshow displays, as well as search tools for customers’ systems• Government compliance with Independent Contractor rules as documented in a 1993 IRS ruling. • Chosen as the imaging solution vendor for MLS Italia start-up in Rome; set up VICI as an Italian company from 2003-07

Abj, Grady School Of Journalism - Tv, Photography

Film and Television Major, Grady School of Journalism, English and Drama Minor, UGA

Education record

Honor Student - loved every minute of WCHS experience!