Thomas Hoops Email & Phone Number

Reno, Nevada Area

CEO and founder of ZTech4, LLC. Managing all aspects, assets, and growth of ZTech4, LLC. This includes ReVolt Battery Exchange - an arm for retail Battery Recycling and sales chain of stores. ReVolt Research - an arm for developing, manufacturing and selling battery recovery and life extension equipment for dead and weak batteries. Sierra Business Mechanics - an arm for the development of LAMP-stack based business applications such as ERP, MRP systems. Opening commercial locations, developing products, conducting research, writing software and production procedures, researching process effectiveness and alternatives. Construction, creating material to bring in investors. Creating ad copy and placements, employees, vendor relations, customer relations, business operations, financing, etc, etc.

Reno, Nevada

CTO, VP of Engineering, end to end design to deployment of new DAS and NAS backup devices and other products. Management of all Software engineering. Management of production activities. Management of all Technical Support activities. Creation and management of corporate website and internal business control systems. General assistance in business operations. See www.high-rely.com

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Personal project: Successfully built and received funding for a Kickstarter campaign based on a product I developed for battery life extension and recovery. Just a home project I did in the off hours.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/revolt3000/revolt-and-get-your-power-back-revolt3000

Founded Technology Associates, Inc. In operation from 1992 until 2007. President and CEO during entire period. TA was formed initially as a contract software development company. It quickly morphed into a technology retail chain and then finally into an electronics manufacturing and product development company. During my career here I also was again, a part time professor at Truckee Meadows Community College teaching C programming. The memorial to Technology Associates if still on-line at www.techass.com

Reno, Nevada

Designed curriculum and taught Students C programming. This was very rewarding but I was doing this while my business was rapidly growing and had to stop.

Developed (end to end hardware and software) and deployed internal systems to operate a chain of 34 collateral loan and retail shops.

Responsible for management of remote development office for development of POS module for NOVELL network based real-time accounting system (Platinum). Worked with and within IBM after IBM purchased the entire product line.

Created software development tools then used them to developed Network Database Business application software for many clients. Trained and supervised a staff of 15 programmers.

Developed and tested new peripheral hardware for manufacture. Developed and implemented testing procedures for production. Wrote in-house software to facilitate production.