Turnpoint Solutions Launches Dedicated Mobile Work Management Consulting Practice

Tampa, FL - Turnpoint Solutions LLC today announced at DistribuTECH 2006 the formal launch of its mobile work management consulting practice. The practice will focus on the development of mobile workforce management best-practices including workflow models, vendor solutions and evaluations, and hardware and delivery of these solutions for Turnpoint’s utility, government, mining and transportation sector clients.

Turnpoint’s services include business process benchmarking, legacy program analysis, system selection, procurement support, and full delivery program management. Turnpoint Solutions’ specialty consulting services for mobile work management include field workflow benchmarking, scheduling and routing optimization, ROI as well as safety and compliance audits.

Turnpoint Solutions’ president and CEO Rick Higdon remarked, “Our mobile practice, like all of our teams at Turnpoint, focuses on best business practices first and foremost, helping insure our customers select and implement the most effective business solution. We are investing significantly in this area because we are seeing strong demand for our approach. Together, Jason and David add over 50 years of directly relevant end-user and vendor experience to our team. Our track record of attracting a careful balance of vendor and end-user experience to our team is one of the elements that continues to differentiate Turnpoint from its competition.”

Turnpoint Solutions announced that Jason Oliver, an 18 year software and mobile workforce software veteran has joined Turnpoint. Oliver, who has joined the company as a principal consultant and practice director for Turnpoint’s mobile workforce management solutions team, was most recently vice president of project delivery with ViryaNet, a leading publicly traded provider of cross-vertical mobile workforce management solutions. Previously, Oliver was chief technology officer of iMedeon, a start-up mobile work management company that he co-founded. He began his career as a development manager for TSW International, the company which was merged into Indus Group in 1997 to form Indus International.

Remarking on his appointment, Oliver stated,“I am excited about working with a team of experts whose focus is driven by customer value. There are a number of enabling technologies in the market that will allow us to design a customer specific solution and package those technologies to deliver based on the process requirements. Our focus is mobile enablement across the enterprise, from the process relating to short cycle service type work, to long cycle construction work, or any other process where value can be driven from mobile technologies and workforce optimization.”

Turnpoint Solutions also announced today the appointment of industry veteran David Sherrill as a principal consultant in its utility practice. Sherrill joined Turnpoint Solutions from SPL Worldgroup, where he served as a project director following the acquisition of the Mobility division of Axiom.

As Mobility’s vice president of professional services, Sherrill led the deployment of mobile work management systems to utility and government clients including the development of integration between mobile work management systems and customer information systems, meter data management, and operations applications.

Sherrill previously spent over 30 years in a career of increasing responsibility with Southern Company. In addition to completing international assignments with Southern, Sherrill’s 25 year Georgia Power tenure included a post as general manager of customer service for Georgia Power company.

David Sherrill remarked, “Over the past 10 years the options for utilities seeking field automation solutions has expanded significantly. Our goal at Turnpoint is to help our customers cut through the confusion in order to transform their business through the strategic implementation of technology. We are looking across the full spectrum of field business processes for opportunities in all areas including outage response where mobile enablement is still relatively immature across the industry.”

Sherrill concluded, “utilities are faced with a large number of retirees over the next 5 years. Implementing technologies to capture their collective knowledge base while preparing to use fewer resources to maintain customer service will be critical. Mobile workforce technologies will be the key to realizing this goal.”
About Turnpoint Solutions, Inc. :

Turnpoint Solutions is a leading provider of business domain and process driven IT consultancy services for the mining, transportation, and utility industries. We work with clients to develop innovative yet attainable business transformation strategies and we focus on the strategic application of technology in the areas of asset management, customer care and workforce optimization.

By combining vertical industry subject matter expertise, vendor/technology experience, and proven program management we ensure that our client’s technology investments deliver measurable, sustainable competitive advantage. Additional information is available on line at www.turnpoint-solutions.com.