SchoolDude

The SchoolDude Executive Team has devoted their careers to meeting the unique needs of educational institutions. Our dedicated team interacts with educational operations professionals across the nation to help them improve the learning environment with on-demand management technology that delivers operational savings.

In addition to helping educational professionals solve their challenges by leveraging the power of the Internet, the SchoolDude Executive Team members are also frequently featured as guest speakers at numerous national and state conferences on educational business, technology, maintenance and facility operations topics.

With innumerable years of collective experience working one-on-one with educational clients nationwide, the SchoolDude Executive Team is uniquely equipped to help you overcome your business challenges, save money, manage operations more efficiently, and look good!

The Dude

Some of you have asked us who "The Dude" actually is. Is it the CEO? Is it the guy who modeled for our icon? Is it one of the founders' dads? There's quite a bit of speculation on this perplexing issue. To quell the swell, we'll try and explain exactly who The Dude is.

He started as an idea: the novel notion that once upon a time, an educational operations professional needed information and technology resources that weren't readily available. To find them, the professional asked peers, searched the Internet, talked to experts, researched technology, and took some downtime to think about the solution to a problem - just like any good school, college or university operations professional would.

The Dude is still VERY young - in fact, he was born March 1, 2000. But he's quickly growing up! The Dude is not our dad. But the Dude could be you - or your dad - or your mentor in technology, facility or business operations management. The Dude could be your state organization's leader, or a co-worker or peer operations professional.

So, who is the Dude? SchoolDude could be anyone and is everyone. In our thinking, the Dude is not any single individual (although there were plenty of role models, for sure).

Riddle solved: The Dude is actually the collective knowledge embodied in you, our SchoolDude clients! Clients are more than just dudes or dudettes - our clients are part of the SchoolDude team, and The Dude is your mascot - a symbol of the collection of experience and knowledge you have gained in educational operations. A symbol of sharing that knowledge with those who will follow you. The symbol of keeping the faith, staying the course, and never, never quitting.

YOU make the SchoolDude team the success that it is; we the staff at SchoolDude.com are simply here to serve you.

Our pleasure. Enjoy!

Kent Hudson - CEO and Founder

Background
Kent was the Founder and CEO of Applied Computer Technologies (ACT), which dominated the CMMS education market with the ACT 1000 System from the mid-1980's until the late 1990's. After ACT was acquired by CP&L, he became the CEO of Strategic Resource Solutions (SRS), which specialized in energy conservation and facility management and was the wholly owned, non-regulated subsidiary of Carolina Power and Light - now Progress Energy, a Fortune 250 company. Kent went on to become the CEO and President of Indus International, which was the largest maintenance management and enterprise asset management software company in the world at that time. Along with Lee Prevost, Kent saw the opportunity to revolutionize educational system operations, facility and maintenance management, and IT operations by using the power of the Internet. Together, they founded SchoolDude in 1999 and started the journey of providing educational administrators with powerful and innovative solutions for facility and maintenance management, IT management and a wide range of business processes.

Education
Kent graduated with honors in 1975 from North Carolina State University with degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Pulp and Paper Science and Technology. He continued his education at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington by taking a wide range of business courses while working as an engineer. As he moved into the software business and into management, he has remained dedicated to lifelong learning through on-going study, seminars and professional development programs.

Favorite Quotes

• Technology doubles every eighteen months while dropping in cost, but human DNA doesn't change.
• The art of technology is to utilize it and make great gains, while understanding the impact and change on people.
• Success is only achieved when the proper balance between people and technology is maintained.
  

Personal
Kent has three wonderful kids, as well as a very special granddaughter, and loves spending time with family and friends. He loves working at SchoolDude because it maintains a balance between employees, clients and business, and also because he gets to work with many of his best friends each day.

Interests
Kent enjoys family, golf, boating, travel and renovating the family farm. After a work week of next generation advanced on-demand applications, he enjoys manual labor on the farm, creating a good balance between technology of the future and roots of the past. Kent is also a private pilot with more than 5,000 hours in command, but now he prefers boating the Intracoastal Waterway. Kent loves to travel both domestically and internationally, especially as a means of better understanding history and people. People and places have great things to teach us, but only if we listen and find it.

Lee Prevost - President and Founder

Background
Married to Scharme and father of Smith and Audrey, Lee is the co-founder of SchoolDude.com. He has worked in various positions, all with a common denominator: serving educational operations. Most recently, Lee worked for Applied Computer Technologies (ACT), which was founded by Kent Hudson, SchoolDude.com's CEO. ACT dominated the market for serving educational organizations with maintenance management solutions, such as the ACT1000 product, from the mid 1980's until the late 1990's. Prior to ACT, Lee worked for Honeywell Home and Building Controls during the early 90's. At Honeywell, he served as a control systems sales engineer, as well as a sales manager, providing energy and control solutions for educational clients. Lee, along with Kent Hudson, saw the opportunity to revolutionize educational operations management by using the power of the Internet. Together, he and Kent founded SchoolDude.com in 1999 and started the journey of providing educational facility, IT and business administrators with a powerful and innovative solution for streamlining their operations.

Education
Lee graduated from North Carolina State University with degrees in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Business Administration. Lee continues his educational journey every day by visiting different parts of the country, hearing from SchoolDude's diverse client base, and continuing professional development programs.

Favorite Quote "
One thing, just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean noth'n.'"

Let me elaborate: In the movie, "City Slickers", city slicker Mitch Robins (Billy Crystal) and tough trail boss Curly (Jack Palance) get to know each other while driving strays back to the herd. Curly shares his philosophy with Mitch, noting that city slickers spend 50 weeks a year getting knots in their rope and think 2 weeks of playing cowboy will untie them. The conversation continues something like this:

Curly: Do you know what the secret to life is?
Mitch: No, what? Curly: This (holds up one finger).
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing, just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean noth'n'.
Mitch: That's great, but what's the one thing?
Curly: That's what you got to figure out.

We've applied this philosophy at SchoolDude by focusing on one thing: solving educational operations challenges.

Interests
Loves to fly fish and spend time outdoors with his family in the Western North Carolina mountains near his hometown of Waynesville, NC. Enjoys travel, flying (he's a washed up private pilot that has lapsed), and plays golf a few times a year whether he needs to or not.

Joan Maddox - VP of Client Services

Background
Joan Maddox has dedicated her entire 16-year professional career to providing educational clients with the highest level of service and support. Over the years, she has trained a countless number of facility professionals across the US and in Australia. Joan was formerly the Manager of Client Services for ACT (Applied Computer Technologies), where she built a highly respected support organization and managed the service teams to deliver maintenance management solutions to hundreds of school districts.

As SchoolDude's Vice President of Client Services, Joan manages the Client Service Center, including all technical support and product training. She also leads our Client Service team in their efforts to maintain SchoolDude's legendary customer service and is constantly striving to improve our 97% client satisfaction rating.

Education
Joan has an AAS Degree in Computer Programming and has attended several INC 500 Customer Service Strategies Conferences. Her expertise in providing Legendary Customer Services comes from her 16-years of experience working with educational clients. Joan began her career at ACT as a Support Technician and was promoted to Senior Support Analyst and Client Services Manager because of her extraordinary commitment to clients. She has continued that dedication and commitment as she has built an exemplary Client Service team at SchoolDude.

Favorite Quote
"Set and live by this ironclad rule -- all promises to customers are kept. Period." - Jim Clemmer

This is one of Joan's favorites because this quote exemplifies the commitment that she and the Client Services team have to SchoolDude's clients, as well as the understanding that keeping our clients satisfied takes hard work and dedication by the entire SchoolDude team. Keeping promises and commitments to our clients is what keeps clients for life.

Personal
Joan and her husband, Danny, became parents on February 11, 2004 when their daughter, Erin Danielle Maddox, was born. As you can tell from her charming accent, Joan is a native of North Carolina. And according to sources at SchoolDude, Joan is so dedicated to educational facility professionals that she married one - her husband Danny is an Electrician at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Interests
Joan enjoys spending time outdoors gardening, softball and golfing. She also loves to spend time with her husband and daughter. Additionally, Joan is an animal lover whose pets include 5 dogs and 3 cats.

Scott Carpenter - VP of Sales

Background
Scott Carpenter is one of the original members of the SchoolDude team and has enjoyed spending the past 15 years of his professional career helping educational institutions apply facility and IT management technology to solve operational problems. He was formerly the National Sales Director for ACT (Applied Computer Technologies), which dominated the CMMS education market with its ACT 1000 System from the mid-1980's until the late 1990's. At SchoolDude, Scott interacts with educational institutions across the nation to help them improve the learning environment with technology designed for the web and built specifically for schools. In this role, he has been a featured speaker at numerous national and state conferences for educational business and facility professionals, including the Association of School Business Officials International and the National School Plant Management Association. Scott and his team are pleased to have helped thousands of clients in all 50 states, all the Canadian provinces, Australia and several other countries.

Education
Scott graduated from Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC with a Bachelor of Science Degree. As he moved into the software industry and into management, he has remained dedicated to lifelong learning through ongoing study, travel, numerous seminars and professional development programs.

Favorite Quotes
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." Bertha Calloway

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain

Personal
Scott played Division I Soccer at Campbell University, so he is an avid sports fan. He has a 16-year old daughter, Katy, who keeps him busy with her sports and other school-related activities. He has lived in rural North Carolina for the last 32 years, but is originally from Missouri. Scott is very active in his community; he coaches, is a member of the Boosters Club at his daughter's school, and is a Special Olympics Volunteer, as well as a member of his local church and numerous civic clubs and organizations.

Interests
Scott loves fishing and being outdoors, trying to play golf, coaching youth soccer, watching college basketball and NASCAR, reading a good James Patterson book and spending time with family and friends.

Lynn Boswell - VP of Product Development & Delivery

Background
Lynn brings 20-years of experience in delivering complex technology projects on time and under budget. Her expertise spans across various businesses including inventory management, purchasing, work order management, insurance, government, and non-profit organizations. Before joining SchoolDude, Lynn was Managing Director of Technology at Strategic Resource Solutions (SRS) where she was responsible for managing software upgrades and changes to the CMMS and building controls product line with a twenty-two member team consisting of both developers and project managers. Prior to SRS, she served as a senior project manager and developer on the ACT 1000 with Applied Computer Technologies (ACT); and prior to ACT, she worked as a software programmer with Mitsubishi International in warehouse inventory management.

As a vice president at SchoolDude, Lynn is responsible for managing, building, and supporting a dynamic team of project managers and developers who together create state of the art Internet-based software applications. She has an in-depth knowledge of project management, strategic planning, solution architecture, and product deployment and delivery methodologies. Lynn and her team embrace a company vision of building and delivering software solutions that are cost-wise, user friendly, and responsive to client needs while maintaining a 99%, or better, uptime reliability. The vision includes implementing cost and labor strategies that save money.

Education
Lynn graduated from University of Maryland University College with a Bachelor of Science in Management and a minor in eCommerce. She is a Wake Technical Community College graduate with an associate degree in data processing. She actively pursues improving her skills through education and is currently completing her SCPM certification at Stanford University.

Favorite Quote
A favorite quote of Lynn's comes from Max Frisch who said, "Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." It is one of her favorites because it embraces the strategic vision SchoolDude has for the product line, which is to design applications that fit into the daily workflow of each user not as an experience, but as a normal part of their life.

Personal
On a personal level, Lynn and her husband enjoy attending and being involved in their church. She also enjoys traveling. Her husband is an avid Harley motorcycle rider and so they frequent extended trips on his Harley. Their most memorable Harley rides include trips around the Big Island and Kauai islands in Hawaii.