Jon DiPietro

I was one of six panelinsts on a social media round table at the 4th Annual ISA Marketing & Sales Summit in Boston on 9/11/09.  In addition to participating in the panel, I set up several webcasts of various presentations at the summit and also created the Posterous page that was used for delivering much of the content from the event to various social media channels.

The audio from the round table is availble here (you can also read the chat transcript):

On August 6, 2009 I presented “Social Media and Its Effect on Water and Wastwater Industries” at the ISA’s 4th Annual Water and Wastewater Automatic Controls symposium.
Social media is changing the world; this is not hyperbole. If you doubt this, just ask the Iranian government about Twitter or the Boston Globe about eBay and Craigslist. As the tools and technologies that facilitate communicating, sharing, and coordinating become increasingly boring and (by and large) free, they are empowering groups to organize themselves and challenging the value propositions of long standing institutions. And if you think this doesn’t or won’t affect you as a municipality, private operations company, equipment supplier, trade organization, engineering firm, software developer, or government regulator you are wrong.

Technical

Programming Languages

Proficient in VB6, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, T-SQL, XML, HTML, CSS, Pascal, Fortran, Ladder Logic.

Familiar with C++, Javascript and Lisp.

Software

Development Tools and Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio (through 2008), Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Crystal Reports, Developer Express suite, Robohelp, CA Erwin, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, Aspose, Countersoft Gemini, Dynamic PDF, Graphics Server, Image Glue, Infragistics Ultra Suite, XML Spy.

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server and Access.

Other: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Expression Web, Adobe (Macromedia) Dreamweaver and Fireworks, Quickbooks

Process Control

Hardware: Programmable Logic Controllers (Allen Bradley, Siemens, GE Fanuc, Opto-22), vision systems, motion control, data acquisition, loop controllers, pneumatics, hydraulics, and instrumentation.

Software: GE/Intellution (iFix, Fix, DMACS), Rockwell Software (ControlView, RSView, RSLinx, RSLogix), Wonderware.

Business

Passionate, successful entrepreneur with domestic and international experience in operations, P&L management, strategic planning, and product development, sales, and marketing.

Demonstrated ability to break down complex challenges and deliver innovative solutions; usually with little or no resources.

Keen sense of market trends with a track record of exploiting them.
Uniquely qualified to leverage technology in order to improve the performance of all business areas: management, accounting, research and development, human resources, operations, sales, and marketing.

Accomplished speaker, with a talent for communicating abstract and/or complex ideas in clear, understandable terms through both written documents and presentations.

Broad professional skill base includes business development, financial management, product development, sales and marketing, project management, system integration, computer programming, design and administration of databases, networks, and web sites, and process control system engineering.