728 Cooley Ave.

- Savanna, IL 61074 - 815-499-6515

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Mr. Stout makes projects and entire businesses more successful. He resolves com
plex problems with simple, effective and long-lasting solutions. Through a cons
ultative approach, he translates complex technology into straightforward busines
s decisions that work. Mr. Stout is very experienced in dealing with complex co
mputing environments, process control, biodiesel, renewable energy and a variety
of other areas. He is always up for a new challenge, is a quick study and make
s things happen wherever he goes. He has presented and worked with top manageme
nt in some of the largest corporations, small start-ups and every size of compan
y in between. He is now looking for new challenges that will test his considera
ble abilities.
KEY SKILLS
* Management
* Sales
* Product Development
* Partnerships
* Research
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
COO, Gold Star Biofuels - Ghana, West Africa and Vina del Mar, Chile 5/07-6/09
Plan and build oil extraction and biodiesel plants for processing jatropha oil,
including presentations to investors, equipment selection, site selection/prepar
ation, contractor selection/oversight, feedstock procurement and the hiring and
training of personnel. Working to service a 30M gallon/year contract with Energ
y Partners Chile, who will use 20% biodiesel in their 9 auxiliary power plants i
n Chile (total of 661MW).
VP Business Development, Bay Biodiesel - San Jose, CA 6/06 - 5/07
Running all biodiesel operations for the largest petroleum/biodiesel distributor
in Northern California. Acted as the General Contractor for the construction a
nd operation of a 5M gallon/year biodiesel plant. Involved with process optimiz
ation and alternative feedstocks.
Realtor, Intero Real Estate Services - San Jose, CA 10/02 - 6/06
Sold over $15,000,000 in residential, land and commercial retail properties in 2
004.
Business Development Manager, WorldCom - Cedar Rapids, Iowa 12/98 - 10/02
Developed a new line of business focused on the development and sales of "genera
tion d" data services including Voice Over IP, Web-based Call Centers and Portal
s/Exchanges. Called on top management at GM, Ford, Chrysler, AOL, Dell, Gateway
, IBM, Oracle, Yahoo!, Nikon and others.

Market Development Manager, Sun Microsystems - Menlo Park, California 11/96 - 12

/98
Developed new business, marketed and sold a variety of software products to majo
r accounts.
* Called on Cisco to OEM them SPARC/Solaris and adopted protocols into Solaris.
* OEMed Chorus OS to Octel.
* Negotiated deals to OEM Tibco's middleware into Solaris and buy 1% of Tibco.
* Coordinated with Java Workshop at Object Design, Inc. to bundle their Persiste
nt Storage Engine with JWS 2.0.
* Convinced Tibco, Neuron Data and others to port their Java Beans to Java Manag
ement eXtensions (JMX).
* Sponsored Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and Java Messaging Service (JMS) initiat
ives.
Sales Representative, Open Connect Systems - Burlingame, California 9/92 - 11/96
Sold, designed and implemented national and international LAN/WAN hardware, soft
ware and services to major accounts such as Charles Schwab, Kaiser Permanente, S
tates of California and Oregon, Alltel, U.S. West, Wells Fargo, Blue Cross Blue
Shield and many others.
IBM - San Jose, California 2/82 - 7/92
Lead Technical Strategist, (IBM, 10/89 - 7/92): Justified and designed the tran
sition of a mainframe-only environment, in IBM's largest software development fa
cility, to an open distributed network of MVS, VM, AIX and OS/2 systems resultin
g in greater productivity, improved moral and the development of new products an
d markets.
Sales Representative, (IBM, 7/88 - 10/89): Negotiated the restructuring of Nati
onal Semiconductor Corporation's international network and printing strategies,
converting a hostile competitor into a working partner. Managed Amdahl and othe
r major accounts.
Systems Programmer, (IBM, 11/85 - 7/88); MVS and VM mainframe systems programmi
ng.
Failure Analyst, (IBM, 2/82 - 11/85) Mainframe disk drive failure analysis.
EDUCATION
BS Electronic Engineering/Computer Science, California Polytechnic State Univers
ity, 1985
(incomplete, 225 units, 3.6 GPA)
A.A., Electronics, Lehigh County Community College - Schnecksville, Pennsylvania
, 1980
(3.8 GPA)
- References Available Upon Request -