Industry Leader Craig Park Joins The Sextant Group
SOURCE: The Sextant Group · RELEASED: 7/2/2010
PITTSBURGH Pa.and OMAHA Neb.- The Sextant Group, Inc., based in Pittsburgh, PA announced that Craig Park FSMPS, Associate AIA, has joined the national independent technology consulting firm as Principal Consultant and has opened a new Midwest office for the firm.
With over 30 years in the building industry, Park is an award-winning and nationally-recognized thought leader on topics of strategic marketing, management, and collaborative technology applications. Park is as well-known in architectural circles as he is throughout the audiovisual industry. For the last four years he served as Chief Marketing Officer for the top-10 international architecture and engineering firm LEO A DALY, and from 2004-2006 in a similar capacity for architects, Harley Ellis Devereaux. His prior experience includes leadership roles in manufacturing, systems integration, and technology consulting companies, where he led more than 400 projects in the higher education, technology, healthcare, and corporate environments.
"Craig Park is one of those rare industry stars, known for his creativity, energy, and integrity, as well as for his ability to produce exceptional results." says Mark Valenti, CEO of The Sextant Group. "While Craig's most recent work has been at the highest level marketing of professional architectural services, his roots (and heart) lie in the audiovisual industry.
"We expect to see a significant impact on our ability to better serve our clients, especially in the Midwest," Valenti continues. "Craig's role will embrace marketing, business development, and project leadership responsibilities from St. Louis to Denver and Minneapolis to New Orleans." The new office is based in Omaha, where The Sextant Group has been especially active since 2004. The new office is the firm's seventh.
Park's credentials are broad and deep-he has served on the national board of directors of InfoComm International and currently serves on the association's Leadership Development Council. He is an associate member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and a member of both Construction Writers Association (CWA) and National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA). He is Fellow and Past National President of the Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) and currently serves as Treasurer on the Board of Trustees of the SMPS Foundation.
His awards include Educator 2000 from the NSCA, the SMPS National Marketing Achievement Award, and the William Hankinson Lifetime Achievement Award from the SMPS San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter. He was twice a recipient of InfoComm International's award for Distinguished Achievement in Systems & Facilities Design.
Park is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he received a B.S. in Architecture. He also completed post-graduate certification programs in Microprocessor Technology at New York University and in Leadership at the Advanced Management Institute in San Francisco. Park is a regular speaker on technology applications at building industry programs.
"Joining an industry leader and innovator like The Sextant Group provides me the platform to focus on the communication and technology needs of our clients, which is what I have always enjoyed the most," said Park. "Helping organizations and their architects, designers, and engineers create optimized collaborative environments for media production, presentation, or performance is what The Sextant Group is well known for, and I look forward to working with Mark and the entire firm to continue to build their reputation and success."
About The Sextant Group (www.TheSextantGroup.com): Recognized by architects and institutions internationally for the integration of technology into the built environment, The Sextant Group is the award-winning technology consulting firm specializing in the planning and design of educational, medical, corporate, government, and institutional systems and facilities. Expertise includes audiovisual and information technologies, structured cabling, physical security, architectural acoustics, and specialty lighting and control. With over 1000 active or successfully completed projects for more than 500 owners across 42 states and 11 countries, The Sextant Group's offices include Atlanta, Omaha, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Santa Barbara, and Washington DC.
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