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Business Data Solutions, Inc.
1410 B Blowing Rock Blvd.
Lenoir, NC 28645
sales@bdsinc.com
888.BDS.INC4U ext 715
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Caroll Tuttle, President
Before starting Business Data Solutions, Inc., Caroll worked at IBM Corporation. Having been exposed to a
vast array of complex IT problems, Caroll has a proven track record of understanding client pain points and
exposing areas of need. He has provided IT Security Auditing and HA/DR Solutions for many of his clients including
Banks, Hospitals, and State/Local Government Agencies. Caroll has provided his customers with real bottom-line
cost savings by assessing their needs and then providing solutions that were customized to meet their unique
requirements. He helped one manufacturing company save over $36,000 in IT spending on a single project. He
provided a solution to one of his manufacturing clients that reduced their nightly processing time by over 60%.
He also reduced the backup time from 2 hours to 40 minutes for a Public Sector client. Unlike most so-called
solution providers, Caroll is able to both sell and implement his solutions. This gives his clients a competitive
advantage when they make IT spending decisions, because they know that Caroll will provide a solution that meets
their IT needs without the frills or undesired up-selling techniques used by many resellers. Caroll was one of the
first Certified IBM System I Power6 Technical Specialists in the US. He holds certifications in both IBM Power
System I Sales and Technical Implementation and has been formally trained each generation of AS/400 since IBM
introduced it 20 years ago.
Note from Caroll: Thank you so much for visiting our website. I can assure you
that you will find no finer organization to work for you than Business Data Solutions. If you need anything, please
do not hesitate contacting one of our Professionals to assist you with your business computing needs.
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Mark Geiser, Services Manager
Mark Joined Business Data Solutions in the fall of 2008 as the manager of services. Mark brings 15 years experience
in selling business to business solutions with the attitude of continuously increasing customer satisfaction and
developing value-added products and services. Before Mark joined BDS, he worked as VP of operations for a local
custom home builder. Before that he managed the sales division for a privately held Florida based company,
specializing in commercial laundry energy management. For one of his clients, an international hospitality company,
Mark oversaw the development and implementation of an energy management system to track production and costs which aided
managers in lowering wasteful energy consumption. Before energy management, Mark held several sales and manager
positions for a Fortune 500 document management company. Chef Mark as some call him, still has a cooking passion for
friends and family. He holds 2 ACF bronze metals for food competitions. Mark’s extensive background fosters his
ability to think out side of the box and offer real solutions that help customers solve daily business problems.
Mark lives in Hickory, NC with his wife Shawn (his college love) and has three sons, Zachary, Zane, and Jake, who are
his legacy of love.
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Jason Robbins, Applications Developer / Systems Engineer
Before joining Business Data Solutions Jason worked for a large, multinational company that manufactured fiber
optic cables. Jason has designed and implemented solutions for a wide variety of clients including banks, health
care organizations, manufacturers, and not-for-profit organizations. Jason has the expertise to help his clients
save money on IT expenses by identifying areas for improvement, then designing a solution based upon proven
technologies. Jason helped one client cut their nightly backup times from 10 hours to less than 7. Jason also
helped a client improve their security by implementing up-to-date equipment and standards-based security practices.
Jason has also worked with several school systems to leverage existing technologies while giving the local schools
better access to that school's financial information. Jason has expertise in email management, spam filtering, as
well as custom applications development on several platforms. Jason and his wife, Angela, live in Lenoir, NC with their three children Levi, Caleb, and Jacob.
 
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Lin Ward, Network Engineer
Prior to becoming an employee of Business Data Solutions, Inc., Lin worked in the private IT sector as a Network
Engineer for Blue Ridge Health Care managing a data center of 110 servers and a network containing over 100 Cisco
switches and routers. He has worked in many large data centers during his career, and has an understanding of the
needs companies have regarding their datacenters. Lin has provided solutions in the healthcare and manufacturing
sectors where there is no allowance for downtime. He has worked a great deal with virtualization and since coming to
Business Data Solutions he has moved several companies to complete VMWare solutions; saving them administrative
overhead, money spent to cool the data center, time spent doing backups, and money spent to power the datacenter.
These cost savings methods have saved his customers money, and will continue to save them money and time throughout
the lifecycle of the solution. For instance one customer moving to VMWare is now able to backup each and every
server nightly. Previously they could only run a backup every other day due to time constraints on their backup
window. By utilizing VMWare’s ability to communicate directly to the SAN for backup their backup windows was
reduced to allow all 15 servers to be backed up nightly in less time than in was taking to do 5 previously.
Along with VMWare Lin has worked extensively with network technologies and holds several network and security
related certifications. He is also certified on IBM Blade and xSeries hardware.
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Lisa Pritchard, Administration
Lisa was a college student when she started working part time for Business Data Solutions, Inc. After finishing
college she become a full time employee taking an administrative role in the company. Lisa had some experience
working with accounts receivable prior to coming to BDS. Lisa performs administrative tasks as well as accounts
receivable. She helped one manufacturing company save $1,577 on one project. Lisa will look for cost savings when
invoicing customers. She also performs many back-end support functions which allow engineers to stay focused on their
customers. Lisa has a paralegal degree and is also a Notary Public.
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Michael Courtner, Business Development Specialist
Michael joined Business Data Solutions in December 2009. He brings a diversified
background with 22 years of technical experience across a broad base of industry.
Michael’s prior experience was providing technical design solutions and
implementations for multi-location organizations in the manufacturing and retail
industry. His focus with Business Data Solutions is supporting customers' needs and
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Rob Baker, Systems Engineer
Rob been working in the technical field for 19 years and became a Microsoft Engineer
in 1997. Since then, he has become proficient in many different areas that include
Network Security, Threat Management, Server Consolidation, and Administration. One
of Rob's most memorable projects was with a company that had 27 locations spread across
North Carolina. Each location was isolated from other offices and each had their own set
of applications and data. Rob was able to bring all locations together in a secure WAN
environment. Rob then designed a VMware cluster and by running Terminal Services
was able to have all applications and data located in one place that was accessible
by everyone at all locations. After the project was complete, the customer was able
to eliminate a server from each location and the IT department was reduced to one
technician. Estimated savings for this customer was $147,000 a year.
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Adrienne Kirby, Systems Engineer
Adrienne joins Business Data Solutions bringing to the technical team a diversified background including 11 years of experience in a
corporate environment. She has served as project lead for multiple international integration projects. Adrienne’s
attention to detail allows her to provide customers with good solid solutions. Her area of focus is Blade Center
and VMWare. Adrienne is Blade Center Certified.
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Darrell Lively, Technical Sales Specialist
Darrell joined Business Data Solutions in January 2009. He has extensive experience and success working with
clients across industries, designing the most appropriate technology solutions to address major business concerns.
Darrell worked for IBM for 14 years, afterwards joining with Toshiba and other major manufacturers, while also having
years of experience as a solutions provider. Darrell is skilled in providing the best technology solutions to
address current and future business needs, including getting the best value for the money in hardware, software and
services, while preparing organizations for the future. He puts the right solution in to tackle the right problem,
which results in timely, cost-effective, high value business problem solving. Some technology solutions examples he
was responsible for include server and storage consolidation for a large medical facility. By moving from tower and
rack mount servers each with its own internal hard drives, to a blade server environment with Storage Area Network
(SAN), the facility was able to save thousands of dollars in data center redesign and cooling costs, while easing
the burden of management of the environment. Security concerns, compliance concerns (such as HIPAA) and disaster
recovery were all addressed with this new architecture. This also provided the foundation for the future of the
growth of the facilities.
Darrell worked closely with a banking institution to help design and implement their new data center to
include not only server and storage physical consolidation, but also VMware for software and OS virtualization.
This solution was architected to handle the many branches across states as well as the main campus buildings, while
providing for disaster recovery and high availability. These technology solutions addressed cost, data center
redesign, compliance issues and future requirements.
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