Resource IO Management

Karl Dittrich, CTO

Karl Dittrich, an electrical/computer engineer with more than 20 years of experience, has led and contributed to a multitude of instrumentation, control, high-speed communication and IT projects over his career. One of Karl’s most well-known achievements is designing, implementing and patenting a concert and event lighting system. Created for Bandit Lites, this avant-garde system (Motodata) was – and still is – being used by artists such as Aerosmith, Garth Brooks, and Tim McGraw, among many others. Some of his other projects include real-time industrial monitoring/predictive systems, resource management systems, network system design and enterprise software creation.

Karl is an accomplished guitarist who worked in the music touring and recording industry for many years. These experiences prepared him to look for solutions that can be used by the least technical members on a staff. They also gave him a hands-on understanding of the urgency that many industries experience.

Over the years, Karl has built a reputation for developing computer programs that provide powerful, intuitive, and elegant solutions to highly complex issues. Karl’s most recent work involved creating enterprise-level web applications and infrastructure to gather results and manage large amounts of data for the medical/clinical fields. During the implementation of this clinical software, he encountered an especially complex issue involving the processing and review of industrial audiograms (tracking employee’s hearing and detecting any issues). The final product is the most powerful and flexible audiogram processing software available in the world. 

Resource IO represents an extension of this expertise, allowing Karl to leverage his experience with the high availability, HIPAA-compliant data management requirements of medical systems and bring these capabilities to the industrial monitoring field. Karl earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with Honors from the University of Tennessee in 1986.

Jim Barger, COO

Jim Barger has more than 30 years of management experience and a proven track record in all aspects of the startup business development cycle. With his customer-centric attitude and powerful combination of business and technical backgrounds, Jim excels at developing new markets and propelling them to profitability well ahead of schedule.

Jim started his career with the University of Tennessee, where he managed public relations, business management, and technical issues for the university’s groups and events. Like Karl, Jim has a background in the music and recording industry.  He has over 10 years of experience in production and sound engineering and has never lost his love of the music industry. 

At companies such as Pervasive Software, Smarte Solutions, and TOPAZ Technologies, Jim built extensive experience managing the development, sales and marketing of a variety of enterprise software systems. He successfully implemented multiple CRM, Lead Management, and other e-business systems, and also specializes in Process Analysis and Process Re-engineering. During his tenure as Vice President of Sales at Coppinger and Affiliates, Jim’s team blazed trails into new territories and led the company in sales by consistently exceeding goals. Jim also led an IT team to deploy solutions that enabled his company to grow through the IPO process to become a $60M company.

Jim has helped manage the IPO process for three companies and has helped integrate several companies that were acquired by his company. His team also built systems and processes to fully integrate the systems and processes of the acquired companies. He has pioneered new markets that generated up to 2200% increase in revenue in the first year and has managed projects to deploy and support enterprise systems in North America, Europe and Asia. Jim’s comprehensive business background and degrees in Electronic Engineering and Business Management prepared him to successfully design and rapidly implement global processes for sales, marketing, customer service, professional services, finance and accounting.