Innovation Team Lead for Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program

Tim’s activities include managing federal and state grant projects in the PennTAP Innovation pillar; as well as contracts and customer relationships with private sector companies involved in innovative design, proof-of-concept and prototyping.  He is also Co-PI for the USEDA Penn State University Center that promotes programs and initiatives for economic development within Pennsylvania.  Tim is the Director of the Penn State Inc.U undergraduate student entrepreneurial pitch competition; and the resulting “The Investment” TV show produced annually on WPSU. Tim has been at Penn State since 1999, joining PennTAP in 2010. Prior to joining PennTAP, he concentrated his efforts on cultivating clients for Penn State Outreach through strategic, national corporate partnerships and assisting with strategic development and sales management for the Client Development Office and the Penn State Online World Campus.  Tim is also a former faculty instructor in marketing at Penn State’s University Park campus. Prior to joining the University, Tim had an eighteen-year career as an environmental project engineer and sales manager.  During this time, he was involved in a specialty chemical start-up company in Dallas, TX and helped Delmarva Power and Light Company start, develop, and eventually sell at a profit, a waste management company in Pennsylvania. Tim earned his bachelor’s in environmental science and technology at Slippery Rock University and his MBA at Penn State.