Ed Reel
Vice President Sales & Marketing at SMART Safety Group
Georgetown, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Reel is a results-driven sales and marketing executive with 25+ years of cross-industry leadership in safety, supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, and energy, currently serving as Vice President of Sales & Marketing at SMART Safety Group. He combines deep operational and engineering roots with an MBA in Operations Management to grow nationwide market share, reduce client risk (TRIR/EMR), and translate safety programs into measurable financial benefits. Known for building high-close-rate commercial teams and launching national conferences, he has repeatedly turned consultative sales strategies and CRM automation into record revenue. Ed also contributes to open-source DevOps and CLI projects on GitHub, bringing practical build/deployment and cross-platform tooling experience that complements his operational focus. Based in Georgetown, Texas, he blends corporate rigor from roles at Mobil, PwC, and TRW with entrepreneurial leadership at Prospect2Profit.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana State UniversityM.B.A., Operations Management | Logistics & Transportation, Summa Cum Laude (4.0/4.0 GPA), M.B.A., Operations Management | Logistics & Transportation, Summa Cum Laude (4.0/4.0 GPA) at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English
Github Skills (21)
environmental10
docker10
bash10
terminusdb10
terminal-app10
dockers10
cicd10
enviroment10
php10
build-automation10
devops10
environ10
cli10
scripting9
userscripts9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
pantheon-systems/terminus
Apr 2016 - Dec 2021
The Pantheon CLI — a standalone utility for performing operations on the Pantheon Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 46 commits, 26 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the Pantheon CLI project, focusing on enhancing functionality related to the command-line interface. Their work involved adding support for different operating systems (Mac, Linux, and Windows) in the utils.php file. The user also implemented features such as command aliases, improving the user experience by making commands easier to use. Additionally, the user made some refactoring efforts and code cleanup.
terminuswp-clidrushphpstandalone
lando/lando
Jun 2017 - Aug 2021
A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:80 commits, 77 PRs, 264 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to improving the build and deployment processes within the Lando project. They added support for Arch-based distro pacman package builds, enhanced the build scripts, and fixed an issue related to container startup failures. Furthermore, the user made changes to the CI/CD system by modifying the build process and fixing potential issues with the proxy setup. This includes adding proxy certs for services within the Lando environment.
dotnetpythonwordpressphpjavascript
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