Heath Ballard
Chief Executive Officer at Industrial Specialty Services (ISS)
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeath Ballard is a results-driven CEO with 11+ years of senior leadership across specialty construction, distribution, and environmental services focused on refining, petrochemical, and oil & gas markets. He has a track record of scaling revenue and operations—leading businesses with up to $90M in annual revenue, growing a downstream segment nearly 90% in 24 months, and winning multi-year contracts worth tens of millions. Heath combines operational rigor (P&L, field operations, turnarounds) with strategy, business development, and data-driven information systems—having built customer portals and analytics during prior roles. A Marine Corps Communications Officer by background and a Texas A&M chemical engineering graduate, he pairs disciplined operational leadership with technical fluency. Outside the boardroom he writes code in Python and TypeScript and is teaching himself Rust, a sign of hands-on curiosity that informs his approach to digital transformation. Based in Houston, he specializes in bridging heavy-industrial execution with modern marketing, IT, and analytics to drive safer, smarter service delivery.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (54)
sanic10
python9
api-server9
graphene9
nunjucks9
python-web9
relay9
graphql8
ctags8
http-server8
gevent8
asgi8
graphql-subscriptions8
sublime-text8
server8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hballard/graphql-ws
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
GraphQL websockets
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 7 months
websocketgraphql-subscriptionswebsocketsgraphql
hballard/graphql-python-subscriptions
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 84 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 4 months
pythonrediswebsocketsapollographqlgevent
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