Summary
Joel Paul is a seasoned sales and technical leader with over two decades of experience in scientific instrumentation and field service, currently serving as Senior Sales Manager at JEOL USA. He blends deep hands-on engineering roots—from roles at Thermo Fisher, FEI, and Carl Zeiss—with commercial leadership developed as a partner at Vibration Engineering Consultants. Joel’s background in the Navy and frontline technical support gives him a rare combination of discipline, customer empathy, and systems-level troubleshooting that informs complex sales cycles. Based in Greater Houston, he pairs an MBA with technical degrees from Texas universities to bridge product know-how and business strategy. Off the sales floor he also maintains a light developer presence on GitHub, signaling continued curiosity about code and reproducible workflows.
3 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of Houston
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Texas A&M University-Commerce
English, Dutch, German, French