Mark Stover
President at Perma-Column
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Stover is a results-driven sales and operations executive with 16+ years transforming building materials and consumer-durable businesses, consistently driving ~20% annual sales growth and double-digit EBITDA improvements. As President of Perma-Column and former CEO/GM roles across private equity-backed and Fortune 500 environments, he combines P&L discipline with hands-on operational engineering to scale companies from $20M to $150M in revenue. He specializes in channel strategy, consultative sales cultures, distributor/dealer optimization and LEAN process improvements that often boost gross margin and reduce non-value activities. Known for turning frustrated customers into loyal advocates, he also advises PE firms on M&A value creation and interim leadership. Unusually for an executive at this level, he contributes technical improvements to open-source infrastructure (notably Celery), reflecting a practical blend of operational leadership and technical curiosity.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance and Marketing, MBA, Finance and Marketing at Northern Illinois UniversityAdlai E. Stevenson High SchoolBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General at Illinois State UniversityExecutive Level Business Leadership Courses, Executive Level Business Leadership Courses at University of Virginia Darden School of BusinessExecutive Level International Business Courses, Executive Level International Business Courses at Thunderbird School of Global ManagementExecutive Level International Finance and Marketing Courses, Executive Level International Finance and Marketing Courses at York UniversityKellogg School of Management
Github Skills (13)
celery10
python10
testing10
django9
automation9
automations9
job-queue7
cicd7
amqp7
workqueue7
queue7
task-queue7
redis6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
celery/celery
Mar 2010 - Apr 2010
Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the Celery project by implementing new features, improving the testing infrastructure, and optimizing the build and deployment processes. They added the `exchange_type` argument to `apply_async()` and `send_task()`, expanding the task queue functionality. Furthermore, the user transitioned the project's testing framework from the Django test runner to `django-nose` and improved test execution within the Hudson environment. They also optimized code related to the task scheduler and beat.
queue-taskspythonworkerqueued-jobstask-runner
stovenator/kungfuse
Dec 2013 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
memorypythonrustin-memory-filesystemfilesystem
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