Phil Zito
Chief Executive Officer at Smart Buildings Academy
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Zito is a founder and CEO with over a decade building the world’s largest vendor-agnostic training organization for smart buildings, having trained 15,000+ professionals across integrators, owners, and major vendors. He translates deep hands-on systems and field experience—from service technician and programmer roles to technical program and ecosystem management at Johnson Controls—into practical, assessment-driven curricula that shorten time-to-revenue and boost per-employee margin. Based in Milwaukee, he pairs business acumen (MBA-style experience in business studies) with technical credibility reinforced by graduate work in information systems and cyber defense. Phil’s approach is notable for using skill assessments to create customized development plans and then validating outcomes with reassessments, blending productized training with measurable workforce development results.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Business Studies, Bachelor's Degree Business Studies at Dallas Baptist UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Cyber defense, Master of Science - MS, Cyber defense at Dakota State University
uml, bpel, html5/css/js, c#, c, assembly, hl7, opc, lon, bacnet, python, cisco cli, sql, xml/json, java, phpGithub contributions (5)
philz1982/BACnet_Library
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
philz1982/BAS_Integeration_Demo
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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