Eddie Hill Consulting Group
As a professional, having worked in the corporate arena for more than 30 years, we are continuing to build businesses that are based on integrity and knowledge. Hill’s background, skills, education and experience can make a positive contribution to Elite 1. In addition Mr. Hill has an Associate Degree in Business and Graphic Arts degree respectively from Lawson St
ate Community College and studies at UAB and University of Alabama Tuscaloosa in management studies for the Southern Company. Hill’s academic experiences are extensive:
• Extensive managerial experience, managing both peoples and processes. At Alabama Power Company I had a budget of more than a million dollars, also impacting more than a billion dollars in purchasing of materials and services.
• An extensive area of relationships with organizations and leaders in federal, state local and private sector businesses.
• Expertise in conducting interviews with prospective clients and business leaders.
• Expertise in developing new processes in technical fields.
• Experienced in networking and creating strategic alliances with the business community
• Comprehensive knowledge of cultural and social conditions of small disadvantaged businesses.
• Skilled in developing and starting new and innovative strategies. In 1973, after completing my studies, Mr. Hill was hired at Southern Research in the engineering department (Metallurgy) to design drawings for government manuals. After 3 months at Southern Research, Mr. Hill was hired at Alabama Power Company in the engineering area of Power Delivery. He continued to work at night for Southern Research for 5 year. While working for Alabama Power Company as an engineering aid, He worked on product development teams, analyzing new product concepts, drafting engineering sketches, creating real-world models, and handling quality assurance issues. He was next promoted to the Human Resources Department (Training/ Audio Visual); where he led a team in developing presentation visuals for executives, in the form of slide dissolve presentations and Power Point Presentations. When promoted to lead Alabama Power Company’s Supplier Diversity Program as Director, and lead for the Southern Company, they were able (as a team) to lead the electric utility industry in inclusion of minority and small business concerns. In January of 1998 He opted to take an early out. In May of the same year, He started a consulting firm, Eddie Hill Consulting Group (with a limited partnership with T.A. Lewis & Associates), a company creating and developing Supplier Diversity Programs. I developed programs for a host of companies, such as Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, TN; TVA Chattanooga, TN; Birmingham Water Works and Sewer Board; BE&K construction; Auburn University; Russell Corporation; Time Warner Cable (Bright House) - Birmingham; Chevron Corporation: Pascagoula, MS, and Concord, CA.; Bruno's Inc., Corporate Office-Birmingham AL.; Mobile Water and Sewer Board, Mobile, AL.; Mobile Gas Service Company, Mobile, AL.; Diversified Executive Systems, Inc.; Honda Alabama; and many other companies and small businesses. In 2010 we have refocused the business to assist small and larger businesses in New Business Development, to help introduce and find opportunities within corporations, companies and municipalities. He continues to develop Supplier Diversity Programs for companies needing these programs in their supply chain management.
