Duane Rinehart Bio 
Mr. Rinehart is a seasoned business and IT consultant with over 20 years experience servicing small and large organizations, to assist in the areas of strategy formulation, risk assessment, operations, and marketing.
Mr. Rinehart’s expertise and experience developing quantitative business applications in highly visible roles are well suited to enable start-ups in early funding stages to assess risk and market potential, create “investor decks”, and accelerate product development for market entry.
Welcome to DRE Consulting
Selected Accomplishments
- Provided professional services to DoD-funded Center for Commercialization of Technology (CCAT) grant recipients in coordination with the California State San Bernardino Alliance for Commercialization of Technology (ACT) as well as due diligence research for VC firms.
- Principal Investigator in NIH SBIR grant (commercialization of mass spectrometry analysis platform)
- Completed numerous client websites (to include inventory management, scientific applications, e-commerce and corporate portals)
- Designed, Developed & Managed customer satisfaction solution used by more than 1m customers for retail sector
- Managed datacenter migration to include clustered and distributed storage, networking, configurations and HA servers
- 14 peer-reviewed scientific publications
Education
- Post grad work in Information Systems Management – Keller Graduate School of Management, DeVry University
- MBA – Focus on MIS, Operations, International Business (Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University)
- BA – French (The Ohio State University)
- BA – International Studies, Econ minor (The Ohio State University)
- Database Programming Certificate - Instituto de Computación y Sistemas de México
- Political Science Certificate - Institut d’Etudes politiques de Rennes (France)
Partial Client List
Cisco, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Edgewave, Harvard Medical School, UC Berkeley, Scripps Research, Welk Resorts, Karl Strauss Breweries, redIT (formerly Castle Access), Bansefi (National Savings Bank of Mexico), CCAT, Employee Training Institute, Med-Systems