BACK STORY

After graduating from East Bay High School in Riverview, Florida, I joined the United States Air Force where I was trained as an Air Traffic Controller. Being stationed in Tokyo Japan as a young man I gained knowledge of other cultures and returned home after four years with a worldliness that focused me on the need to get a college education.

Working full time and going to college was difficult, first gaining an Associates of Arts in Accounting and then a Bachelors of Arts in Finance from the University of South Florida in Tampa while earning the right to join Phi Theta Kappa. I was immediately recruited by Burroughs Corporation to be a Large Accounts Manager selling mainframe systems to major corporate clients. That sales experience got me noticed by Baxter International, where I became the #1 territory salesman bringing a territory from $1.5 million dollars to $5 million dollars in only two years.

Looking for more experience in the medical field, I was hired by General Electric Medical Systems to be a territory manager for X-ray, CT and MRI sales where I sold the first MRI in the United States to a community hospital. Larry Muroff at University Community Hospital, Tampa, selected the GE 1.5 Tesla unit for this honor. With this experience I was recruited by Elscint to be their Regional Sales Manager for MRI sales and expanded their penetration 400% in my region.

Being with a small company such as Elscint and having to compete against GE, Picker, Phillips, Siemens, Diasonics, Technicare, FONAR and the like, I developed the idea of "turnkey imaging centers" which was later copied by all the equipment vendors. This exposed me to the construction industry, for which I left Elscint to start my own construction company. Later I added an architectural/ engineering firm and a electrical contracting business. In 1999, I sold the companies and started a consulting career which eventually led me to PETNET.

I began my career with PETNET as a consultant to build out their projected network of 60 sites. At the time they had 18 sites and were experiencing cost over-run problems with their design build method. I showed PETNET how to save $500,000 per site in costs and that eventually led to an employment offer which I accepted. After adding 23 sites to the network and the accompanying savings to PETNET's bottom line this contribution was a significant factor in PETNET going from a money losing business to a profitable business that was eventually bought by Siemens.

With 25 years experience in various aspects of the medical business I have always gravitated to the leading edge of technology and this has taken me to the heights of medical design and construction (hospital, outpatient, therapy, surgery, imaging, Radiopharmacy, PET and laboratory). With 25 projects to our credit we are one of the most experienced designers and builders of PET radiopharmaceutical manufacturing and research facilities available today. And with 150 medical buildings finished we are one of the leading design and build consulting firms as well.

However, PET is not my only interest and expertise. Look at my commercial and healthcare credentials and you will be satisfied that for any project you may select, you will have a firm that will make it happen.

Admittedly it is a strange mixture of knowledge and acquired talent (sales, finance, architecture, design, construction), but one that is unique and useful in this current age. I prefer to call myself simply a "builder." The best compliment I ever received from a customer was one that stated:

"There is a big difference between a building designed and built by Dill and anyone else: the attention to detail." -- Bryan Talley, Siemens

I hope you agree and seek my expertise for your next project.