Eric Schoppe
Vice President of Product Development

Eric’s approach to problem solving is so methodical, you can almost watch the wheels spinning. He has twenty-one years of diverse computer application development experience
to draw on—thirteen years of systems consulting and eight years of project management experience for mission-critical client server applications. And when he suggests a solution, you can take it to the bank.

Eric has expertise in virtually every system and platform, from FOCUS, Cobol, and Fortran running on an IBM/MVS platform to Sybase, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL. His accomplishments include the design and development of systems for a wide range of applications, including accounting and personnel reporting; natural gas marketing, including source and transportation and exchange and balancing models; natural gas economics-forecasting, logistics, and tracking.

Over the years, Eric has been called upon as an independent systems consultant to Enron Capital and Trade Resources, Pennzoil, Amoco, Exxon, and Tenneco, among others.

In 1998, Eric began his partnership with Provanté where he currently serves as the Vice President of Product Development and Chief Information Officer. He oversees network and hardware infrastructure, application selection, and consumer product development with a technical wizardry that amazes us all.