Kevin Abney

Kevin R. Abney serves as the Vice President of Professional Services for TriStar Inc. Mr. Abney joined TriStar as a Senior Engineer in the Consulting & Education Services group before being promoted to lead that group as Director. Formerly Mr. Abney was with Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he held roles of increasing seniority in PLM, PDM, and CAx technical pre-sales. Prior to PTC, Mr. Abney worked in industry, specializing in opto-mechanics.

In his 16 year career, Mr. Abney has developed deep domain expertise in the deployment and usage of product development systems to achieve meaningful business value for discrete manufacturers. Through countless engagements, as a practitioner, project lead, and manager, Mr. Abney has garnered exceptional experience leading solution teams across industries as diverse as aerospace and defense, consumer products, high technology, and life sciences. An ardent champion of the customer, he interlaces value management with sound project management as guiding principles for himself and his team.

At TriStar, Mr. Abney has evolved the services team in concert with the burgeoning PLM market space. With data management at the core, his team has innovated a portfolio of offerings to include change management, configuration management, managed services, process modeling, reporting, security, systems continuity, and virtualization to name a few.

Mr. Abney earned a Master of Business Administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona. He is also a credentialed holder of the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute.