ProTech HVAC

Protech HVAC, LLC was created for the purpose of offering top-notch designs, masterful installations, and expert service of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration equipment. With the formation of The HVAC Guru, LLC, Protech has re-oriented in the direction of Consulting and Expert Witness Service, leaving the hand’s-on work to the “Guru” business entity.

My experiences have been diverse.

My HVAC career was unintended and non-deliberate. Having grown up in a house with wood heat, it was a bit ironic that I was paid by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) to attend 400 hours of hand’s on oil burner technology training, at New Hampshire Vocational Technical College, in Manchester, NH - USA. I finished the training in 1980, then soon found my first position as an oil burner technician for a local fuel company. While cutting 36″ diameter trees for firewood with a 2-man push-me-pull-you bucksaw developed my work ethic, my 3-1/2 year stint at Tenney Fuels Co. developed my sense for quality and troubleshooting and analytical skills to the degree that I’ve never lowered my standards to affect a sale or fit in with companies who would settle for less.

In 1988, I quit my position at an unethical plumbing and heating company, hurling myself with little business experience into sole proprietorship. I learned business and the HVAC trade at a faster pace than ever before, and not all of it was encouraging. Disillusioned by the fierce competition in the early 90s recession, I financed development of numerous invention designs with credit cards, and when they all failed and an “angel investor” stepped in, things soon turned for the better. Two license agreements and royalties appearing in my mailbox later, I rode the tide of success. That tide would recede after the royalties ran out 3 years later, and I was abused by Corporate America and the Licensee. So I returned to HVACR full-time in sales/design for a 30-year old Seacoast company, while simultaneously drudging forward, painstakingly unwilling to let the Licensee take my patents without a fight. I won that fight in 2008 when a settlement was reached and the patent was assigned to the Licensee. But by then, I’d already been back self-employed since 2003. I landed a $300,000 project for an upscale homeowner - the developer of the cable modem - who demanded “museum quality” work in his $12,000,000 seashore house. A year and a half later, I’d finished the most amazing systems of my career to-date, with just one callback: a 1″ PVC fitting leaked - value of fitting: $.50. But again the economy would take its toll and I accepted an offer to work for another company. That lasted 7 months, then they folded.

Today, Protech HVAC, LLC and The HVAC Guru, LLC are my muses. My consulting and expert witness service (Protech) that began in 2005 now complements the hand’s on work (HVAC Guru) that never ceases to challenge. A new aspect has been added to the Protech focus: Design & Sales Service

Here’s my resume

John Rocheleau

• HVAC/R Administration & Management
• Business Development & Sales
• Consulting and Expert Witness Service
• Estimating & Design
• Installation & Service

Profile

Enthusiastic, versatile professional possesses a wide array of skills, talents and accomplishments in the HVAC/R industry. Able to visualize a desired result and employ a broad range of skills, talent and unwavering drive to attain it.

Areas of Strength

Estimating & Sales
HVAC/R Systems Design
Project Management
Business Administration
Installation & Service
Team Leadership
Product Innovation & Development
Creative / Analytical Problem Solving
Communicative
Computer Literate

Professional Highlights

Protech HVAC, LLC & The HVAC Guru, LLC - Concord, NH 2003 - Present

Contractor, Consultant & Expert Witness, Designer/Estimator - Residential and Commercial HVACR Systems

Consulting

• Evaluate ineffective/incorrectly installed HVACR systems to determine cost to repair or replace.
• Draft written evaluations and reports to support Plaintiffs’ and Defendants’ legitimate claims.
• Representation in Depositions

Expert Witness

• Expert Testimony in Civil cases
• Professional/Expert Opinion-based Consultation on Whether or Not to Litigate

Sales/Design/Installation/Service

Perform all tasks associated with HVAC contracting
· Design, sell, install and service heating, ventilation, A/C, and refrigeration systems.
· Examples of recent jobs: Commercial - HVAC system for restaurant seating 125 patrons. Install and service refrigeration equipment for the oldest family-owned general store in America. Residential - $300,000 comprehensive project in an upscale home for the developer of the cable modem.

Designed and installed the replacement climate control systems for the Walter Gropius (the famous 20th Century architect of the Bauhaus style) House Museum , in Lincoln, Massachusetts, near Waldon Pond.

Designed and installed systems in numerous museums for preservation societies such as Historic New England.

Designed, installed and service systems for famous…and infamous actors, musicians, prosecutors of cases-of-the-century, and owners of Fortune 500 companies.

Dowling Corporation - Portsmouth, NH 2002 - 2003

Sales / Estimating - Residential and Commercial HVAC Systems; Installation and service instruction to apprentices; Design software applications for estimating and project management

Design
Devise HVAC systems to meet this 42-year HVAC/R service and contracting company’s residential and commercial customers’ needs.
· Successfully sold 55% of all commercial leads.
· Enabled company to avoid winter layoffs by bringing needed hydronic experience to this otherwise Air / Refrigeration contractor.
· Developed Excel and Visual Basic-based systems for job costing, job progress tracking, and estimating, and general administrative purposes.

Best Heating Corp. - Concord, NH 1988 - 2002

HVAC Contractor - Residential and Commercial HVAC Systems Design, Installation and Service

RadPak Corporation and Becca Tools, Inc. - Concord, NH 1996 - Present

President & Inventor
Invention Development

Project Manager / Inventor
Managed legal, marketing, and design teams to develop inventions through to manufacture and successful licensure. Sold inventions through Wholesalers, Manufacturers’ Reps, door-to-door and local & regional tradeshows.
· Raised $250,000 seed money to develop over 50 invention designs.
· Managed all invention projects involving 42 individuals and companies.
· 13 patents on cutting edge designs issued and/or applied for.
· Negotiated license agreements with industry executives, culminating in the licensure of 5 inventions to Taco, Inc. All 5 are now industry standards with 2,000,000 units sold annually by multiple manufacturers.

New Hampshire Inventors Association - Concord, NH 2000 - 2001

President & Chairman - Brought an unprecedented level of professionalism and organization to this, otherwise, grass roots non-profit independent inventor group, based at Franklin Pierce Law Center. Once I defined its mission, picked a BOD, organized the administration, and devised a member database, I created a multi step educational program for inventors, complete with syllabus and world-class speakers and educators. Prior to my resignation, I merged NHIA with NH High Technology Council.

Educational History & Licenses

• Associate in Science with a Major in Business Administration with Specialization in Management. High Honors (3.92 gpa). NHTI - 2001
• Design Graphics I; CAD I; Mechanical Desktop. NHTI, Concord, NH - 2001
• 400 hr. Oil Burner Technology Certificate, NHVTC – Manchester, NH - 1980
• State of Maine, Master Oil Burner License # MS30010511
• State of NH, Gas Fitter’s License # GFE0803219 - STN / STP
• ASHRAE Member
  
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Member
• Geothermal Design & Installation Training - W.E.D.I.
• Biomass Boiler Training - Viessman
  
• Certified Wardflex Gas Piping System Installer- 2004
  
• EPA, CFC Refrigerant Handling, Technician Type II –1995
• Private Pilot License, VFR, SEL, Ferns Flying Service –1988