Gary Oetker

Gary Oetker has over 35 years experience in the HVAC industry. He began his career with Lennox and has held positions including Training Curriculum Manager, Consumer Marketing Manager, Territory Manager and most recently as a Business Process Consultant at Service Experts. In addition to his experience at Lennox, he has worked as a Sales Engineer for a residential HVAC contractor as well as the Training Director for a HVAC consolidator.

Over the years Gary has worked with hundreds of HVAC companies with:

• Financial Management
• Service Department Management
• Operations Management
• Sales Marketing
• Business Planning
• Process Improvement
• Sharing of Best Practices
• Employee Development

Gary has taught hundreds of seminars on a variety of subjects to help contractors improve their businesses.  He also spent several years conducting detailed Business Reviews with individual contractors to help improve financial performance.

Many of the articles he’s writing for EPL reflect best practices documented from some of the best HVAC companies in the United States and Canada.