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Legacy Client, Hollis Leads With Discipline and Passion

Ronald Hollis has brains, business savvy and a successful business concept that has yielded growth and professional success. Hollis, president and CEO of Quickparts.com Inc., also has drive and discipline.

Hollis, a finalist for Small Business Person of the Year, is co-owner of Quickparts.com. The 5-year-old company specializes in rapid turnaround of prototype or low-volume custom-manufactured parts. The company's revenues in 2001 were nearly $3 million and they tripled by 2003.

"We sell prototypes that go into brand-new products," Hollis said.

These one-of-a-kind parts may end up in cell phones, laptops or as buttons in a car. Quickparts.com's customers are designers who develop ideas for products and then use Quickparts.com to turn their ideas into a tangible test item.

The Internet-based model allows for instant manufacturing quotes and uninterrupted flow of the creative design process. Quickparts.com developed proprietary software -- QuickQuote -- that allows the company to accept 3-D CAD files, analyze them and quickly make a customized quotation that addresses the quantity and type of parts specified by the customer.

Using the company's QuickQuote software, customers upload 3-D CAD data to the site, including project details. Quickparts.com instantly answers with a binding quote.

Buying takes one quick click, and Quickparts.com takes the project from concept to parts completion.

Cutting-edge technology combined with heartfelt emotion and human energy are behind the company's success. Each day at Quickparts.com starts with a companywide meeting of the minds. Hollis emerges from his morning business huddle with his playbook and business strategy in hand.

"The morning huddle has a defined agenda," Hollis said. "Part of discipline is to have communication so you can have alignment. ... Discipline is a key aspect (to the success of Quickparts.com). Do the right thing in the right way at the right time."

One notable and high-profile Quickparts.com project was making prototype parts for the Olympic torch for the Games in Salt Lake City. Georgia Tech designed the torch and used Quickparts.com to get parts for the design.

The Quickparts.com virtual store is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Customers can request quotes any time. Designers can keep their work progressing, clicking for quotes and then piecing the budget and design together. The quotes take seconds to calculate and the company guarantees their accuracy. Once the order is placed, manufacturing starts.

Quickparts.com uses the most advanced manufacturing and post-processing technologies and guarantees rapid prototyped models will be up to the designer's standards.

The company's success is rooted in discipline and passion. Management leads and empowers employees. Success is a team effort and all Quickparts.com employees contribute to the end results.

There are challenges to survival in all businesses. Hollis said Quickparts.com's challenges are continuing to recruit and maintain excellent employees and staying ahead of innovations. Thus far, its success reflects the ability to do both. The company has only had one employee voluntarily leave during the past two years.

Michael Maurice, vice president of operations at Quickparts.com, has known and worked with Hollis for nearly a decade.

"Ron is a very driven person," Maurice said. "A key aspect of our approach is that we're systematized and proceduralized.

"We also measure everything and review continuously with an open-book management style."

As a result of those management practices, Quickparts.com has developed a culture of employee involvement.

Hollis leads the charge with enthusiasm, supporting professional growth and encouraging success internally as well as participating in numerous business mentoring groups.

Hollis is president of the Atlanta chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO), an international membership group of business leaders. Eligibility for YEO requires the member to be younger than 40 and be the owner or majority shareholder of a company with at least $1 million in annual sales. Hollis joined YEO in 2000.