John Harpool, has been with The Dallas Opera for seven years and currently serves as Director of Budgeting and Acting CFO for The Dallas Opera. As a highly respected finance specialist for Hewlett-Packard/Electronic Data Systems (EDS), he was tapped for the role of Dallas Opera Budget Manager in 2011 and was promoted to Budget Senior Manager, until assuming his current role in May 2017. Prior to joining TDO, Mr. Harpool specialized in financial support, planning and analysis during his twenty-one years with Hewlett-Packard, Enterprise Services Unit / Electronic Data Systems (EDS), with a strong emphasis on operations and management support. Mr. Harpool’s responsibilities have included reporting and monitoring of the account’s multi-million dollar annual capital plan; audit requests; ad hoc reporting; trend analysis; forecast consolidation and analysis; invoicing and off-shore analysis.