Help C-Level and V-Level executives of numerous small- to medium-sized companies (start-ups to $4B) align corporate strategy, goals, and initiatives. Design nimble and lean organizational structures to effectively and efficiently execute initiatives and projects across many business domains include high-tech manufacturing, technology services, insurance, healthcare, marketing, and sales. Expert witness and auditor for projects headed toward litigation through negligence, inadequate processes and controls, and contract compliance.Keynoter, presenter, and instructor for conferences workshops, seminars, classes, and webinars to improve organizational efficiency, increasing project success rates, negotiation techniques, and risk management. Clients include:- Ageology- Animal Supply Co. - Black Helterline- Bonneville Power Administration- Bookbyte- Brooks Software (currently part of Applied Materials)- Cascade Microtech, Inc.- Certified Languages, Inc.- CIMAC, Inc.- Daimler Trucks North America (Formerly Freightliner)- Fenway Technologies, Inc.- General Sheet Metal, Inc.- Integra Telecom- Mentor Graphics- MorphoTrust/Safran- Northwest Interpreters, Inc.- OSP International - Oregon State University- Portland State University- Sapient- SmartRG- SparkFun Electronics- Standard Insurance Company- Tire Factory

Keynotes, webinars, workshops, and seminars on turning Vision into Profit. Get the definitive steps that will transform your organization into an "Initiative Ready"​ state--a well-tuned machine that reproducibly executes initiatives successfully.Are you ready to turn your company's vision in value?Clients include:- NASA- Providence Health Systems- BEA Systems- Accela Software- Kaiser NW Region- Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)- Universal Aviation System Corporation- Animal Supply Co.- Portland General Electric (PGE)- Portland State University (PSU)- Project Management Institute (PMI) and dozens of their regional chapters- Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) regional chapters and conferences- Information Technology Financial Management Association (ITFMA)- American Society for Quality (ASQ) regional section- Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG)- Society for Information Management (SIM)

Helping people be the best they can be. Coaching and mentoring in people in leadership, project management, work-based politics, and career changes. Working with individuals and teams, local or remote.

Provide successful expert witness services for litigation and arbitration suits related to troubled project implementations, negligence, adequacy of process and control, and contract compliance.

Developing and teaching project management-related courses. Including:* Project Risk Management* Organization Change Management* Balanced Scorecard* Project/Strategy Alignment* Filling Execution Gaps

Filling Execution Gaps tells every executive, middle manager, and project manager what they need to know to turn strategy into successful projects. Chapter 1: Understanding the ProblemChapter 2: Creating and Maintaining Corporate Alignment: Ever Changing Corporate and Project GoalsChapter 3: Challenges in Executive SponsorshipChapter 4: Solutions for Executive SponsorshipChapter 5: Adoption Behavior and BusinessChapter 6: Organization Change Management and ProjectsChapter 7: Lean GovernanceChapter 8: Value Driven PMOsChapter 9: Leadership StrategiesChapter 10: The Project's Leadership StructureChapter 11: Leadership Traits and ActionsChapter 12: Pulling it all TogetherCheck out the praise by its advance reviewers...

Amazon #1 Best Seller in business project management books, Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure identifies the steps to recover a failing project. (HarperCollins/AMACOM Books)

2020 - Present: * Business transformation coaching. * Definition and development of course material for a new set of offerings from OSP. * Manage market and competitive research efforts.* DMCA research.2017 - 2018: Contract to help develop new lessons and simulator questions in line with the PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition.

Functioned as Board Treasurer and unofficial Financial Executive to help accomplish its mission of making homelessness a brief and rare occurrence on Whidbey Island. Also filled in as webmaster, systems administrator, and attempted to clear up policies that were extremely out of date.

Board member bringing project experience and methodology as well as marketing skills to bolster the foundation.

Technical editing on project management books.

Define and implement operational controls and processes to give predictability and stability while maintaining the agility required by a start-up. Function as the interim Chief Operations Officer insuring performance and sustainability of software, group purchasing options, and marketing teams. Responsible for business strategy planning and execution (using balanced scorecard), budget control, and personnel acquisition. Applied meticulous attention to detail and an analytic approach to achieve success.

Define the technology strategy for the expansion of NWI’s over the phone interpretation (OPI) and implement their state-of-the-art call center to improve connect to interpreter (CTI) times to less that 30-seconds. Defined the strategy, let RFPs, and managed the implementation.

Numerous positions on multiple contracts. Mid- to large-size projects and programs managing custom software development and/or integration tasks, project auditing, and contract negotiation.• Manage program with strategic and tactical project components requiring balancing of short-term tactical deliverables and implementation of a strategic framework. Manage multiple project groups and customers.• Work with C-level management to supply information to assist in decision making and solution implementation.• Contract and SOW negotiations with client and large computer services company on a multi-million dollar contract.• Define and manage an infrastructure deployment group for multi-million dollar custom software development project.• Audit severely red projects developing “go/no go” strategy and recovery plan. Managed two projects to successful delivery. Implement an agile process to meet deadlines and reduce cost.

“Red” Project Manager to realign a series of projects to develop and enhance an internally maintained product essential in specifying and ordering vehicles.• Restructure team, implement processes for QA, development, delivery, support.• Implement thorough systems analysis and documentation process.• Implement an agile development process to create service packs to efficiently deliver executables and data to the dealerships—reaching 75% saturation in the first five hours, 90% in the first thirty-six hours reducing ERP processing exceptions.• Develop and implement reporting and controls processes.• Implement a product support structure for ongoing maintenance.• Reduce the data delivery cycle from six months to one month with twice-weekly urgent release capability.

“Red Recovery” team in a green-field CIM Fab Automation project. Break the monolithic project into three phases:1) Manufacturing execution system (MES) customization and delivery:• Re-scope project to attain realistic goals. Identify and resolve project delivery conditions limiting the ability to proceed with project.• Re-staff project management, design, and QA teams. • Define QA and change control processes.• Develop project schedule and plans.2) MES process modeling:• Re-staff the project.• Identify deficiencies and help re-organize the customer team.3) Factory automation and integration:• Temporarily suspend the phase to allow use of project members on the MES customization project reducing overhead and cost.Managed multi-cultural team personnel in Migdel Hamak, Israel; Toronto, ON; Rochester, NY; San Jose, CA; Chelmsford, MA; Phoenix, AZ; London, England, and Bellevue, WA

Acting as the senior solution architect and program manager of international programs for developing, deploying, and adoption of a B2B SaaS solution to turn-around start-up platform delivery. Manage project team in Taiwan and the development project in San Jose. Renegotiate SOW, lowering customer expectations, and increasing system scope to meet compromise. • Taipei, Taiwan: - Manage all aspects of the delivery process—contract re-negotiation, requirements, design, and acceptance. - Manage an 8-member delivery staff and 7-member support staff. - Design interfaces between the Tonbu Hub and customer legacy system.• San Jose: - Development Manager San Jose software development team. Manage software development team for initial delivery of the new product to customer base. Establish a sustaining organization.

Manage, design, and develop solutions for customers based on Synchronicity’s web based electronic design automation (EDA) client/server, web-based infrastructure tools and configuration management systems. Responsibilities included solution design, project planning, development (coding) and deployment. Proficient in JavaScript, TCL and HTML. Tested and deployed on Sun Solaris 7 and Windows NT 4.0 and various browsers.

Develop proposals and deliver projects for semiconductor factory automation. Acting as the project manager, solutions architect, or both, designing and delivering custom three-tiered client-server solutions on projects ranging from $1M to $25M. Work in all phases of the PDIM (plan, design, implement, and manage) cycle.Senior technical architect for the precision electronics industry. Specify and design three-tier client-server application solution sets for the semiconductor industry.Project Management Duties:• Komatsu Silicon – IT Manager/Program Manager. Manage two MES installation projects, ERP installation, build an IT infrastructure, and cut budget 70%. Train staff on acceptance procedure and plan development. Performed triage on existing projects, canceling many that were not in direct line with corporate goals. Assist in corporate restructure during 60% workforce reduction.• Matsushita Semiconductor – Red-project recovery for custom factory automation. Resolve vendor issues on scope and deliverables. Perform a technical solution review, develop equipment interface functional specifications, implement acceptance test procedures, develop and implement change control process, develop as-built documentation.• Engagement Manager for Compaq Singapore for generating proposals on three projects (two factory automation and one solution set delivery). Direct customer interface defining the win strategy, requirements, and technical solution.• Portland, Oregon business development in Semiconductor Automation Professional Services Support group. Developing an annualized $5M customer base in six months.Technical Duties:• Complete specification, design, and coding of COM three-tiered recipe management solution for the electronics industry.• Design resource management system for controlling manufacturing resources.• Design-team member on pre-engineered CIM solutions and its components.• Technical business development support for corporate marketing organization.

Program manager IBM Poseidon installation. Work with IBM developing the contract, statement of work, work breakdown structure, program plan, schedule, requirements definition and external design for installation of Poseidon in a 40,000 wafer/month start-up facility. Negotiate contract and SOW with IBM. Project Manager for the specification, acquisition, and implementation of a Daifuku automated material handling system (AMHS). Develop solution to eliminate a seven week schedule slide by the vendor.

Work with “mom-and-pop-shop” to $50 million companies or projects to build and implement business systems and streamline operations. Work includes turn-around, new and legacy systems. Development – Develop and maintain multiple systems on a contract basis. Customers included: • Digital Computer Taiwan – function on red-recovery teams for two projects: - Winbond Fab 3 CIM Project. Solution Architect managing system design and schedule for equipment automation phase of the MES. Gathering user requirements and developing functional specification. Conducting interviews with customer group, developing user process flows for all Digital developed systems. Developed event/message trace design. Three tier client/server model. - TSMC Fab 5 CIM Project. Deputy Program Manager resolving post-award contract issues, developing program plan, master and detailed schedule and maintained program scope for 40,000 wafer/month facility eight-inch SMIF Fab. Technical Solutions architect for user operations. Managed two third party contractors.• Nordstrom. Responsible for specification, user interface design, database design and coding of Cosmetic Rebate System. Manage internal and client staff.• McCaw Cellular. Project Manager for internal and client staff deploying original cell-plan performance reporting system. Perform all project management and customer relations functions. • Sextant Avionique (Airbus) North America. Design and implement North American accounting and remote site network systems. Configure and implement all accounting processes for the distribution of Sextant avionics in North and South America.

Assign and review software and hardware standards for Everett facility. Coordinate with other plants.Lead at Boeing Electronics for ten individuals implementing an electronics manufacturing shop floor control system. Primarily responsible for interfaces between engineering and production/NC equipment.

Semiconductor photolithography engineer. Increasing yields 350% in six months by improving the shop floor processes, tuning equipment, and training operators. Component Manufacturing Division QA and Process Engineer for printed circuit board (PCB), injection molded plastics, sheet metal, and transformer shops. Various jobs revolving around process engineering for general electronic components.Programmer/Analyst. Develop Shop Floor control system in FOCUS including shop run cards, QA system and bar code track-in/out.

Integrated Circuits Photolithography Engineer. Third shift engineering manager for photo, thin films, and diffusion.

Integrated Circuits Process Engineer. Process development for C-MOS and N-MOS fabs. Cross trained in implant, thin films, diffusion. Responsible for plasma etch process development.