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San Diego / Virtual

Business Practice that helps startups, small business, projects and ventures accelerate their progress towards successful completion. We use a combination of modern project management methods and technologies coulpled with creative brainstorming techniques and analytical approaches to find the best way to take projects to successful completion. This takes.

United States

Currently launching an online community for entrepreneurs, self-employed, and small business owners throughout the world. The idea is for a site that focuses on "entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs" that facilitates collaboration and team formation. Surprisingly, for all the interest in startups these days, there is not much out there that is all that.

Greater San Diego Area

Professional writing service offering both business and technical writing and editing. This includes blog and social media posts and articles (including long form), marketing material like direct response emails and proposals or internal documentation like policies and procedures. Technical writing services are also offered including user manuals and.

San Diego

An online community for companies and professionals in California with interests in international business. I worked on this project for several years, and it generated a good deal of referral business, however the web portal itself never made much money. I stopped working on this project a few years ago, but strangely the interest in it seems to be.

San Clara, CA

Program Manager for this Silicon Valley Staffing firm that was attempting to transition to an eBusiness development model. I was responsible for foreign expatriate staff assigned to web QA projects in California. Customer at the time included a consumer products ecommerce site, a remote access medical service for physicians and a wireless web portal for a.

Greater San Diego Area

Financial service project to help implement an "auditable" accounting system for the Naval Air Station, North Island - a huge military airbase with an extremely complicated legacy accounting system. I was hired because a infighting that had broken out between the contractors and the government employees, and my goodness was it a mess. The project.

Greater San Diego Area

Project Manager under contract to this international investment brokerage, I became a temporary "Product Manager" during the course of this assignment, and I loved it - having responsibility for a product and not just a product. I was responsible for the roll out of an Internet base document imaging system for online viewing of financial statements, and it.

Greater San Diego Area

A too brief temporary assignment but one that gave me better appreciation and understanding of manufacturing environments. My job was to deploy some commercial project management software and use it to see if anything in their manufacturing process could be improved. With the use of this software, and project management techniques, I wa able to identify.

Lagos, Nigeria

Information technology infrastructure planning as a contract consultant on assignment in West Africa. This included procurement and acquisition planning for computers, software and networking equipment. Preparation of RFPs and evaluations of bids and quotes. Assisted local technology vendors in meeting corporate specifications. Coordinated initial plans.

Greater San Diego Area

Just before the advent of the Internet, I owned and operated a small agency that marketed and sold products and services from MCI Communications, at the time a major telecommunications company. I built my customer base from zero to more than 300 customers. Company size ranged from individuals and small businesses to nation-wide retail outlets and.

Greater San Diego Area

This was a period of my career when I was actively involved with project management consulting and worked directly for several project management software firms. Among my clients and projects during this period:Schedule Publisher. A first generation visual project management tool that was used heavily by the Department of Defense and the Aerospace.

Cairo, Egypt

A brief but interesting and productive assignment as a subcontractor for a large civil engineering firm developing water project for rural cities in Egypt. My job was to implement a construction document management system, as well as to improve their scheduling and (multi-currency) accounting system. When I got their the computers were all in boxes; when I.

Greater San Diego Area

Directed the development of a strategic plan for the computer resources of a U.S. Government research facility. Coordinated the work of five analysts in the preparation of the study. Computer acquisition planning and integration studies. Developed proposals and marketed computer services to government R&D centers.

Greater San Diego Area

Systems Manager for two high security VAX computer facilities. Participated in security and disaster recovery planning. Secret level security clearance.

Rancho Bernardo, CA

With a degree in government and public policy, fate would have it that my fist job after grad school would be a fast growing Fortune 500, but it was an awesome experience. Among my accomplishments: was to design business applications using database development tools and sophisticated financial modeling languages including systems for budget consolidation.

Mpa, Government, Economics, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Master's thesis in "The Implementation of Decision Support Systems". Internship at the City of San Diego.

Technology Project Management Certificate, Technology Project Management

Activities and Societies: University of California, Silicon Valley extension. Completed certificate program in "Technology Project.

Bs, Biology