Chazelle Consulting Services provides its customers with state-of-the-art and user-friendly databases and interfaces. - Founded the company in 2001. Specializing in database design and office automation for the small and mid-size business.- Leads a team of contractors to perform at the highest level of service. Personally involved in all phases of most projects.- Designed hundreds of databases for various corporations, serving all kinds of markets from service businesses… Show more Chazelle Consulting Services provides its customers with state-of-the-art and user-friendly databases and interfaces. - Founded the company in 2001. Specializing in database design and office automation for the small and mid-size business.- Leads a team of contractors to perform at the highest level of service. Personally involved in all phases of most projects.- Designed hundreds of databases for various corporations, serving all kinds of markets from service businesses to builders to production houses. - Emphasize user-friendliness of User Interface. Goal is always to have a new user be able to fully use the database within one hour of first opening it.- Put customer relationship at the top of corporate goals: company has a customer retention rate of over 97%. - Conversion rate of prospect to customer is over 50%, an exceptional rate for any industry and particularly for the database consulting industry. - Designed all marketing campaigns and materials. Thoroughly analyzed results to markedly increase financial performance, and yielding hundreds of new customers.- If and when possible, always make a point of working from the customer’s office, to increase understanding of the customer’s business from his point of view, as well as to nurture customer relationship. Show less

- Founded the software training center company in 1992 and grew it from a 1 person consulting operation to a multi-million dollar, 50-person chain of 4 centers in 2 states.- Created, operated and supervised all facets of the operation, from lease negotiation to hiring teachers to sales and marketing to vendor selection to budgeting and accounting.- Company was named by Washington Business Journal the 11th largest Training Center in the area in 2000. Had 3 times as many students… Show more - Founded the software training center company in 1992 and grew it from a 1 person consulting operation to a multi-million dollar, 50-person chain of 4 centers in 2 states.- Created, operated and supervised all facets of the operation, from lease negotiation to hiring teachers to sales and marketing to vendor selection to budgeting and accounting.- Company was named by Washington Business Journal the 11th largest Training Center in the area in 2000. Had 3 times as many students as the CompUSA Training Center, which was competing almost next door.- Starting from scratch, training center went from complete startup with no customers to more than 2,500 students a year. Total number of customers in 10 years was 12,000, about evenly divided between corporate, government and individuals.- Conversion rate of prospect to customer was over 30%, an exceptional rate for any industry and particularly for the software training industry. - Personally hired all employees and contractors, or about 180 people over the 10-year period. Had a very low turnover rate in an industry that traditionally had a high one. - Personally taught thousands of students in hundreds of classes. - Taught at the highest levels: MS-Access, MS-Excel, MS-Word, HTML, Photoshop, PageMaker, Visual Basics, PowerPoint, MS-Project, Desktop Publishing, Web Design, Act, and many other software programs. - Personally wrote most training materials and courseware. - Designed an integrated web-based registration system for prospective and current students.- Designed an automated, web-based class evaluation system for all classes, instantly allowing immediate assessment of teacher, class content and material - Received more than 500 direct written testimonials from students, endorsing either the company or my teaching.- Sold the company in 2001. Show less